We provide legal expertise in

• Cross-border acquisition and divestiture structuring
• Cross-border investment and finance structuring
• Domestic enterprise structuring & reorganizations
• Federal and provincial sales tax
• Partnerships
• Shareholder tax planning
• Succession planning
• Trusts

Representative Transactions

• Advised on all Canadian tax issues arising in respect of the sale of a group of private Canadian corporations to a public non-resident multi-national; including, structuring and implementing the tax-effective exchange and cancellation of employee stock options;
• Structured and implemented the reorganization of family holding companies and trusts to effect payment of a $2.4m settlement on a non-taxable basis;
• Advised on the application of Canadian and Ontario sales taxes to a U.S.-resident corporation on the importation of electricity into Ontario from the U.S.;
• Structured the purchase, development and sale of numerous foreign-owned wind and solar projects;
• Structured the sale to a UK public company of Canadian private company shares held by both Canadian residents and a foreign trust;
  Structured the acquisition of manufacturing facilities in Ontario and Quebec by a U.S.-resident group of companies; including all sales tax, land transfer tax and sundry income tax issues; and
• Advised upon the tax-deferred exchange of shares in a U.S. mining company for shares in the capital of a Canadian corporation.

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