Martina Zanetti
Martina Zanetti
Biography
Martina Zanetti is a lawyer on our private wealth, trusts and estates team. Her practice focuses on estate planning, estate administration, and incapacity matters. Martina assists clients with preparing wills, powers of attorney and healthcare representation agreements, as well as the documentation required to establish and fund discretionary family trusts, alter ego trusts, joint partner trusts and other trust structures.
She possesses a strong base in family law, which she utilizes to assist clients in designing estate plans that achieve their objectives. Martina also advises clients who are acting as executors or trustees regarding their duties and powers and on will and trust interpretation matters.
Professional experience
Rankings and recognitions
Rankings and recognitions
- Best Lawyers in Canada: Ones to Watch: Trusts and Estates, 2024-2025
- Award for Highest Grade in Wills, Trust and Estate Administration, STEP Canada, 2017
- Award for Highest Grade in Taxation of Trusts and Estates, STEP Canada, 2016
Education
Education
J.D., University of British Columbia, 2013
B.A. (Hons.), University of Toronto, Trinity College, 2010
Admissions
Admissions
- British Columbia 2014
Publications
Publications
- "Multiple Wills and Non-trust Advanced Estate Planning," CLEBC, November 2020.
- "Fundamentals of Tax in Estate Planning," CLEBC, May 2019
- "Let's Settle This: Trust Settlement Issues and Advice" (co-author: Carmen S. Thériault), Pacific Business & Law Institute, June 2017
Memberships and activities
Memberships and activities
- Canadian Bar Association
- Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
- West Coast LEAF, board of directors (member at large)
Insights and news
Insights
