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The Davis LLP International Business Transactions Practice Group represents clients in all areas of international business, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and project consortiums, sale and distribution of goods, licensing of technology, export and regulatory controls, corporate and tax structuring and dealings with governments.

We assist clients starting from the initial strategic decision-making and risk assessment, through exploratory meetings, confidentiality agreements, and due diligence, to the signing, closing and implementation of an international business transaction. We understand the unique needs of our clients doing business in foreign countries, where risk assessment and strategic planning are fundamental aspects of any transaction.

We also represent foreign and multi-national companies doing business in Canada, and in their purchase or start-up of a Canadian business. We understand the special issues facing non-Canadians in terms of taxation, compliance with foreign investment and anti-trust rules, non-resident compliance with Canadian corporate law, and conducting negotiations with Canadian parties. We have represented clients doing business in, or from, over 100 countries around the world.

Our specific legal services include the following:

• Representation of buyers in the acquisition of businesses in foreign countries
• Representation of buyers and sellers in international sales transactions
• Advising on, negotiating and drafting letters of intent, confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, joint venture and consortium agreements, international sale of goods agreements, international services agreement, BOT agreements, partnering agreements, distribution, agency and sales representative agreements, technology transfer and licensing agreements
• Letters of credit and trade finance documentation
• Export and import controls
• Political and commercial risk management
• Special issues of doing business in the G7 and EU countries, and in emerging markets
• Advising on state immunity and international minimum standards in dealing with foreign governments
• Advice concerning the application of international treaties, conventions and bi-lateral and multi-lateral agreements
• Counsel and third-party dispute resolution services in the arbitration and mediation of international commercial disputes

Our Group also attracts high-technology clients. We represent Canadian and non-Canadian businesses in international business transactions involving software and hardware, electronics, biotechnology and bioinformatics, telecommunications, e-commerce and other leading-edge technologies.

Recognition

Our Group's members include lawyers who have achieved the highest ratings from Martindale-Hubbell, Chambers Global Guide, Euromoney and LEXPERT, and who frequently write and lecture on topics in international business.

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