Atty. Ian Gamble

Ian Gamble is tax counsel in Canada. He represents public and private clients in the mining, forestry, telecommunications, oil & gas, energy, real estate, and marine sectors. His extensive corporate, business, and international tax experience of over 30 years includes cross-border structures and financing arrangements, foreign affiliates, mergers and acquisitions, flow-through shares, partnership and trust structures, tax opinions, executive compensation, cross-border withholding taxes, natural resource levies, CRA audit defense, and tax litigation.

AREAS OF PRACTICE

• Cross-border structures and financing
• Foreign affiliates
• M&A transactions
• Flow-through shares
• Partnership and trust structures
• Tax opinions
• Executive compensation
• Cross-border withholding taxes
• Natural resource levies
• CRA audit defense
• Tax litigation

EDUCATION

• McGill University, Bachelor of Science (1981 – 1985, Honors)
• University of British Columbia, Bachelor of Laws (1985 – 1988, Prize in Corporate Taxation)
• Articles, Stikeman Elliott, Toronto, Ontario (1988 – 1989)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES & MEMBERSHIPS

• Co-Author, The Foreign Affiliate Rules (Wolters Kluwer)
• Author, Taxation of Canadian Mining (Carswell)
• Former Editor-in-Chief, International Tax Journal and Resource Sector Taxation Journal (Federated Press)
• Former adjunct professor of corporate and international tax, Faculty and School of Law, University of British Columbia
• Contributor to tax-related publications and conferences
• Former member Executive Committee and Board of Governors, Canadian Tax Foundation
• Former member of International Fiscal Association
• Called to the Bar in British Columbia and Ontario