Karen D. Stilwell

Partner

506.300.9632 [email protected]

Karen is a corporate lawyer whose practice includes corporate organization and structuring, private corporation shareholder agreements, family business succession planning, and shareholder disputes. Karen’s clients include high net-worth individuals, employee-owned businesses, private corporations, and First Nations. Karen is also a trained mediator whose practice in this area includes private dispute resolution for family businesses, shareholders, and other individuals and organizations. Karen’s practice additionally includes tax litigation and dispute resolution including appeals to the Tax Court of Canada and the Federal Court of Appeal.

Karen is included in the Best Lawyers of Canada for the years 2019 through 2023 and is ranked by the Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory in the area of Litigation – Corporate Tax. She is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Tax Foundation, and the ADR Institute of Canada.

Certificates

  • ADR Learning Institute, Mediation Training Certificate – 2024
  • CPA In-depth HST/GST – 2016
  • CPA In-Depth Tax Course, Level II – 2011

Education

  • University of Toronto, LL.M. – 2014
  • University of New Brunswick, LL.B. – 2008
  • Carleton University, M.A. (Philosophy) – 2005
  • University of Toronto, B.A. (Hons) – 2002

Bar Admissions

  • New Brunswick – 2014
  • Nova Scotia – 2009