Mark Brender

Practice Areas

Mark is a tax partner and leads Osler’s tax group in Montréal. He is the past Chair of the Canadian Tax Foundation (Canada’s leading organization for tax professionals). Mark advises public and private clients on significant and complex business transactions and critical tax disputes. His practice is broad based, focusing on domestic and international tax-planning and dispute resolution, cross-border and domestic M&A, corporate reorganizations, spin-offs and financings. Mark has extensive experience advising on tax planning for Canadian and foreign multi-national corporations, PE and VC funds, and privately owned businesses. He also advises high net worth individuals, private family enterprises, and family offices on succession and estate planning.

Career

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt

Professional Memberships

Canadian Tax Foundation (Chair of the Board of Governors)

International Fiscal Association (Member of Council)

Association de planification fiscale et financière

Canadian Bar Association

Association du Barreau du Québec

Publications

Editor-in-chief of Thomson Reuter’s Corporate Structures and Groups Journal(1999-present).

Editor of the Personal Tax and Estate Planning Journal (Thomson Reuters).

Mark is a frequent writer and speaker on corporate & international tax matters including:

- Subsection 55(2):Then and Now

- Demystifying Butterfly Reorganizations

- Recent Developments in the Concept of Corporate Control

- Series of Transactions: A Case for a Purposive Interpretation

Personal

McGill University,LL.B./B.C.L.