Paul Taylor

Practice Areas

Private Client; Estate & Trust Administration; Private Client Planning; Tax; Tax Disputes & Litigation; United States; United Kingdom and Europe; Financial Services; Indigenous Law.

Career

Paul's practice focuses on trust, estate, and incapacity planning and administration, as well as corporate law.

His extensive experience includes:

• planning for individuals with high value and complex assets;

• working with clients to provide for beneficiaries with disabilities; and

• preparing, amending and interpreting trusts for indigenous groups.

Paul's corporate law experience includes the implementation of corporate structures as part of tax and other planning.

Paul completed a secondment with a major Canadian financial institution to assist in the interpretation and administration of wills, powers of attorney and trusts.

Professional Memberships

International Fellow, ACTEC;

Member, Law Society of Ontario, Law Society of Nunavut, Canadian Bar Association and County of Carleton Law Association;

Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) Worldwide: Recipient of STEP Worldwide Founders Award, International Client Global SIG Steering Committee member;

STEP Canada: Board Member; Chair of STEP National Conference; member of Programming Committee and STEP Inside Editorial Board; former member of Membership Committee, Student Committee, and Human Resources Committee; and

STEP Ottawa: Former Chair and Board Member.

Personal

Former Board President, Ottawa Salus;

Former board member, Bruce House;

Former board member, Ryan’s Well Foundation;

Former board member, Fund for a New Generation; and

Guardian, Youth Parliament of Manitoba Inc.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Ontario, 2008

Nunavut, 2017

Education