Announcement

Davies Scores Top Tier Rankings in World Tax 2022

International Tax Review (ITR) has ranked Davies as Tier 1 in the areas of Tax, Tax Controversy, and Transactional Tax in its 2022 World Tax guide.

Some of our notable tax work over the past year includes advising:

  • Apotex Inc. in several highly complex cross-border sales, including all domestic and international tax structuring considerations involving more than 15 separate jurisdictions;
  • Shaw Communications Inc. in its transformative $26-billion deal with Rogers Communications Inc.;
  • Glencore Canada Corporation, one of the world’s largest global diversified natural resource companies, in two tax-related litigation matters; and
  • National Bank of Canada in a tax-related appeal before the Québec Court of Appeal.

World Tax is ITR’s annual guide to the leading tax practitioners in more than 50 jurisdictions globally, as determined by client and peer feedback and evidence of outstanding work in the past year.

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