Paul Carenza
Canada Guide 2025
Band 5 : Tax
About
Provided by Paul Carenza
Practice Areas
Paul Carenza is a partner in Gowling WLG's Toronto office and the practice group leader of its firm-wide Tax Group.
Paul works with a broad range of Canadian and international clients in the private and public sectors, delivering creative and practical solutions to meet their business needs. For more than 25 years, he has concentrated on providing clients with income tax advice in domestic and cross-border corporate acquisitions, reorganizations, offerings and financings. He also represents clients in disputes with tax authorities and provides technical guidance on executive compensation matters, including compensation plan design and cross-border assignments.
Paul also advises clients in the energy sector in Ontario on payments-in-lieu of taxes and related matters.
Fluent in both English and French.
He has also been recognized in The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory and the Legal 500 Canada.
Career
Year of Call: 1997- Ontario
Publications
Editor-in-chief of Thomson Reuters’ Taxation of Executive Compensation and Retirement Journal
Co-editor of Gowling WLG’s Canadian Tax newsletter
Chambers Review
Canada
Paul Carenza is recommended for his work on transactional matters such as M&A. His clients include utility companies.