Edward Rowe
and Patrick Marley co-chair the tax department at Osler Hoskin & Harcourt. They oversee a team of seventy
lawyers over five offices in Canada: Montréal, Ottawa, Toronto,
Calgary and Vancouver. Tax planners and litigators operate as an integrated unit to
provide comprehensive advice. The firm has been recognized as a market leader with tax controversies, but
provides a
range of services including corporate tax planning, negotiation of mergers, indirect taxation, and more.
The team at
Oslers has remained active throughout the region is transactional tax matters.
In Nov 2022,
their client Dream Industrial REIT
announced a
partnership with GIC Private Limited,
in connection with a $5.9 billion acquisition
of Summit Industrial Income REIT.
The firm is
currently
assisting its client General Motors in an ongoing transaction,
in which General Motors
seeks to make an $650 million equity investment
with Lithium Americas.
This large investment into battery production will set General Motors
as the largest shareholder of Lithium Americas.
The
Osler’s tax controversy team has also been active during the research period. The firm represents
Tax
Executives Institute
Inc.,
before the Supreme Court of Canada in
an anti-avoidance case.
The
firm argued the effects associated with the unworkable rule, and successfully
got leave for TEI to intervene in the appeal.
The firm has been active in recruitment, bringing n three new partners in 2022.
Kim Maguire joins the team from Borden Ladner Gervais,
Héléna
Gagné and
Shaira Nanji both join the team from KPMG Canada.
“Large and excellent quality tax group.”
“Collaborative professionals, excellent skillset.”
“Litigation team is extremely strong.”
“Extremely strong Canadian tax practice.”
“I have had many occasions to work with the tax lawyers at Osler and they are consistently leaders in their areas of expertise.”
“Osler is one of the leaders in the tax community as it realized before others in the market the "value add" that tax advisors can bring to transactions so had a head start in building out their bench strength and have
largely maintained that lead (though the gap in various areas is closing).”
“High technical competence and creative solutions.”
“Best tax group in the country, in my opinion. #1 tax litigation practice in Canada.”
“Technical. Responsiveness, practicality.”
“Thorough, strategic, professional, prompt, knowledgeable, experienced.”
“Exercise strategic thinking and methodical approach.
Responsive.
Excellent communication.
Professional and experienced.”
“Very strategic, best in class tax litigation team and support, very technically sound.”
“Very intelligent, work well as a team, responsive, trustworthy.”
“Oslers has a very experienced securities law, M&A and transactional law, and related tax advice service. They are always on top of the most recent changes in domestic and international tax law and therefore have always been a welcome and respected partner to our mergers and acquisition activity.”
