Successor to the business (Regulation 22)

Note

Use this consent letter if the person proposing the corporate name will be the successor to the business of the corporation with the confusing name. The proposed corporate name must have the year in parenthesis added to the corporate name just before the legal element (example – ABC (1995) Inc.).

The existing corporation must:

  1. Consent to the use of the name; and
  2. UndertakeFootnote 1 to immediately dissolve or change its corporate name before the proposed corporate name is used.

As the consent is being given by a corporation, the signature must be of an authorized officer and must give his/her title.

The Director General, Corporations Canada
235 Queen Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1A 0H5

Re: Proposed corporate name of [Insert proposed corporate name]

[Insert name of corporation signing consent]], a body corporate, hereby consents to the use of [Insert proposed corporate name] by a successor corporation provided the year of incorporation is in parentheses before the legal element.

[Insert name of corporation signing consent] undertakes to dissolve immediately or to change its name before the corporation proposing to use that name begins to carry on business under that name.

Signed in the city of space to insert city,
in the province of space to insert province,
on this space to insert day day of space to insert month, 20space to insert year.

space to insert signature
(Signature)

space to insert full name
(Print full name)

space to insert name and title of officer signing
(Insert title of officer signing and the name of the corporation)