Kim is a commercial-minded tax lawyer helping clients manage risk and optimize business opportunities with pragmatic and proactive advice and solutions

Kim Brown is a partner in the firm’s Business Law Group and leads the firm’s Tax Group in Vancouver. Combining technical strength with business acumen, Kim is experienced in navigating clients through both complex transactional matters in Canada and across borders and providing practical, business-oriented advice.

Kim’s practice focuses on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, corporate finance, partnerships, trusts, real estate and cross-border transactions. In her corporate tax planning practice, she works with businesses of all sizes, across a number industry sectors including real estate, infrastructure, public and private companies, private equity, and institutional investors.

Kim regularly acts for Canadian and international private equity funds in connection with the structuring of the funds, and the acquisition and disposition of Canadian businesses and assets.

Kim has published numerous papers for various publications and conferences, including the Canadian Tax Foundation, the Canadian Tax Journal and the Tax Management International Journal. Kim also co-authored the textbook Canadian Taxation of Trusts.

Kim is a member of Council for the International Fiscal Association Canada, and is a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation. In October 2020, Kim was invited to speak at the Canadian Tax Foundation’s “Leading Tax Thought” conference and presented “Businesses in Financial Distress: A Debt Forgiveness Primer.”

Kim received her JD from the University of Toronto and her BComm with Distinction from the University of Victoria. She also completed the CICA In-Depth Tax Course, Levels I & II. Kim was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 2009 and to the British Columbia Bar in 2019.

Kim has advised on the following transactions:

• Enbridge Inc. in its C$4.6 billion bought deal public equity financing (the largest public equity financing in Canadian history)
• RB Global in its acquisition of IAA Inc. for $7.3 billion
• Silvercorp Metals in its acquisition of Adventus Minig Corporation
•  Li-Cycle Corp. in connection with its US$1.67 billion cross-border business combination transaction with Peridot Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC)
• TORC Oil & Gas Ltd. in connection with its C$900 million acquisition by Whitecap Resources Inc.
• Endeavour Mining in its US$2.4 billion combination with Teranga Gold Corporation
• Endeavour Mining in its acquisition of SEMAFO Inc. to create a combined company to be valued at more than US$2.1 billion
• SSR Mining in its merger with Alacer Gold Corp. to create a combined company with a market capitalization of approximately $5.6 billion
• Enbridge Inc. in its senior notes offering of US$500 million
• Fortis Inc. in connection with its US$11.3-billion acquisition of Novi, Michigan-based ITC Holdings Corp., the largest independent electric transmission company in the United States