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How We Can Help

All the day-to-day legal services your business needs, all in one place.

As a start-up, small business, or emerging company, your business will make decisions and take actions that raise a range of legal considerations. No matter your stage of growth, we’re here to help.

Maintaining the health of your corporation is critical to preserve and grow value from incorporation to exit. We can help you organize your business, manage contractual relationships among shareholders, maintain your minute book, and much more.

Whether you’re a high-growth app or simply have a website for your business, you need to understand the legal considerations relevant to your online presence. We can help you prepare privacy policies, terms of use, and other important agreements your business needs.

Commercial agreements can take many forms, depending on the nature of your business. From software license agreements to SaaS agreements, we can help you structure, negotiate, and formalize your business’ commercial relationships.

Intellectual property assets are a key source of value for many emerging companies. We can help you develop an IP strategy to capture, protect, and maximize the returns on your intangible assets.

Legal considerations related to employment are critical yet often overlooked by emerging companies. We can help you prepare employment and contractor agreements, structure worker compensation, set-up incentive plans, manage hiring and firing of workers, and more.

Beyond the traditional debt and equity financing models, emerging companies often reach for hybrid models such as convertible debt or SAFEs. We can help you select the right structure for your raise, prepare and negotiate the appropriate agreements, and manage the necessary corporate approvals.

Want to learn more about how we can help your business grow?

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How Slingshot Works

Legal services designed to empower.

Legal services can be intimidating and hourly fees are hard to budget for. Slingshot is designed to give you the legal tools your business needs to succeed with a predictable and competitive cost base.

CUSTOMIZED PLANS

BANKABLE LEGAL SERVICES

We can work with you to build a customized plan that is tailored to the exact needs of your business.

Your monthly lawyer hours are bankable, meaning you can roll over unused hours for use in future months.

FREE CONSULTATIONS

SECURE CLIENT PORTAL

Our free phone consultations help you understand when your business needs legal support.

Keep all your most important legal documents organized and easily accessible.

RESOURCE BANK

Get at-a-click access to templates for the common legal documents your business needs.

The Client Experience

"We don't usually do testimonials unless a product or service has profoundly impacted us. Slingshot shattered the stereotypical lawyer narrative we had. Thank you, John and Paul, for showing us that a law firm can be flexible, provide a human experience and offer entrepreneurial solutions to work alongside our early-stage startup's needs. With a positive, hard-working attitude, they care about the growth of our business and keeping our best interests in mind. Slingshot has been a breath of fresh air!"
Raif Douthwaite & Eloïse Ashworth, Executive Directors of Lumières Media Inc.

Resources to Grow

Understanding Non-Compete Clauses

The focus of this blog post will be non-compete clauses, which have become commonplace in a number of different employment relationships, from the high-tech world to fast food chains. The clauses are intended to restrict departing employees from accepting paid work in the same or similar sectors to that of their previous employer.

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Letting Go: Termination of Employment in Ontario

Startups and emerging companies are usually so focused on growing and scaling up that the thought of letting employees go is far from top of mind. However, it is important that employers and employees understand what employees are entitled to when they are terminated under the Ontario Employment Standards Act (“ESA”) and the common law.

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ESOPs – A Primer

Option agreements provide employees the right to purchase shares of the employer corporation at a specified price during the term of the agreement, and subject to specified “vesting” provisions and other conditions. ESOPs work by granting employees the opportunity to benefit from a higher future value of their company’s share price.

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