Jean-Guillaume Shooner is a partner in the Tax group and is the national head of Stikeman Elliott’s commodity tax, customs, and international trade practice. His practice focuses on commodity taxation (including goods and services tax/harmonized sales tax, Quebec sales tax, and provincial sales taxes), insurance premium taxes, excise taxes, luxury tax, as well as fuel and carbon taxes. He advises clients on various international trade matters involving customs compliance, import/export controls (including supply-managed trade controls), CUSMA (USMCA) and other free-trade agreements, customs valuation, and tariff classification. His practice on Canadian federal regulatory laws also includes the import of controlled nuclear substances under the Nuclear Non-proliferation Import and Export Control Regulations, economic sanctions, and the Controlled Goods Program. Jean-Guillaume also advises clients on certain anti-dumping and countervailing matters under the Special Import Measures Act (SIMA). He acts for major Canadian and multinational corporations and provides strategic advice in the areas of commodity taxation and international trade, dispute settlement, voluntary disclosures (sales taxes, customs compliance, and export controls), and obtaining import or export permits.
In a joint venture with an undisclosed Canadian institutional partner Kevric Real Estate Corporation Inc. purchased the office tower at 600 de la Gauchetière West in Montréal, Quebec, for C$187M.
On October 3, 2018, The Bank of Nova Scotia (“Scotiabank”) completed the acquisition of MD Financial Management from Canadian Medical Association (“CMA”) for a purchase price of $2.585 billion.
On August 15, 2018, New Water Capital L.P. (New Water), a Boca Raton-based private equity firm focused on lower-middle market companies, completed its acquisition of Trillium Health Care Products (THC), a premier contract manufacturer of category-leading OTC products for some of the world’s top pharmaceutical companies.
On December 18, 2006, Bombardier Inc. entered into a new €4.3 billion syndicated letter of credit facility completing its 2006 refinancing initiative, which included, in addition to the letter of credit facility, the issuance in Europe and the United States of €1.9 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes and a debt tender offer in Europe.
