About

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Innovative, outside the box thinking to advance your business objectives

Our Tax Group has the strategic skills, insight and practical experience to help you achieve your goals. With offices in all major centres of business across Canada, you benefit from our collaborative and comprehensive support.

Our tax expertise and our knowledge of Canada’s tax regime is widely recognized. Helping our clients navigate the tax aspects of domestic and cross-border public and private mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, financings and securitizations, and other transactions, we bring clarity and pragmatism to complicated tax issues that could otherwise derail business goals. We have assisted on Canada’s most innovative, high-profile business transactions.

Chambers Review

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Tax - Nationwide - Canada

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What the Team is Known For

McCarthy Tétrault possesses a robust tax practice offering national reach out of its Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto and Montréal offices. The team provides tax controversy and litigation support, as well as corporate, sales and commodity tax advice. The firm frequently acts for clients in the telecommunications, real estate and energy industry sectors, as well as impressive names in insurance, private equity and investment funds.

Work Highlights

  • McCarthy Tétrault advised Gold Fields in its CAD2.16 billion cross-border acquisition of Osisko Mining.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Raj Juneja
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Raj Juneja
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Raj Juneja is highly regarded for his advice on the tax aspects of commercial transactions, with an excellent roster of clients in the energy and mining sectors. Based in Toronto, he is the co-head of the McCarthy Tétrault's national tax practice.

Raj is one of the strongest tax practitioners I have worked with.

He is very practical, commercial and covers a wide range of Canadian tax issues.

Raj's responsiveness is unbelievable. He is technically excellent and combining that with his level of experience and breadth of transactions and creativity, there isn't a better tax lawyer.

Raj has a deep level of expertise. He is very creative and thinks outside the box, with a long-term mindset.

He is an extremely rapid and commercial problem solver and among the best I know.

Brett Anderson
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Brett Anderson
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Band 3

Brett Anderson is based in McCarthy Tétrault's Calgary office, where he co-leads the tax group. He has a robust tax practice and is best known for handling transactions, including M&A,.

Brett is very technically competent in tax matters, with a high degree of commercial aptitude. He is also very practical and really responsive.

Brett is an absolute rock star. He has a depth of knowledge that is a mix of practical and theoretical. He has a way of putting everything in context.

Anu Koshal
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Anu Koshal
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Band 4

Anu Koshal is based in McCarthy Tétrault's Toronto office and is well placed to represent clients in significant tax litigation. He has extensive courtroom experience, representing corporations and financial institutions before multiple courts across the country.

Anu consistently provides a high level of service and sophisticated advice.

Anu has an ability to command the room in a way I have never seen before and is able to grasp issues incredibly fast.

Anu is very measured and practical. He has a mindful approach to his practice.

He is extremely responsive and supportive in all matters.

He is a pleasure to work with and always putting clients' needs first.

Nicolas Cloutier
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Nicolas Cloutier
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Band 4
Nicolas Cloutier is an experienced tax practitioner who handles a range of disputes. His clients include those in the automotive industry.
Patrick McCay
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Patrick McCay
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Band 4
Patrick McCay has experience working on significant US-Canada cross-border deals, including standout transactions in the energy sector. He is based in Toronto.

Patrick is exceptionally knowledgeable and experienced. He provides creative solutions and has domestic and cross-border expertise.

He is incredibly intelligent, practical and very good at coming up with creative solutions to complicated tax issues.

Patrick is always very thorough and good to work with. He is very technical as well.

Stefanie Morand
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Stefanie Morand
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Band 4
Toronto-based Stefanie Morand has a growing reputation in the Canadian tax market, with an impressive pedigree in major cross-border financing and M&A transactions.

Stefanie does a great job at handling and identifying all tax issues. She is all encompassing and very thorough.

She is very bright, sees the whole picture and is very practical.

Stefanie is simply fantastic. She combines good commercial sense and technical tax all into easy to digest advice.

Stefanie is an excellent tax advisor!

Drew Morier
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Drew Morier
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Drew Morier is well placed to advise clients on the tax aspects of corporate transactions.

Drew provides sound technical advice that is thought out, well written and practical.

Drew has super deep knowledge and a practical ability to help us out.

He is smart and knowledgeable, particularly in the international tax area.

Drew is very technically capable and a very clear communicator. He assesses the situation for us and gives practical advice.

Jeff Oldewening
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Jeff Oldewening
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Band 5

Jeff Oldewening boasts notable expertise advising taxpayers on the technical tax issues they face in Canada. His client base includes international corporates active in the mining and hospitality industries.

He is very good at understanding our complex fact patterns quickly.

Jeff is very technically capable and good with coming up with alternatives.

Jeff is very thoughtful and also very technically strong.

Jeff is extremely creative and thinks outside the box to provide solutions.

Kimberly Brown
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Kimberly Brown
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Band 5

Kimberly Brown receives market praise for her tax practice, which she leads from Vancouver. She notably advises clients active in the energy, private equity and technology spaces.

Kim is very strong, very collaborative and thoughtful.

She is very client-centric and I really enjoy working with her.

Kim's international tax knowledge is very good.

Nigel Johnston
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Nigel Johnston
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Band 5

Nigel Johnston impresses with his strong following of private equity and investment fund clients, advising on structured products and cross-border investments. He is based in McCarthy Tétrault's Toronto office.

Stephanie Dewey
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Stephanie Dewey
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Up and Coming

Stephanie Dewey is based in the firm's Toronto office and is a valued Canadian tax advisor to an impressive roster of domestic and international clients.

She is an excellent lawyer and very responsive.

Stephanie is very thoughtful and brainstorms on solutions to issues that arise.

Jesse Waslowski
Jesse Waslowski
Associates to watch

Jesse Waslowski is a well-reputed associate in the McCarthy Tétrault's tax team. He most notably supports clients with tax appeals relating to input tax credits, provincial sales tax and capital dividend account issues.

Jesse is very bright. He is always very thoughtful and thorough in his analysis and solutions offered to the client.

Randall Schwartz
Randall Schwartz
Spotlight
Randall Schwartz is recognised for his experience advising clients on indirect tax mandates.

Randy is one of the top practitioners in Canada.

Randy is one of the most knowledgeable and respected experts in indirect tax in Canada. When we seek his advice, we know we are getting top notch advice on what are often very complex issues.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Raj Juneja
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Raj Juneja
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Brett Anderson
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Brett Anderson
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Patrick McCay
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Patrick McCay
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Band 4
Stefanie Morand
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Stefanie Morand
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Band 4
Drew Morier
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Drew Morier
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Jeff Oldewening
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Jeff Oldewening
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Band 5
Kimberly Brown
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Kimberly Brown
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Band 5
Nigel Johnston
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Nigel Johnston
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Band 5
Stephanie Dewey
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Stephanie Dewey
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Up and Coming
Tax: Indirect Tax

Randall Schwartz
Randall Schwartz
Spotlight
Tax: Litigation

Anu Koshal
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Anu Koshal
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Band 4
Nicolas Cloutier
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Nicolas Cloutier
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Band 4
Jesse Waslowski
Jesse Waslowski
Associates to watch