Brian Bloom

Practice Areas

Brian is a partner who advises on a broad range of tax matters, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, international tax planning, and transfer pricing and international trusts and estates. Brian is regularly consulted for his expertise in structuring complex, major transactions, including the first tax-deferred conversion of a mutual fund corporation into a REIT and the first Enhanced Equipment Trust Certificate aircraft financing in Canada. Before joining Davies, Brian worked as a legislative draftsman and tax policy officer for the Department of Finance and as a rulings officer for the Canada Revenue Agency. He also advised the Canadian government on e-commerce taxation. He is a former governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation and presently sits on the Canadian Branch Board of the International Fiscal Association. He is also a member of the Lord Reading Law Society. Select Recognition: The Legal 500 Canada; Tax Directors Handbook; Lexpert Special Edition: Finance and M&A; Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory; Best Lawyers in Canada; Who’s Who Legal.