A RECOGNIZED INDUSTRY LEADER

Knowledge of our clients’ industries is what allows us to stay ahead of the curve and deliver sound practical legal advice.  Our focus on fin-tech, including payments and crypto-currency, e-commerce, and tech means that we closely follow developments in these rapidly evolving sectors. We also maintain an important network cultivated through participation in industry associations and events.

Noteworthy speaking engagements:

• Testimony on digital currency and consumer protection law before the Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce, Study on Digital Currency, October 2, 2014
• Speaker, Legal IT, March 2015
• Speaker, Interzone Banff: Writing the Future of Internet Technology, 2015
• Panelist, Canadian Institute Payments Conference, February 2015
• Speaker at the Canadian Money Service Businesses Association, Toronto, November 2014
• IT Can, lunch and learn presentation, November 2014
• CASL for not-for-profits, presentation at YES Montreal, May 2014
• Amsterdam Bitcoin Foundation Conference, panelist on consumer protection law and Bitcoin, May 2014
• Bitcoin Embassy Presentation to tech and money service businesses – “Bitcoin: Legal and regulatory update” July 2014
• Bitcoin Conference Toronto, panelist, April 2014

Featured or quoted in:

• Canadian Lawyer – June 2014 Cover story “Cryptocurrency!” by Louis Millan featuring Ms. Friedman 
• The National, October 2014 Cover story on Bitcoin quoting Ms. Friedman
• Le Devoir
• Radio Canada
• Le Sphère
• Bitcoin Magazine 
• Top 40 Women in Bitcoin