Doug Ewens

Background

About Doug Ewens

Doug is a well-known leader in the Canadian tax community. He has decades of experience representing major energy and resource corporations as well as financial institutions. As well as his expertise in structuring transactions and financings for public and private enterprises, he has assisted major corporations in tax disputes, including disputes involving the general anti-avoidance rule. Among the many transactions Doug has advised on, he was lead tax counsel for a major energy corporation in a complex asset exchange that involved a number of offshore oil and gas properties on the East Coast and in the North Sea. He was also tax counsel in a large merger that led to the formation of a leading North American energy producer based in Calgary.