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Leader

Greg BoehmerGreg Boehmer | Partner
Email Email | 416 943 3463
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Greg has over 25 years of Canadian income tax experience with Ernst & Young and spent one year with the Canada Revenue Agency in Ottawa on an executive exchange program. He provides inbound and outbound cross-border merger and acquisition transaction advice to corporations and private equity firms. A former governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation, Greg is a lecturer in the University of Waterloo’s Master of Taxation program. He has written numerous articles on corporate reorganizations and cross-border structuring, and speaks at many professional conferences and seminars.

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Vancouver

Elise ReesElise Rees | Partner
Email Email | 604 643 5420
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Elise has extensive experience consulting on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and restructurings. She has practiced exclusively in the tax field for 26 years and in transaction tax for seven years. She has led the transaction tax services on many public and private acquisitions and divestitures, including a number of large cross border takeovers of Canadian public companies and the purchase or sale of private companies to strategic parties or financial sponsors. Elise also has extensive experience advising on infrastructure projects. A chartered accountant and fellow chartered accountant, she has an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow . Elise is a member of the Society of Tax and Estate Planning.
Mike VantilMike Vantil | Executive Director
Email Email | 604 891 8315
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Mike has over 13 years’ experience advising private equity clients and strategic buyers on domestic and cross-border transactions. Prior to joining Ernst & Young, he was with the Audit and Appeals divisions of the Canada Revenue Agency for more than seven years. Mike has significant experience related to cross-border restructuring, acquisition due diligence, and the development and implementation of various cross-border financing structures. He also maintains a good working relationship with senior tax officials at the Canada Revenue Agency and has been a part-time lecturer at the University of Waterloo's Master of Tax program. Mike is a certified general accountant and a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation.

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Calgary

Warren PashkowichWarren Pashkowich | Partner
Email Email | 403 206 5168
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Warren has significant experience in the taxation of corporate reorganizations, focusing on financing and structuring Canadian inbound and outbound investments, royalty trust and income fund corporate conversion transactions, acquisitions of Canadian public and private corporations, post-acquisition restructuring and tax due diligence services.

He has authored several articles and has been a frequent speaker on income tax matters at conferences organized by the Canadian Tax Foundation, Canadian Petroleum Tax Society, Canadian Bar Association, In-Sight and Federated Press. Warren is a governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation and is the director of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants’ advanced course on corporate reorganizations.

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London

John SliskovicJohn Sliskovic | Partner
Email Email | 519 646 5532
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John delivers value-added tax-planning services to clients involved with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations. His recent engagements include advising on a carve-out transaction as part of the formation of a cross-border joint venture, advising income trusts on converting to public companies, leading the due diligence and structuring for the acquisition of a Canadian company, and advising a public company on alternative approaches to a divestiture. John has over 28 years of public accounting experience. He holds an Honours Bachelor of Commerce from Concordia University and is a chartered accountant.

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Toronto

Alycia CalvertAlycia Calvert | Partner
Email Email | 416 943 4441
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Alycia has extensive experience advising on acquisitions and divestitures of Canadian business operations; the provision of tax due diligence services; the structuring and financing of investments in Canada and outbound from Canada; and the formation and reorganization of public and private businesses for a broad range of industries. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, and is a chartered accountant.
Steve LandauSteve Landau | Partner
Email Email | 403 943 2067
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Steve has extensive experience consulting on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and restructurings. He provides tax-planning advice on corporate acquisitions, divestitures and reorganizations. He develops and implements seller-side tax strategies for larger private businesses and is the Canadian markets leader for seller-side transaction tax services. Steve has practiced in the tax field for over 25 years and in transaction tax for 12 years. He graduated from the University of Toronto and is a chartered accountant. He is a past lecturer at CICA In-Depth tax courses and a speaker at Canadian Tax Foundation conferences.
Pearl SchusheimPearl Schusheim | Partner
Email Email | 416 943 2250
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With more than 28 years of experience, Pearl provides tax advice on corporate reorganizations, acquisitions, divestitures and succession planning, working with entrepreneurs, business and non-profit entities in both domestic and cross-border contexts. Pearl began her tax career at the federal Department of Finance. She is a former governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation and a co-editor of the personal tax-planning feature of the Canadian Tax Foundation’s Canadian Tax Journal. She has authored numerous articles and has been a frequent speaker and lecturer at tax conferences and professional seminars. Pearl is a graduate of McGill University and has an LL.B. and LL.M from Osgoode Hall Law School.
Eric XiaoEric Xiao | Partner
Email Email | 416 943 2943
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Eric has extensive experience providing income tax advice to Canadian and multinational companies and private equity firms. His practice focuses on Canadian and cross-border merger and acquisition transactions, including tax structuring, reorganization and tax due diligence. Eric is the lead partner on a number of significant transactions in the mining and metals, renewable energy, and real estate industries. He is a chartered accountant and received an MBA from the University of Toronto. Eric is a frequent speaker on Canadian income tax matters, a contributing editor for Ernst & Young’s Annotated Federal Income Tax Act, and a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation.
Dave Van VoorstDave Van Voorst | Executive Director
Email Email | 416 941 7793
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Dave has extensive experience providing income tax advice to Canadian and multinational companies and provides tax structuring, tax due diligence, research, execution and implementation of tax-planning strategies relating to mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and reorganization transactions. He has been an instructor at the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants’ School of Accountancy and at the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants’ Part I and Part II In-Depth taxation courses. Dave has an Honours Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo, and is a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation and a chartered accountant.

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Montreal

François DufresneFrançois Dufresne | Partner
Email Email | 514 879 8163
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François has 25 years of experience in taxation, mergers and acquisitions. He has worked on a variety of complex reorganizations and transactions, including financings, mergers, divestitures and acquisitions in Canada and in several other countries. He has led due diligence teams for acquisition purposes in Canada and the US, and throughout South America, Europe and Africa. François holds an LL.B. from Université Laval and a Master of Taxation from Université de Sherbrooke.
Alain LeonardAlain Leonard | Partner
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Alain has extensive experience in corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, structuring, tax due diligence and financial restructuring transactions. He is responsible for a number of large private and public company tax engagements. He also has extensive experience in tax services for large groups of corporations in the financial services and has written articles on corporate mergers and acquisitions transactions and often speaks and lectures on mergers and acquisitions. Alain is an active member of committees and tax associations dealing directly with tax authorities has a degree in Business Administration from l’École des Hautes Études Commerciales and is a chartered accountant.

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New York

Nik DiksicNik Diksic | Partner
Email Email | 212 773 3330
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Nik Diksic is the leader of our Canadian Tax Desk. Based in New York, Nik advises multinational enterprises on cross-border Canadian tax planning, including acquisitions and tax-efficient financing structures. Prior to joining the Canadian Tax Desk, Nik was a tax partner in our Transaction Advisory Services practice. Nik has authored and presented papers at multiple Canadian Tax Foundation annual conferences and has written tax articles for Canadian Tax Highlights, CAmagazine, Corporate Finance (Federated Press) and Tax Notes International. Nik is also a co-editor of Ernst & Young’s Guide to Corporate Reorganizations. Nik received a Bachelor of Civil Law and an LLB from McGill University in Montreal. He is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian Tax Foundation and the International Fiscal Association.


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Transaction Tax
416 943 3463
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