Alan Shragie is a partner specializing in tax law. Drawing on his broad tax planning expertise, Alan has extensive transactional experience in cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, REITs, financings, pension and employee arrangements, foreign investment in Canada, trusts, estate planning, immigration and emigration. Alan is the co-ordinator of the Montréal office's tax law group.

Alan has been involved in many major transactions, including the take-over of Donohue by Abitibi-Consolidated and the establishment of the Alexis Nihon REIT and the Cominar REIT. He has also been involved in the conversion of the public company Benvest Capital Inc. into the income trust Benvest New Look Income Fund.

Alan is a frequent writer and speaker on a wide range of tax topics. He is a regular contributor to the World Tax Report and, in recent years, he has addressed representatives of leading corporations on Canadian tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions. Alan has published numerous papers in a variety of tax periodicals, including an article entitled “Hidden Tax Traps in Section 132.2 Merger-Trusts, REITS and other Businesses”, 2006 C.T.J. vol. 54, no 2, page 450, which he coauthored, “Non-Grandfathered Life Insurance Stop Loss Rules” The Canadian Taxpayer, 1998, “Are Canadian Residents Exempt from United States Withholding Tax on their United States Gambling Winnings?”, Tax Management International Journal, September 1987; “Mired in the Muddy GST”, CA Magazine, November 1990; “Application of the Goods and Services Tax to Damages and Related Matters”, 1990 C.T.J. 1468; “Income Forestry”, Vol. 2, Income Taxation in Canada, Prentice-Hall Canada Inc.; “Litigation, Legal Aid, Damage Awards and Related Matters”, Advanced GST Seminar, The Canadian Bar Association, October 1990; and “Mastering the QST”, CA Magazine, April 1993 and contributed to “Taxation of Corporate Reorganizations” 1997 C.T.J. Alan has also lectured on taxation at McGill University’s Faculty of Law.

Alan is recognized as a consistently recommended corporate tax and estate litigation practitioner in the Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory. He was also listed in the areas of trusts and estates as well as tax by The Best Lawyers in Canada. Alan has achieved Martindale-Hubbell’s highest ranking.

Educated at the University of Ottawa, Alan completed his LL.L. in 1978 and his LL.B. in 1979. He graduated magna cum laude and won the Brian Dickson Award for highest standing in the combined common law and civil law program. He was also the recipient of the Gaston Vincent Award for highest standing in Wills and Successions and the Quebec Bar Prize for highest standing in civil law and civil procedure. Alan has been a partner since 1987.

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