March 2010
David Ullmann is a Shooting Star according to Precedent Magazine

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January 2010
On January 18, 2010, the Honourable Jerry S. Grafstein, Q.C. was interviewed on BNN's The Close to discuss his involvement with a consortium to purchase three newspapers (National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Montreal Gazette) from CanWest.

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 December 2009
On December 9, 2009, Hartley R. Nathan Q.C. and Phillip G. Bevans, along with the CCH, presented the webinar Company Meetings: Preparation, Conduct and Best Practices which took a closer look at Hartley's recent book Nathan's Company Meetings, 8th Edition. Learn how to prepare for Board and Shareholder Meetings and what can be done to manage sensitive issues when they arise.

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November 2009
On October 30, 2009 Mountain Cablevision Limited ("Mountain Cablevision") announced that it had completed the sale of their shares to Shaw Communications Inc ("Shaw") through an affiliate. Mountain Cablevision had been privately owned by the Boris family for the past 50 years. The transaction was subject to approval of the CRTC which was granted on October 22, 2009. The purchase price was approximately $300 million, $120 million of which was paid through the issuance of 6,141,250 Class B Non-Voting Participating Shares of Shaw, with the balance paid in cash.

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November 2009
Minden Gross LLP acted for Blue Planet Environmental Inc. in connection with its listing of its common shares on the First Quotation Board of the Open Market of the Deutsche Börse (Frankfurt). In so doing Blue Planet became one of the first Canadian listed company's which was listed on the exchange without having completed an offering or qualifying transaction.

November, 2009
Steven Pearlstein was interviewed for the November edition of Law Times.  He was quoted in the article “HST could blunt housing rebound,” which discusses the impact that the new harmonized sales tax will have on resale home transactions specifically legal fees. 

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October, 2009
Congratulations Howard Black on being selected by his peers to the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada in the specialty of Trusts and Estates.

July, 2009
Howard Black appeared on BNN: Money Talk to discuss cottage succession planning strategies that could help avoid disputes amongst family members as well as reduce the tax bite

July, 2009
David Ullmann was interviewed July 6th on BNN: Squeeze Play to provide a Canadian perspective on the GM Fallout in a panel discussion.

June, 2009
David Ullmann was interviewed June 9th on
BNN: The Street to discuss the consequences of the bondholders throwing a wrench in the Chrysler restructuring.

May, 2009
Minden Gross LLP is proud to announce that "Tax & Family Business Succession Planning, 2nd ed." by David Louis and Samantha Prasad has been selected by the Financial Post Magazine (May 2009) as a recommended resource for the Entrepreneur's Tool Kit as part of their feature on Succession Planning.

David and Samantha are currently working on the 3rd edition of their best-selling book, which will be published by CCH Canada Limited in the fall of 2009."