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Guest Speaker

Mtre Sevgi Kelci

LL.B., D.D.N., LL.M., LL.D. (candidate -Université de Montréal et Panthéon-Assas)

Mtre Kelci is particularly involved in gaining a deeper understanding of the evolution of succession and property law within a digital context.

She represented the Chamber of Notaries of Québec as a national delegate during the XXVII International Congress of Notaries in Peru, in 2013. She also lectures, mainly through the Chamber of Notaries of Quebec, the Canadian Bar Association (CBA), the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM).

She is published by JurisClasseur Québec and Éditions Yvon Blais. She is currently working on her doctoral thesis (Université de Montréal-Université Panthéon-Assas) on a topic related to the legal qualification of bitcoin.

Who is

• First Turkish civil law notary in Canada.
• Founding Title Attorney since 2009.
• Chairman of the Board of Directors of Notarius TSIN.
• Part-time professor teaching trust and succession law as to the notarial students of the University of Ottawa, Civil Law Section, at Sherbrooke University.
• Member of a disciplinary committee at the Chamber of Notaries of Québec (The Committee on Notarial Professional Practice).
• Member of the Executive Committee of the Canadian Bar Association, Section Wills, Estate and Trusts.
• Member of the Membership and Mentoring Committee of Corporate Connections II, for Montréal Chapter.

Practices

• in succession law -domestic, cross border and international-
• trust law
• in non-contentious matters before Notary
• in real estate law and in mediation/alternate dispute resolution as Family Mediator