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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 partners)

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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.