{"id":63910,"date":"2015-08-10T08:08:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=63910"},"modified":"2015-08-10T10:08:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T06:08:21","slug":"aird-berlis-startup-legal-advice","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/aird-berlis-startup-legal-advice","title":{"rendered":"Aird & Berlis Partners with University of Toronto to Offer Startup Legal Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Aird & Berlis LLP (A&B) has become the sponsoring legal partner to the University of Toronto Early-Stage Technology Program (UTEST).<\/p>\n

UTEST is a 12-month incubation and acceleration program co-managed by the University of Toronto and MaRS Innovation that allows selected school-affiliated early-stage startup companies to incorporate, use office space, receive mentorship and access $30k in funding, with opportunities for follow-on funding from MaRS Innovation.<\/p>\n

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“We are thrilled to partner with A&B and leverage their legal expertise for our startups and emerging companies,” said Kurtis Scissions, UTEST co-director.<\/p>\n

“To date, 17 companies, including Granata Decision Systems, Whirlscape, Crowdmark, eQOL and TrendMD, have successfully graduated from our program. We look forward to adding A&B’s Startups Team of lawyers to our mentorship group for the UTEST program, beginning in 2015.”<\/p>\n

RELATED:<\/strong> Communitech Announces Programs to help Startups Protect IP and get Legal Advice<\/a><\/p>\n

A&B’s Startups Team, led by Rebecca Kacaba and Mat Goldstein, offers a range of legal services to new companies in the technology, digital or consumer application spaces.<\/p>\n

The A&B Startups Team advises on all aspects of capital raising – including seed, angel and venture capital – as well as corporate development, mergers and acquisitions, product and technology licensing, privacy, anti-spam and other commercial considerations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aird & Berlis LLP (A&B) has become the sponsoring legal partner to the University of Toronto Early-Stage Technology Program (UTEST). UTEST is a 12-month incubation and acceleration program co-managed by the University of Toronto and MaRS Innovation that allows selected school-affiliated early-stage startup companies to incorporate, use office space, receive mentorship and access $30k in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":63912,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-63910","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/63910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/63910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/63912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63910"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=63910"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=63910"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=63910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}