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Brent Kerr is a partner in Gowlings’ Vancouver office and the national leader of the Firm's China Group and Tax Group. His practice is focused on tax planning with an emphasis on international transactions.
Brent has extensive experience in the following:
- mergers and acquisitions;
- cross-border acquisitions and other international tax issues affecting multi-national corporations;
- P3 projects, including private sector proponents in connection with highway and other infrastructure projects;
- business trusts, partnerships and other vehicles;
- international trusts for private clients; and
- public offerings, takeover bids, financings, employee stock option plans, and other securities transactions.
- Advised a major Canadian mining company on the tax aspects of its $940 million acquisition of another public company for shares and cash, 2011
- Advised a Canadian public mining company on the tax aspects of its $97.5 million public flow-through offering, 2011
- Advised a Canadian company on the tax aspects of its $40 million merger to create the world’s largest, publicly traded lithium production and exploration company, 2010
- Advised a major Indonesian group on the tax aspects of its acquisition of several Canadian pulp mills, 2010 and 2011
- Advised a Canadian public company on the tax aspects of its capital reorganization and spin-out, 2010
- Advised a Chinese state owned enterprise on the tax aspects of its successful $192 million take-over bid of a Canadian public mining company, 2010
- Advised a Canadian mining company on the tax aspects of its acquisition by way of a share-for-share exchange, 2009
- Lead Canadian lawyer for a major US technology company on its $700 million acquisition, 2008
- Advised the successful proponents on the tax aspects of the $1.6 billion Quebec A30 highway project, 2008
- Advised a private Canadian technology company on the tax aspects of the sale of its shares for $1.2 billion, 2000
Brent has given presentations and webinar broadcasts on a variety of topics, including the tax issues arising on executive migration, the tax implications of corporate reorganizations, and cross-border licensing transactions.
- The Elimination of Canadian Withholding Tax Impediments to M&A Transactions, Deal Points, American Bar Association, 2010
- Structuring Private Equity Funds for Cross-Border Acquisitions, International Tax Review, 2010
- The Impact of Tax in Aboriginal Business Structures, Aboriginal Tax and Financial Management Forum, 2009
- The Use of Special Purpose Trusts, Canadian Tax Foundation, 2007
- Eligible Capital Property-Update on the Rules, Canadian Tax Foundation, 2006
- Extraterritorial Application of Canadian Tax Rules, Salzburg Centre for International Legal Studies, 1999
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