Partner, Lawyer, Head of the Tax Group

Marc-André Godard

• "Corporate Tax Guide 2025"

  Chambers and Partners, March 2025

• Co-author: "Corporate Tax Guide 2024 - Canada Chapter"

  Chambers and Partners, March 2024

• Co-author: "Corporate Tax Guide 2023 - Canada Chapter"

  Chambers and Partners, March 2023

• Co-author: ‘’Fiscalité des conventions entre actionnaires''

  2nd edition – Wolters Kluwer, January 2023

• Co-author: "Corporate Tax Guide 2022 - Canada Chapter"

  Chambers and Partners, March 2022

• Co-author: "Corporate Tax Guide 2021 - Canada Chapter"

  Chambers and Partners, March 2021

• Co-author: “Adoption of Bill 42: Mandatory Disclosure of Nominee Agreement with Tax Consequences”

  BCF publication, October 2020

• Co-author: “COVID-19: Tax and Financial Measures Announced in Response to the Pandemic”

  BCF publication, June 2020

• Co-author: “75% Wage Subsidy: What, Who and How, and Several Questions”

  BCF publication, April 2020

• Author: “COVID-19: Revenu Québec Loosens its Tax Measures”

  BCF publication, March 2020

• Co-author: “Recruiting the Best International Talent: Tax Holiday for Foreign Researchers and Experts”

  BCF publication, February 2020

• Co-author “Résumé des mesures annoncées le 18 juillet 2017 touchant le fractionnement de revenus”

  BCF publication, July 2017

• Co-author: “Federal Budget 2016 – Incremental, not fundamental tax changes”

  Gowling WLG publication, March 2016

• Co-author: “Budget 2015: Striking a Balance in an Election Year”

  Gowling WLG publication, May 2015

• Co-author: “Budget 2014: Fiscal integrity as a work in progress”

  Gowling WLG publication, February 2014

• Co-author: “AIFMD: the Positive and Negative Tax Implications”

  Tax Planning International, September 2013

• Co-author: “Federal Budget 2013: How will it impact your business?”

  Gowling WLG publication, April 2013

• Co-author: “Federal Budget 2012”

  Gowling WLG publication, March 2012

• Author: “Is Being Related to the Debtor a Vitiating Circumstance for the Income-Earning Purpose Test?”

  CCH Tax Topics, Report no. 2016, October 2010

• Author: “Foreign Affiliate Rules Relating to the Computation of Income, Gains and Losses”

  McCarthy Tetrault Tax Update (Volume 1, Issue 3), August 2009

• Author: “Surrogatum Applied”

  CCH Tax Topics, Report no. 1955, August 2009

• “Unpaid Amounts and Amalgamated Debtor”

  CCH Tax Topics, Report no.1916, Decision comments on The Queen c. Dow Chemical Canada Inc., 2008 DTC 6544 (Federal Court of Appeal) , November 2008

• Acted as legal counsel to Hypertec Cloud Inc. in connection with the acquisition of the 5C Data Centers group of companies for USD $750,000,000;
• Acted on behalf of Epitopea Inc., a Canadian corporation, and Epitopea Limited, a U.K. corporation, in connection with the USD$31M (£24M) cross-border, pre-Series-A preferred share extension financing round of these companies, with an exchangeable share structure, led by a syndicate of international investors including Advent Life Sciences, CTI Life Sciences, Cambridge Innovation Capital (CIC), Fonds de solidarité des travailleurs et des travailleuses du Québec (FTQ), Investissement Québec, adMare BioInnovations (NEOMED Institute) and IRICoR. These companies are transatlantic biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of off-the-shelf RNA-based cancer immunotherapeutics;
• Acted on behalf of Polara, a Quebec-based company of the Girardin group specializing in the electrification of transportation, in its acquisition of shares in Cléo Innovations inc., a subsidiary of Hydro-Québec specializing in charging stations;
• Acted on behalf of KSH Solutions Inc., a Montréal-based consulting, engineering, and EPC/EPCM services company specializing in the pulp and paper, chemicals, biorefinery, energy, water and environment and chemical sectors, and its shareholders in the sale of the shares of KSH Solutions Inc. to AFRY Group Finland OY;
• Acted on behalf of Baylis Medical Company Inc. and its shareholders, in connection with the sale of the company’s cardiology activities to Boston Scientific Corporation for USD$1.75 billion and carve-out of its DMS business;
• Acted on behalf of Cofomo Inc., a Canadian leader in information technology and business consulting services, in its financial partnership with Novacap, a leading Canadian private equity firm;
• Acted on behalf of Clean Biologics SAS, a French biopharmaceutical services company, on its recent acquisition of Biodextris Inc, a Canadian service provider to clients in the vaccine and biopharmaceutical industries;
• Acted on behalf of Inverse Inc., a Montreal-based company providing robust data repository and world class algorithms, in its acquisition by American company Akamai Technologies Inc.;
• Acted on behalf of Centech and École de Technologie supérieure (ÉTS) in the creation Boreal Ventures, a new venture capital fund;
• Acted on behalf of NetGovern, a leader in information governance, risk and compliance software, in its acquisition by Ipro Tech LLC;
• Acted on behalf of Hypertec, a global provider of end-to-end technologies, in the sale of its data center and colocation services operations to Vantage Data Centers;
• Acted on behalf of Prevtec Microbia in its acquisition by Elanco valued at $100 million;
• Acted on behalf of Groupe Delom in its acquisition by Wajax valued at $51 million;
• Acted on behalf of a subsidiary of Humania Assurance Inc. in the acquisition of all the assets of Multi+Med Inc. and Tour+Med Assistance, Inc.;
• Acted on behalf of Troilus Gold Corp. in the completion of approximately $15,000,000 private placement of flow-through shares;
• Acted on behalf ofBalmoral Resources Ltd. in the conclusion of its flow-through private placement, including the full exercise of its over-allotment;
• Acted on behalf of Enviro-Viridis Inc. development corporation and the sellers, including NOVACAP, in the purchase of Enviro-Viridis by GFL Environmental Inc. through its wholly owned subsidiary, Services Matrec Inc.;
• Acted on behalf of Groupe CRH Canada in the hybrid transaction involving a purchase of $8M of shares and assets from Pro-mix Béton Inc. and Pro-Mix Transport Inc.;
• Acted on behalf ofG&K Services Inc. in the acquisition of Saniloc Inc., a Quebec company based in Drummondville that specializes in the uniform rentals;
• Acted on behalf of Tandem Expansion in its acquisition of control of Averna Technologies, a world-leading developer of test solutions for electronics and communications manufacturers around the world;
• Acted on behalf of Investissement Québec and Desjardins Venture Capital for the sale, for $118 million in cash, of the television and film post-production company Vision Globale A.R. Ltd. to TVA Group Inc., a subsidiary of Québecor Média Inc.;
• Acted on behalf of Investissement Québec, which participated in a $35 million financing round for LightSpeed Retail Inc., a start-up company based in Montreal;
• Acted on behalf of Investissement Québec, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec, Fondaction and Fonds de solidarité des travailleurs du Quebec (FTQ), which acted as limited partners in an investment of $185 million in Novacap Industries IV, LP;
• Acted as a tax advisor for Voice Trust Holding Inc., a privately held global voice recognition company, and its Canadian subsidiaries, in connection with the reverse takeover of Delrand Resources Inc. for an aggregate amount of $27 million;
• Acted on behalf ofSimon Equity Partners in the acquisition of a controlling interest in Coalision Inc., which was owned by Kilmer Capital Partners in a transaction with other financial investors, including Pelican LP, a group comprised of André Desmarais, some members of the Hermès family and the Fonds de solidarité FTQ.

• Moderator for the mini-conference ‘'Structures d'acquisition - Concepts fiscaux clés'’ 

  Canadian Tax Foundation, Montréal (March 2025)

• “Guest speaker for a Tax Law Webinar offered by the Tax Executives Institute“

  Montreal Chapter: Transactions: New Trends (December 2020)

• “Guest speaker for the 54th Annual Conference of the Tax Executives Institute“

  Montreal Chapter: Section 55 of the Income Tax Act: Status report (February 2016)

• “Guest speaker in the context of an internal training session at the TD Bank“

  Foreign Bank Account Voluntary Disclosure Program, (December 2015)

• “Session moderator at the 67th Annual Tax Conference of the Canadian Tax Foundation“

  November 2015

• Lecturer at Gowling WLG Lunch & Learn session: “What’s FATCA? And why should I care about a U.S. law?”

  May 2015

• Lecturer at Gowling WLG conference: “Transactional Tax Considerations”

  November 2014

• Lecturer at Gowling WLG conference for corporate counsel “M&A Tax Considerations”

  November 2014

• Guest speaker for the Tax law seminar offered by the Tax Executives Institute – Montreal Chapter: “Practical Analysis of Share Purchase Agreements”

  March 2013

• Lecturer at a Gowling WLG conference for corporate counsel “911: Rectification in the Tax Context”

  October 2012

• Guest speaker in the context of “the 50th annual conference of the Tax Executives Institute“

  Montreal Chapter: “Rectification of Contracts under Quebec Legislation”, (February 2012)

• Lecturer at “the Conference on the negotiation, drafting and interpretation of business agreements “

  Offered by the Canadian Institute: “Tax Implications of Acquisition Structures” (May 2007)