BUSINESS LAW
PRACTICE AREAS

Corporate & Commercial

Corporate

Corporate compliance isn't glamorous (we know), but getting it wrong is expensive. Outsiders handles your incorporations, annual filings, director changes, and resolutions for Alberta businesses with the same rigour we bring to every file, so the boring stuff never becomes a big problem.

Commercial

Handshake deals are great... until they aren't. Outsiders drafts and negotiates the commercial agreements that protect your business when things get complicated, including shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, joint venture agreements, amalgamations, wind-ups, and loan documents. We've seen what happens when these aren't done right. You don't want to.

Incorporate Now

Mergers & Acquisitions

Alberta's lower mid-market has no shortage of serious deals. What it has lacked is a Calgary M&A firm built specifically to serve them.

Outsiders Law was founded by big law-trained lawyers who left the large firm world deliberately (and we mean deliberately) to bring that same level of M&A expertise directly to Alberta businesses navigating $10M+ transactions, without the overhead, the billable hour padding, or the associate shuffle.

Whether you are buying a business in Alberta or selling one, the legal work on either side of a deal at the lower mid-market level ($10M-$50M) is complex, consequential, and deserves counsel that has actually done it before. That is what we bring.

Learn More

Thinking of Buying or Selling a Business?

Whether you are 5 months or 5 years out, the best time to talk to us is now. Early planning means better tax outcomes, better multiples, and fewer surprises at closing.

Email Us

Corporate Tax

How your business is structured affects everything, from how much tax you pay, to what happens when you bring on a new shareholder, to how efficiently wealth moves to the next generation.

Outsiders brings big law-trained tax counsel to Alberta businesses that expect more than generic advice. Whether you are restructuring for efficiency, acquiring or disposing of assets, expanding internationally, getting RRSP eligibility opinions for your private company, or navigating any transaction with tax implications, we make sure the structure works as hard as you do.

Bitcoin & Digital Assets

Bitcoin

Most Calgary law firms discovered Bitcoin sometime around 2021. Outsiders has been in the space since 2018 (back when most lawyers thought the lightning network was something from a weather report). We have built Bitcoin businesses from the ground up, advised miners, lightning network operators, and Bitcoin teller machine businesses, navigated Bitcoin tax, and worked through the regulatory frameworks that govern this space before most firms knew they existed.

Digital Assets

We have worked with exchanges and money services businesses, spent serious time understanding both proof-of-work and proof-of-stake blockchains, and been involved in tokenized security offerings and staking pools. We know the difference between a utility token and a security (and why it matters enormously).

If you are looking for a law firm that doesn't need you to educate them on the space, Outsiders is your answer.

Meet the Team

The lawyers behind Outsiders Law don't just know the law; they have lived it. Sebastian brings nearly two decades of big law-trained transaction and tax experience. Chace brings a rare combination of legal and financial expertise that few M&A lawyers can offer.

Together, they are building the Corporate, Commercial, and M&A firm that Alberta's lower mid-market has always needed.

Meet the Team