Protect What You've Built Preserve Your Legacy.
When your relationships, business, wealth, and reputation are at stake, you need family lawyers who understand what's really on the line.
Strategic Counsel for Complex Lives
Our practice is exclusively in protecting high-net-worth professionals, business owners, and executives through complex divorce and separation matters, as well as proactive wealth protection through marriage contracts.
Our leadership team is comprised of former Bay Street lawyers who understand what you’ve worked decades to build—and what you stand to lose. We are known as “corporate family lawyers”.
What Sets Us Apart
Bay Street Corporate - Commercial Expertise Applied to Family Law
Our lawyers bring corporate and commercial law experience to family law matters. This helps us provide a sophisticated understanding of shareholder agreements, business valuations, complex asset structures, and corporate entities. This background enables us to effectively protect and preserve business interests during family law proceedings.
Advanced Contract Law Proficiency
Our team possesses deep contract law expertise that ensures our agreements are crafted with precise legal language, enforceability mechanisms, and judicial scrutiny in mind. We do not rely on standard templates. Our documents are structured to withstand court challenges and meet all statutory requirements, providing a better foundation for legal protection for complex financial arrangements.
We apply the same standards and process used in high-stakes commercial matters to family law files. This includes detailed reporting and opinion letters, clear recommendations, expert valuations and strategic negotiations. This “corporate family law” approach provides clients with the transparency and strategic thinking typically reserved for major business transactions.
Dedicated Financial Advocacy Group
Unlike the standard practice of lawyers or paralegals completing financial statements we have integrated former Big Four accounting firm partners as members of our team. Our CPAs bring decades of experience navigating complex corporate structures, creating tax strategies, and analyzing high-net-worth portfolios to all financial disclosure.
Our in-house approach means every Form 13.1 Financial Statement receives high-level CPA expertise as our standard practice. Our financial analysts identify every possible exclusion, credit, tax implication, valuation nuance, and asset tracing opportunity. This approach sets up apart in the legal industry.
The impact of our upfront investment in CPA-led financial advocacy is significant. However, our clients consistently recover this cost many times over through the strategic advantages it provides during negotiations, in settlements and in Court. This includes tax efficient structured settlements, reduced support obligations, optimized equalization payments, and prenuptial agreements (marriage contracts) that protect our clients’ net worth.
Financial disclosure is not simply filing out a form. Accurate financial disclosure is the most important part of your case. We protect your family’s net worth with the same rigor and attention to detail the Big Four bring to billion-dollar corporations. When your wealth is at stake, the expertise analyzing your finances matters as much as the lawyer negotiating your agreement.
Our Three Practice Group Approach
Every client at M & Company is assigned a designated lawyer who oversees your entire matter and serves as your primary point of contact. Your designated lawyer strategically weaves in expertise from our three departments based on what your case demands at each stage.
Our Written Advocacy team handles all court documents and written submissions—crafting precise legal arguments that protect your interests on paper.
The Financial Advocacy group manages financial disclosure, coordinates with valuators and forensic accountants, analyzes complex compensation structures, and develops tax-efficient settlement strategies.
Our Litigation team appears in court, conducts examinations, and advocates for you in trial. Your designated lawyer determines which departmental resources you need and when, ensuring seamless collaboration behind the scenes.
This means during financial disclosure phases, you’ll work closely with our financial advocacy team; when drafting your Court Application, our written advocacy team takes the lead; and if court attendance becomes necessary, our litigators step in—all coordinated by your designated lawyer who maintains the overall strategy.
You will never see multiple lawyers billing for the same task; each professional handles only what falls within their area of expertise, ensuring you receive specialized skill at the appropriate rate for each type of work.
Efficient Execution
We want you to be our client for the least amount of time possible. We prioritize swift, strategic resolution through negotiation and settlement. In addition, our team maintains significant court and trial experience if litigation becomes necessary. We invest substantial resources upfront on our family law matters to develop clear action plans. We prioritize moving files quickly toward resolution or trial and we have the bench strength to effectively litigate complex matters, if needed.
We Listen
At M & Company, we are human first, and we are driven by a deep commitment to making a real difference in the lives of our clients. We understand that legal matters, especially in family law, are not just about contracts and negotiations—they are about people, relationships, and securing a future.
We believe that everyone deserves a compassionate, expert team by their side, especially when navigating life’s most challenging transitions. Our work isn’t just about solving legal problems; it’s about creating solutions, providing clarity, protecting what matters most, and for many, the opportunity for a fresh start.
Every day, we are motivated by the privilege of helping our clients achieve successful outcomes that protect their wealth, their families, and their well-being. It’s not just our job—it’s our purpose.
Ready to protect what matters most?
Your wealth, your business, and your future deserve a legal team that thinks like business owners, not just lawyers. Let us help you take control.
Schedule a Confidential Consultation