Tax Advisers - Deloitte

Canada
Wilfrid Lefebvre QC
Ogilvy Renault LLP
Suite 1100
1981 McGill College Avenue
Montréal, QC H3A 3C1
Canada
Tel: (1) 514 847 4440
Fax: (1) 514 286 5474
Email: wlefebvre@ogilvyrenault.com
Website: www.ogilvyrenault.com
Mr Lefebvre is a senior partner at Ogilvy Renault, and practises in the areas of income
tax, tax planning, corporate reorganizations and financing, and represents clients
before tax authorities, courts and administrative tribunals. He has extensive experience
in international transfer pricings and tax treaty-related matters.
Mr Lefebvre started his career at the Department of Justice in Ottawa where he held
the position of legal adviser to the Department of Supply and Services, subsequently
joining the Tax Litigation Section of the Department of Justice. In 1976, he became
the director of the Legal Services Branch of Revenue Canada and in 1978 was
appointed general counsel in charge of tax litigation in Canada.
Mr Lefebvre has extensive court experience and has been legal counsel in many
complex and important cases. He was a member of the technical committee on
business taxation (Mintz Committee) appointed by the Minister of Finance of Canada
to advise on changes to the current tax system.
Mr Lefebvre was a member of the executive committee and a former governor of the
Canadian Tax Foundation and was the president of the Association de planification
fiscale et financière.
He has been a frequent speaker at conferences sponsored by the Canadian Tax
Foundation and the Tax Executives Institute.
Mr Lefebvre has been a lecturer at the faculty of law of the University of Ottawa in
both the civil law and common law programmes, at the Université de Sherbrooke, at
the Quebec Bar admission course and at the Law Society of Upper Canada.
He received his BA from the Collège Saint-Laurent in 1966 and his LLL from the
Université de Montréal in 1969. He was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1970.
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