Lesley Kim practises in the areas of domestic and cross‐border taxation, tax law with a focus on transactional matters, including complex cross‐border reorganizations, plans of arrangements, public company spin‐offs, public and private equity and debt financings, including flow‐through share financings and domestic and crossborder private equity investments. She also has experience with estate planning and tax dispute resolution. Lesley is highly involved in the planning, structuring and implementation of many tax driven transactions and corporate reorganizations, and has recently been engaged in a number of innovative domestic and cross‐border M&A transactions structured to accommodate the changing marketplace.

Lesley’s tax practice is national and she serves public and private clients in provinces across Canada. She has worked with clients engaged in a wide variety of industries, including, technology, manufacturing and distributing, oil and gas and mining.

She has written numerous articles regarding income tax developments and has spoken at a number of
conferences on Canadian and international taxation matters.

Lesley was previously a tax partner in the Calgary office an international law firm and a tax associate in the Toronto offices of a major international law firm another large national law firm. Prior to focusing exclusively on her tax practice, Lesley was a corporate and securities associate with a national law firm and she completed a secondment with the Alberta Securities Commission. Her previous experience informs and complements her tax practice and she has a deep understanding of the complexities involved in various corporate and securities transactions.