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Recent Spotlight
MAY 2024

Harris Rosen is both honoured and humbled to have been nominated among some of Canada's finest lawyers, for Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in the "Business" category, in Canadian Lawyer Magazine: https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/general/voting-is-now-open-for-canadian-lawyers-top-25-most-influential-lawyers/385849

NOVEMBER 2023

Harris Rosen Professional Corporation was a proud sponsor of the Languages Canada ICEF Reception at the Canadian Embassy, in Berlin, Germany!

FEBRUARY 2023

Student discipline: What constitutes cheating in the post-COVID era?
Harris Rosen Professional Corporation is proud to be a Bronze Sponsor at the national Languages Canada Conference in February 2023, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Harris Rosen is also delighted to be a speaker at the Conference on the Importance and Regulation of the Language School Sector in Canada! Details here: https://www.languagescanada.ca/en/annual-conference-2023

MARCH 2021

Harris Rosen was honoured to have been a speaker at the Canada-India Foundation International Women’s Day Forum on March 4th, on the topic of human rights, post-COVID consumer demands on organizations, and male allyship: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/canadaindiafoundation_choosetochallenge-cif-canadaindiafoundation-activity-6772159568450523136-76Mo

FEBRUARY 2021

Harris Rosen Professional Corporation representing registered private career colleges and non-registrant purchasers on several proposed acquisitions.

SEPTEMBER 2020

Harris Rosen Professional Corporation successfully acted as regulatory counsel to a large Canadian law firm and a Tier One private equity group to close one of Canada’s largest higher education transactions.

AUGUST 2020

Harris Rosen Professional Corporation successfully represented a student against a top university which accused the student of academic misconduct in a foundation program. After providing the University with a plausible explanation for likeness in student responses, the student’s original grade was restored.

APRIL 2020

Presented at Virtual Town Hall to Independent Private Schools Forum (association of private high schools in Ontario, Canada) on Non-Disparagement Policies.

OCTOBER 2019

Counsel to Investor Groups and large law firms: as of the first day of 4Q in 2019, Harris has been engaged as regulatory counsel to Tier One investors, to transaction counsel in large law firms, and to private institutions, on transactions cumulatively exceeding $500,000,000. In 3Q of 2019 Harris was regulatory counsel to the vendor on a multi-province purchase and sale worth more than $100,000,000, and which transaction successfully received regulatory approvals, and which closed.

APRIL 2019

University of Toronto Re: New Magazine: The 2018/2019 edition of the University of Toronto’s Re: New Magazine featured a story on Harris Rosen and his family’s narrow escape and survival of the Tubbs wildfire in Northern California on October 8, 2017 (http://renew.newcollege.utoronto.ca/index.php/current-issue/). The story follows the Q4 2018 release of his book on the subject (Red Skies After Midnight: Escaping the Wine Country Wildfires) co-authored with his wife, animal welfare lawyer Jennifer Friedman: https://www.facebook.com/FirestormNovel/. 100% of modest proceeds were proudly donated to Habitat for Humanity (Sonoma County) following the first month of the book’s release. Rosen and his wife expect to release future versions of the publication in the hope that they may assist wildfire victims in some small way.

AUGUST 2018

Epic Times Quote: Harris Rosen is pleased to have been quoted in the August 1, 2018 edition of the Epic Times regarding the newly elected Ontario government’s scrapping of the Wynne government’s Sex-Ed curriculum: https://www.theepochtimes.com/fords-scrapping-of-2015-sex-ed-curriculum-a-result-of-concerns-by-parents_2608664.html .

DECEMBER 2017

Re-Training and Re-Skilling Aging Workforce:  Harris was co-founder of Forty Plus Training Summit, which on December 7, 2017 hosted an inaugural conference at the historic Heintzman House in Thornhill, Ontario. Canada’s former Prime Minister, Right Honourable John N. Turner was the keynote speaker. There was broad representation at the event which included representation from the higher education sector, notable business school professors, and many others.

September 2017 book launch

Private Career Colleges Act, 2005 Annotated

Harris Rosen’s publications are numerous. He publishes frequently on topics of interest to investor groups, private colleges, language schools, and corporate training institutions, ranging from private post-secondary education to the future labour market demand and the problem of an aging workforce.

He co-authored the Annotated Private Career Colleges Act, 2005 and Regulations, Second Edition (http://store.thomsonreuters.ca/product-detail/annotated-private-career-colleges-act-2005-and-regulations-second-edition/), released in August of 2017, by Carswell Legal Publishers, with a Foreword by the Right Honourable John N. Turner (former Prime Minister of Canada).

The second edition of the complete guide to the regulation and operation of private career colleges in Ontario contained key updates to address the explosion of the online education industry, an increased interest from foreign investors, the challenges of dealing with government regulators, sexual violence, bullying, and more.

Harris will be coming out with an updated publication shortly, reflecting the January 1, 2024 changes to the legislation in Ontario brought about by “Red Tape reduction” measures, and focusing on the impact of COVID19 on the higher education sector, Distance Education, ongoing study permit issues, and the investment climate in Canada from a regulatory perspective (not financial advice).

Press

Recent Spotlight
MAY 2024

Harris Rosen is both honoured and humbled to have been nominated among some of Canada's finest lawyers, for Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers in the "Business" category, in Canadian Lawyer Magazine: https://www.canadianlawyermag.com/news/general/voting-is-now-open-for-canadian-lawyers-top-25-most-influential-lawyers/385849

NOVEMBER 2023

Harris Rosen Professional Corporation was a proud sponsor of the Languages Canada ICEF Reception at the Canadian Embassy, in Berlin, Germany!

FEBRUARY 2023

Student discipline: What constitutes cheating in the post-COVID era?
Harris Rosen Professional Corporation is proud to be a Bronze Sponsor at the national Languages Canada Conference in February 2023, in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Harris Rosen is also delighted to be a speaker at the Conference on the Importance and Regulation of the Language School Sector in Canada! Details here: https://www.languagescanada.ca/en/annual-conference-2023

MARCH 2021

Harris Rosen was honoured to have been a speaker at the Canada-India Foundation International Women’s Day Forum on March 4th, on the topic of human rights, post-COVID consumer demands on organizations, and male allyship: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/canadaindiafoundation_choosetochallenge-cif-canadaindiafoundation-activity-6772159568450523136-76Mo

FEBRUARY 2021

Harris Rosen Professional Corporation representing registered private career colleges and non-registrant purchasers on several proposed acquisitions.

SEPTEMBER 2020

Harris Rosen Professional Corporation successfully acted as regulatory counsel to a large Canadian law firm and a Tier One private equity group to close one of Canada’s largest higher education transactions.

AUGUST 2020

Harris Rosen Professional Corporation successfully represented a student against a top university which accused the student of academic misconduct in a foundation program. After providing the University with a plausible explanation for likeness in student responses, the student’s original grade was restored.

APRIL 2020

Presented at Virtual Town Hall to Independent Private Schools Forum (association of private high schools in Ontario, Canada) on Non-Disparagement Policies.

OCTOBER 2019

Counsel to Investor Groups and large law firms: as of the first day of 4Q in 2019, Harris has been engaged as regulatory counsel to Tier One investors, to transaction counsel in large law firms, and to private institutions, on transactions cumulatively exceeding $500,000,000. In 3Q of 2019 Harris was regulatory counsel to the vendor on a multi-province purchase and sale worth more than $100,000,000, and which transaction successfully received regulatory approvals, and which closed.

APRIL 2019

University of Toronto Re: New Magazine: The 2018/2019 edition of the University of Toronto’s Re: New Magazine featured a story on Harris Rosen and his family’s narrow escape and survival of the Tubbs wildfire in Northern California on October 8, 2017 (http://renew.newcollege.utoronto.ca/index.php/current-issue/). The story follows the Q4 2018 release of his book on the subject (Red Skies After Midnight: Escaping the Wine Country Wildfires) co-authored with his wife, animal welfare lawyer Jennifer Friedman: https://www.facebook.com/FirestormNovel/. 100% of modest proceeds were proudly donated to Habitat for Humanity (Sonoma County) following the first month of the book’s release. Rosen and his wife expect to release future versions of the publication in the hope that they may assist wildfire victims in some small way.

AUGUST 2018

Epic Times Quote: Harris Rosen is pleased to have been quoted in the August 1, 2018 edition of the Epic Times regarding the newly elected Ontario government’s scrapping of the Wynne government’s Sex-Ed curriculum: https://www.theepochtimes.com/fords-scrapping-of-2015-sex-ed-curriculum-a-result-of-concerns-by-parents_2608664.html .

DECEMBER 2017

Re-Training and Re-Skilling Aging Workforce:  Harris was co-founder of Forty Plus Training Summit, which on December 7, 2017 hosted an inaugural conference at the historic Heintzman House in Thornhill, Ontario. Canada’s former Prime Minister, Right Honourable John N. Turner was the keynote speaker. There was broad representation at the event which included representation from the higher education sector, notable business school professors, and many others.

Publishing

September 2017 book launch

Private Career Colleges Act, 2005 Annotated

Harris Rosen’s publications are numerous. He publishes frequently on topics of interest to investor groups, private colleges, language schools, and corporate training institutions, ranging from private post-secondary education to the future labour market demand and the problem of an aging workforce.

He co-authored the Annotated Private Career Colleges Act, 2005 and Regulations, Second Edition (http://store.thomsonreuters.ca/product-detail/annotated-private-career-colleges-act-2005-and-regulations-second-edition/), released in August of 2017, by Carswell Legal Publishers, with a Foreword by the Right Honourable John N. Turner (former Prime Minister of Canada).

The second edition of the complete guide to the regulation and operation of private career colleges in Ontario contained key updates to address the explosion of the online education industry, an increased interest from foreign investors, the challenges of dealing with government regulators, sexual violence, bullying, and more.

Harris will be coming out with an updated publication shortly, reflecting the January 1, 2024 changes to the legislation in Ontario brought about by “Red Tape reduction” measures, and focusing on the impact of COVID19 on the higher education sector, Distance Education, ongoing study permit issues, and the investment climate in Canada from a regulatory perspective (not financial advice).