Steven Fruitman is an associate in our Langley office and joined the firm in the fall of 2007. Steve's areas of practice include corporate, commercial, securities, pensions and benefits and trusts law.
Steve has extensive experience with corporate and commercial matters. He assists clients with the establishment of business structures; corporate governance; the purchase and sale of businesses; corporate reorganizations; negotiating and drafting shareholder agreements; the resolution of shareholder disputes; negotiating and drafting service and supply agreements; negotiating and drafting lease agreements; and a wide range of other corporate and commercial issues. Steve has also been involved in various government procurement matters; executive employment disputes; corporate income tax issues, particularly with respect to foreign controlled subsidiaries operating in Canada; and Securities Law matters, including public and private financings of equity and debt, general securities and stock exchange compliance issues.
Steve also practices in the area of pension and benefits law. He has been involved in providing advice to pension plan administrators, employers and pension boards of trustees on a wide variety of issues relating to pension plans and retirement income compensation, including pension plan governance; providing advice regarding the division of pensions on marriage breakdown; drafting and amending of pension plan texts; and the implementation of individual pension plans.
Steve has written and spoken on various corporate and pension plan issues.
Steve was born in Toronto, Ontario and moved to the Lower Mainland in 2003. He was admitted to the British Columbia Bar in 2003 and the Ontario Bar in 2000. He graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a Bachelor of Laws in 1998. Prior to that, Steve received a Bachelor of Science from the University of Toronto in 1989, with a specialist in Actuarial Science and a major in Economics. He obtained the Associate of the Society of Actuaries (A.S.A.) designation in 1993 and worked for four years as a life actuary.
