Corrado Cardarelli > Torys > Toronto, Canada > Lawyer Profile

Torys
79 WELLINGTON STREET WEST, SUITE 3000
BOX 270, TD CENTRE
TORONTO, ONTARIO
Canada

Work Department

Tax

Position

With extensive experience, Corrado is a leading tax lawyer in Canada whose creative tax acumen and pragmatic, business-minded thinking assists clients in their complex tax matters.

Corrado has deep experience assisting clients with corporate, partnership, trust, foreign and general business taxation work. His practice largely involves structuring domestic, cross-border, and international business transactions. His work regularly focuses on mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, financings, reorganizations and other business restructurings.

Corrado also brings sophisticated skill and perspective to structuring collective investment vehicles with domestic, tax-exempt and foreign investors, including REITs and structured products, many of which have involved Canadian and U.S. cross-border aspects. Corrado was notably instrumental in designing Canadian income funds, cross-border income funds and analogous products, including U.S. income securities products.

Career

Ontario Bar, 1983

Memberships

Corrado has been an instructor in tax and corporate law at the Law Society of Upper Canada Bar Admission Course. He is a frequent speaker on tax matters at conferences—in particular, the Canadian Tax Foundation’s annual conference.

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Tax

(Leading individuals)

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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.