Clausehound Playbook - How to Draft & Manage Your Minute Book

1 - Understand what a minute book entails

• Overview of Minute Books

2 - Learn more about minute books

• Article 1 - Maintaining the Corporation 1/5 - Corporation’s Minute Book
• Article 2 - Maintaining the Corporation 2/5 - Corporate By-laws
• Article 3 - Maintaining the Corporation 3/5 - Annual General Meetings
• Article 4 - Maintaining the Corporation 4/5 - Management & Finances
• Article 5 - Maintaining the Corporation 5/5 - Managing the Registers

3 - Fill out this checklist to understand your agreement goals (Coming soon!)

4 - Read this sample agreement

• Minute Book Cover Page
• Directors’ Resolutions Approving By-Laws and Share Issuance
• Federal - General by-law
• Provincial - General by-law

5 - Map your checklist to the agreement

-How to map (which clauses map to which sections of the agreement)

6 - Have your agreement reviewed by a lawyer

• How to ask for a lawyer

7 - Edit and finalize first draft

• Tips of what to look out for

8 - Prepare a high-level list of what’s included

• See example of list of terms

9 - Send to counterparty with email attached

• Read this sample email to send to your counterparty