Once the talk of the town — of many towns, in many countries — the family whose every handshake seemed to make headlines has since been reclusive; on Monday, however, several members of the Reichmann clan will be in court to settle a messy family feud.
The Reichmann patriarch, Samuel, moved from Hungary to Austria in the 1920s, where Albert, Paul and Ralph were born. The Orthodox Jewish family fled Europe ahead of the Second World War and the Holocaust and two more sons were born before the family emigrated to Canada from Morocco in 1956. In Toronto, they built First Canadian Place in 1975, the tallest completed skyscraper in Canada, as an anchor to the city’s Financial District. Other towers followed.Article content
British prime minister Margaret Thatcher tours the Canary Wharf development with Paul Reichmann in 1988. Paul was leader of the Reichmann brothers property development team, which also included Albert and Ralph.The Reichmann brothers also had controlling or substantial holdings in major publicly traded companies, including Gulf Canada, Abitibi Price, and GW Utilities.Article content
There were monthly $26,000 gifts from his parents, written on their personal chequing accounts from 2003 to 2012; monthly payments of about $14,000 from a corporate account from 1996 to 2012; and $2.1 million from the trust’s dividends in 2012, among other payments, court heard.The support ended abruptly soon after.
Pending the outcome of his lawsuit, Abraham asked the court in 2015 to order the family’s holding company, Rada Holdings Inc., to continue shareholder payments to him.
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