Practice Areas

Corporate Finance

Bacchus understands the complex, exciting challenges and opportunities experienced by management of both start-up and established companies. Our corporate department works closely with management of businesses in a wide variety of industries to give them the legal and financial tools to make sound, well-informed decisions that grow their businesses and help them achieve success.

We offer our transactional clients the resources of a team experienced in corporate, securities, commercial agreements, litigation, securities compliance, accounting and business who have the industry-specific knowledge needed to handle transactions in US markets. We have developed a group of talented attorneys who are experienced in meeting the legal challenges facing high growth companies who need to move quickly and efficiently to raise money while complying with complex international capital raising rules.

We represent public and private, domestic and international companies; investment banks; selling shareholders; venture capitalists and emerging growth companies to provide them with innovative solutions. We work with many of our clients from their establishment, through the process of going public, through their development into mature companies.

Our attorneys provide services in all aspects of corporate finance, including:

  • Private placements of equity

  • PIPEs (private investment in public equity)

  • Structure, documentation and closing of investment transactions involving common stock, preferred stock, subordinated debt, warrants, and other forms of equity, equity-related, and debt securities

  • Convertible securities

  • Equity lines of credit

  • Financings of other assets such as motion pictures

  • Complex cross-border transactions

  • Industry-specific issues

  • Advice on cultural differences and nuances

  • Auxiliary advice in areas such as employment law

  • Regulatory compliance

  • Preparation of offering memorandums

  • Regulation S and Regulation D offerings

  • Accredited investor offerings

  • Mergers and acquisitions

  • Implementation of employee stock option plans

  • Arrangement of sales by selling shareholders

  • Compliance with the requirements of regulatory agencies such as FINRA and state blue sky commissions

  • Representation of emerging growth companies from start-up funding through secondary transactions, to Initial Public Offerings and beyond

Recent transactions

  • $7 million IPO (US) for gold exploration company with assets in Mexico, US, Canada

  • $7 million Prospectus (US) for oil and gas exploration company, British Columbia

  • $5 million Prospectus (US) for sustainable technologies company, Alberta

  • $5 million registered stock option and stock compensation plans

  • $5 million Registration Statement for alternative energy company, Alberta

  • Registered equity line of credit (US) for online retailer

  • $2 million private equity for uranium exploration company, US

  • $2 million PIPE for sustainability business

  • $500,000 PIPE for oil field services company, Alberta