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Practice Expertise
- Commercial Law
- Estate Planning & Litigation
- Real Estate
Areas of Practice
- Commercial Law
- Estate Planning & Litigation
- Real Estate
Profile
Samantha's practice focuses primarily on estate and trust planning, incapacity planning and estate administration. Samantha also practices in general corporate helping clients structure and grow their businesses, and undertakes corporate restructuring as part of tax-planned corporate reorganizations and estate planning for business owners.
Samantha is a qualified Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP) through the global organization STEP; the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. Samantha enjoys working with clients and their advisors in formulating business succession plans and estate plans for young professionals, retirees, business owners and high net worth individuals. She prepares wills, powers of attorney, representation agreements, alter ego and joint spousal trusts, family trusts, committeeship applications and other planning documents. Samantha enjoys working with non-residents who own assets in British Columbia, such as real property, to assist them with preparing or modifying their estate plans.
Samantha is a qualified Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP) through the global organization STEP; the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners. Samantha enjoys working with clients and their advisors in formulating business succession plans and estate plans for young professionals, retirees, business owners and high net worth individuals. She prepares wills, powers of attorney, representation agreements, alter ego and joint spousal trusts, family trusts, committeeship applications and other planning documents. Samantha enjoys working with non-residents who own assets in British Columbia, such as real property, to assist them with preparing or modifying their estate plans.
Bar Admissions
Called to the Northwest Territories Bar, 2024
Called to the British Columbia Bar, 2017
Education
Trust and Estate Practitioner, 2021
University of Alberta, J.D., 2016
University of British Columbia, B.A., 2013
Areas of Practice
- Commercial Law
- Estate Planning & Litigation
- Real Estate
Professional Career
Significant Accomplishments
* Providing general estate and incapacity planning advice and preparing wills, powers of attorney and representation agreements.
* Working with non-residents to create multi-jurisdictional estate plans.
* Advising on the use and facilitating the settlement of various forms of trusts, including family trusts, alter ego trusts and joint partner/spousal trusts.
* Advising on the estate administration process, including probate and other administration applications for intestate or non-jurisdictional estates and preparing applications for same.
* Advising on and preparing committeeship applications.
dvising on various corporate structures for business owners and facilitating corporate reorganizations to effect same.
* Advising on various business agreements including shareholders' agreements and partnership agreements
* Facilitating purchase and sale of businesses for clients, including inter-generational business transfers and transfers amongst arms length parties.
Professional Activities and Experience
* Law Society of British Columbia, Member
* Law Society of Northwest Territories, Member
* Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP)
* Providing general estate and incapacity planning advice and preparing wills, powers of attorney and representation agreements.
* Working with non-residents to create multi-jurisdictional estate plans.
* Advising on the use and facilitating the settlement of various forms of trusts, including family trusts, alter ego trusts and joint partner/spousal trusts.
* Advising on the estate administration process, including probate and other administration applications for intestate or non-jurisdictional estates and preparing applications for same.
* Advising on and preparing committeeship applications.
dvising on various corporate structures for business owners and facilitating corporate reorganizations to effect same.
* Advising on various business agreements including shareholders' agreements and partnership agreements
* Facilitating purchase and sale of businesses for clients, including inter-generational business transfers and transfers amongst arms length parties.
Professional Activities and Experience
* Law Society of British Columbia, Member
* Law Society of Northwest Territories, Member
* Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP)
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North of 60 Blog
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Privacy & Data Management Blog
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Real Estate Law Blog
Our Real Estate Law Blog provides brief commentary on current legal trends and developments affecting your business. The topics addressed in Lawson Lundell's Real Estate Law Blog are of interest to commercial real estate developers, real estate and strata agents, investors, landlords and tenants, as well as a variety of industry groups.
The Business Law Blog
This blog is authored by members of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Department. We intend to follow new and interesting issues emerging in the legal and business communities. The wide range of experience among the members of our litigation group will provide a diverse and insightful examination of current legal trends and topics. Our goal is to provide a source of valuable information and insight on a wide variety of matters for our readers.
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