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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
Torys‘s tax capabilities are centred on advising on M&A and private equity transactions and representing clients in tax litigation. Private equity funds, corporations, pension funds and banks regularly look to the group for support. Toronto-based Jerald Wortsman steers the practice and specializes in domestic and international corporate tax planning, as well as M&A, reorganizations and corporate finance matters. Additional names to note include Gwen Watson, who brings strength to income tax advice; Corrado Cardarelli, who handles corporate, partnership, trust and general business tax work; and Calgary-based Craig Maurice, who has niche expertise in the tax aspects of M&A transactions involving oil and gas, mining and the midstream sector.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Corporate and M&A
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Energy and natural resources > Power
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Cannabis
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Intellectual property
- International expertise
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Pensions
- Real estate
- Tax
- Technology
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Indigenous law
- International trade
- Public procurement
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Labour and employment