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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 |
| Michael White is a Partner at Ricketts, Harris LLP and conducts
a practice as a personal legal advisor, managing the legal affairs
of individuals, family owned businesses and charities. Michael is a strong and well-grounded lawyer. He is a family's lawyer, serving as a comprehensive legal resource in business, estate planning, estate administration and charitable organization matters. Michael has maintained long-term working relationships with his clients by providing extraordinary service, ongoing legal support, strategic legal insight, common sense direction and assistance with various wealth management and business related plan implementations. Because of the extent of his knowledge of the individual, their aspirations and the business operation, Michael frequently acts as sounding board where clients seek his guidance in their developing financial or business opportunities, or to circumvent unnecessary complications. Throughout evolving planning and project implementation Michael augments and works cooperatively with clients’ other professional advisors. Michael is a very experienced and competent estates planner and administrator and is a charter member of the Canadian Branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). He concentrates on the preservation and control of client wealth, as well as setting in place the agreed to mechanisms to release the estate value according to evolving client needs and direction. He provides guidance as to estate planning, estate administration, trusts, on ownership structure for business disposition or succession, and business succession planning. His clients request his insight on routine matters as well on issues relating to extremely complex asset holdings, contested estates and internal family disputes. Michael provides well-considered and dependable advice, and achieves successful results for his clients. Professional Involvement Michael is a charter member of the Canadian Branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) as well as a member of the Law Society of England, the Canadian, Ontario and American Bar Associations, the Estate Planning Council of Toronto, the Canadian Tax Foundation, the Lawyer's Club of Toronto, and the Osgoode Society. In addition, Michael serves on the Business Law Executive of the Ontario Bar Association. Michael was also a contributing editor to the title "Wills" of the Canadian Abridgment (2nd Edition), and the title "Executors and Administrators" of the Canadian Encyclopedic Digest (3rd Edition). Admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1967. Admitted as a Solicitor in England 1966 Education Bachelor of Laws, University of Bristol, England, 1962 |
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| mwhite@rickettsharris.com |
| (416) 364-6211 ext. 241 |
| Assistant: Yvette Harvey ext. 239 yharvey@rickettsharris.com |