Kelly Griffin

About Kelly Griffin

Kelly Griffin is senior counsel at Northview Law, helping owner-operated and privately held companies with corporate and commercial work while also handling wills, estates and real estate for individuals and families. On the business side, Griffin's involvement can run the full life of a company: incorporation and organization, financings, and eventually a purchase or sale.

Called to the Ontario bar in 2006, Griffin started out in corporate commercial law at a national firm in Toronto. In-house roles followed, first at Sun Life Financial and then at Manulife Financial, advising business units on mutual funds, life and health insurance, and risk. Griffin joined Sutherland Mark Lawyers in 2015.

Estate planning clients sit down with Griffin to put together wills and powers of attorney that suit their own family circumstances. When an estate needs settling, executors get guidance through the administration, including the court application for a certificate of appointment. Griffin's real estate files cover commercial and residential purchases and sales, along with mortgage refinancing and debt consolidation financing.

Griffin is a past president of the Waterloo Region Law Association and once served as a director of the Canadian Mental Health Association's Grand River Branch. Away from the office, there's skiing, travel both close to home and far away, tennis on TV and plenty of family time. And a rare quiet hour? It's usually spent with a cozy mystery.