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Brent Kerr is a partner in Gowlings' Vancouver office where he practices tax law with an emphasis on international transactions, financings and M&A.
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 as well as written articles on a variety of topics, including the tax issues arising on executive migration, the tax implications of corporate reorganizations, and cross-border licensing transactions.
- Tax Changes in Canada's Federal Budget, Practical International Tax Strategies, April 15, 2012
- Key Tax Changes in 2012 Federal Budget, Canadian Tax @ Gowlings newsletter, March 2012
- 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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