Peter Scarrow
Peter.Scarrow@larlee.com

Peter Scarrow was born and raised in British Columbia. He is a graduate of the University of British Columbia, having obtained a B.A. in 1977 with a major in Asian Studies (concentration in Chinese and Japanese languages) and an LL.B in 1981. He began practicing immigration law after his call to the B.C. bar in 1982 and was the partner in charge of the Immigration Practice Group and Taiwan branch office of a major Canadian law firm in the late 1980’s. He has been employed as Associate Counsel with Larlee Rosenberg since the spring of 2009.

Beginning in the late 1990’s, Mr. Scarrow spent over 10 years living and working in East Asia, notably China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, where he was Legal Counsel to and Senior Representative of the Hong Kong branch office of a prominent Swiss-style private bank. He has extensive experience working with international and domestic tax and trust lawyers together with fiduciary services providers assisting wealthy families from various jurisdictions, particularly Taiwan and Mainland China, structure their legal and financial affairs in anticipation of immigration.

Mr. Scarrow is the head of the Family Office department at Larlee Rosenberg and specializes in providing a broad range of immigration and other advice to high net worth individuals and their corporate affiliates. In this regard he seeks to provide “holistic” customized solutions to wealthy immigrant families, integrating advice from other professionals (tax, trust, insurance, accounting, banking, wealth management) as may be required.

Mr. Scarrow travels regularly to and maintains extensive connections in East Asia. He is fluent in Mandarin and literate in Chinese (both simplified and traditional characters.)