Mr John A. Sorensen > Gowling WLG > Toronto, Canada > Lawyer Profile
Gowling WLG Offices
1600 – 1 FIRST CANADIAN PLACE
100 KING STREET WEST
TORONTO, ONTARIO, M5X 1G5
Canada
- Firm Profile
- Go to...
Mr John A. Sorensen
Position
Partner
Co-Leader, Tax Dispute Resolution / Co-Department Head, Toronto Business Law Department
Career
John Sorensen is co-head of the Business Law Department in the Toronto office, a member of the Toronto office management committee, and co-leader of the Firm’s Tax Dispute Resolution Group. He has been ranked by Chambers Canada, Best Lawyers in Canada, International Tax Review, Lexpert Special Edition: Litigation, and the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory.
A partner based in Gowling WLG’s Toronto office, John provides prudent advice and expeditious, cost-effective solutions to tax problems. He has extensive experience resolving income tax and GST/HST disputes at the audit and appeal stages, as well as before the courts. His practice also includes voluntary disclosure, taxpayer relief, rectification, rescission, and remission order applications.
John frequently speaks and writes on tax dispute resolution topics, including for the Canadian Tax Foundation, Tax Executives Institute and the International Fiscal Association. He is a co-editor and contributing author to Taxation of Private Corporations and Their Shareholders, 5th ed. (CTF, 2020) and Tax Disputes in Canada: the Path Forward (CTF, 2022). John is on the board of governors of the Canadian Tax Foundation, the chair of the Advocates’ Society tax litigation section, and a member of the board of directors of the Advocates’ Society. He is also a faculty member in the Osgoode Hall LL.M. (tax) program.
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Tax
Gowling WLG‘s tax group demonstrates expertise in range of contentious and non-contentious matters, among them matters relating to transactional tax, tax dispute resolution, indirect tax, transfer matters and Indigenous tax. Practice head Paul Carenza leads from Toronto and majors on the design and implementation of tax-effective executive compensation plans for public and private sector employers. Ottawa-based Pierre Alary focuses primarily on contentious tax matters, as does tax disputes specialist John Sorensen in Toronto. Partner Dan Misutka left the firm in September 2022.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Business immigration
- Cannabis
- Environment
- Infrastructure projects
- Media and entertainment
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Transport > Aviation
- Construction
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Insurance
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Technology
- Corporate and M&A
- International trade
- Labour and employment
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Banking and finance