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Ian Gamble

Ian Gamble

Global 2026

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Practice Areas

International tax structures and financing

Foreign affiliates

M&A transactions

Corporate restructurings

Flow-through share financing

Partnerships and trusts

Financial audit tax opinions

Executive compensation arrangements

Withholding taxes

Resource industry taxes and levies

Provincial payroll taxes

CRA audit defense

Tax appeals & litigation

Career

Ian Gamble is widely recognized as a leading international tax lawyer in Canada. He has vast experience representing large multinational and domestic corporations across all industry sectors. He advises on cross-border mergers & acquisitions, financings, group restructurings, controlled foreign affiliates, international tax treaties, joint ventures, CRA audits, and related tax appeals.

Ian has been recognized in several industry publications: Best Lawyers in Canada; Guide to the World’s Leading Tax Advisers; International Tax Review (Top 10 Tax Advisors in Canada); Lexpert Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada; Lexpert Guide to the Leading US-Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada; Lexpert Canadian Legal Directory (Corporate Tax); Canada’s Leading Corporate Tax Lawyers Lexpert Special Edition; Chambers’ Global Guide to the World’s Best Lawyers; and Who’s Who Legal (Corporate Tax).

Ian has written two leading textbooks in Canada – The Foreign Affiliate Rules (Wolters Kluwer, co-authored with Bill Holmes) and Taxation of Canadian Mining (Carswell). He is also a former Editor-in-Chief of the International Tax Planning and Resource Sector Taxation Journals (Federated Press), Adjunct Professor of Corporate and International Taxation at the Peter A. Allard School of Law (University of British Columbia), Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation, and author of numerous tax-related articles.

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Tax - Canada

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Vancouver-based Ian Gamble provides tax counsel to a broad array of clients in sectors including natural resources and telecoms.

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