Reinhold G. Krahn

Reinhold G. Krahn

Vancouver, BC recognized lawyers icon Recognized in Best Lawyers since 2008
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85 Best Lawyers awards

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Awarded Practice Areas

Tax Law

Biography

Reinhold advises clients on both international and domestic income taxation matters, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, corporate reorganizations, and cross-border transactions. He regularly provides taxation and structuring advice to large institutions and pension funds as well as large public and private clients on multi-billion dollar transactions. Reinhold has extensive experience in structuring complex financial transactions relating to investments across Canada, the United States, South America, Europe and Asia in a variety of fields, including resources, real estate and large industry.

Reinhold also has extensive experience in structuring tax efficient investment structures for foreign investors acquiring and making investments and acquisitions in Canada.

Reinhold is a partner in our Vancouver office and is the co-practice group leader of our Tax Law group. Prior to practicing law, Reinhold received his B.Sc. (Hon) in Physics from UBC and worked as a physicist in high-temperature superconductivity for a number of years.

Lawson Lundell LLP

85 Best Lawyers awards

Lawson Lundell LLP logo

Overview

  • English

  • British Columbia, 1993

Client Testimonials

Awards & Focus

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2013 - Tax Law
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Tax Law, Vancouver, Canada (2013)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2026 for work in:
  • Tax Law
Awards:
  • Chambers Canada: Tax
  • Chambers Global: Tax
  • Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory: Corporate Tax
  • International Tax Review’s World Tax Rankings: General Corporate Tax
  • Martindale-Hubbell International Law Directory: AV Peer Review rated

Additional Information

  • Experience
Advisor to major western Canadian public sector pension plans and government investment entities with respect to investments in various domestic and international private equity funds and investmentsAdvisor to consortium of investors in acquisition of UK water utility assets with transaction value in excess of £8 billionAdvisor to investors in acquisition of US natural gas fired electricity generating assets with transaction value in excess of $5 billionAdvisor to investors in multiple acquisition of partnership interests and other US energy related assets with aggregate transaction values in excess of $10 billionAdvisor to Corix (formerly Terasen Water Utility) and group of investors in acquisition of water utility assetsAdvisor to an investor group acquiring energy related tank and storage assets in Alberta and SaskatchewanAdvisor and lead tax legal counsel to Westshore Income Fund in the formation of its income fund which, at the time, was the largest income fund in Canada at a $890 million offeringAdvisor to investors in the acquisition of real estate based assets in Brazil and MexicoAdvisor to joint venture between Japanese and Canadian pulp and paper companies in corporate reorganization of assets with transaction value exceeding $1 billionLead tax counsel on numerous M&A transactions consistently involving transactions in the hundreds of millions of dollarsAssisted provincial governments in the drafting and preparation of taxation legislation including legislation relating to the taxation of the mining and resource sectorsAdvisor on the successful $1.2 billion takeover of Canadian Hotels Income Properties REITAdvisors to both issuing corporations and underwriters with respect to various public offering of securitiesAdvisor to mining and resource corporations with respect to mergers, acquisitions and investments in Canadian and foreign resourcesRepresented international shipping, trading and manufacturing clients in regard to transfer pricing matters and dispute resolution with the Canada Revenue AgencyAdvisor to multiple income fund trustees on the restructuring of assetsAdvisor to investors located in the PRC in the investment of oil related assets in AlbertaAdvisor to clients in the PRC relating to structuring resource based investments in Canada and the United State

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