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Prince Arora

Associate
About

Prince Arora is an associate in DLA Piper’s Tax group, where he maintains a comprehensive tax practice ‎that includes tax planning and tax disputes resolution. He has experience advising clients on the tax ‎aspects of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, as well as corporate restructuring and ‎reorganizations, structuring inbound and outbound investments, and corporate financing and capital ‎market transactions.  ‎

Prior to joining DLA Piper, Prince practiced at a prominent global law firm and a national law firm. He had ‎previously served as a judicial law clerk at the Tax Court of Canada. ‎

Prince is currently on the steering committee of the Canadian Tax Foundation Young Practitioners. ‎

 
Bar admissions / Professional QualificationsAlberta, 2021British Columbia, 2020
Languages
  • English
Education
  • J.D., Peter A. Allard School of Law ‎‎(University of British Columbia), 2019‎
  • B.A. (with distinction), Kwantlen ‎Polytechnic University, 2015‎

AWARDS

  • Deans List, Peter A. Allard School of Law (UBC)
  • Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP A.J. McClean Prize in Trusts
  • Koffman Kalef LLP Prize in Business Law
  • Thorsteinssons Prize in Taxation I
  • Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP Prize in Contracts Law
  • Dean's Prize in Constitutional Law
     

Publications

  • Author, ‎“FCA: Break Fees Are Taxable Under Paragraph 12(1)(x)”, Canadian Tax Focus, Volume 14, Number 2, May ‎‎2024.‎
  • ‎Author, “FCA Applies Deans Knight in Another Loss-Utilization Case”, Canadian Tax Focus, Volume 14, Number 1, ‎February 2024.‎
  • Co-Author, ‎“The Impact of Expanded CRA Audit Powers on TCC Appeals”, Canadian Tax Focus, Volume ‎‎12, Number 3, August 2022. ‎
  • Co-Author, ‎“Collins Trust - The End of Equity?”, Tax Times, Thomson Reuters, 2022 Issue No. 14, July ‎‎2022.‎
  • Co-Author, ‎“Election Amendments: Some Best-Practice Considerations Election Amendments: Some Best-Practice ‎Considerations”), Canadian Tax Focus, May 2022.‎
  • Author, ‎“Pleading Sham?”, Tax Times, Thomson Reuters, 2021 Issue No. 23, December 2021.‎

Seminars

  • Co-Presenter, ‎“An Overview of the EIFEL Rules”, webinar, Canadian Bar Association (Alberta), Tax Law ‎Section – South, December 7, 2023. ‎

Community Involvement

  • Member,  Canadian Tax Foundation Young Practitioners' Steering Committee
  • Director, Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers (Western Chapter)
     

Memberships and Affiliations

  • Canadian Tax Foundation ‎
  • International Fiscal Association  ‎
  • Canadian Petroleum Tax Society
  • Canadian Bar Association ‎
  • The Advocates’ Society ‎

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