Hartley is a senior member of our Corporate/Commercial Group and is designated as a Certified Specialist (Corporate and Commercial Law) by the Law Society of Upper Canada. His practice concentrates on corporate commercial law, with an emphasis on corporate governance matters and corporate meetings.

Hartley has been involved in major sales and acquisitions of private corporations, complex shareholders agreements and corporate reorganizations. He currently advises many boards of directors of business and non-profit corporations on due diligence matters, how to fulfill their responsibilities as directors, how to prepare for and conduct meetings of directors, shareholders and members, and how to deal with issues that may arise at these meetings. He has also been retained as an expert witness in several corporate and commercial cases.

Philip is a senior member of our Corporate/Commercial Group. His practice concentrates on matters involving corporate finance, securities, mergers and acquisitions, governance and strategic counsel, privatizations and private/public partnerships.

He has served as corporate secretary and a director of and general and special counsel to a number of corporations and has acted as advisor, coach and mentor to CEO's, COO's, CFO's and other senior executives and directors of public and private business and government organizations, including entrepreneurs and family owned or controlled businesses.