About

Steve Suarez is a partner in the Toronto office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. Steve works exclusively on income tax matters, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, inbound and outbound investment, corporate restructurings and audit management, and tax dispute resolution. He is the Vice-Chair of the Tax Committee of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Co-Chair of the Toronto Centre Canada Revenue Agency & Tax Professionals Consultation Group, a Councillor of the Canadian Branch of the International Fiscal Association and a member of the Taxes Committee of the Mining Association of Canada. Steve is also a Past Chair of the Ontario Bar Association (Tax Section) and a former member of the CBA-CICA Joint Committee on Taxation, and has been recognized as a leading tax practitioner in a number of Canadian and international ranking services, including the following:

• Chambers Global and Chambers Canada (Tax)
• Who’s Who Legal – Thought Leaders (Tax)
• Who’s Who Legal: Canada (Corporate Tax – both Advisory and Controversy sections)
• International Who’s Who of Corporate Tax Lawyers
• The Legal 500 Canada (Tax)
• The Lexpert® Guide to the Leading US/Canada Cross-Border Corporate Lawyers in Canada (Tax)
• The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
• Lexpert® Special Edition — Leading Canadian Lawyers in Global Mining
• Best Lawyers in Canada (Tax)

Steve holds a J.D. from the University of Toronto Law School and an M.B.A. (Gold Medalist) from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.  He is called to the bars of Ontario (1990) and New York (1993), and is on the Roll of Solicitors of England & Wales (1994).