Headquarters:
301-10 Alcorn Avenue, Toronto, ON M4V 3A9
Year founded:
2009
Number of employees:
8
Phone:
416 218 5263
Email:
info@countertax.ca
Website:
countertax.ca
LinkedIn:
ca.linkedin.com/company/counter-tax-litigators
“As leaders, we inspire our team, valuing collaboration and spearheading change while sharing our knowledge to mentor the upcoming legal minds”
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Counter Tax Litigators LLP
Natalie Worsfold
Managing Partner, Tax Litigation
Peter Aprile
Senior Counsel, Tax Litigation
James Roberts
Partner, Tax Litigation
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Natalie Worsfold specializes in tax litigation, protecting private company CEOs and high-net-worth individuals from CRA overreach. Since 2008, she has resolved complex tax disputes through innovative strategies, achieving highly favorable outcomes for her clients.
Worsfold shares her expertise through presentations, articles, and courses on tax avoidance, shareholder benefits, early case assessment, and litigation strategy.
She also mentors rising litigators and leads CountHerIn, Counter’s pro bono initiative advancing the visibility of women in the tax industry by fostering collaboration and promoting diversity.
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Natalie Worsfold
Peter Aprile specializes in tax litigation, offering strategic representation to successful companies and affluent families navigating complex, high-stakes tax disputes.
For nearly 20 years, he has helped businesses and individuals retain the economic value they create by challenging the CRA’s attempts to extract tax revenue. Many recognize Aprile as a leading figure in Canadian tax controversy and litigation.
Aprile also leads Counter’s 1% for Good initiative, a pro bono program focused on transforming the Canadian tax dispute system and increasing accountability within the CRA and DoJ.
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Peter Aprile
James Roberts is a tax litigator focused on helping private companies and high-net-worth individuals navigate and win their tax disputes. He has appeared before the Tax Court of Canada and the Federal Courts, building expertise in all aspects of tax litigation.
Since joining Counter Tax Litigators in 2016, Roberts has developed deep tax and litigation expertise. Leading tax publications regularly feature his insights, and he has helped some of Canada’s top private companies achieve successful outcomes.
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Andrea Dickinson
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Andrea Dickinson is counsel at Beitel Tax Law. Her practice focuses on personal and corporate tax planning, corporate reorganizations, and implementation of tax-driven transactions and estate planning. She also represents clients in their dealings with the CRA and at the Tax Court of Canada.
Dickinson has extensive experience in planning and implementing corporate reorganizations in a tax-efficient manner. She assists clients in the food, wholesale, automotive, pharmaceutical, and other professional industries.
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Josiah Davis
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Mike James drives the strategic direction of NFP’s sales organization. He leads a salesforce of 350+ that generates over $500 million of new revenue each year and fuels total revenue approaching $3 billion annually. He is a member of NFP’s Executive Committee and an executive sponsor of the NFP/Aon integration strategy for driving sales and revenue growth. He also plays an active role in NFP’s DEIB strategy, serving as a trusted advisor to NFP leaders.
James’ industry and community engagement is exemplary and he excels at bringing people together to advance ideas, elevate inclusion and equity, and make a lasting impact.
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Counter Tax Litigators LLP leads in tax controversy and litigation, specializing in resolving complex, high-stakes disputes. Counter LLP partners with mature companies and wealthy families to protect the economic value they’ve built and overturn Canada Revenue Agency reassessments.
With deep tax expertise and advanced systems, Counter LLP delivers exceptional results at every stage, from negotiations to judge-mediated settlements and formal hearings. The outcomes Counter LLP has achieved for its clients have earned the firm consistent recognition among Canada’s top tax litigation firms, including accolades from International Tax Review, The Legal 500, and Canadian Lawyer.
“We’re committed to delivering the highest level of service, assuring clients that their welfare is the firm’s utmost priority”
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Bruce Laregina
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Josh Wozman
Senior Vice President, Communications
Liane Brown
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Suzanne Spradley is responsible for spearheading NFP’s corporate compliance initiatives emphasizing the company’s commitment to legal and regulatory compliance, integrity, and business ethics. Her primary areas of focus are legal and regulatory compliance, corporate governance, corporate ethics, legislative affairs, interactions with government agencies and corporate compliance communications. Suzanne also chairs NFP’s ESG Committee, a diverse and dynamic committee that brings perspective, expertise, and accountability to NFP’s sustainability initiatives. Spradley has over 23 years of insurance industry experience.
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Bruce Laregina
Tandra Davis joined NFP in 2021 to lead the company’s procurement function. In this role, she develops strategies and guidelines that drive value, efficiency, and results. Davis excels at creating and executing solutions that increase cost savings and profitability, streamline processes, and mitigate risk with NFP’s key suppliers. Her experience leading transformational initiatives for large organizations and across industries drives her ability to collaborate effectively within NFP and enhance operational success.
Davis also has a diverse background that includes global strategic sourcing, category management, real estate portfolio management, complex contract and lease negotiations, and supplier relationship and risk management.
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Laura Zubot
Josh Wozman joined NFP in 2021 as a senior-level communications specialist and leads public relations efforts primarily through promoting and protecting the company’s reputation. In his role at NFP, he establishes comms strategies for the brand and business lines, advises executives, business leaders and key contributors on media relations best practices, and manages agency teams.
Wozman’s career trajectory includes tenures with well known-brands, both in-house and agency-side. He serves additional leadership roles at NFP as a member of the Marketing Leadership team, Coordinated Incident Response Team, and DEIB Advisory Board.
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Liane Brown is committed to representing individuals who have suffered serious personal injuries and to families who have suffered the loss of a loved one. Her practice concentrates on personal injury law, including accident benefits, motor vehicle collisions, medical malpractice, occupiers’ liability, product liability and wrongful death cases.
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Liane Brown is committed to representing individuals who have suffered serious personal injuries and to families who have suffered the loss of a loved one. Her practice concentrates on personal injury law, including accident benefits, motor vehicle collisions, medical malpractice, occupiers’ liability, product liability and wrongful death cases.
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Ben Irantalab enjoys the complexities of personal injury litigation. His practice is exclusively devoted to representing clients with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and severe orthopedic injuries. For him, the cases that require special creativity and thinking outside the box are the most gratifying.
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On a larger scale, HSH handles class action and mass tort lawsuits representing groups of people injured by dangerous products, medications, medical devices, and negligent organizations.
The HSH team is known for providing caring and attentive service to clients, and is proud of the firm’s excellent reputation within the legal and medical communities.
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