John is a Partner with our Private Enterprise Tax practice based in our Calgary office. John has been providing a wide array of tax advice to various companies for over 25 years including tax compliance/advisory, succession planning, spin-off transactions and M&A deal advisory. He has provided tax services to NPO’s and charities including structuring to conduct an unrelated business such as land development as well as working with charities undergoing Canada Revenue Agency audits. John, a graduate of the University of Regina, has been a member of the board of directors for a number of NPO’s and charities and currently is a member of the Advisory Group of the Canadian Association of Family Enterprise. He has presented on tax related matters on numerous occasions including seminars hosted by the Law Society of Alberta, the National Judicial Institute and the Canadian Association of Family Enterprise. John has testified as an expert on tax matters at trial on a number of occasions.