Jerald M. Wortsman

About Jerald

Jerald M. Wortsman is a partner recognized as one of Canada's prominent tax lawyers, with a track record of crafting solutions for clients facing difficult and complicated tax issues. He heads the firm's Tax Practice, where he provides strategic tax counsel on business transactions and financings. His work covers both domestic and international corporate tax planning, with particular focus on large, complex cross-border mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations and corporate finance matters. He has notable experience advising financial institutions both in Canada and abroad. Wortsman also regularly assists clients with cross-border acquisitions, divestitures, restructurings, and inbound and outbound investments involving multinational group structures, and brings tax expertise to the structuring and issuance of financial instruments and other capital markets work.