Corporate/Commercial

Taxation

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Director, HSBC Bank Canada
Director, Reitmans (Canada) Limited
Director, Quebecor Media Inc.

Canadian Tax Foundation

Director and President of the Centre Board of the Sir Mortimer B. Davis – Jewish General Hospital
Director and Chairman Emeritus of the Sir Mortimer B. Davis - Jewish General Hospital Foundation

Québec, 1975

McGill University, LL.B.; B.C.L. (Elizabeth Torrance Gold Medal)
McGill University, B.A.

Samuel Minzberg is a partner and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. He specializes in corporate, commercial, and tax law, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, investment funds and business trusts. Sam is frequently consulted by leading Canadian corporations, both public and private, on domestic and international transactions and by global enterprises with Canadian operations and investments.

From January 1, 1998 to December 31, 2002, Sam was President and Chief Executive Officer of Claridge Inc. Claridge acts as a management and holding company on behalf of the Charles R. Bronfman Family. Until December 31, 1997 he was a partner at the Montréal predecessor firm to Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP.

Sam was listed as a consistently recommended lawyer in the area of corporate tax by the Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory. He was also recognized as a leading lawyer in private funds by The Best Lawyers in Canada. Sam has achieved Martindale-Hubbell’s highest ranking.

He has lectured on taxation at McGill University and on various issues at the Canadian Tax Foundation, the International Fiscal Association and at numerous seminars. He is a past Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation and a former contributing editor of the World Tax Report published by the Financial Times of London.