Paul Barbeau provides a broad range of domestic and international legal and business advice to his clients, with a focus on the establishment, financing, acquisition, governance, succession and disposition of joint ventures, partnerships, corporations, and limited liability and flow-through entities. He has been professionally involved in creating workable and efficient international structures for clients in a variety of foreign jurisdictions in North America, the United Kingdom, the European Union and Asia, as well as various jurisdictions in Central and South America, the Caribbean and Africa.
Paul also has an active domestic and international trusts and estates practice that includes the representation of individuals, families, and charitable organizations, both in Canada and abroad. A substantial focus of his practice is the provision of advice to private clients, including the owners /managers of businesses, family corporations and individuals and clients with international holdings. He has assisted in trusts utilized to split the taxation of income both before and after death, asset protection trusts, offshore business and personal trusts, trusts for those requiring special care, trusts with charitable purposes and trusts for business succession planning purposes.
The University of Hull, Kingston upon Hull, England, U.K. (LL.B., with honours, 1986)
The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (J.D., 1989)
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, Program of Instruction for Lawyers (Taxation of American Corporate Enterprises and International Trade Law: Diploma, 1995)
Barbeau Evans LLP is a Canadian law firm that helps clients implement effective and innovative solutions to complex legal problems with an emphasis on cross-border and international transactions. We have extensive experience in providing a broad range of advice on planning domestic and international business structures for our clients. We utilize a wide array of corporations, limited and unlimited liability partnerships, trusts and other entities for the business and financial benefit of our clients. Our lawyers have expertise in all areas of real estate law, with an emphasis on commercial real estate matters including real estate development projects, rezoning issues, construction contracts, non-profit housing development, commercial leasing, conveyancing, and mortgage lending and other forms of financing. We advise on all aspects of intellectual property, entertainment and e-commerce law. We regularly advise on trademarks, copyright, patents and non-registered intellectual property rights. We have experience in managing intellectual property portfolios in a variety of jurisdictions throughout the world. We have an active domestic and international trust and estate practice, representing individuals, families and charitable organizations, both in Canada and abroad. We create estate plans utilizing wills, representation agreements, powers of attorney, alter ego trusts, inter vivos and testamentary trusts.
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