Raj Juneja and McCarthy Tétrault’s Indirect Tax Team Honoured at the 2026 ITR Americas Tax Awards

McCarthy Tétrault received three awards at the 2026 International Tax Review (ITR) Americas Tax Awards, held in New York on October 29, with Raj Juneja named Tax Practice Leader of the Year: North America and the Firm recognized as Indirect Tax Firm of the Year: Canada and Indirect Tax Firm of the Year: Americas.

Raj’s award recognizes a career that combines an individual practice at the highest level with a defining role in building McCarthy Tétrault’s National Tax Group. He has led the tax work on some of Canada’s most significant transactions and built longstanding relationships with major clients across the market.

Since becoming Co-Head of the group, Raj has been instrumental in developing the shape of the practice, attracting senior talent and expanding the group’s capabilities. Today, McCarthy Tétrault has the largest tax practice among Canada’s leading full-service law firms and continues to invest in areas that respond to evolving client needs, including the recent expansion of its Private Client Tax Planning capabilities and the launch of its Charities and Not-for-Profits practice in 2025.

The Firm’s two Indirect Tax awards build on an established track record with ITR, including being named Indirect Tax Firm of the Year: Canada in 2024. Taken together, the latest wins reinforce the team’s sustained standing and the strength of its work across complex domestic and cross-border indirect tax matters.

“We are honoured by these awards from International Tax Review,” said Brett Anderson, Co-Head of the National Tax Group. “These awards reflect the exceptional talent and dedication of our market-leading tax team and our shared commitment to delivering practical, business-focused solutions to clients navigating increasingly complex tax matters.”

“This is a tremendous honour, but what makes it especially meaningful is what it says about the team we have built,” said Raj Juneja, Co-Head of the National Tax Group. “We have been very deliberate about bringing together exceptional practitioners, investing in areas where we see opportunity and creating a platform that can take on the most important tax mandates in the market. I am enormously proud of what we have accomplished together and excited about what comes next.”

The three awards speak to the continued momentum of McCarthy Tétrault’s tax practice and its position in the Canadian and North American tax markets.

ITR is a global tax news and analysis publication. For more than two decades, the ITR Americas Tax Awards have recognized leading tax professionals and firms across the region for excellence in tax, transfer pricing, tax disputes and indirect tax.         

About Our National Tax Group

McCarthy Tétrault’s tax expertise and knowledge of Canada’s tax regime is widely recognized. Our team is distinguished by its winning combination of exceptional experience in tax law planning and in tax disputes, making us a formidable presence in the courtroom and the boardroom. Helping clients navigate the tax aspects of domestic and cross-border public and private mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, financings and securitizations, and other transactions, we bring clarity and pragmatism to complicated tax issues that could otherwise derail business goals. Our expertise encompasses the entire gamut of tax controversies, concerning audits, requests for information, objections, searches and seizures and appeals. In working with us, clients gain a team with experience on some of the most complex tax issues and precedent-setting cases across the country. Learn more about our National Tax Group.

About McCarthy Tétrault

McCarthy Tétrault LLP provides a broad range of legal services, delivering strategic and industry-focused advice and solutions for Canadian and international interests. The Firm has a substantial presence in Canada's major commercial centres as well as in New York and London, and in Santiago.

Built on an integrated approach to the practice of law and delivery of innovative client services, the Firm brings its legal talent, industry insight and practice experience to help clients achieve the results that are important to them.

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