Lucinda E. Main

First Year of Call
2008

Areas of Practice
Wills, Estates & Trusts

Description
Lucy is a partner and Co-Chair of the Wills, Trusts and Estates Practice Group at WeirFoulds with a practice focusing exclusively on estate and trust planning and administration.

Advising Canadian and international clients on a wide range of estate and trust matters, Lucy drafts estate planning documents, establishes private charitable foundations, guides beneficiaries of estates and facilitates the administration of estates and trusts. She helps build estate plans that center on tax efficiencies (be it Canadian income tax, Ontario estate administration tax and/or foreign inheritance and succession taxes) while meeting her clients’ equally important non-tax goals. She helps with the smooth and efficient administration of estates and trusts, particularly where there are private company shares, valuable artwork or other collectables and foreign assets involved.

With a keen interest in estate planning and administration when there is an international element, her experience in handling such matters was recognized when she was invited to join The International Academy of Trust and Estate Law in 2023 and the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel as an international fellow in 2024. In 2025 she was invited to join the international Private Client Global Elite Directory, having been nominated by her peers in the private wealth industry. She was actively involved in the International Association of Young Lawyers for many years and acted twice as its Canadian representative. She has spoken at international conferences including in Malta, Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Iceland, Greece, Mexico and the United States. In addition to her speaking engagements, she has authored and co-authored chapters and articles for several international publications including for the Globe Law and Business, Jordan Publishing, Journal of International Tax, Trust and Corporate Planning and Trusts and Trustees.

To strengthen her skills in tax efficient estate planning and administration, Lucy has been active with the Canadian Tax Foundation for many years. Her involvement began in 2011 when she joined the steering committee of the Toronto chapter of the Foundation’s Young Practitioners’ Group. A few years later she helped organize three consecutive annual Ontario conferences, The Definitive Tax-Planning Conference for Advisors to Owner-Managed Businesses. She has spoken at four of the conferences, which conferences are attended by approximately 1,000 tax professionals from across the province. In 2022 she was invited to join the board of governors for a three-year term. She was the committee co-chair of the Foundation’s first and well received Canadian Taxation of Trusts Conference held in May 2025 in Toronto. In addition to her involvement with the Foundation, she is currently an editor of Taxes and Wealth Management, been a member of the Ontario Bar Association’s Taxation Section executive committee and written for various tax related legal publications.

Lucy’s interests are not limited to international and taxation matters. She is a prolific writer and speaker on a wide variety of estate and trust planning and administration matters. Her book Preparation of Wills and Powers of Attorney: First Interview to Final Report, Fifth Edition was published in 2022. She is currently an editor for the well regarded Canadian loose-leaf publication Widdifield on Executors and Trustees. In 2026 was asked to join the adjudication panel for the longstanding annual Widdifield Award which is presented to the author of the best original article in each volume of the Estates Trusts & Pensions Journal at the annual yearend dinner of the Trusts and Estates Law section of the Ontario Bar Association. She is a newsletter officer for the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners’ Toronto Branch executive committee. She was actively involved with the Ontario Bar Association’s Trusts and Estates Law section for five years, including acting on its executive committee. In addition, she is frequently invited to present at gatherings of non-lawyers including giving talks to financial advisors and their clients. She has been a faculty member with the Osgoode Intensive Program in Wills & Estates. In 2013 Lucy completed the requirements necessary to earn the Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP) designation from the international Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners.