Joan Jung is a partner and chair of Minden Gross LLP's Tax Group. Joan is an advisor for private enterprise clients and has extensive expertise in domestic and international tax planning. She counsels clients on corporate restructuring and transactional work, tax-effective distributions, the use of trusts and personal tax planning, and succession planning for business owners. Joan is a frequent lecturer and presenter for business associations and professional organizations on tax planning, including the Canadian Tax Foundation's Ontario Tax Conference, the Law Society of Ontario, CPA Canada, and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). She has written extensively on tax and estate planning issues and has contributed articles to publications of the Canadian Tax Foundation, STEP, and the Ontario Bar Association. Joan is a member of the editorial board for the Personal Tax and Estate Planning newsletter (Thomson Reuters) and contributing editor of Tax and the Owner-Manager (Canadian Tax Foundation). She is a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation (Governor and member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors) and STEP Canada (Program Chair for the Toronto Branch). Graduate of the University of Toronto Law School. Admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1985.