Practice Areas
- Initial public offerings and exchange listings
- Complex equity and debt financing, including private placements, bought deals and cross-border financings
- Compliance with securities law, exchange policies and continuous disclosure requirements
- Documenting and assisting in corporate reorganizations
- Advising on regulatory matters
- Structuring and advising on going-private transactions
- Secured lending transactions
- Proxy contests, take-over bids, issuer bids, mergers, shareholder agreements, and other change of control transactions
- Assisting Capital Pool Companies on exchange listing and completion of a qualifying transaction
- Bilateral and syndicated loan transactions
- Secured and unsecured lending
- Mezzanine financing
- Asset-based lending
- Subordinated debt structures
- Intercreditor arrangements
- Cross-border lending
- Refinancings and recapitalizations
- Asset purchase and share purchase transactions
- Management buy-outs, divestments and sales of non-core assets
- Private equity acquisition and disposition
- Documenting and assisting in corporate reorganizations
- Advising in and preparing documentation for a broad range of business arrangements, including shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, restrictive covenants, agency agreements and distribution arrangements
- Developing employee incentive programs including security based compensation plans
- Incorporation of companies in British Columbia and under the Canada Business Corporations Act (federal) and extra-provincial registrations in British Columbia
- Share transfers, share capital alterations, corporate reorganizations and amalgamations
- Incorporation of companies in British Columbia and under the Canada Business Corporations Act (federal), and extra-provincial registrations in British Columbia
- Acquisitions and divestitures
- Drafting and negotiating commercial contracts
- Documenting and assisting in corporate reorganizations
- Advising on corporate governance policies and strategies
- Public and private equity and debt financings
- Compliance with securities law and continuous disclosure requirements
- Shareholder, partnership and joint venture agreements
- Project financing and agreements
- Securities based compensation plans and executive compensation
- Access to capital markets via public offerings, exchange listings and exempt distributions
- Royalty (NSR, GRR and NPI), earn-in, and property option agreements
- Equity and debt financing, including private placements, bought deals, cross-border financings, and the issuance of flow-through units or shares
- Advising and due diligence on the acquisition of properties, mineral rights and claims, domestic and abroad
- Regulatory compliance
- Joint ventures and strategic alliances
- Assisting with technical and project disclosure per securities law requirements, including National Instrument 43-101
- Acquisitions and dispositions
- Real estate financing
- Development structuring and joint ventures
- Commercial leasing
- Due diligence
- Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) applications for all positions, including Global Talent Stream applications
- LMIA-exempt work permits under international trade agreements
- Permanent Residence applications, including:
- Express Entry
- Provincial Nominee Programs
- Family Class Sponsorship
- Start-up Visa Program and business, investor, and entrepreneur immigration assistance, including:
- British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) Entrepreneur Immigration (EI)
- Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) Entrepreneur Stream (ES)
- Quebec business/ investor immigration program
- Applications for Permanent Residence as a self-employed person
- Citizenship applications
- Work permit extensions pending Permanent Residence application
- Permanent Resident card extension applications
- Travel, study and business visa applications
- Temporary residence and work permit applications
- Litigation before Canadian courts in jurisdictional matters, including arbitral award set-aside matters and arbitral award and foreign judgment enforcement matters
- Investor-state arbitration under foreign investment protection treaties
- Advisory work to international companies and foreign states
- Public international law advisory work
Recent Transactions
World Copper Completes Plan of Arrangement with Plata Latina to Transfer its 100% Interest in the Zonia Copper Project
October 30, 2025
Lotz & Company acted for World Copper Ltd. (“World Copper”) in connection with its court-approved plan of arrangement with Plata Latina Minerals Corporation (“Plata Latina”) under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia),
Avventura Resources Ltd. Completes Initial Public Offering and CSE Listing
August 25, 2025
Lotz & Company acted for Avventura Resources Ltd. in connection with its initial public offering of common shares and the concurrent listing of its common shares on the Canadian Securities
Gitennes Exploration Inc. Completes Private Placement and LIFE Offering
October 10, 2024
Lotz & Company acted for Gitennes Exploration Inc. in connection with its $600,000 private placement of common shares and units. The units comprising the private placement were offered pursuant to
World Copper Ltd. Establishes $25 Million At-The-Market Equity Program
July 17, 2024
Lotz & Company acted for World Copper Ltd. in connection with establishing its “at-the-market” public offering of up to $25 million of common shares through BMO Capital Markets, as agent.
- Initial public offerings and exchange listings
- Complex equity and debt financing, including private placements, bought deals and cross-border financings
- Compliance with securities law, exchange policies and continuous disclosure requirements
- Documenting and assisting in corporate reorganizations
- Advising on regulatory matters
- Structuring and advising on going-private transactions
- Secured lending transactions
- Proxy contests, take-over bids, issuer bids, mergers, shareholder agreements, and other change of control transactions
- Assisting Capital Pool Companies on exchange listing and completion of a qualifying transaction
- Bilateral and syndicated loan transactions
- Secured and unsecured lending
- Mezzanine financing
- Asset-based lending
- Subordinated debt structures
- Intercreditor arrangements
- Cross-border lending
- Refinancings and recapitalizations
- Asset purchase and share purchase transactions
- Management buy-outs, divestments and sales of non-core assets
- Private equity acquisition and disposition
- Documenting and assisting in corporate reorganizations
- Advising in and preparing documentation for a broad range of business arrangements, including shareholder agreements, partnership agreements, restrictive covenants, agency agreements and distribution arrangements
- Developing employee incentive programs including security based compensation plans
- Incorporation of companies in British Columbia and under the Canada Business Corporations Act (federal) and extra-provincial registrations in British Columbia
- Share transfers, share capital alterations, corporate reorganizations and amalgamations
- Incorporation of companies in British Columbia and under the Canada Business Corporations Act (federal), and extra-provincial registrations in British Columbia
- Acquisitions and divestitures
- Drafting and negotiating commercial contracts
- Documenting and assisting in corporate reorganizations
- Advising on corporate governance policies and strategies
- Public and private equity and debt financings
- Compliance with securities law and continuous disclosure requirements
- Shareholder, partnership and joint venture agreements
- Project financing and agreements
- Securities based compensation plans and executive compensation
- Access to capital markets via public offerings, exchange listings and exempt distributions
- Royalty (NSR, GRR and NPI), earn-in, and property option agreements
- Equity and debt financing, including private placements, bought deals, cross-border financings, and the issuance of flow-through units or shares
- Advising and due diligence on the acquisition of properties, mineral rights and claims, domestic and abroad
- Regulatory compliance
- Joint ventures and strategic alliances
- Assisting with technical and project disclosure per securities law requirements, including National Instrument 43-101
- Acquisitions and dispositions
- Real estate financing
- Development structuring and joint ventures
- Commercial leasing
- Due diligence
- Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) applications for all positions, including Global Talent Stream applications
- LMIA-exempt work permits under international trade agreements
- Permanent Residence applications, including:
- Express Entry
- Provincial Nominee Programs
- Family Class Sponsorship
- Start-up Visa Program and business, investor, and entrepreneur immigration assistance, including:
- British Columbia Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP) Entrepreneur Immigration (EI)
- Ontario Immigrant Nominee Program (OINP) Entrepreneur Stream (ES)
- Quebec business/ investor immigration program
- Applications for Permanent Residence as a self-employed person
- Citizenship applications
- Work permit extensions pending Permanent Residence application
- Permanent Resident card extension applications
- Travel, study and business visa applications
- Temporary residence and work permit applications
- Litigation before Canadian courts in jurisdictional matters, including arbitral award set-aside matters and arbitral award and foreign judgment enforcement matters
- Investor-state arbitration under foreign investment protection treaties
- Advisory work to international companies and foreign states
- Public international law advisory work