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Structuring International Joint Venture Transactions: Pre-Contractual Considerations

On December 13, 2010, Janice Vohrah delivered a presentation about structuring international joint venture transactions co-authored by Ken Snider and Ms. Vohrah.

In order to benefit from emerging opportunities and gain a competitive advantage on the global stage, many companies are resorting to international joint ventures. This session provided an overview of the structuring considerations and pre-contractual issues associated with these types of arrangements.

• Legal forms of joint ventures: common elements of JV agreements
• Incorporating substantive issues into contractual language
• Financial and managerial structure of an international joint venture
• Impact of choice of law decision
• Defining the scope of the venture
• Duties in the pre-contractual phase

Ken Snider is a partner in the Tax & Trusts Group whose practice focuses on corporate taxation, with an emphasis on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, inbound and outbound investments, and resource and real estate investments.

Janice Vohrah is an associate in our Tax Group practising in all areas of Canadian income tax law, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, financing, commercial transactions and corporatereorganizations.