WeirFoulds LLP

Co-Managing Partners: Denise Baker & Wayne Egan

Number of partners: 83

Number of lawyers: 130

Languages: Albanian, Cantonese, Croatian, English, Farsi, French, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Mandarin, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Tamil, Ukrainian

Firm Profile

WeirFoulds LLP is one of Canada’s oldest and most respected law firms, serving clients since 1860. With deep roots in the Greater Toronto Area and a reputation for excellence, it is consistently ranked among the top regional firms in Ontario and recognized for its client-focused approach and innovative legal solutions.

WeirFoulds delivers responsive, strategic advice across four core practice areas: Corporate, Litigation, Property, and Government Law. Its lawyers are frequently acknowledged as leaders in their fields, with numerous accolades from Canadian Lawyer, Lexpert, Chambers and Partners, and Best Lawyers in Canada.

Wills, Trusts & Estates Practice Group

A standout feature of WeirFoulds is the firm's award-winning Wills, Trusts & Estates Practice Group, led by Clare Burns and Lucinda (Lucy) Main, recognized and highly-respected leaders in the practice. The team provides comprehensive services in estate planning, trust creation, succession planning, and dispute resolution. Their multidisciplinary approach ensures that clients receive tailored advice to protect legacies, minimize taxes, and avoid disputes.

WeirFoulds assists individuals, families, and business owners with:

• • Drafting wills, powers of attorney, and tax-effective succession plans
  • Establishing and administering trusts and private foundations
  • Advising executors, trustees, and beneficiaries on legal and administrative responsibilities
  • Representing clients in estate challenges, trust variations, and capacity litigation
  • Planning for intergenerational transfers of family businesses and complex family arrangements

Private Wealth: WeirFoulds acts on estate planning, business succession, asset management and dispute resolution relating to these areas. Its lawyers work closely with individuals and families in their legal, financial and personal affairs to ensure that they can achieve their goals in a streamlined and efficient manner, while complying with the applicable provincial, national and extra-territorial laws.

Family Businesses and Succession Planning: WeirFoulds assists clients to plan for and manage inter-generational transfers of family enterprises. Since these are family enterprises, successful planning strategies require sensitivity to the personal needs and desires of families, as well as compliance with applicable laws. Often an important consideration in this planning is ensuring to maximize protection available in law for the family’s wealth from third party claims.

Trusts, Wills and Estates: WeirFoulds provide estate-planning and trust services from simple wills to more complex tax-effective succession plans, trusts, estate freezes and powers of attorney. Its lawyers assist with the administration of estates and in this regard the firm frequently act as executors and estate trustees.

Trusts, Estates and Capacity Litigation: WeirFoulds represents clients in private arbitrations, mediations and court proceedings related to trusts, estates and capacity issues. The firm's lawyers have extensive experience in variations of trust, will challenges, passings of accounts, guardianships and all kinds of dependant’s relief matters.