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Suzanna Winsborough assists and advises successful individuals, entrepreneurs and their families in the area of Wills and Trusts planning, estate administration and the execution of corporate reorganization plans.
Suzanna supports her clients to plan and prepare for the present and future through both successful and difficult times and to deal with unforeseen circumstances. She supports and advises estate trustees, beneficiaries, heirs, surviving spouses and other family members while ensuring her clients’ priorities and wishes are followed.
Suzanna assists clients in the following ways:
- Business reorganization: She works with her clients’ accountants and other professional advisors to implement business reorganization plans, draft and execute a Will (or multiple Wills if required) or a Trust, or even update and align an existing Will or Trust to deal with planned or unforeseen changes in circumstances.
- Changes in family situations: She advises and supports her clients to deal with changes in family situations. Suzanna structures or revises Wills and Trusts to prepare for or deal with marriage, re-marriage, marriage breakdown or divorce, family loss and other changes in family circumstances.
- Protecting family business interests: Her clients appreciate her understanding that as businesses and families expand or retract, some family members will become actively involved in the family business while others choose alternate careers. Adult children may marry and their spouses may become drawn into the business as executives or even shareholders. Suzanna’s clients come to her to assist in determining a business and succession plan that will follow the interests and wishes of her clients while protecting the business and her clients’ beneficiaries and successors.
- Disabled beneficiaries: Her clients value her ability to advise and assist individuals establish trusts for disabled beneficiaries.
- Risk management: Careful planning, wealth management and a well structured Will or multiple Wills prepare her clients for the inevitable future. Her advice assists her clients in reducing personal and business risks by planning for circumstances that are not always at the forefront of a successful entrepreneurs thoughts, including planning for the certainty of aging and death and the possibility of mental or physical incapacity or sudden illness.
- Suzanna provides direction to avoid any misunderstandings among beneficiaries, and prevent the need for litigation in the administration and finalization of clients’ estates. She advises clients on transactions that would allow them to achieve their planning objectives in the most cost-efficient manner.
Admissions and Affiliations
- Called to the Bar in Ontario 2006
- Canadian Bar Association
- Ontario Bar Association
- Estate Planning Council of Mississauga
- Community Foundation of Mississauga, Donor Development Committee
- Advocis
Education
- H.B.A. - University of Toronto 2000
- LL.B. - University of Windsor 2005
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