David Jacyk joins Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt

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David Jacyk joins Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt

Osler-Vancouver

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt has appointed David Jacyk as partner and head of the firm’s Vancouver tax litigation practice.

Jacyk focuses on disputes affecting corporate taxpayers and has extensive experience in litigating tax cases for the Crown. Jacyk has worked on a wide variety of complex cases involving civil litigation, customs and anti-dumping, bankruptcy and insolvency, judicial review, constitutional and other matters.

He has more than 23 years of experience as Crown counsel in Canada and New Zealand. He was general counsel of the Department of Justice of Canada in Vancouver for approximately 10 years and, most recently, with the Crown Law Office/Inland Revenue in New Zealand. 

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