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Drafting resolutions

Your corporation’s decisions, properly documented.

When does a decision need to be recorded in a resolution?

Annual resolutions, declaring a dividend, a change of director or of address: your corporation’s important decisions must be documented by resolutions to stay compliant.

Describe the decision to be documented and we draft compliant resolutions, ready to sign and to file in your minute book. The price adjusts to the number of documents.

What is included in drafting the resolutions

  • Drafted in accordance with Québec law
  • Resolutions tailored to your situation
  • For shareholders or directors
  • Follow-up by a lawyer where needed
  • Electronic delivery, ready to sign
Who is it for?

This package is right for you if you...

Have annual resolutions to produce

Each year, certain decisions must be recorded, even with no major change.

Are declaring a dividend

Paying a dividend must be authorized by a properly drawn resolution.

Are changing something

A director, an address, bank signatories: every change gets documented.

How it works

Simple, from start to finish

1

Order online

Select your package and pay securely by credit card.

2

Answer a few questions

You send us the information your file requires, simply and online.

3

The lawyer prepares your file

The lawyer responsible for your file prepares your documents and makes the required filings.

4

Receive your documents

Your resolutions are delivered by email within 48 hours, ready to sign.

Frequently asked questions

Worth knowing

The price slides: $99 for one resolution, falling gradually to $80 each from eight onward. Taxes apply on the total. The exact calculation appears automatically for the quantity you choose.

It is the document by which the directors or the shareholders formally take a decision: appointing a director, declaring a dividend, changing an address, issuing shares, authorizing a loan, and so on.

At every important decision of the corporation: a change of director or officer, a transfer of shares, dividends, a fiscal year-end, an acquisition, opening a bank account or an update with the registrar. These decisions must be entered in the minute book.

If your update involves a change of directors or of shareholders, resolutions are necessary to document those changes properly. They are added to the update service.

The lawyer responsible for your file drafts each resolution around the decision to be documented and the particulars of your corporation. These are not automated templates.

The more resolutions you order together, the lower the unit price: $99 for one, then a rate falling gradually to $80 each from eight resolutions onward.

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.

To go deeper

Our article on annual resolutions sets out the minimum ritual and the difference between ratifying and backdating.

They then join the minute book, which keeps them and makes them available for consultation.

A dividend with no resolution authorizing it is an anomaly: see the tax advantages of incorporating.

Further reading

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