Legal Counsel
Éric Gélinas practices as a member of the Business Law Group in our Montreal office. In particular, he assists businesses in connection with complex tax reorganizations and the fiscal aspects of national and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. He is also interested in the tax aspects of estate planning and transfers of businesses from generation to generation.

His main areas of expertise are corporate tax planning, tax reorganizations of corporations and the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions of businesses.

Articles and presentations

• Développements récents sur les sociétés associées (Recent developments concerning affiliated corporations), journées d’études fiscales, CTF, June 9, 2011.
• Conference on recent developments in Canadian case law concerning permanent establishments and the allocation of profits under tax agreements, International Association of Young Lawyers, Barcelona, February 2011.
• Jurisprudence récente (Recent case law), Technical seminar, CTF, June 2008.
• Acquisition d’entreprises canadiennes par des non-résidents, structures et considérations fiscales canadiennes (Acquisitions of Canadian businesses by non-residents, structures and Canadian tax considerations), Technical seminar, CTF, February 2008.
• Règles sur les minimisations de pertes (Stop-loss rules), Technical seminar, CTF, March 2005.
• Considérations fiscales relatives aux modes de rémunération pour les employés clés (Tax considerations relating to methods of compensating key employees), APFF, annual convention 2005.
• Considérations fiscales relatives à l’introduction d’employés dans l’actionnariat (Tax considerations relating to employees becoming shareholders), APFF, annual convention 2004.
• Aspects fiscaux relatifs aux conventions entre actionnaires (Tax aspects of shareholder agreements), APFF, annual convention 2002.
• Retrait et arrivée d’un associé et dissolution d’une société de personnes (Withdrawals and arrivals of partners and dissolutions of partnerships), revue de planification fiscale et successorale, Vol. 20, n^o 2, 1998.

Professional and community activities

• Assistant professor at the accounting and taxation sciences department of the Faculté d’administration de l’Université de Sherbrooke, Longueuil campus.