Corporate & commercial · Fees

Corporate and commercial, with the price up front.

Flat fees for the most common files — incorporations, professional corporations, ongoing maintenance, restructuring, and standard commercial agreements. Complex transactions are quoted on the file at intake.

Incorporations

Incorporating a company in BC

  • BC Numbered Company

    Articles, share structure, founding resolutions, minute book.

    $1,100

  • BC Named Company

    Adds corporate name search and clearance.

    $1,200

  • Federal Company (CBCA)

    Federal incorporation. Add $600 for extra-provincial registration in BC.

    $1,100

Professional incorporations

Five professional corporation frameworks

  • Medical Professional Corporation (MPC)

    BC company + College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC application + minute book.

    $1,750

  • Dental Professional Corporation

    BC company + College of Dental Surgeons of BC application + minute book.

    $1,750

  • Law Corporation

    BC company + Law Society Permit application + minute book. We have run our own file.

    $1,750

  • CPA Corporation

    BC company + CPABC authorisation + minute book.

    $1,750

  • Personal Real Estate Corporation (PREC)

    BC company + BCFSA approval + minute book.

    $1,750

Ongoing maintenance

Keeping the corporation in good standing

  • Annual Maintenance — BC company

    Annual report, AGM resolution or consent in lieu, share register update, transparency register.

    $350

  • Annual Maintenance — Federal company

    Annual filings for federally incorporated company.

    $350

  • Records Office (RRO) services

    Acting as the company's records office; receiving registry correspondence.

    $350

  • Director or Officer change filing

    Adding or removing a director or officer; corresponding registry filings.

    $300

  • Extra-provincial registration

    Registering an out-of-province corporation to operate in BC.

    $600

Restructuring & reorganization

Restoration, dissolution, rollovers, share exchanges

  • Restore dissolved BC company — limited

    Limited restoration; up to 2 years of annual maintenance included.

    $1,100

  • Restore dissolved BC company — full

    Full restoration; up to 2 years of annual maintenance included.

    $2,750

  • Voluntary dissolution / wind-up

    Dissolution filing for a BC company.

    $750

  • Amalgamation

    Combining two or more BC corporations.

    $2,000

  • Related-party share transfer

    Transfer of shares between existing shareholders or related parties.

    $1,000

  • Section 85 rollover (legal portion)

    Legal documentation for a tax-deferred transfer of property to corporation. Tax planning by accountant.

    $2,750

  • Section 85.1 rollover

    Tax-deferred share-for-share exchange.

    $3,500

  • Section 86 share exchange

    Estate freeze / share-exchange reorganization.

    $4,000

  • Section 51 share exchange

    Convertible-property share-for-share exchange.

    $4,000

Commercial agreements

Standalone agreements and templates

  • Shareholders' agreement — basic

    2–3 shareholders, standard share class. Voting, dividends, transfer restrictions, basic exit.

    $3,500

  • Shareholders' loan

    Documentation for a loan from shareholder to the company.

    $1,000

  • NDA — one-way (unilateral)

    Single-direction confidentiality agreement.

    $1,000

  • NDA — mutual

    Two-way confidentiality, more comprehensive.

    $1,250

  • Privacy policy

    Standalone privacy policy for BC business; PIPA-compliant.

    $1,500

  • Website terms of use

    Standalone terms of use for a website.

    $1,500

  • Website bundle (Privacy + Terms)

    Privacy policy + terms of use bundled.

    $2,500

  • Letter of intent

    Non-binding LOI for a potential transaction.

    $1,500

  • DBA registration

    "Doing Business As" name registration.

    $600

Quoted on the file

The fees above cover routine, well-defined work. Some matters are not amenable to flat fees and we quote them on the file at intake — with a written budget for each phase, monthly billing against that budget, and an updated estimate when something changes. Examples: complex multi-class shareholders' agreements, share or asset purchase agreements with earn-outs or complex reps and warranties, mergers and acquisitions, shareholder disputes, complex tax-driven reorganizations, and commercial litigation. Please contact us for a precise quote.

What's not in our fee

Government fees and disbursements

Government filing fees and disbursements are paid in addition to our legal fee. We collect these from you and pay them out at the time of filing — they are not hidden charges.

  • · BC Registries fees (incorporation, annual reports, name approval)
  • · Federal Corporations Canada fees (federal incorporation, annual returns)
  • · Regulator fees (CPSBC, CDSBC, Law Society, CPABC, BCFSA — for professional incorporations)
  • · GST on the legal fee and on most disbursements

How we structure billing

Flat where it works, hourly with a written budget where it doesn't.

For routine corporate and commercial files — incorporations, professional incorporations, basic agreements, ongoing maintenance — flat fees are predictable and fair on both sides. The work is well-defined, the time it takes is well-understood, and a flat fee removes the worry of running the meter for either party.

For files where the scope can shift — complex shareholder agreements, multi-party transactions, M&A, shareholder disputes, restructuring driven by an evolving tax plan — we work hourly with a written budget for each phase of the file. The budget gets updated when scope changes, and we bill monthly against it so you always know where things stand.

We do not run the meter without a plan, on any file.

A specific file in mind?

Tell us what you're trying to do — incorporate, restructure, paper an agreement — and we'll come back with a quote and a turnaround time.