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Derek Van Doorn

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About

Derek has a corporate and commercial law practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, banking and ‎finance, private equity, securities law, privacy and ongoing advice on business law matters. ‎

Derek has extensive experience acting for national and international public and private corporations and ‎has amassed a diverse client base spread across a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, ‎retail, technology, logistics, e-commerce, alternative lenders, dentistry, pharmacy and medical professional ‎organizations and real estate development. He has been counsel to companies involved in many high ‎profile transactions in recent years, and he has been featured in the 'Big Deals' section of Lexpert ‎magazine on numerous occasions.‎

Derek also has a vibrant wealth management, trust and estate planning practice in which he helps clients ‎with a wide variety of matters, including preparing wills and powers of attorney, assisting with the ‎preparation and implementation of business succession plans, establishing various types of trust ‎structures including discretionary family trusts, implementing tax-driven corporate reorganizations such as ‎estate freezes and guiding executors through the estate administration process.‎

Bar admissionsOntario, 2007
Languages
  • English
Education
  • LL.B.‎, University of Western Ontario ‎‎(Faculty of Law), 2006‎
  • B.A., University of Toronto, B.A. 2003‎

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Ontario Bar Association

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