Geoffrey John Rollins Dyer

Qualified in Ontario and England, Geoffrey Dyer is one of Canada's foremost authorities on international private client matters. Geoffrey has a comprehensive private client practice which embraces personal and corporate taxation, estate planning, corporate and commercial law, trust law and certain aspects of estate law. He is the trusted personal advisor to many clients on a wide range of issues. He is also involved in the creation and management of charities. During his career Geoffrey has contributed significant articles to professional organizations pertaining to sophisticated topics on domestic and international income tax and estate planning, including the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Tax Foundation, the International Fiscal Association, the Law Society of Upper Canada (Special Lectures), the New York State Bar Association and the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners. In his charitable activities Geoffrey is Past-President and Board Chair of Toronto Botanical Garden and current Chair of The Great Dixter Charitable Trust in the United Kingdom.

Initially a tax litigation counsel with the Canadian Department of Justice, Geoffrey has been practising law since 1976, principally in the field of income tax. Prior to founding the firm, Geoffrey was a partner at Tory, Tory, DesLauriers and Binnington, now Torys LLP, from 1984 until 2006 and at Bennett Jones LLP from 2006 until December, 2016. For a considerable period Geoffrey's practice was focused on corporate income tax, particularly in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and capital markets. Increasingly there came an emphasis on private enterprise planning and structuring, and personal advisory work with core clients. In addition, for many years Geoffrey was very active in advising a prominent Canadian pension fund with respect to the structure of its investments and various corporate, governance and regulatory aspects of the fund's affairs. Today, while still grounded in tax law, Geoffrey's practice is almost exclusively dedicated to private client work.