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Laura Gheorghiu

Bio

Laura Gheorghiu is a respected tax lawyer and leader of Gowling WLG’s Tax Group in Canada. Recognized among the foremost professionals in her field by the International Tax Review, Chambers, Lexpert, and Best Lawyers in Canada, she is known for her creative, commercially grounded approach to complex domestic and cross-border tax issues.

Based in Montréal, Laura focuses her practice principally on M&A transactions, cross-border investment structures, corporate reorganizations, clean-economy projects, e-commerce, and the taxation of emerging technologies. She also advises on stock-option plans, employer payroll and pension obligations, federal and Québec value-added taxes (GST/HST and QST), and Québec commodity taxes, particularly in the fuel and alcohol sectors.

Laura complements her advisory work with sophisticated experience in tax dispute resolution, representing clients before the Canada Revenue Agency and Revenu Québec at the audit and notice of objection stages, and preparing voluntary disclosures relating to income tax and sales tax matters.

A sought-after thought leader, Laura regularly shares her insights on key tax developments in top-tier media outlets, including the Globe & Mail’s Report on Business, BNN Bloomberg, Financial Post, and Investment Executive. She also writes and speaks frequently on a broad range of tax topics in professional and industry forums.

Her past publications include contributions to Taxation of Private Corporations and Their Shareholders (Canadian Tax Foundation), Introduction to International Tax in Canada (Thomson Reuters), and the Business Guide to Environmental Law (Thomson Reuters).

Outside of her practice, Laura serves as councillor and member of the executive of the International Fiscal Association-Canada, serves on the Québec Practitioners’ Committee of the Canadian Tax Foundation,  co-chairs the Cross-Border M&A and Joint Ventures Committee (International) of the New York State Bar Association, and co-hosts the TEI International Tax Student Case Competition.

She practises law in English and French and is fluent in Romanian.

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