Lawyer Profile
Corrado Cardarelli
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
With extensive experience, Corrado is a leading tax lawyer in Canada whose creative tax acumen and pragmatic, business-minded thinking assists clients in their complex tax matters.
Corrado has deep experience assisting clients with corporate, partnership, trust, foreign and general business taxation work. His practice largely involves structuring domestic, cross-border, and international business transactions. His work regularly focuses on mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, financings, reorganizations and other business restructurings.
Corrado also brings sophisticated skill and perspective to structuring collective investment vehicles with domestic, tax-exempt and foreign investors, including REITs and structured products, many of which have involved Canadian and U.S. cross-border aspects. Corrado was notably instrumental in designing Canadian income funds, cross-border income funds and analogous products, including U.S. income securities products.
Torys acted as counsel to Thomson Reuters in its US$2.2 billion return of capital and reverse-stock-split transaction
George Weston in its C$370 million sale of Weston Foods ambient bakery business to affiliated entities of Hearthside Food Solutions, LLC
Brookfield Asset Management in its acquisition of all of the limited partnership units of Brookfield Property Partners L.P., representing a value for public unitholders of US$6.5 billion
Brookfield Property Partners in Brookfield Canada Office Properties' C$515.7 million redemption of its trust units not held by Brookfield Property Partners and its subsidiaries
Brookfield Asset Management in the spinoff of its business services and industrial operations to create Brookfield Business Partners L.P.
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1983 (ON)