Kelly is a seasoned estate lawyer with a strong grounding in tax. She has extensive experience administering estates, trusts and private charitable foundations for a major trust company.
This hands-on experience allows her to provide both practical and strategic guidance in structuring your estate and incapacity plan. She has significant expertise in business succession planning, vacation property succession, planning for beneficiaries with disabilities, trusts, charitable giving and addressing the complex considerations that blended families face.
Kelly’s approach integrates both the tax planning considerations of your plan and the interpersonal dynamics that influence family harmony.
Kelly has completed parts I and II of the CICA In-Depth Tax Program and is also Certified Financial Planner professional. She is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) as well as the Law Society of Ontario (LSO).
Complimentary Will & Estate Planning Consultation
In appreciation of your valued business relationship with us, your advisor is pleased to offer you a complimentary Will & Estate Planning consultation with Kelly, a Will & Estate Consultant.
Kelly works closely with your advisor to provide you with information on structuring your estate in an efficient and tax-effective manner. Following your meeting, Kelly will provide you with a report outlining various estate planning issues for you to explore in further detail with your own lawyer or accountant.
Barrington Grey, CFP, CLU, FEA
Vice-President & Estate Planning Specialist, RBC Wealth Management Financial Services Inc.
After four years with a leading life insurer, Barrington joined RBC in 1993 to help RBC advisors introduce their clients to a new strategy to build and protect their wealth: tax-exempt insurance. Since then, clients, along with their tax and legal advisors, have come to rely on his expertise and advice as a recognized specialist on insurance-based wealth enhancement and protection.
Barrington is an accredited Certified Financial Planner, Chartered Life Underwriter and Family Enterprise Advisor. He is also a member of CALU, the Conference for Advanced Life Underwriting which mandates interests specific to advanced financial planning issues related to estate planning and corporate-owned life insurance, to name a few.
Always willing to contribute to the insurance community, Barrington is regularly called upon as a featured speaker at national conferences held by life insurers and affiliated industry associations.
Prashant Patel, ASA, CFP, TEP
Vice President, Business Owner Specialist, Family Office Services, RBC Wealth Management
As a Business Owner Specialist, High Net Worth Planning Services, Prashant, together with your primary RBC advisor, helps you explore succession, tax, retirement and estate planning issues you face as a business owner.
His guidance supports clients in their relationships with their external professional advisors, with whom he frequently interacts.
His expertise includes tax and estate planning for business owners, executives, retirees, sports professionals and individuals with U.S. issues. He also assists individuals facing significant financial events (sale of business, financial windfall, retirement, job loss, moving to Canada, leaving Canada, etc.)
Prior to joining RBC in 1999, Prashant honed his expertise by working as a Canadian and U.S. tax specialist for two of the big four accounting firms in downtown Toronto.
Prashant is a Certified Financial Planner, Associate of the Society of Actuaries and member of both the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and Canadian
Tax Foundation.