Kelowna, B.C.

Grand Okanagan Resort

Beauty F. Beaubier

Practice Areas:

Taxation, Estate Planning, Corporate Law, and Commercial Law

Profile:

Beaty has worked extensively in estate planning, corporate reorganizations and commercial transactions. He has prepared documentation respecting Wills, trusts (both inter vivos and testamentary) and legal documentation needed to reorganize share ownership in corporations and to facilitate succession planning and sales to third parties. Beaty has acted as counsel for taxpayers in disputes with the Canada Revenue Agency, including counsel in several reported decisions of the Tax Court of Canada. He has also acted as counsel to corporations in connection with commercial sales transactions, securities offerings and take-over bids in Saskatchewan, as well as local counsel in Saskatchewan on national securities offerings.

Professional Education:

• Admitted to the Saskatchewan Bar, 1985
• Bachelor of Laws, 1984, University of Toronto
• Bachelor of Commerce, with Distinction, 1983, University of Saskatchewan

Seminars, Presentations and Publications:

• Corporate Law, Saskatchewan Bar Admission course (1991-2003)
• Presented papers at the Prairie Provinces Tax Conferences, presented by the Canadian Tax Foundation (1989, 2001)
• Presented papers for Continuing Legal Education in Saskatchewan on Tax Consequences in Preparing Wills (1992, 2002), Tax Issues in Estate
  Planning and Succession (2004), The Purchase and Sale of a Business (1994, 2000), Taxation of Businesses (1996), and on the Goods and
  Services Tax (1990, 1993)
• Has published extensively, including articles in the CGA Magazine

Memberships and Associations:

• Member, Law Society of Saskatchewan
• Member, Canadian Bar Association
• Member, Canadian Tax Foundation
• Member, Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners [STEP]
• Member, Senior Estates & Trusts Practitioners' Forum
• Governor, Canadian Tax Foundation (2001-04)
• Chair, Tax/Wills & Trusts North Section, Saskatchewan Branch, Canadian
• Bar Association (1991-93)