Samuel Lavine
Education:
University of Toronto (B.A. Honours and Gold Medal, 1950), (LL.B. Honours 1951).Professional Associations:
Law Society of Upper Canada, County of York Law Association, Canadian Bar Association, Canadian Bar Association-Ontario, Law Office Economics and Management Section (Chairman 1978-1980), Canadian Tax Foundation, American Bar Association, International Fiscal Association, Licensing Executives Society (U.S.A. and Canada), Union Internationale des Avocats (Member of Permanent Commission on Tax Law), Inter-American Bar Association, International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, Jewish Law Association, Osgoode Society.Texts Authored:
"The Business Corporations Act ... an Analysis". National Reporter for Canada to 1979 Congress of International Fiscal Association and Joint Author on Subject I Thereat "The Taxation of Transfers of Family-Held Enterprises on Death or Inter Vivos", Kluwer, The Netherlands, 1979. National Reporter for Canada to 1987 Congress of Union Internationale des Avocats and Joint Author Thereat of "Tax Aspects of Investments by Non-Residents in Real Estate". Author and Contributing Editor for Canada: "Thesaurus of World Tax Data".Government Experience:
Director of Companies for Province of Ontario, 1961-1965. Legal Advisor to Ontario Department of the Provincial Security and Citizenship, 1965-1969. Principal Draftsman of the Business Corporations Act, Ontario, 1970. Director of Research for the Select Committee of the Ontario Legislature on Company Law, 1965-1966.Areas of Practice:
Corporate/Commercial, Trusts, Wills, Estate Planning, Taxation, Securities, Receivership and Insolvency.Born, Toronto Ontario, 1928.