Arielle Lavender
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Practice Areas
Business Reorganizations Corporate Services Estate & Wealth Advisory Wealth Preservation Personal Services Personal Planning: Wills, Powers of Attorney, and Health Care Trusts Succession Planning for Privately Owned Businesses Private Business and Family Enterprise Planning Professional CorporationsShare This Page
OVERVIEW
Arielle is a partner and the co-leader of our Estate and Wealth Advisory Group. Her practice is primarily focused on reorganizing privately-owned businesses and partnerships, personal estate and incapacity planning, trust planning, estate administration, as well as general corporate matters.
Arielle works closely with clients and their advisors to design and implement tailored plans that address clients’ unique circumstances and achieve a variety of personal, tax, family, and business succession planning objectives.
She is also the Chair of our Student Committee.
REPRESENTATIVE CLIENT WORK
Arielle’s representative experience includes:
- Designing and implementing tailored estate plans that achieve clients’ personal, family, and business succession goals through the use of Wills, Powers of Attorney, Representation Agreements, and trusts (including family trusts, testamentary trusts, joint partner and alter ego trusts, prescribed rate lending trusts, and disability trusts), probate-avoidance planning, and wills variation planning
- Advising and implementing the reorganization of privately-owned businesses and partnerships (including estate freezes, tax-deferred transfers of property to private companies and partnerships, post-mortem tax planning, intergenerational business transfers, and other tax-driven corporate reorganizations)
- Advising and assisting business owners with the formation and structuring of businesses, professional corporations, unlimited liability companies, shareholders’ agreements, and general corporate matters (including the amalgamation of companies, wind-up and dissolution of companies, continuations of companies into/out of British Columbia, and capital alterations)
- Advising executors and administrators on applications for grant of probate and the administration of estates and testamentary trusts, and advising trustees on the administration of inter-vivos trusts
PROFESSIONAL & COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Member of the CBA Women Lawyers Forum’s Education Committee – 2019 – 2023
Co-Chair of the CBA Women Lawyers Forum’s Education Committee – 2021 – 2023