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181 University Ave. Suite 816 Toronto Ontario M5H 2X7 Tel: 416-364-6211 Fax: 416-364-1697 After hours Fax: 416 640-5005 |
| Robert D. Preston is the Managing Partner at Ricketts, Harris
LLP. He acts as personal legal advisor and a business sounding board
for his clients, who are generally business owners or managers.
Additionally he is Canadian Counsel for a large U.S industrial,
commercial and retail developer and a TSX listed hotel company. Robert inspires confidence in those with whom he works. Through the years, he has paid close attention to long-term working relationships and has provided personal service coupled with sound legal skills to assist clients in dealing with ongoing opportunities and challenges. Apart from being an experienced commercial lawyer, Robert has keen business insight. He is a perceptive negotiator with a great deal of common sense who has been instrumental in successful client acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, financings, real estate deals, succession planning, joint ventures and family law disputes. The underpinnings of his legal practice are competitive strategic thinking and an insight into human dynamics. With his broad perspective and experience, he can effectively bring seemingly disparate pieces of a complicated scenario together to provide clarity, focus and resolution. On any given day, Robert is constantly ‘Taking care of business’ by dealing with the flow of day-to-day legal and business issues that clients seek his input and advice. • Director of Northampton Group Inc., a publicly traded hotel corporation. • Director of X-Cal Resources Inc., a publicly traded resource corporation. • Past President of the Toronto Racquet Club Other Interests • Golf • Squash • Yoga • Adventurous travel Admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1971. Education Bachelor of Arts, 1965, University of Western Ontario Bachelor of Laws, 1969, University of Western Ontario |
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| rdp@rickettsharris.com |
| (416) 364-6211 ext. 246 |
| Assistant: Mary Bulloch ext. 249 mbulloch@rickettsharris.com |