Lawyer Profile
Pierre-Louis Le Saunier
Montréal, Québec
Overview
Pierre-Louis Le Saunier is a partner in the Tax Group whose practice primarily focuses on tax dispute resolution and litigation. Pierre-Louis regularly represents clients before tax authorities and courts in cases involving domestic and international matters such as the general anti-avoidance rule (GAAR), corporate reorganizations, investment structures and funds, transfer pricing, trusts, family holdings, municipal taxes, research and development tax credits, voluntary disclosures, judicial reviews, residency status, as well as tax treaties. He has court experience before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Courts, the Tax Court of Canada and the Cour du Québec.
Pierre-Louis is a member of the Tax Litigation Committee of the Canadian Tax Foundation and the Association de planification fiscale et financière .
Prior to joining the partnership, Pierre-Louis was a partner at another Canadian law firm. Before that, he was a tax associate here at the firm. Pierre-Louis was also a law clerk for the Honourable Mr. Justice Louis Lebel of the Supreme Court of Canada from 2004 to 2005. He was a course lecturer for the master of taxation at the University of Sherbrooke from 2014 to 2016.
When he was a graduate student at Université de Sherbrooke, Pierre-Louis received a research scholarship awarded by the Quebec Ministry of Finance. He also received the Quebec Bar Prize, when studying at Université Laval.
Pierre-Louis does pro bono work for The International Friends of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and is a member of its board of directors.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2005 (QC)