Incorporation and Company Forms

Pass a resolution of the board of directors to advise the shareholders to dissolve a Canadian corporation with this downloadable template.

• The Board of Directors are charged with acting in the best interests of the shareholders and they have determined the best course of action is to dissolve the corporation.
• The directors resolve to notify the shareholders that they are calling a shareholder meeting to advise them to proceed with the corporation's dissolution.
• This corporate template can be used by federal corporations and in all provinces except for Manitoba, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland & Labrador.
• Download the free MS Word template and fill in the relevant details.

Appoint the corporate officers for a Canadian corporation with this template Directors Resolution.

• A business corporation in Canada must appoint officers to fill the roles set out in its by-laws (such as a president, secretary, treasurer, etc). It is the responsibility of the directors to appoint those individuals.
• The Board of Directors pass resolutions appointing the officers for the corporation and assigning duties to each officer.
• This template can be used by any Canadian or provincial corporation that was formed under a Business Corporations Act. A different form may be required in Quebec.
• This is a downloadable and easy-to-use MS Word document. You can download it immediately after purchase.

Prepare a Director's Resolution to approve a share transfer with this free template for Canadian business corporations.

• The Board of Directors of the corporation approves and authorizes a transfer of shares from an existing shareholder to a party who is purchasing the shares.
• This template can be used by federal corporations or by provincial companies incorporated under a Business Corporations Act (Alberta, BC, Saskatchewan, Ontario, New Brunswick, Yukon, NWT, Nunavut). A French language version is required for use in Quebec.
• All share transfers must be approved. Download the Canada Directors Resolution Approving Share Transfer template for your corporate secretary.

Prepare a Directors Resolution authorizing a corporation to do a stock split with this downloadable template.

• The Board of Directors authorizes the corporation to split its issued and outstanding shares of stock.
• Each share of stock will be split, thus increasing the pool of issued shares.
• This is a generic form (not country specific), and is fully customizable.
• Available in MS Word format.

Download this template Directors' Resolution form which authorizes a corporation to convert a shareholder's common shares into another class.

• The Board of Directors of the corporation pass the resolution to convert common shares held by a shareholder into shares of another class, on a one-for-one basis.
• The resolution presupposes that the corporation's articles allow for such a conversion.
• This is a generic template which does not refer to the laws of a specific country and can be used in either the USA or Canada.
• The Directors Resolution Converting Common Shares is downloadable in MS Word format and is fully editable.

Revoke the signing authority of an officer of a Canadian corporation with this template Resolution of the Board of Directors.

• This template would be used whenever a signing officer resigns or is removed by the Board.
• This is a reusable corporate form. Save it as a template and re-use it as often as you require.
• The template can be used by corporations in any province or territory of Canada which has a Business Corporations Act, including federal companies. A French language translation is required for use in Quebec.
• Download the Canada Directors Resolution Revoking Signing Authority and use it any time there is a change in your company's corporate signing officers.

Set the date of a shareholder meeting for a Canadian corporation with this template Directors Resolution.

• This form can be used by the Board of Directors to fix the date of annual or special meetings of the shareholders.
• The Resolution also authorizes the form and content of the information circular and other documentation which has been prepared for the meeting.
• The Canada Directors Resolution Setting Date of Shareholder Meeting template is provided in MS Word format and is fully editable.
• This Directors Resolution template can be used by any Canadian or provincial corporation which has been incorporated under a Business Corporations Act. The form may not be valid in Quebec.

Before you can use a corporate seal on your company's documents, the directors must adopt the seal by resolution.

Download this free template for your Minute Book, or copy and paste the following text into a new document.

RESOLUTIONS OF THE DIRECTORS OF ________________ (legal name of corporation) (the "Corporation")

ADOPTION OF CORPORATE SEAL

BE IT RESOLVED THAT the seal, an impression of which appears in the margin hereof, is hereby adopted as the corporate seal of the Corporation.


DATED at ______________________ (insert city, province) this ______ day of ________, 20____.

The undersigned being all of the directors of the Corporation, hereby adopt the foregoing resolutions pursuant to the provisions of the Business Corporations Act.


_____________________________
Signature of Director


_____________________________
Signature of Director

Adopt a corporate seal for a U.S. business corporation with this free Directors Resolution template.

• This Resolution would be passed by the directors directly following incorporation of the company, to adopt the form of seal that the company will use on banking and other official documents requiring a seal.
• Available in MS Word format.
• Intended to be used only in the United States.

Adopt any pre-incorporation contracts signed by a principal of a Canadian corporation on behalf of the company with this free template Directors' Resolution form.

• The Board of Directors resolve to adopt any contracts entered into by the authorized signing authority on behalf of the corporation prior to its incorporation.
• The corporation also releases the principal from any liability with respect to the contracts.
• It's common practice for a corporate insider to sign contracts prior to incorporating. This Directors' Resolution binds the corporation by the terms of the contracts as if it had signed on its own behalf.
• This form can be used by any corporation incorporated under a Business Corporations Act, whether under federal or provincial law. Not for use in Quebec.