Private Wealth Law - Canada
Band 2
What the Team is Known For
Gowling WLG has a strong reputation in the Canada market. The private wealth team advises wealthy clients on a wide range of matters, including estates and trusts, fiduciary litigation and tax work.
Strengths
They have experience with complex matters and understand the impact of the decisions taken.
The firm can navigate very tricky and complicated matters with ease and strategic superiority.
The firm provide proactive solutions to ongoing issues and are very capable. They also have a good, solid team and good customer service.
They are thorough and very efficient at the same time.
Notable practitioners
David Stevens is well known for advising high net worth clients, business owners and not-for-profit organisations on a broad range of matters.
David is very smart and has good knowledge of trust law.
David is an excellent professional and an amazing thinker.
David is professional, diligent and tackles issues head on. He is also pragmatic and acts in the best interest of his client.
Brian Cohen often advises high net worth clients on a range of private wealth matters. Much of his work is cross-border in scope.
Brian's key strengths are his reasonableness, practicality, responsiveness and thoughtfulness.
Brian's ability and the speed with which he can digest and synthesise complicated information is unparalleled.
Brian is my go-to for Canadian tax, trust and estate matters.
David Lobl is an estate litigation lawyer who co-leads Gowling's national private client services group. Lobl has a particular focus on complex trust, capacity litigation and dispute resolution.
David is a valuable partner with deep knowledge.
David is the consummate trusted adviser.
David has good innovative thinking.
