Date
Monday, April 13, 2020 | 8:00pm-9:00pm
UJA Professional Division Presenting Sponsor
Now You Know: COVID-19 Legal Toolkit
Join UJA and the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto as we present an esteemed panel of legal experts to discuss the changes in the legal framework of commercial, corporate, employment, and leasing laws. The experts will provide you with a toolkit to handle these issues in this unique and challenging time, as well as answer any of your pressing questions.
Monday, April 13, 2020
8:00 PM-9:00 PM
Please register for this webinar by noon on Monday, April 13th.
Upon registration, you will receive information on how to join the Zoom webinar.
For more information, please contact Jennifer Apple at [email protected]
SPEAKERS
Yael Bogler, Counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais
Yael is counsel in the Commercial Real Estate Group at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. She specializes in a broad range of commercial leasing matters, acting for both landlords and tenants, and has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating commercial leases and all related documentation for office, mixed-use, retail, and industrial properties. Yael’s practice also involves general commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions, secured lending, and commercial law. In her practice, Yael works on behalf of individuals, public and private corporations, financial institutions, and developers. She is a frequent speaker at leasing seminars and conferences.
Yael was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 2009. She graduated with a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Toronto in 2008. Prior to law school, Yael received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Western Ontario in 2005, majoring in Psychology.
Eric Carmona, Partner, Stikeman Elliott
Eric Carmona is a partner in the Real Estate Group at Stikeman Elliott. His practice focuses on commercial real estate and encompasses all aspects of real property transactions, including the purchase, sale and financing of commercial office complexes, retail shopping centres, residential apartment buildings, hotels, retirement homes, and long-term residences, as well as secured lending. Who’s Who Legal: Canada cites Eric as “the leading real estate attorney in the country,” and that he is “highly regarded for his expert handling of the whole transactional process from financing to purchase.”
Eric has extensive experience in joint venture structuring, portfolio acquisitions, financings, and restructurings (acting on behalf of both lending syndicates and corporate borrowers). He also practices corporate commercial law, with an emphasis on the acquisition and/or privatization of public real estate enterprises and capital markets transactions. Eric’s experience has given him significant exposure to a wide variety of transactional work for both private and public companies and REITs.
Hartley Lefton, Partner, McCarthy Tétrault
Hartley Lefton is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault’s Financial Services Group, including the Insurance and Reinsurance Group in Toronto. He is recognized as a leading transactional, commercial, governance, and regulatory/compliance advisor to clients within the financial sector in Canada, including Fintech/Insurtech companies.
He leverages his insurance regulatory and transactional expertise, and his experience interacting with regulators, to ensure clients are not only aware of regulatory changes, but truly understand how regulation will impact each aspect of their business, including acquisitions/divestitures, formation/licensing, product launches, outsourcing, investment strategy, related party transactions, and joint ventures. Hartley’s deep understanding of the financial services landscape in Canada, coupled with his diligence and resourcefulness, allows him to deliver practical insights that help global companies operating in Canada achieve their business objectives.
Hartley is a frequent writer and speaker on matters concerning financial institutions operating in Canada. Hartley serves as Director and Secretary of AboutFace Craniofacial Family Society, an inclusion-focused organization close to his family that provides life-changing experiences for people with facial differences. He was also appointed by Toronto City Council as Chair of the Toronto Parking Authority, the largest supplier of municipal parking in North America.
Sari Springer, Office Managing Partner, Littler
Sari L. Springer has been practicing law for almost 30 years. She is a dedicated, compassionate, focused, and efficient practitioner who leaves “no stone unturned” in servicing her clients. Sari has developed a hybrid practice: focusing on employment law, as well as higher education law.
In terms of her employment law practice, Sari acts for management to provide strategic, practical, and thorough advice with respect to all matters that arise in the life cycle of the employment relationship. This includes advice and counsel regarding the promotion and onboarding process, the hiring process, and the myriad of issues that arise while the employee is employed, which are boundless. Sari has developed a particular proficiency in the human rights arena, having guided numerous clients through the complexities of employer obligations and successfully settling and defending high-stakes cases at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.
In terms of her higher education practice, Sari has acted for multiple universities throughout her career and in particular has defended universities in connection with numerous human rights applications filed at the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal. In that regard, Sari has had an unblemished record of success in resolving these cases either by settling them at mediation, having the cases dismissed on a preliminary basis at summary hearing, and/or having the cases dismissed following complex hearings on the merits.
Sari has also been lead counsel on several occasions for groups of universities across the province in the context of high stakes, precedent setting systemic discrimination cases, and has succeeded in having all of those cases dismissed.
Sari also regularly acts on behalf of faculties in the context of academic appeals at various levels within the universities’ academic appeal system. Once again, Sari has achieved an unblemished record of success in upholding the faculty’s decisions, winning those cases each and every time.
Sari’s university practice also includes conducting highly sensitive internal investigations (sexual and workplace harassment most often), as well as overall reviews of the structure and leadership in departments as a whole. She also provides ongoing daily advice to her higher education clients to assist them in navigating diverse, time sensitive issues.
MODERATOR
Sheldon Disenhouse, Partner, Dentons
Sheldon is a partner at Dentons with a practice that focuses exclusively on commercial leasing. With more than three decades’ acting on behalf of developers, retailers, landlords and tenants, Sheldon has earned an unparalleled reputation as one the country’s most distinguished lawyers and insightful thought leaders on every aspect and intricacy surrounding commercial leasing. Based in Toronto, and supported by a team of accomplished paralegals, Sheldon has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating leases and related ancillary documentation for office, retail and industrial spaces on behalf of his diverse client base, which include REITs, major public companies, and national and international retailers.
Given his professionalism and leadership in commercial leasing, as well as his longstanding relationships with major market players, Sheldon is consistently named one of Canada’s leading lawyers in Commercial Leasing Law, Property Leasing, and Franchise Law. He is recognized internationally as among North America’s Leading 500 Lawyers. Sheldon is a dynamic speaker on these topics and has written about them in a wide range of national and international publications.
To complement his busy practice, Sheldon is extremely active in his industry and his community. He is a past co-chair of the Canadian Law Conference of the International Council of Shopping Centers. He has also been involved in numerous communal organizations, including a number of committees for the Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto, chair of Camp Ramah in Canada and the National Ramah Commission (New York), and the executive of Toronto Hebrew Memorial Parks.