Overview

Mark Potechin practises tax law with a focus on income tax planning for ‎corporations and individuals as ‎well as representing them before the tax ‎authorities. Part of his practice is focused on wills, estates and ‎‎trusts, especially resolution of estate disputes.‎
Mark's first job was in the tax department of an international accounting firm. Mark now ‎has over 30 years' ‎experience working in income tax, meeting the corporate tax ‎requirements of owner-managed enterprises ‎and the personal tax planning needs of the ‎owners and their families.‎
Mark is a past President of the Wills, Trusts and Estates section of the Canadian ‎Bar Association (Quebec ‎Division). He is also the Program Chair of STEP (Montreal).‎ Mark has taught income tax courses both at McGill and Concordia Universities, has been a group ‎coordinator on numerous occasions for the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants In-Depth Tax ‎Course and has lectured and written extensively on numerous tax topics. ‎
Mark was instrumental in establishing McGill University's former Graduate Diploma in Taxation program ‎and was its first Academic Coordinator. Mark previously lectured at McGill in the Federal and Provincial ‎Tax course dealing with GST and QST.‎
In 2015, Mark was awarded a Lexology Client Choice award in the Corporate Tax Category for Quebec, in ‎recognition of his ‎outstanding client service.‎
Mark has been recognized by Best Lawyers® in Canada, for his exceptional work and contributions in the ‎‎areas of tax law and corporate law‎.‎

Practice Areas

• Corporate & Commercial Law
• Estates & Trusts
• Taxation Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1981 (QC)