Services for startups

Launching, structuring, and accelerating your startup growth

At YULEX, we support startups that want to move fast without losing sight of what matters most: building a solid business ready to finance its growth, form partnerships, and expand both locally and globally.

Our startup program combines clear packages, tailored pricing, strategic follow-ups, training, and tools to structure your key documents, simplify due diligence, and help you navigate critical milestones: incorporation, governance, contracts, intellectual property protection, compliance, and financing. You keep your energy where it counts: on the product, the market, and execution.

Several or our team members have been involved in the startup ecosystem for over 20 years, even 30. We have collaborated and continue to work actively with all Québec and Canadian organizations involved with startups, whether they are incubators, accelerators, centers, investors, or other stakeholders. We also support our clients with all government programs related to startups, intellectual property, and export assistance (grants, tax credits, financial aid, etc.).

Our Approach

Each entrepreneur’s journey is unique. Our approach is based on close collaboration, flexibility, and a deep understanding of your business model. We work with you, step by step, to turn legal challenges into what fuels confidence and growth—whether it involves incorporating the company, defining the ownership structure, negotiating contracts, securing your digital assets, or preparing for  rounds of financing.

Through regular check-ins, we help you prioritize, take a step back from high-impact decisions, and anticipate risks (governance, intellectual property, data, commercial relationships). The goal: to move forward with agility, while maintaining a solid legal foundation ready for the next stage. We want you to stay in business and keep yours  healthy for years come!

Our Services for Startups

  • Packages and pricing tailored to your situation
  • Corporate: incorporation, shareholder agreements, employee stock ownership plans (a.k.a. ESOP), etc.
  • Contracts: employment, service, confidentiality agreements, assignment international commerce agreements, etc.
  • Intellectual property: analysis of your products and services, identification of your intellectual property assets, development of a strategy for protecting and managing your intellectual property rights
  • Financing: preparation for rounds of financing, negotiation and structuring of financing, etc.
  • Strategic meetings to discuss your business challenges and guide your decisions
  • Annual follow-ups: maintenance of minute books, annual filings, AGMs, intellectual property, etc.
  • Documentary DNA
  • Training and networking
  • Support for your international operations

Do your projects go beyond the borders of Quebec and Canada?

Thanks to our Interlegal network, we can support you in your international expansion.

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