Firm says additions will help high-net-worth clients with estate planning
O’Sullivan Estate Lawyers LLP has welcomed two trust and estate lawyers – partner Josh Cohen and associate Namratha Sankar – to help the Toronto-based boutique law firm serve its high-net-worth clients with estate planning matters.
“With Namratha and Josh, we are also expanding our services,” said Margaret O’Sullivan, the firm’s managing partner and founder, in a news release. “They each bring unique skill sets that our clients value.”
O’Sullivan Estate Lawyers offers trust and estate legal services. The firm focuses on high-net-worth domestic estate planning, complex estate administration, and cross-border and multijurisdictional succession matters.
The firm’s news release provided more information on the new additions.
Cohen focuses on estate, trust, and incapacity law. He assists clients such as high-net-worth individuals and business owners with personal estate plans, the preparation of single and multiple wills, powers of attorney, inter vivos and testamentary trusts, and complex estate administration.
He collaborates with corporate, tax, and insurance professionals to help clients attain their objectives and desired solutions. He addresses domestic and foreign tax minimization and all other relevant issues. He also has estate litigation experience.
According to Cohen’s LinkedIn page, he worked as an associate at Blaney McMurtry LLP in downtown Toronto beginning in February 2022. There, he handled complex litigation concerning the validity and interpretation of wills, the removal of trustees and attorneys for property, the passing of accounts, resulting and constructive trusts, and dependents’ relief.
He was also an associate at Eisen Law from June 2018 to February 2022.
Cohen is a trust and estate practitioner (TEP), a designation from the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) Canada. He earned his LLB from the University of Leicester.
Sankar focuses on complex estate planning and estate administration. Her clients include executors, trustees, beneficiaries, attorneys for property, and attorneys for personal care.
She tackles issues regarding domestic contracts, the preparation of wills and estate plans for blended families, and the impacts of separation and divorce on beneficiary and executor designations.
According to Sankar’s LinkedIn page, she worked as an articling student then as an associate at Bales Beall LLP, a boutique family and estates law firm in Toronto, from August 2020 to last June.
Before immigrating to Canada in 2018, she served as a paralegal at James Berry & Associates in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from May 2015 to July 2018. There, she helped clients with estate planning matters.
The firm noted that Sankar is in the process of securing full accreditation as a TEP from STEP Canada. She obtained her LLM from York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School.
