John Ulmer is a partner and a senior member of the tax group.  John regularly advises on tax aspects of international business ventures, corporate finance and real estate transactions. He spent two years from 1993-1995 on secondment to Reichmann International, where he gained considerable experience in structuring real estate ventures in the United States and Mexico.  More recently, John has been a pioneer in the establishment of cross-border REITs. 

John was a leading tax advisor on the public offering by IPC US Income Commercial REIT, Canada's first REIT to hold exclusively U.S. properties.  John has acted on numerous other REIT offerings and is the leading Canadian tax advisor to Reichmann International and a number of other Canadian-based multinational groups on the tax structuring of their global investments. 

John speaks and writes widely on tax matters for the International Fiscal Association, the Canadian Tax Foundation and private organizations.  He was a member of the Editorial Board of Ward's Tax Law and Planning (previously published by Carswell), and was a contributing editor of Corporate Finance (published by Federated Press).  He was appointed the Canadian National Reporter for the 2000 Congress of the International Fiscal Association on the topic "Tax Treatment of Hybrid Financial Instruments in Cross-border Transactions".

John is recognized in the Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory as a consistently recommended corporate tax practitioner. He is also cited annually as a leading tax practitioner in The LEXPERT/American Lawyer Media Guide to the Top 500 Lawyers in Canada, and has been recognized in Global Counsel 3000, Law Business Research's The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers and The International Who’s Who of Corporate Tax Lawyers.  John is cited annually in Chambers Global's The World's Leading Lawyers as one of the leading individuals in Canadian corporate tax law.