You are a chartered accountant and one of your clients is a real estate developer who is thinking about building a shopping center in a residential sector of the municipality in which you practice your profession. But, to do this, the area must be rezoned. Aware of your close ties to members of the party in power at city hall, he wishes to retain your services to intervene with the mayor, a close friend of yours, and with two city councillors, and persuade them that it would be in the municipality’s interests to rezone the sector so as to promote its commercial development.
You are a tax lawyer and your client, a biotech enterprise, mandates you to obtain a grant for the development of a new product.
