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  1. Lavery GO inc. partners with Startup Salad MTL 2017

    Concordia University hosted Startup Salad x MTL 2017, a competition organized by the Asian-Pacific Youth Entrepreneurship Foundation (“APYEF”) and held May 5 to 7, 2017. This year’s winning team was awarded the services of the Lavery GO inc. Program. Martin Bédard, Shan Jiang, Felicia Jin and Sonia Rasquinha attended to listen to the teams’ presentations and award the prize to the winner. Startup Salad is a competition banner that hosts events in over 50 cities worldwide. This year’s competition took place in Montréal thanks to the APYEF, a Montréal-based association that seeks to establish an Asia-Pacific sharing platform for young entrepreneurs. Competitors had 52 hours to form teams and prepare a business plan. Each team then had to present their plan to a panel of professionals who selected the winning team.

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  2. Martin Bédard participates in the 10th edition of the Asian Financial Forum

    Martin Bédard, a lawyer with the Business Law Group, took part in the 10th edition of the Asian Financial Forum (AFF) that was held January 16 and 17, 2017 in Hong Kong. The AFF brings together some of the most influential members of the business and financial community to discuss economic trends in the Asian market. Click here to learn more about the AFF.

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  3. Martin Bédard and Julie Brisson, speakers at the 2015 APFF Conference

    On October 7, 8 and 9, 2015, the Centre des congrès de Québec hosted the annual conference of the Association de planification fiscale et financière (APFF). On this occasion, Lavery’s Martin Bédard and Julie Brisson did a presentation entitled “Les règles fiscales en matière de divorce et de separation” (Tax rules in cases of divorce and separation). The speakers did an overview of tax rules regarding divorce and separation including attribution rules as well as an analysis of certain recent rulings and policies which had an impact on these questions.

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