Legal Q & A Panel for Social Enterprises

Event Date: November 21, 2012

Social Enterprise for Sustainable Communities presents:
Legal Q & A Panel for Social Enterprises

If you are a nonprofit or charity and you’re considering social enterprise as a tool to financial sustainability, join us for a lunch and learn session about the legal implications of social enterprise in the nonprofit sector.

Our guest lawyers are available for this group discussion/Q&A.  We'll learn together and discuss our thoughts, challenges and concerns about how embarking on social enterprise might impact your nonprofit and/or charitable status.

November 21, 2012
12:00 - 1:30 PM
London Central Library
Stevenson & Hunt Room A/B

Level: Intermediate

Target audience: Nonprofit leaders interested or already participating in social enterprise

Investment:
Pillar members - $35; Non-members - $45 (Lunch included)

To register: Click here

About the panelists:  

Susan Fincher-Stoll is a taxation, wills, trusts, estates and charities lawyer at Harrison Pensa LLP. Her practice involves three primary areas. She advises charities and not-for-profit organizations on asset management, administration, governance and fundraising. She practices tax litigation and she represents corporations and individuals on income and sales tax matters. She practices estate planning, which involves will planning, trusts, powers of attorney, business succession planning and capacity issues under the Substitute Decisions Act

David R. Canton is a business lawyer and trademark agent at Harrison Pensa LLP. His practice focuses on technology companies and traditional businesses including technology and intellectual property matters such as licensing, technology transfer, privacy, e-business, software, the internet, and trade-marks. David is co-author of Legal Land Mines in E-Commerce published by McGraw-Hill, writes a regular column called Techwatch for the London Free Press and Canoe.ca, and blogs on legal, business and technology developments at canton.elegal.ca and slaw.ca .

Kristina Shaw is a member of the Not-For-Profitand Charities practice group at Miller Thomson LLP, a national law firm with an office in London, Ontario, and acts for a number of non-profit and charitable corporations based in Southwestern Ontario. She has experience in establishing not-for-profit organizations and advising on corporate governance matters. She also routinely advises on a variety of other corporate and commercial matters, including asset and share transactions, incorporations, partnerships, reorganizations and restructurings.

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