Tax and Family Business Succession Planning, 3rd Edition

David Louis is the Chair and senior member of the Minden Gross LLP Taxation Group. Both a lawyer and C.A., he has over 25 years of experience in income tax matters, including personal, corporate, international, and estate planning, focusing largely on entrepreneurs. Formerly a Partner in the National Tax Group at Ernst & Whinney (now part of KPMG) and Tax Counsel to Brascan Limited, he is a graduate of the University of Toronto Law School and also holds a Bachelor of Commerce from that university.

He is a prolific writer, author of Implementing Estate Freezes (CCH Canadian Limited), as well asTax-Saving Strategies for the Canadian Investor, Compensation Strategies for the Canadian Executive, RRSP Strategies (Hume Publishing Limited). He has edited or contributed to various CCH services and other publications, including Tax Planning for Small Business, Canadian Small Business Financing and Tax Planning Guide, Canadian Estate Planning Guide, The Directors Manual, Revenue Canada Round Table Annotated, Canada Income Tax Guide, Canadian Wealth Management Guide, Tax Topics and Tax Notes, as well as Taxation of Private Corporations and Their Shareholders (1st Edition, Canadian Tax Foundation). He was formerly Contributing Editor of The MoneyLetter (for nearly 30 years), editor of The TaxLetter from 1983 to 2005, as well as tax columnist for The Globe and Mail, Report on Business.

Samantha Prasad is an associate with the Minden Gross LLP Tax Group. Her practice focuses mainly on corporate, estate and international tax planning. In addition to advising clients on various tax planning strategies, Samantha has particular experience in designing and implementing estate plans and corporate reorganizations.

Samantha's clients vary from the small family business owner/manager to multi-national corporations. As such, her practice is varied to include tax aspects of corporate finance, corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, as well as estate planning and offshore and international corporate structures.

Samantha is also an accomplished author. She is the author of "The Liability for Taxes" chapter of the CCH Directors' Manual, as well as co-editor of various other CCH Canadian Limited tax publications including the Canada Income Tax Guide, Wealth Management Guide, and Tax Planning for Small Business Guide. Samantha is a regular contributor to Tax Notes (CCH), The TaxLetter and The MoneyLetter (MPL Communications) newsletters. Samantha is also a frequent lecturer for professional and commercial organizations, businesses and conferences.

Samantha received her B.A. in International Relations, Political Science and French from the University of Toronto in 1995 and her LL.B. from Queen's University in 1998. 

Michael Goldberg is a partner with the Minden Gross LLP Tax Group and has been working with clients and their advisors to assist them with their corporate, estate, personal and international tax planning needs for over 10 years.  He has developed particular expertise in implementing complex corporate reorganizations, succession plans and creative wealth preservation and protection strategies. His clients are most often entrepreneurs and their corporate groups, but vary from small family businesses to multi-national corporations. 

Michael speaks regularly at seminars and conferences and is a frequent contributor to a number of tax publications with CCH, including: Canadian Estate Planning Guide, Canadian Wealth Management Guide, Ontario Tax Reporter, Tax Notes, Tax Planning for Small Business, Tax Topics and Canadian Income Tax Act, Annotated.