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Scotia Plaza
40 King Street West, Suite 2400
P.O. Box #215
Toronto, ON M5H 3Y2
2025 Fogler, Rubinoff LLP
Shaun is a Partner in Fogler Rubinoff’s Tax and Wills and Estates departments. He joined the firm in 2013 after previously working at a large boutique Canadian tax firm. His practice centres on corporate and personal taxation and estate planning for owner/managers, entrepreneurs, trusts, and high-net-worth individuals.
Shaun has taken the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants In-Depth Tax Course as well as the CICA In-Depth HST/GST Course. He is a regular contributor to the Fogler, Rubinoff LLP tax newsletter “Dollars and Sense”, is a co-author of The Death of a Taxpayer, and produces an annual webcast for CCH Canadian Limited dealing with estate planning and taxation on death.
Shaun has experience in a number of tax and estates-related areas, including:
- Estate freezes
- Voluntary disclosures
- Owner/manager tax and succession planning including corporate reorganizations
- Will planning and drafting
- Settling trusts, including family, alter ego, joint partner, and others
- Implementing “butterfly” reorganizations (including both 55(3)(a) and (b) reorganizations)
Albert is certified by the LSO as a Specialist in Environmental Law. He provides clients with legal and strategic advice on environmental and renewable energy law matters.
He has a Masters in Environmental Studies and joined Foglers in 2010 after 10 years with the Legal Services Branch of Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (“MOECC”). He assists clients with renewable energy project issues and has represented approval holders in numerous renewable energy approval (REA) hearings, including Ontario’s first (Erickson v. Ontario (Ministry ofthe Environment) [2011] OERTDNo. 29; 61 CELR (3d) 1). He also assists clients with environmental and related aspects of transactions and various types of agreements, due diligence, securing necessary regulatory approvals, defences to environmental prosecutions, appeals of environmental orders and approvals, civil litigation involving environmental and related issues, contaminated lands and brownfields redevelopment. He appears before Ontario’s Environmental Review Tribunal (“ERT”), the Ontario Energy Board, Ontario Municipal Board, the Fire Safety Commission, and all levels of court including Provincial Offences Court.
Albert also represents clients in defence of violations of Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act and helps clients navigate any Ministry of Labour investigations and prosecutions.
Albert is recognized by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers™ in Canada and as a repeatedly recommended lawyer in the Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory in the area of Environmental Law.
Alex Evangelista is a Partner in the firm’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group. He maintains a broad commercial litigation practice, with experience in contract, real estate, debtor and creditor, shareholder, partnership, insolvency and construction disputes. He also represents clients in administrative litigation involving regulators and other government actors.
Alex is a tenacious but pragmatic advocate. He is results-oriented and tailors his approach to his clients’ individual needs. In doing so, Alex has appeared as counsel before all levels of court in Ontario (including the Court of Appeal). He also has experience before the Federal Court of Canada, the British Columbia Supreme Court, the British Columbia Court of Appeal, administrative tribunals and private arbitrators.
Alex completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Toronto and obtained his J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School. While at Osgoode, Alex served as President of the law school’s student government, the Legal and Literary Society. He also competed as an oralist in the Price Media Law Moot, representing Osgoode at Cardozo School of Law in New York and Oxford University. Prior to joining Foglers, Alex articled with a prominent litigation firm in Toronto.
In his spare time, Alex enjoys warming up his courtroom vocal chords at live concerts, creating custom art pieces and being walked by his dog.
Michael is an experienced civil litigator. His practice has a particular focus on broker liability litigation and employment law matters.
Michael has also acted as lead counsel on matters before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Court of Appeal for Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada. As well he has appeared on administrative matters involving the Mutual Fund Dealers Association, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, The Financial Services Commission of Ontario, the Chartered Professional Accountants Ontario and the Ontario Securities Commission.
He has acted and advised on employment matters involving Employment Standards, Human Rights and wrongful dismissal claims (both employee and management side). As well, in the regulatory area, he has acted on behalf of both dealers and individual registrants. Michael has acted on matters before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.
He has also acted in a variety of areas including securities, regulatory enforcement and professional negligence.
Michael represents registrants in proceedings before provincial securities commissions, self-regulatory organizations and the courts. He has advised corporations and individuals involved in proceedings before provincial securities commissions and in general employment matters.
Michael has successfully resolved numerous litigation claims through trial and appeal and Michael has successfully resolved many more claims, both litigation and regulatory, through mediation and negotiation.
Bonnie is the Director of Legal Research and Coordinator of the firm’s Continuing Professional Development Program.
Her practice involves legal research in connection with civil proceedings before the Ontario Courts, the Supreme Court of Canada and administrative tribunals.
Bonnie is an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto teaching Advanced Legal Research, Analysis and Writing and the 1st Year Program in Legal Research and Writing.
Bonnie has chaired and spoken at many conferences on legal research and lectured at the Bar Admission Course.
Michael has extensive experience in all aspects of health law.
He has significant expertise in the representation of physicians, dentists, nurses and other health care practitioners in regulatory matters including complaints, discipline, quality assurance, fitness to practice and registration issues. He has also represented numerous physicians in hospital privilege disputes as well as in medical malpractice actions. He also advises corporations and institutions with respect to health law issues. Michael is the co-author of The Law of Acute Care Medicine published by Thomson Reuters which addresses the complexities that arise when medicine, law, and ethics intersect in the treatment and caring for acutely ill patients.
Michael is also an experienced medical malpractice litigator. Having defended physicians in medical malpractice cases for more than 10 years and having represented plaintiffs for 15 years, he is well placed to advocate on behalf of parties involved in malpractice disputes.
In addition to his health law practice, Michael also handles civil litigation matters including personal injury, high tech litigation, general commercial litigation, product liability, wrongful dismissal and human rights.
Michael has served as lead counsel in matters before all levels of court in Ontario, the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, and various tribunals including the Discipline Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, College of Chiropodists, College of Audiologists and Speech Language Therapists, as well as the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, Health Services Appeal and Review Board, Medical Advisory Committees and the Board of Governors of various hospitals. He has also represented numerous parties at Coroners Inquests.
Michael has chaired and spoken at numerous continuing education programs for lawyers as well as health care practitioners on issues relating to health law and medical malpractice.
Lawrence advises a wide variety of business clients, ranging from owner-operated businesses to large corporations. Lawrence acts for clients in all aspects of the business life cycle, including general corporate and commercial matters, reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions and business succession planning.
Over the years, Lawrence has acted for both lenders and borrowers on numerous secured financing transactions, including substantial multi-lender transactions.
Lawrence also advises clients with respect to residential and commercial real estate and leasing matters. He was interviewed and quoted on the topic of estate freezes in an article in Morningstar entitled “How Retiring Business Owners Can Zap the Taxman” and has spoken on various topics at the North York Chartered Accountants Association, the Etobicoke Chartered Accountants Association and the Canadian Bar Association Annual Institute.
Lawrence coaches his two sons in a local rec hockey league, plays hockey himself, and skis and cycles when he can find the time.
Tammy Anklewicz has been practicing in the fields of estates, trusts and charities law for over 30 years. She advises clients in the estate and succession planning context, drafting wills, trusts, powers of attorney and other related documents.
Tammy also prepares domestic contracts and has a particular interest in both incapacity and elder law. Tammy also assists her clients in giving effect to their philanthropic intent, whether through creating private charitable foundations or structuring gifts to existing charities.
In the trust and estate administration areas, Tammy advises executors and trustees in matters ranging from applications for certificates of appointment, fiduciary obligations, passings of accounts and contested trust and estate matters.
Tammy is active in the Estates and Trusts bar and is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), the Canadian Tax Foundation and Estate Planning Council, Toronto. She has been recognized, as well, as the 2013 recipient of the Professional Advisory Committee Award of Excellence by the Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto.
Kathryn’s practice is focused on helping clients achieve their estate-planning goals by providing advice on wills, trusts, the transfer of assets, powers of attorney, and estate administration.
She works in partnership with her clients to help them navigate complex matters and to protect and plan for the transfer of their personal assets.
Kathryn is active in the estates and trusts bar and is a member of the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) Executive for Trusts and Estates law. While on the Executive Committee for the OBA Trusts and Estates Law section, Kathryn spearheaded the Make a Will Month initiative that has provided hundreds of public information sessions across Ontario, partnering with the Toronto Public Library, and actively participated in the development of emergency legislation to address the Covid-19 pandemic in Ontario relating to the execution of Wills and Powers of Attorney.
Kathryn is also a member of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners (STEP). Kathryn has contributed to the OBA Trusts and Estates Law newsletter and to the firm’s publications. She speaks at various professional and public programs on the topic of wills, estates and substitute decision-making.
Bruce was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1989 and has practiced civil and commercial litigation since.
Bruce has particular experience and expertise in the following areas: shareholder and partnership disputes; commercial contract disputes; commercial landlord and tenant litigation and enforcement; real estate litigation, including condominium disputes and title insurance defence; negligence and breach of fiduciary duty; secured and unsecured loan and mortgage enforcement and defence; estate and trust litigation; construction; fraud; creditors’ rights and bankruptcy and insolvency litigation. Bruce represents individuals as well as businesses of all sizes in a broad range of industries involved in complex commercial disputes.
Bruce has appeared as lead counsel and before administrative and arbitral tribunals. He has successfully litigated before the trial and appellate levels of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Divisional Court, and the Court of Appeal of Ontario and on applications for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.
In addition to his significant commercial litigation experience, Bruce has successfully resolved disputes through negotiation and mediation. Bruce is also trained as a certified mediator and is available to mediate a variety of civil and commercial disputes and to conduct civil and commercial arbitrations.
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