Practice Area

We provide strategic, trusted and legal advice to entrepreneurs and corporate clients. We also specialize in providing services to foreign clients entering and conducting business in Canada and help them to seamlessly engage in cross-border trade.

Our business law practice covers the following services:

• Business entity formation, structuring and dissolution
• Purchases and Sale of the business (Asset Purchase & Share Purchase)
• Due diligence search and review
• Reorganization and restructuring of a private company
• Start-up incorporation and venture capital financing
• Franchise, license, supply and distribution agreement
• Management consulting for the financial institutions (Bank, Insurance company, Investment & Finance company, Lease company, etc.)
• Advisory regarding the international business, trade and Investment

Clients rely on us to assist them with all their real estate requirements as follows:

• Acquisition and disposition of all classes of commercial real estate, including office, retail, hotel, industrial, recreational and development properties
• Purchase and sale of residential real estate
• Financing, including long-term, construction and other loans and mortgage securitizations
• Real estate ownership structures, including joint ventures, partnership and shareholder arrangements
• Drafting, review and execution of lease agreement
• Construction and development agreements

True Light Law Corporation delivers advice to our clients, employers and employees, on a wide range of employment and labour laws, including advice on hiring, employee relations, employment standards, outsourcing arrangements and employment terminations, as well as compliance with Canadian privacy law.

Clients also call on us for advice on creating, revising, implementing and enforcing personnel and other workplace policies, and also seek for advice to provide management training programs to ensure that they are current on employment and labour law developments.

We often work with other professionals in complementary areas of law, such as corporate and commercial, tax, immigration, intellectual property, and employee benefits and executive compensation to help clients expand into Canada or to acquire and sell existing Canadian businesses.

When workplace disputes result in litigation or complaints to an administrative tribunal, clients feel confident retaining True Light Law Corporation. We can litigate matters before courts at all levels throughout Canada as well as appear before provincial and federal human rights tribunals and labour relations boards. Besides, we attend arbitration hearings on behalf of clients and represent them in judicial reviews of arbitrators’ decisions.

Successful businesses require direct access to a tax lawyer who understands their businesses and provides responsive, thoughtful and practical advice. Experienced deal-makers know that one of the key features of most successful transactions is increasingly early-stage input of tax counsel.

True Light Law Corporation can assist clients in managing the audit and assessment process, and represent both individual and corporate clients at all levels of court, covering all aspects of Canadian tax law, including domestic and international income tax, GST, HST and provincial sales taxes.

True Light Law Corporation’s planning and advisory services include the development of tax planning strategies and tax-efficient business structures and the provision of legal advice on all aspects of income tax and commodity tax. We also advise high net worth clients on the tax aspects of wealth, estate and business planning and have significant experience advising private corporations and their shareholders.

Clients may engage us in confidential discussions regarding any tax issue with the comfort that their communications will be protected from disclosure under the principles of solicitor-client privilege.

In particular, Joshua is an expert in all areas of tax controversy and tax litigation, offering clients the full spectrum of tax dispute resolution services.

With prior experience as a director of a multinational financial institution and as a CPA of Australia and the U.S.A., Joshua concentrates his legal practice on the following estate planning and wealth management matters:

• Complex estate planning including wills, power of attorney and estate administration
• Various trust including a family trust, alter-ego trust and Henson trust for special needs family member
• Business succession planning
• Charitable planning
• Full range of wealth preservation strategies for high net worth clients

True Light Law Corporation uses sophisticated and creative planning techniques to help our clients reduce taxes, preserve wealth, and meet their personal, family and business goals.

True Light Law Corporation will expertly and compassionately guide you through the sensitive time and help you navigate the intricacies of family law, make sound and constructive decisions, triumph over difficulties and arrive at practical and transformational solutions uniquely tailored to help you and your family thrive.

We provide both alternative dispute resolution and litigation services across the entire spectrum of family law, including:

• Separation and divorce
• Cohabitation, prenuptial and property agreements
• Child custody, guardianship and parenting arrangements
• Child support and spousal support
• Property division and debt resolution
• Negotiation, mediation, arbitration and other conflict resolution processes

True Light Law Corporation is your legal expertise to safely and successfully help you migrate to Canada. Our lawyer and immigration consultant (RCIC) know all details required, and also if you happen to get any visa denied, we know the way successfully getting your application approved.

We provide our clients with the following advisory services:                 

• Criminal Inadmissibility relating to the Temporary Resident Permit, Rehabilitation, and Record Suspension
• Maintaining status in Canada while travelling abroad for personal or business reasons
• Immigration law implications of any corporate changes, including mergers, acquisitions, spin-offs, salary or location changes and reductions in the workforce
• Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) process, compliance and maintenance with Service Canada criteria
• Development of, and counselling on, corporate immigration policies and procedures

True Light Law Corporation also assists clients in preparing and drafting the appropriate applications and supporting documents as follows:

• Quebec Entrepreneur Program
• B.C. Provincial Nominee Program (BC PNP)
• International Mobility Program including Intra-company transferees
• Start-up Visa Program
• Self-Employed Persons Program
• Work permits under NAFTA, CETA, GATS, Canada – Korea FTA, Canada – Japan FTA and other international trade agreements

Joshua appears regularly before the Immigration and Refugee Board for Detention and Admissibility Hearings, Immigration Appeal Division (IAD) Hearings and the Federal Court of Canada on Immigration Appeal, Stay Application and Judicial Review.

Joshua helps clients who got discriminated based on various grounds including race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, political belief, religion, marital status, family status, physical or mental disability, sex and age.

Besides, Joshua has extensive experience in Human Rights-related legal matters. He has an intimate and intricate knowledge of the British Columbia Human Rights Code and appears on clients’ behalf before the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.

Joshua also represents clients at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, the Federal Court of Canada and the Provincial Court of British Columbia. He has been helping refugees with great commitment and had an experience of helping disadvantaged refugees at the RACS (Refugee Advice and Casework Service), Sydney, Australia.

Whether you are filing a human rights complaint or are responding to a human rights complaint, consult with True Light Law Corporation immediately.