Blake Cassels & Graydon's tax lawyers regularly advise Canadian and international businesses on all aspects of tax and have for the past four years been voted International Tax Review's Canadian Tax Firm of the Year.
The last 12 months has seen the ...
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Blake Cassels & Graydon's tax lawyers regularly advise Canadian and international businesses on all aspects of tax and have for the past four years been voted International Tax Review's Canadian Tax Firm of the Year.
The last 12 months has seen the group take a leading role in many of Canada's most significant inbound and outbound cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments and divestitures, corporate finance and restructuring transactions, conversions of income trusts to corporations and other public market transactions involving corporations, real estate investment trusts, and mutual funds. The tax team regularly provide tax advice on structuring both hostile and friendly cross-border acquisitions and multi-jurisdictional reorganisations. The firm's tax controversy lawyers, including the widely-respected Ed Kroft QC, represent clients at all stages of the tax dispute resolution process, including audit, appeals, litigation and competent authority procedures.
Vancouver partner, Bruce Sinclair is known in the market as one of the country's best mining tax practitioners. He advised Red Back Mining, during its $7.1 billion purchase by Kinross Gold Corporation of all outstanding common shares of Red Back that it did not already own pursuant to a statutory plan of arrangement under the Canada Business Corporations Act. Jeffrey Trossman, a partner in the Toronto office was joined by Andrew Spiro in advising international mining and natural resources company, Cliffs Natural Resources, in the $5.1 billion acquisition of Consolidated Thompson Iron Mines in May 2011. The transaction was a complex cross-border acquisition by the global mining company of the largest iron ore producer in Canada. Partner Kathleen Penny is recommended in the market for her extensive experience in international corporate tax, particularly her M&A work.
Edward Rowe acted as tax counsel for ConocoPhillips Canada in the sale of its interest in the Syncrude oil sands joint venture Sinopec. The joint venture is the largest largest oil sands joint venture in the world and the transaction involved the sale of the partnership through which ConocoPhillips held its interest in the joint venture.
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