Bennett Jones LLP

Tax

Toronto Managing Partner, Head of China Group

Stephen Bowman is the managing partner of the firm's Toronto office and a member of the firm's partnership board and tax department. Stephen's practice includes mergers, acquisitions, corporate restructuring, corporate finance, and trans-border transactions. He acts in the areas of secured lending, asset-based financing and equipment leasing and has experience both with domestic and cross-border transactions involving aircraft, rail equipment and other assets. His practice also encompasses estate planning, where he advises Canadian domestic and foreign clients in connection with the establishment, operation and reorganization of estate planning structures, as well as with business and wealth succession planning. Stephen writes and speaks on corporate finance and international tax planning matters and is a contributing author to Tax Policy in Canada, ed. by Mintz, McKenzie and Kerr, and a contributing editor to Corporate Finance, published by Federated Press. He serves on the editorial board of the Canadian Tax Journal and is President of the Canadian Branch of the International Fiscal Association. He is also a recipient of the Canadian Tax Foundation's annual Douglas J. Sherbaniuk Distinguished Writing Award.

University of Toronto, BA, 1976 | University of Toronto, LLB, 1979