Harold J. Van Winssen
LL.B. | Partner
Harold Van Winssen is a business lawyer. Harold serves as the senior member of the Business Law Group, offering mentorship to the lawyers within the team. He has extensive experience in business law with special expertise in the purchase and sale of businesses, contracts, procurement, shareholder and partnership agreements, incorporations, financing, and bankruptcy and insolvency matters. In addition, Harold is called upon by the firm’s clients regularly to provide advice in relation to intellectual property, including trademarks, copyrights, and patents. He is a registered Trademark Agent. He also regularly advises not-for-profit and charitable organizations on governance and structuring matters and governments on private sector public sector partnerships.
Harold is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School. In addition to his practice, Harold is a former national team member in Whitewater Kayaking and still coaches, competes and has been involved in the sport at a national and international level. Along with coaching Whitewater kayaking, Harold has also coached minor hockey and basketball and is active in the Quinte community.
He is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, the Canadian Bar Association, and the Hastings County Law Association.