Jerald M Wortsman

Jerald is known as one of Canada’s leading tax lawyers, with an established track record of developing sophisticated solutions that guide clients through their most challenging and complex tax matters.

Head of the firm’s Tax Practice, Jerald gives clients strategic tax counsel across business transactions and financings. His work includes domestic and international corporate tax planning, with an emphasis on complex, large-scale and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations and corporate finance. He has significant experience advising domestic and international financial institutions.

Jerald regularly works with clients on Canadian and cross-border acquisitions, divestitures and restructurings, and inbound and outbound investments and multinational group structures. He also brings a wealth of tax experience to the structuring and issuance of various financial instruments and other capital markets activity.