January 2012
Irvin Schein blogged Ontario Courts Now Recognize the Tort of Invasion of Personal Privacy
January 2012
Minden Gross represented Blue Planet Environmental Inc. (FWK, Stock Symbol -9BP) as it entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement with BPE Marketing Services LLC, providing for an equity investment of up to $3,000,000 USD. Brian Temins, chair of the Corporate/Commercial group led the Minden Gross team on this transaction. Click here for details.
January 2012
Irvin Schein blogged The Miracle of Title Insurance – Who says you can’t have your cake and eat it too?
January 2012
Minden Gross is pleased to announce that Enzo Sallese and Leah Silber have joined the firm.
December 2011
Irvin Schein blogged To close or not to close?
December 2011
Irvin Schein blogged Arbitrating Business Disputes: Facts and Myths
December 2011
Glen Lewis was quoted in the article Come Together, Right Now in the Winter 2011 edition of Precedent Magazine.
December 2011
Irvin Schein blogged On Litigation and Arbitration.
December 2011
Hartley R. Nathan, Q.C and Phillip G. Bevans present Top 10 Contentious Issues at Board and Shareholders' Meetings for CCH Canada
December 2011
The Honourable Jerry S. Grafstein, Q.C. was installed as the Honourary Chairman Of The Board Of Governors of the Canadian Yeshiva & Rabbinical School
November 2011
Irvin Schein blogged
Dealer Agreement Renewals: Ask Not for Whom the Bell Tolls…
November 2011
Hartley R. Nathan, Q.C. presented The Preparation and Conduct of Board and Committee Meetings to the Directors College: Chairs Forum
November 2011
Irvin Schein blogged Delays in the Closing of Condominium Units – How Long is Too Long?
November 2011
Steven I. Pearlstein was quoted in two,
Should
sellers have to disclose gruesome histories and
Environmental problems
can leave clients liable articles in the October 31st edition of
the Law Times.
November 2011
Joan
E. Jung presented
Current Estate Planning Issues to The Estate Planning
Council - Toronto
November 2011
Arnie Herschorn was quoted in the article
Caveat Realtor? Do vendors and real estate agents have a duty to alert potential
buyers to the pedophile next door? in the October - November edition of the
Canadian Bar Association National Magazine
October 2011
Minden Gross LLP is happy to have
Daniel R. Wiener
join the firm as an Associate in our Commercial Leasing group.
October 2011
J. Stephen Posen and Stephen J. Messinger were profiled in Canada's
Leading Infrastructure Lawyers published by LEXPERT
October 2011
Steven I. Pearlstein published the article
The
‘next generation’ of conveyancing
in The Lawyers
Weekly
September
2011
Adam L. Perzow was profiled as Lawyer of the Week in The Lawyers
Weekly
September
2011
It is with great sadness that the Partners of Minden Gross advise of
the passing of their partner and friend Martin Maierovits Tuesday
September 6th.
July
2011
David Ullmann was quoted in the article Nortel Networks patents
to shape wireless tech for decades to come in Canadian Business.
May 2011
Minden Gross is delighted to have been ranked as one of Ontario's
top regional law firms by Canadian Lawyer.
May 2011
Minden Gross are proud supporters for the David Cornfield Melanoma
Fund. Watch A Message to My
16-year-old Self that includes Adam L. Perzow here.
April 2011
Hartley R. Nathan, Q.C. presented Preparation For and Conduct Of
Board Meetings to The Directors College.
April 2011
David T. Ullmann was quoted in the article Pension ruling to
complicate insolvency proceedings in the Globe and Mail.
Click here for full article.
April 2011
Reuben M. Rosenblatt, Q.C. and Steven I. Pearlstein spoke at
the 8th Annual Real Estate Law Conference.
March 2011
Howard Black appeared on BNN's Money Talk on March 28, 2011 to talk about the Probate process and discuss strategies that could help minimize or eliminate Probate tax.
Click here to view the interview.
March
2011
Released Start Me Up by Minden. Our fixed fee solution for start up
companies.
Click
here for complete details.
March
2011
Christina C. Kobi was elected to the Toronto CREW Board of Directors
March
2011
Stephen J. Messinger article Ten Lease Provisions that get No
Respect was re-issued in GPSolo magazine.
February 2011
Howard S. Black was featured in the Toronto Star for the article
Family feud a test of wills..
Click here for complete article.
December 2010
Kenneth L. Kallish was interviewed by Canadian Lawyer Inhouse magazine for an article on how the global reach of international legal alliances help clients.
Click here for complete article.
November 2010
Minden Gross welcomed the Hon. David Jacobson, Ambassador of the United States to Canada, to our office on Tuesday November 9th, 2010. Over 100 clients and firm members attended the reception that included a speech by the Ambassador on Canada/US Relations. Click here for the Ambassadors' introduction by Minden Gross Counsel, the Hon. Jerry S. Grafstein
Q.C.
October 2010
Minden Gross was pleased to participate in the MaRS
Innovation Summit - Creating Jobs in the Knowledge Economy
hosted by the Hon. Jerry S. Grafstein Q.C.
Click
here to view presentations from this full day event.
Click
here to view photo's from this full day event.
October
2010
The Hon. Jerry S. Grafstein Q.C. appeared on
BNN: Squeeze Play: Creating
Jobs in the Knowledge Economy on October 26, 2010 to discuss how the
lack of access to venture capital funds is holding back start-ups in
Canada and how to help small start-ups commercialize their products and
ideas. Click
here to view the interview
September 2010
Samantha A. Prasad and Matthew Getzler are regular contributors to
BeansTalk, the premier Canadian networking site designed exclusively for
tax, accounting and financial planning professionals.
June 2010
The Honourable Jerry S. Grafstein Q.C. delivered a speech at The Harry S. Truman Institute For The Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (CFHU) on June 7, 2010. He was also a member on the Board of Governors 2010 of Canadian Friends of CFHU on a visit to Israel May 30 - June 17, 2010.
June 2010
Kenneth L. Kallish participated in a panel discussion called "Unleashing the Power of Lawyer-to-Lawyer Referral Markets Worldwide" with the Legal Marketing Association Toronto Chapter.
May 2010
A. Irvin Schein was interviewed for the article
"Making use of NADAP".
May 2010
Minden Gross LLP is proud to have been selected by the 2010 LEXPERT
Canadian Legal Directory as the most frequently recommended full service
law firm for property leasing. Stephen J. Messinger, Stephen Posen, C.
Robyn Kestenberg and Christina C. Kobi were listed as Leading
Practitioners in property leasing.
May 2010
The Province of Ontario will harmonize the existing 8% provincial sales tax (PST) with the 5% federal goods and services tax (GST) effective July 1, 2010. The Ontario harmonized sales tax (HST) will merge the existing PST and GST, for a combined rate of 13%. Click here to see how this effects legal fees and certain disbursements.
Click here to view the interview
May 2010
Howard Black appeared on BNN's Money Talk on May 3rd, 2010 to discuss the difference between common law spouses and legally married spouses when they die without a will and the various claims that can be brought against an estate. Are all relationships created equal in estate planning? Not necessarily.
Click here to view the interview
March 2010
Entertainment Properties Trust (NYSE:EPR) announced the acquisition of the 10 Dundas Street complex from Ernst & Young Inc., the Court Appointed interim receiver and receiver and manager of the complex, for a purchase price in excess of $250 million. The complex, often coined the "Times Square of Canada," is a 13 level mixed use, multi media entertainment retail center located in downtown Toronto, consisting of approximately 330,000 square feet of net rentable area. Minden Gross LLP represented the receiver in this transaction and throughout the receivership, with a team led by Kenneth Kallish
March 2010
David Ullmann is a Shooting Star according to Precedent Magazine
Click here to read the complete story
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.
Click here to view the interview
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.
Click here to read the full article
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.
Click here to read the full article
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
June, 2009
May, 2009
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."
David Ullmann was interviewed July 6th on BNN: Squeeze Play to provide a Canadian perspective on the GM Fallout in a panel discussion.
David Ullmann was interviewed June 9th on
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.