We have experience in:
- Tax planning for startup businesses
- Tax planning for mature businesses
- Tax loss transactions
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Reorganizations, restructuring, and financing
- Insolvency and debt restructuring
- Real estate transactions
- Flow-through shares
- Public and private royalty trusts, income trusts, and REITs
- Partnerships and joint ventures
- Private equity investment funds, venture capital, and startup companies
- Inbound and outbound investments
- Employment compensation
- Contractor compensation
- Equity-based compensation
- Asset protection trusts
- GST / HST
- Resource taxation
- Tax disputes
- Tax compliance
- Negotiating with CRA auditors and appeals officers
- Negotiating with Department of Justice lawyers
- Disputes concerning taxation of particular corporate structures
- Voluntary disclosures with various tax administrators to correct past tax compliance errors
- Disputes concerning taxation of commercial transactions and agreements
- Disputes regarding taxation of particular industries
- Disputes involving GST / HST and withholding tax
- Appearing before the Tax Court of Canada, the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal
Clients:
- Publicly traded companies
- Accounting firms
- Law firms
- Canadian companies expanding abroad including to the U.S.
- U.S. companies expanding to Canada
- Governments and their agencies
- Charities and not-for-profit associations
