Mario Cavalancia is a chartered accountant and a partner in our tax group. He has extensive experience in corporate reorganizations, domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, financings, international trusts, public and private partnerships and investment funds. Mario regularly advises clients in the public utilities (gas and electricity), and real estate sectors and in the food industry. Mario has particular expertise in income tax laws and regulations as they apply to investments by tax-exempt institutions such as pension funds.

In the last few years, Mario has structured many major real estate transactions, public offerings and merger and restructuring of private and public corporations.. He is the principal tax advisor to a number of multinationals, with a lead role in international tax planning.

Before joining the firm in 2000, Mario was an international tax partner in a major accounting firm.

Mario has been a speaker for various organizations and has written articles in specialized magazines on various taxation topics such as interest deductibility, cross-border financing techniques, real estate investments by tax-exempt entities, tax aspects of partnerships in Canada and in the U.S., and taxation aspects of doing business in the U.S. and Mexico.

Mario completed his B.Comm. at McGill University in 1977, followed by a graduate Diploma in Public Accountancy in 1978. He was admitted to the Ordre des comptables agréés du Québec in 1980.

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