Meet the Team!

We are so pleased to be working with Andrea Lee. Her experience as a former Portfolio Manager and Chief Compliance Officer is a great asset to Veronica Armstrong Law Corporation, enabling our clients to benefit from her expertise.
All About Naming Your Corporation

Did you know a lot goes into naming your corporation? For companies just starting up it is one of the first decisions that needs to be made. For established companies that are rebranding or re-organizing it can be an equally important decision. Here Andrew Brown, one of our corporate & commercial lawyers, explains the difference […]
All About Corporate Minute Books

What is a Minute Book and why does it matter? A corporate Minute Book is a collection of all of a corporation’s most important records. It includes the articles of incorporation (which is like a corporation’s birth certificate), minutes of shareholders and directors meetings, a current list of shareholders, directors, and officers, and much more. […]
Get Ready for the New Year

The end of the year is here and is a great time to clean up your estate affairs. If you don’t have documents in place, it is a good time to start! Don’t assume that once you create your will the […]
B.C.’s Land Owner Transparency Act: Filing Transparency Report in the Land Owner Transparency Registry (LOTR)

Are you an individual that has an indirect interest in land in BC through a corporation, trust or partnership? If so, you should contact a legal professional at your earliest convenience to find out whether you need to file a transparency report. Pre-existing property owners and reporting bodies must file the transparency report by November […]
Take Over Bids

In light of Elon Musk’s recent take-over bid of Twitter, many people may be wondering how someone can take control of a company when they do not own it in. Although there will be slight differences in American and Canadian securities law, we will review a take-over bid from the Canadian law Perspective. Let’s begin […]
Privacy Law in BC

Privacy is important to everyone. Clients and customers often take safekeeping of their personal information into account when choosing and approaching businesses. In order to be trustworthy to clients, and more importantly, compliant to law, it is important to understand an organization’s obligation under privacy laws when collecting and storing its clients’ personal information. There […]
Dos and Don’ts for Exempt Market Dealers – Part 3

Dos and Don’ts for Exempt Market Dealers – Part 3 Over the past few weeks, we have talked about the challenges facing exempt market dealers. If you’ve tried to keep your firm compliant on your own, you know how daunting that can be. Many firms think that they can buy an off-the-shelf policies and procedures […]
Dos and Don’ts for Exempt Market Dealers – Part 2

If you’re like many exempt market dealers, you probably spend time being concerned about how quickly regulations change, how to effectively allocate your resources, and whether you fully understand the regulations and how they affect you. For example, the client-focused reforms that came into effect in 2021 were extensive and led to changes in not […]
Prospectus exemption
Are you an investor who’s been burned after giving money to a “sure thing”? Perhaps you’re a company with a great business idea and all you need is the financing to get things off the ground—what securities law calls an issuer. Maybe you’re someone who can introduce qualified investors to well-researched issuers, so everybody wins. […]