Arthur Fish

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Work: Arthur has overseen the development of BLG Toronto's full service Family Wealth Counsel Practice Group. The group includes lawyers who practice as planners
  advisors
  estate litigators
  paralegals
  numerous support staff. The group functions as a team,
  provides comprehensive services to clients on all matters related to estate planning, administration
  litigation, trusts, mental capacity
  charities including related tax issues.
  Arthur's primary areas of practice are advising commercial fiduciaries on issues of mental capacity
  estate law
  mental capacity
  substitute decision making
  the creation
  operation of commercial trusts
  charities
  estate planning
  administration. Arthur has a rapidly growing mediation practice which is focused on estate, trust
  guardianship disputes.
  Arthur has been involved in planning
  administering a number of large estates for high net worth Canadian families. He recently assisted a family with very substantial assets in developing a structure that allowed the family to repair frayed relationships by adopting a structured approach to consultation
  decision-making.
  Arthur has recently assisted a number of families in completing the efficient administration of bankrupt estates.
  Arthur has developed a patient
  persistent approach to mediating complex disputes that has resulted in successfully resolving a number of very bitter, multi-party disputes.
  Arthur recently assisted in establishing several charitable
  not-for-profit structures that provided for overseas operations or the ownership
  operation of related businesses.
  Arthur recently assisted in developing effective strategies for updating or repairing commercial trusts - without any need for litigation - that were inadequate to meet contemporary needs.
  Arthur has recently acted for individual
  corporate donors who have made large bequests to charity,
  for charities that are receiving such bequests.
  Arthur frequently acts for people with disabilities,
  for families with disabled relatives. He recently assisted a number of families in developing creative estate plans that protected assets without compromising individual independence.
  Arthur frequently advises people on crises arising from a relatives mental illness, drug abuse or alcoholism.