Guillaume Carrier, Lawyer

Specialist of European and North-American Business Law

Legal counsel to business

Legal counsel offered by the author of this site are mainly destined to businesses and enterprises, large and small, who wish to invest or export goods and services within European Union or NAFTA countries.

Your business wishes to export and invest in a foreign country. You have delayed or suspended your project for one the following reasons:

• The project is not well defined,
• The markets you wish to expand to are too remote,
• The risks and unknowns of international trade are too great
• The countries in which you want to invest are saturated and protectionist
• Or simply, you don't have enough information to proceed confidently with your project.

The author of this site provides complete legal assistance to all enterprises and firms who wish, in any fashion, to invest or export in a foreign country. Potential investors will be properly informed as to all the legal aspects of their venture.

These services, provided by a lawyer who knows simultaneously the Canadian, European and NAFTA laws, are being offered on a flat rate basis, rather than on an hourly one. This presents the immense advantage that you know in advance exactly how much the consultation fees will amount to.

A typical intervention by the consultant includes all the following steps:

1. Meetings and discussions about the investment or export project
2. Analysis of the company that wishes to invest (Nature of enterprise, its activities)
   • Research and analysis on the state of market activity in the company's country of origin and country of investment. Competition analysis.
3. Study of european law constraints
   • Summary of the European Union legal system
   • Synthesis of general legal constraints, applying to all non-european businesses
   • Inventory of specific legal constraints applying to the envisioned project: In-depth research of all relevant european by-laws and legislation affecting the project in any way.
4. Inventory of all possible legal strategies of investment
   • Inventory of the advantages and disadvantages applying to different strategies
5. Definitive choice of a legal strategy of investment
   • Along with the investors, the consultant will choose the most profitable and efficient way to invest or export.
6. Setting up of the investment procedure
   • Listing of all necessary step to carry out the project. At this point, the investors will know, practically, how to successfully undertake the project. They will know which and how to fill forms, which european authorities they will need to contact, what kind of delays and obstacles they may expect to encounter and how to alleviate them.
7. Transmission of report
   • The consultant will transmit all relevant information to the investors so as to be sure that the project materialises in the best possible conditions.

Legal counsel to Law firms

Your law firm needs the services of a legal expert on European or NAFTA law. The author of this site will sub-contract consulting services. You may contact him by E-mail at [email protected] or by telephone in Canada during business hours (Eastern Standard Time), at (1) 514 739-4064

Other Legal counsel

If you are an organisation, company, or institution which needs a research or an opinion relating to European or NAFTA law, please leave an E-mail to Guillaume Carrier at [email protected] or phone him in Canada during business hours (Eastern Standard Time), at (1) 514 739-4064.

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