Aila Makooli, Barristers and Solicitors

Canadian immigration for people and employers

Immigration work covers family sponsorship, work and study permits, temporary resident visas and citizenship. Canadian businesses, and U.S. or other multinationals moving staff into a Canadian operation, get help on both sides of a work permit, with the employer and the worker, and the worker's dependants can be helped with their own work and study permits.

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U.S. immigration visas

The practice also takes on U.S. immigration, including family-based visas, EB-5 investor visas and EB-1 visas for priority workers.

Homes, mortgages and commercial leases

Home buyers sit down with Aila Makooli to go over their rights and obligations under the Agreement of Purchase and Sale. Residential files include new, resale and condo purchases and sales, mortgage registrations and discharges, and title insurance, acting for borrowers or lenders. Commercially, the firm negotiates and drafts retail, office and other commercial leases and reviews leases for tenants worried about their liability.

Business structures, financing and deals

Aila Makooli walks business owners through the structures open to them and the pros and cons of each. From there the work runs to advice on raising capital and securities compliance, buy-sell agreements that take effect if an owner dies, divorces or becomes disabled, and mergers and acquisitions.

Personal injury

Injury files involve people hurt in accidents, by medical malpractice or on hazardous premises because someone else was negligent.