Your corporation changes and its articles must follow. Share capital, directors, restrictions: amended the right way.
Your corporation’s articles set its share capital, the number of its directors and the restrictions on its securities. When your circumstances change, through tax planning, an investor coming in, a bank requirement or an estate freeze, they have to be formally amended.
Our service covers reshaping the share capital into a standard eight-class structure, changing the number of directors, and adding or removing restrictions on transfers of securities. The authorizing resolutions are included and entered in your minute book.
The lawyer prepares the articles of amendment and files them with the appropriate register: the Québec enterprise registrar ($397 in fees) or Corporations Canada ($200 in fees), billed at cost and without taxes. To change the corporation’s official name, see our change of name service instead.
You are moving to a standard eight-class structure for tax planning or for an investor coming in.
The minimum or maximum number of directors set out in the articles no longer matches your situation.
You are adding or removing restrictions on transfers of shares, often required by lenders.
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You send us the information your file requires, simply and online.
The lawyer responsible for your file prepares the documents and makes the required filings.
Your documents and official confirmations are sent to you by email.
Professional fees are $599 plus taxes. Government fees are added at cost, without taxes: $397 with the Québec registrar for a Québec corporation (total $1,085.70) or $200 with Corporations Canada for a federal corporation (total $888.70).
It is a versatile structure combining voting participating shares, non-voting shares, preferred shares carrying a discretionary dividend and exchange shares useful in an estate freeze. It covers the great majority of a small business’s planning needs.
The most common triggers: tax planning with your accountant, an investor or a new shareholder coming in, an estate freeze, a requirement from your financial institution, or an original share capital that is simply too narrow.
Yes. The directors’ resolutions and, where required, the shareholders’ special resolution are prepared by the lawyer and included in the service, ready to be entered in your minute book.
No. The corporation remains the same legal person: its contracts, its business number, its accounts and its obligations are untouched. Only the amended features change, with effect from the date of the certificate of amendment.
Changing the official name is a separate service, with its own name search. The two can nonetheless be carried out in parallel: add both services to your cart.
We normally prepare and file within 24 to 48 business hours, depending on how busy the period is. The issuance of official documents by the authorities, such as the Québec enterprise registrar or Corporations Canada, depends on those authorities’ own processing times.
You add the service to your cart and pay securely online. You then send us the necessary information, and the lawyer responsible for your file carries out the mandate. You receive your documents by email.
No. The AI assistant exists only to help you choose among our services; it has no legal effect. All legal work is performed by the lawyer responsible for your file, a member of the Barreau du Québec.
If you withdraw before the work begins, we refund you, less processing and billing administration fees of $100. No refund is possible once the work has begun. If we are not in a position to serve you, you are refunded in full.
Our article on articles of amendment distinguishes what belongs in the articles, in the by-laws and in the agreement.
The most frequent case is a change of name: see changing a corporate name.
Every amendment presupposes proper authorizations, set out in our article on resolutions.
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