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Aug
George L. White, KC, TEP Corporate and Commercial Lawyer
Assistant
Biography
George White is an experienced lawyer meeting business and individual needs for over 40 years. His experience includes start-ups, acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures, shareholder agreements, business succession and corporate reorganizations. George has provided governance advice to corporate and co-operative boards.
George also assists clients with trust and estate planning including Wills, alter ego trusts, family trusts, spousal trusts, testamentary trusts and tax planned corporate reorganizations. He is a Registered Trust & Estate Practitioner STEP. He is frequently honored for achievement by his peers and ranking organizations and is recognized by The Best Lawyers™ in Canada for Trusts and Estates and Corporate Law.
George lives in Truro and Toney River, Pictou County.
- Business and corporate/commercial transactions and planning
- Board governance
- Trust and estate planning
- Commissioner for Inquiry into Remuneration of Provincial Elected Officials
- Legal Counsel and Secretary to the Royal Commission on Health Care (NS)
- Former Managing Partner, Patterson Law
- Appointed King`s Counsel, 1998
- Martindale-Hubbel AV® Preeminent™ rated lawyer, a testament to the fact that his peers and clients rank him at the highest level of professional excellence
- Lexpert’s Canadian Legal Directory, consistently named as a Leading Practitioner
- Best Lawyers™ in Canada: recognized for Trusts and Estates and Corporate Law 2018 – 2023
- Chambers Canada: recognized in Corporate/Commercial (Canada) category – Band 1 in Atlantic Canada, 2019, 2020
- Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society
- Canadian Bar Association
- Canadian Tax Foundation
- Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
- ADR Institute
- Past Chair, CBA Business Law Section (NS)
- Director, Truro Housing Outreach Society
- Board of Directors and Executive Committee Truro & Colchester Chamber of Commerce
- Board of Trustees, First United Church
- Commissioner, Elections Commission of Nova Scotia
- Drafting Comprehensive Shareholders’ Agreements (CBA): Shareholder Agreements – Getting Past the Standard Form (CBA)
- Asset Purchase Transactions (CBA)
- Personal Property Security Act (CLE NS)
- All About Trusts ( Patterson Law)
- LL.B. (Dalhousie University, 1974)
- B.Comm. First Class Honours and University Medal in Commerce (Dalhousie University, 1970)
- Bar Admission: Nova Scotia, 1975
- Mediation Workshop, Dalhousie: 2005
- Registered Member of Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners 2006