Natasha practices in the area of tax law.
This includes:
- Private company reorganizations
- Mergers and acquisitions
- International tax and trust planning
- Tax advice on the global workforce and issues resulting from out of country employees and contractors
- Tax advice on corporate and personal, life and critical illness, domestic and international insurance
- Tax advice and structuring for non-resident corporations establishing new businesses or with ongoing businesses in Canada
- Cryptocurrency advice with respect to planning and audits/disputes
- Advice for companies with employees or contractors in Canada temporarily or permanently
- Advice on employee tax benefits for public and private organizations
- Professional corporations tax planning while practicing and for retirement
- Islamic financing and related tax issues
- Emigration advice including structuring and relocating
- Wealth management
- Tax litigation including audits, appeals, Tax Court and the Federal Court of Appeal
- Voluntary disclosures (tax amnesty or tax pardons)
Prior to law school, Natasha worked as a senior consultant at an international consulting firm with a focus on corporate strategy and technology matters.
She is a frequent speaker and author on tax issues.
Natasha provides legal services through a Law Corporation.
Experience
- Cross border acquisition of Control Gap by Atlantic Street Capital/Cyberguard Advantage including exchangeable shares, represented the seller
- Cross border acquisition of the Ehvert Engineering group of companies, represented the seller
- PayBright Inc., one of Canada’s leading buy-now-pay-later providers, in connection with its $340 million acquisition by Affirm, Inc., a leading U.S.-based “buy now, pay later” platform.
- SterlingCapitalBrokers Ltd. acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of Riverview Insurance Solutions Inc.
- Advising corporate clients on internal structuring, employee benefit taxation, executive compensation, employee/contractor remuneration issues, CPP/EI, business tax and succession planning.
- Advising corporate clients on income tax issues arising in acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations, financings, wind-ups and amalgamations for domestic and international corporations, partnerships and trusts.
- Structuring and implementing tax-effective plans for corporations, partnerships, trusts and individuals, both domestically and internationally.
- Advising corporations on Canadian, cross-border and international employee issues, including cross border withholding and waivers and taxation on termination.
- Structuring Canadian projects for non-residents in a tax-efficient manner.
- Providing offshore insurance and trust planning for individuals and corporations, including advice on the non-resident trust rules.
- Advising high-net-worth clients on inter-generational wealth and estate planning.
- Representing corporate and individual clients with respect to voluntary disclosures.
- Counsel to the taxpayer in the following cases: Par Golf Camps Inc. v. HMQ 2001-3812(GST); Simone v. R., 2005 D.T.C. 537 (TCC); 1280659 Ontario Inc. V. M.N.R., 2004 TCC 138; Santoro v. R., 2004 D.T.C. 3684 (TCC); Tindall v. R., 2000 D.T.C. 2126 (TCC); Thornbrook Complete Home Care Inc. v. R. 2002 2132 (TCC); and Thornbrook Complete Home Care Inc. v. R. 2005 FCA 22.
- Cross border acquisition of Control Gap by Atlantic Street Capital/Cyberguard Advantage including exchangeable shares, represented the seller
- Cross border acquisition of the Ehvert Engineering group of companies, represented the seller
- PayBright Inc., one of Canada’s leading buy-now-pay-later providers, in connection with its $340 million acquisition by Affirm, Inc., a leading U.S.-based “buy now, pay later” platform.
- SterlingCapitalBrokers Ltd. acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of Riverview Insurance Solutions Inc.
- Advising corporate clients on internal structuring, employee benefit taxation, executive compensation, employee/contractor remuneration issues, CPP/EI, business tax and succession planning.
- Advising corporate clients on income tax issues arising in acquisitions, mergers, reorganizations, financings, wind-ups and amalgamations for domestic and international corporations, partnerships and trusts.
- Structuring and implementing tax-effective plans for corporations, partnerships, trusts and individuals, both domestically and internationally.
- Advising corporations on Canadian, cross-border and international employee issues, including cross border withholding and waivers and taxation on termination.
- Structuring Canadian projects for non-residents in a tax-efficient manner.
- Providing offshore insurance and trust planning for individuals and corporations, including advice on the non-resident trust rules.
- Advising high-net-worth clients on inter-generational wealth and estate planning.
- Representing corporate and individual clients with respect to voluntary disclosures.
- Counsel to the taxpayer in the following cases: Par Golf Camps Inc. v. HMQ 2001-3812(GST); Simone v. R., 2005 D.T.C. 537 (TCC); 1280659 Ontario Inc. V. M.N.R., 2004 TCC 138; Santoro v. R., 2004 D.T.C. 3684 (TCC); Tindall v. R., 2000 D.T.C. 2126 (TCC); Thornbrook Complete Home Care Inc. v. R. 2002 2132 (TCC); and Thornbrook Complete Home Care Inc. v. R. 2005 FCA 22.
