Partner
Admitted to Manitoba Bar in 1993.

Education
University of Manitoba (B.Sc., 1989, LL.B., 1992), CICA In-Depth Tax Course, Parts I, II and III.

Member
Canadian Tax Foundation; Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners; International Fiscal Association; Canadian Association of Family Enterprise (Manitoba); Canadian and Manitoba Bar Association.

Positions
Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation; Canada Revenue Agency Professionals Consultation Group (Manitoba); Former Co-Chair, Tax Section of the Manitoba Bar Association.

Lecturer
Taxation, Law Society of Manitoba Bar Admission Course, University of Manitoba Faculty of Law; various continuing legal education seminars to the Law Society of Manitoba and the Manitoba Bar Association, Canadian Tax Foundation's Prairie Provinces Tax Conferences, and on taxation and business entities to a variety of other professional and community organizations including the Certified General Accountants of Manitoba and the Canadian Association of Financial Planners.

Author
"Purchase and Sale of a Business - Update on Selected Tax Planning Opportunities and Pitfalls", (March, 2004 and December, 1998); "Advisor Beware - New Civil Penalties under the Income Tax Act" (March, 2001); "Family Trusts", (December, 1997), Law Society of Manitoba Continuing Legal Education; "Proposed Amendments to Trust Taxation", (May, 1999) and "Opportunities and Pitfalls in Inbound and Outbound Business Structures" (June, 1998), Prairie Provinces Tax Conference, Canadian Tax Foundation.

Brian practices taxation law, with emphasis on advising owner-manager businesses on tax and related matters including corporate tax planning and restructuring, advising on tax-effective structuring of share/asset sales, mergers and acquisitions, personal estate planning, trusts and tax dispute resolution. He has significant experience with advising First Nations and their members on tax structuring including settlement trusts and aboriginal business.