Deloitte Legal Canada LLP

Deloitte Legal Canada LLP* was founded over 15 years ago as a boutique firm practicing exclusively in the area of Tax Law, which continues to be the firm’s flagship and largest practice. Deloitte Legal* is now evolving to meet the needs of Canada’s business community, with growing specialty practices in the fields of Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Law and Employment and Labour Law.

Skilled and experienced Deloitte Legal* practitioners work together with other Deloitte professionals to guide their clients through projects in a coordinated way around the world. Deloitte Legal*, present in over 80 countries, is able to provide holistic guidance around strategic business decisions as well as offer support services that can increase efficiency and reduce the cost of some routine legal activities. As part of the global Deloitte professional services network, Deloitte Legal* helps clients in delivering multinational legal solutions that are consistent, technology-enabled, tailored, and sensitized.

Deloitte Legal* understands legal advice not as an isolated component, but as a contribution to a comprehensive solution of the issues that clients face. Working with other Deloitte colleagues, Deloitte Legal* can help clients to make informed decisions in the context of legal as well as other business considerations.

* “Deloitte Legal” means the legal practices of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited member firm affiliates that provide legal services. For legal and regulatory reasons, not all member firms provide legal services.

About Our Services

Deloitte Legal is a multi-specialization law firm affiliated with Deloitte LLP with ready access to the vast resources of the Deloitte network and its subject matter experts.

Tax Litigation and Controversy

Deloitte Legal is a national law firm. Our team of tax lawyers has extensive experience in the areas of tax controversy and tax litigation, and in advising on the legal aspects of all tax issues and transactions.

Our tax litigation and controversy services include advice and representation with respect to the following:

• Management of large and complex tax audits and dealing with audit queries and formal requirements to provide information and documents.
• Administrative appeals to tax authorities and litigation before the courts, including:
  • Preparation of Notices of Objection to dispute tax assessments or reassessments.
  • Appeals to the Tax Court of Canada, Federal Court of Appeal, provincial courts and the Supreme Court of Canada.
  • Applications for judicial review of administrative decisions or omissions of the tax authorities.
  • Obtaining rectification orders from the provincial courts.
• Making voluntary disclosures to correct deficiencies in non-compliance
• Defending criminal tax prosecutions.
• Advising on tax risks related to transactions, including risks relating to the General Anti Avoidance Rules (GAAR).

Tax Advice​

Deloitte Legal is a national law firm. Our team of tax lawyers has extensive experience in the areas of tax controversy and tax litigation, and in advising on the legal aspects of all tax issues and transactions.

Our tax advisory services include providing tax advice and opinions with respect to the following:

• Cross-border and multinational transactions, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
• Corporate reorganizations and restructurings.
• Taxation of private corporations and their shareholders, including succession planning.
• Wealth, estate and business planning for high-net-worth individuals.
• Inbound and outbound investments, including structuring and financing of Canadian and foreign investments and businesses, and interpreting tax treaties.
• Immigration and emigration tax planning, including advice on immigration trusts.
• Charities and non-profit organizations.
• Personal taxation, including trusts and estates.
• Tax planning for First Nations.

Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

Our data privacy and cybersecurity lawyers are uniquely positioned as part of a “one-stop specialized shop” and advise Canadian institutions on (i) incident preparation, (ii) incident response, and (iii) privacy and data protection. Our team also proposes practical solutions to help clients anticipate regulatory change and navigate the evolving cybersecurity and privacy landscape.

By virtue of our affiliation with Deloitte LLP, our data privacy and cybersecurity lawyers are also able to leverage the knowledge and experience of some of Canada’s leading cybersecurity experts to deliver comprehensive technological risk assessment and mitigation services.

Employment and Labour Law

With expertise spanning across all areas of employment and labour law, our employment and labour lawyers provide employers with business-oriented advice on all facets of the employment relationship. We provide advice with respect to unionized and non-unionized settings at both the provincial and federal level.

Our employment and labour lawyers will provide businesses with the advice they need to make informed decisions, support them to ensure compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, and assist them in all aspects of risk management and conflict resolution. They advise clients involved in all forms of employment law disputes, including litigation, arbitration and other forms of alternative dispute resolution.

Corporate and Commercial Law

Our Corporate and Commercial lawyers serve local, national and international clients in a wide variety of business law matters.

By working together with our tax colleagues across Canada, as well as through our affiliation with the Deloitte Legal global network, our Corporate and Commercial practice is in a position to service a wide range of business client needs such as:

• Establishment of corporations, general partnerships, limited partnerships, limited liability partnerships, ULCs.
• Corporate documentation for reorganizations and restructurings.
• Registered and records office; annual corporate filings (BC, Alberta, Ontario).
• Extra-provincial registrations.
• Corporate legal opinions.
• Restorations, continuations, amalgamations, windings-up and dissolutions.
• Commercial agreements.
• Transfer pricing documentation.
• Contract review and interpretations.
• Real estate transfers (BC).
• Due diligence (limited).