Paul S.O. Barbeau

About Paul

Paul provides domestic and international legal and business advice, focusing on the establishment, financing, acquisition, governance, succession, and disposition of joint ventures, partnerships, corporations, and limited liability and flow-through entities, having built structures for clients across North America, the UK, the EU, Asia, and Central and South America. He also has an active domestic and international trusts and estates practice representing individuals, families, and charitable organizations, including trusts for income splitting, asset protection, special care, charitable purposes, and business succession. Paul's multi-disciplinary practice extends to art law, covering wills and estates matters, purchase and sale transactions, intellectual property and moral rights issues, and complex financing and acquisition strategies. He has thirty years of board-level leadership experience with for-profit, not-for-profit, and charitable organizations in Canada, the US, the EU/UK, Japan, and China. Paul earned an LL.B. with honours from the University of Hull in 1986, a J.D. from the University of British Columbia in 1989, and a diploma from Harvard Law School's Program of Instruction for Lawyers in 1995, and he is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.

Education & credentials

Law school

University of British Columbia

Other degrees

LL.B. (Hons), University of Hull, England, 1986
Diploma, Program of Instruction for Lawyers (Taxation of American Corporate Enterprises and International Trade Law), Harvard Law School, 1995