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Business Law

You move fast. Your legal cover should move with you, not trip you up.

From your first incorporation to your biggest deal, you’ll have a partner who clears the path instead of clogging it.

Lumis Law provides Business Law services in Calgary, Alberta, including incorporation, commercial contracts, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, shareholder and partnership agreements, and on-demand general counsel.

The Problem

It’s 11 p.m. You just closed the biggest deal of your year on a great handshake and a contract you pulled off Google an hour earlier. The handshake felt amazing. The contract is the thing that’ll actually defend you when a payment stalls or a partner walks, and right now, it can’t.

Lumis Law’s solution

That gap is exactly where good businesses bleed money.

Lumis Law closes it. You’ll get a legal partner you keep on speed dial, fast, practical, and focused on helping you grow, not drowning you in paper. Launching, scaling, signing, or selling, you’ll know your business is built on solid ground.

Cover for every stage of the climb.

Setting Up, Start on solid ground.

Your setup shapes your taxes, your personal risk, and your ability to raise money later. You get the right structure from day one — built for where you’re actually headed.

Contracts, Protect yourself before the problem, not after.

Contracts are the backbone of your business. The agreements you live by — clients, suppliers, staff, leases — are written to defend you and head off the disputes that quietly sink companies.

Buying or Selling a Business, No costly surprises at the table.

This is one of the biggest moves you’ll ever make. Someone digs into the details, structures the deal, and steers the close — so the hidden debts that ambush unrepresented buyers and sellers don’t ambush you.

Restructuring, Keep up with your own growth.

As you scale, your structure has to keep pace. Clean reorganizations and succession planning keep the company efficient, compliant, and ready for what’s next.

Partner & Shareholder Agreements, Decide the hard stuff while everyone’s still friends.

The best time to agree on what happens if partners fall out is before they do. Everything is spelled out clearly, protecting both the business and the relationships behind it.

On-Demand Counsel, A legal partner, without the in-house cost.

You don’t need a full legal department, but the questions never stop. A trusted advisor, a message away, whenever you need one.
Build It Right From the Start

What Calgary founders actually ask us.

Build It Right From the Start
Alberta or federal incorporation, what’s the difference for me?
If you’ll operate mainly in Alberta, an Alberta corporation is usually simpler and cheaper. Federal incorporation protects your name across Canada and can make sense if you’ll work in several provinces — though you’ll still register extra-provincially where you operate. You’ll get a straight recommendation based on where you actually do business.
Because a template can’t know your deal, your risks, or Alberta law — many are written for the U.S. and are quietly unenforceable here. The expensive contract disputes we see almost always trace back to a generic template that missed the one clause that mattered.
What comes with it: hidden debts, liens, unpaid taxes, employee obligations, and contracts you may inherit without knowing. Proper due diligence and the right structure — asset purchase or share purchase — decide whether you’re buying a business or buying its problems.
In an asset sale, you buy specific assets and leave most liabilities behind; in a share sale, you buy the whole company — debts, history, and all. Each has real tax and risk consequences for both sides, and the wrong choice can cost far more than the legal fee to structure it right.
It depends on the work — a contract review is not a merger. What’s constant here: you get a flat fee or an honest estimate agreed to before anything starts, so the bill never surprises you.