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Torys Offices
79 WELLINGTON STREET WEST, SUITE 3000
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Ms Gwen Watson
Work Department
Corporate Income Tax
Position
With extensive experience and a practical mindset, Gwen gives clients strategic insight and guidance on their challenging and complex tax matters.
Gwen provides comprehensive income tax advice to corporations, with particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and corporate reorganizations, including butterfly and bump transactions. Highly experienced in complex transactions, Gwen regularly advises on the income tax aspects of cross-border and capital markets transactions, derivatives and financial instruments, and has extensive knowledge of the application of Canadian foreign affiliate rules.
Career
Ontario, 1999
Memberships
Gwen is a member of the Joint Committee on Taxation of the CBA and CPA Canada and is a tutorial leader for the Corporate Reorganizations course offered by CPA Canada. She is also a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation and the International Fiscal Association. Gwen completed a secondment at the Income Tax Rulings Directorate of the CRA as a Senior Rulings Officer in the Corporate Reorganizations section.
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Tax
The tax practice at Torys is regularly instructed by private equity funds, corporations, pension funds and banks for its support on transactional tax matters including M&A and capital markets mandates, many of which feature a cross-border component. At the helm of the department, Jerald Wortsman specializes in domestic and international corporate tax planning work. ‘Senior statesman’ and transactional specialist Corrado Cardarelli is lauded by one client as ‘humble, practical and responsive’, while the ‘very technically skilled’ Gwen Watson places emphasis on M&A and corporate reorganizations. In Calgary, Craig Maurice majors on energy and natural resources tax matters.
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