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Deloitte, known in Québec as Samson Bélair/Deloitte & Touche s.e.n.c.r.l., is one of the leading professional services firms in Québec and Canada, providing audit, tax, financial advisory and consulting services. In Québec, approximately 1,900 people regularly draw on their expertise for clients from every sector of the economy. With over 7,700 people working in 57 offices across the country, Deloitte is dedicated to being the standard of excellence. |
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BDC Venture Capital is a major venture capital investor in Canada, active at every stage of the company's development cycle, from seed through expansion, with a focus on technology-based businesses that have high growth potential and that are positioned to become dominant players in their markets.
BDC Venture Capital has been involved in venture capital since 1975 and has to date invested in more than 400 companies involved in the areas of Life Sciences, Telecommunications, Information Technology and Energy, Environment, Electronic & Materials (EEEM). |
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Burns & Levinson LLP is an entrepreneurial, full-service Boston-based law firm with sophisticated practices, representing a broad range of clients in their domestic and international operations. Our 125 attorneys are located in New England, but our practice is truly international in scope. Many of our lawyers are recognized leaders in their fields, who have trained in large national and international law firms. In addition, our wholly-owned subsidiary in Montreal helps us serve our many Canadian clients, including cross-border business consulting and investment. Our “Canada Pipeline” program is in its seventh year of bringing together young Canadian companies and US financing sources.
Contact Samuel Shafner (+617-345-3222; sshafner@burnslev.com) for further information. |
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With net assets of $ 6.2 billion as at November 30, 2008, the Solidarity Fund QFL is a development capital company that through its RRSP channels the savings of Quebecers into investments in all sectors of the economy to help create and maintain jobs and to further Québec's economic growth. The Fund is a partner, either directly or through its network members, in 1,881 companies. It currently has nearly 575,000 shareholders and has helped, on its own or with other financial partners, to create, maintain and protect over 126,000 jobs. |
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Miller Thomson Pouliot LLP is one of Canada's largest national law firms, with more than 400 lawyers in offices in Montréal, Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, London, Kitchener-Waterloo, Guelph and Markham. The firm provides a complete range of business law, advocacy and personal legal services to Canadian and international corporations, entrepreneurs, institutions, governments and not-for-profit organizations. |
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Sustainable Development Technology Canada (SDTC) is a not-for-profit
foundation that finances and supports the development and demonstration of
clean technologies which provide solutions to issues of climate change,
clean air, water quality and soil, and which deliver economic, environmental
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