Bill is involved in all aspects of income and commodity taxation, including goods and services tax, transfer pricing, and provincial taxation. He practises in both the taxation planning and tax litigation fields, with an emphasis on corporate taxation, in particular transactional advice, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, structuring infrastructure projects, and public-private partnerships.
Bill has extensive experience in providing tax and structuring advice to private and public companies and investment funds in respect of shareholders agreements, partnership and limited partnership agreements, joint venture arrangements, and other complex commercial arrangements.
Bill has also had significant involvement in the mining sector, including acting on mergers and acquisitions, spin-outs, split-up transactions, metal streaming transactions, royalty transactions and financings.
Bill provides legal services through William S. Maclagan Law Corporation.