Gwen Watson
Global Guide 2024
Band 4 : Tax
About
Provided by Gwen Watson
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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.
Chambers Review
Global
Gwen Watson impresses for her role as lead tax adviser on a number of transformative agreements, including acquisitions and corporate reorganisations. She is based in Toronto.
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Provided by Chambers
"Gwen Watson is very technical yet very easy to deal with."
"Gwen Watson is very technical yet very easy to deal with."
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Developments in Canadian tax to watch for in 2022
Canada, like other countries, continues to introduce and adopt various measures to strengthen tax rules, including initiatives developed by the OECD as part of its base erosion and profit shifting plan. This article summarizes the key tax proposals that the government has announced will be adopted.
Developments in Canadian tax to watch for in 2022
Canada, like other countries, continues to introduce and adopt various measures to strengthen tax rules, including initiatives developed by the OECD as part of its base erosion and profit shifting plan. This article summarizes the key tax proposals that the government has announced will be adopted.