Mary Wahbi, JD, TEP

First Year of Call
1986

Areas of Practice
Corporate and Commercial Law, Wills, Estates and Trusts

Description
Mary is one of the managing Partners of Basman Smith LLP, a full service downtown Toronto law firm of 23 lawyers. She was called to the Bar in 1986. Mary practices estates & trusts law and corporate/commercial law, focusing on creation of trusts, wills, powers of attorney for property, powers of attorney for personal care, estate administration as well as business acquisitions/dispositions, partnership agreements, shareholders’ agreements, corporate re-organizations, business succession planning, and estate freezes. As a member of a firm in which a one-third of the lawyers practice exclusively family law, Mary works closely with the family law lawyers to provide corporate, trust and estate advice in the review of clients’ assets, domestic contract files and in the settlement of litigious matters. Mary is a former instructor in Estate Planning at the Bar Admission Course and was a member of the Executive of the Ontario Bar Association, Trusts & Estates Section for eight years, the last several years as Chair of the Statutory Review Committee.  Mary has presented at CLE programs for the OBA, LSUC, Osgoode Professional Development, and has spoken to a variety of private banking/investment and community groups.  Mary is a member of STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Planners).  Mary also is a volunteer lawyer at Pro Bono Student Services (U of T & Osgoode) Wills Project, which provides estate planning services for low income HIV+ and other needy clients and is a volunteer estate planning lawyer with Wellspring, a not-for-profit cancer support program.