Burtley Francis

Associate

“Good can always be better, until it’s best.”

Preparation leads success.

Being prepared for coming change drives success in the business world.  Burtley helps clients maintain their commercial advantage by staying current on the trends affecting their businesses and providing practical advice using his experience, knowledge and skill set. Attentive and responsive to his clients’ needs, he identifies issues before they become problems. In the flurry to close the deal, Burtley distinguishes the priorities and delivers what is needed, when it is needed.

Representative matters

Burtley’s clients range from owner managed businesses to larger private/public companies and are found in industries as diverse as telecommunications, manufacturing, information technology and entertainment.  Some examples of how he has helped his clients are:
  • Corporate Restructuring – re-organizing their business by implementing a more tax-efficient share structure and coordinating amalgamations and dissolutions involving companies in multiple jurisdictions.
  • Purchase/Sale of Businesses – assisting with both asset and share transactions including a $75 million sale of a telecommunications customer support centre.  
  • Commercial Financing – assisting in various credit financing arrangements including a credit financing of a telecommunications company worth approximately $30 million.
  • Advertising and Marketing Compliance – providing advice on regulatory compliance of advertising and marketing campaigns, contests and promotions.

Areas of practice:

  • Business Transactions
  • Owner Managed Business
  • IT/Intellectual Property
  • Advertising/Marketing

BAR ADMISSION(S)

Nova Scotia, 2008

LAW SOCIETY(IES)

Nova Scotia Barristers' Society

EDUCATION

Dalhousie University, LL.B., 2007
University of Ottawa, B.Sc. (honours), 2004

ACTIVITIES

Member, Canadian Bar Association

LANGUAGE(S)

English

Presentations

  • Co-presenter, “Personal Property Security Act – Fundamentals” Stewart McKelvey Moncton, June 2010

Suite 900
Purdy's Wharf Tower One
1959 Upper Water Street
Halifax, NS, Canada
B3J 3N2

P 902.444.1714
F 902.420.1417

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LEGAL ASSISTANT(S)

Cathy Kennedy

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