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Position: Vice President, Transfer Pricing Leader for Canada
Rating:
  • Highly Regarded
Practice Areas:
Tax controversy
Transfer pricing
Jurisdictions:
Biography

David Kemp is Vice President, Transfer Pricing Leader for Canada at Charles River Associates. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant in Canada.

He has more than 25 years of experience advising multinational enterprises on global transfer pricing, including corresponding international taxation, accounting, and financial matters.

Prior to joining Charles River Associates, Mr. Kemp was Partner and National Leader of Baker Tilly’s Global Transfer Pricing & Dispute Resolution practice in Canada.

Biography

David Kemp is Vice President, Transfer Pricing Leader for Canada at Charles River Associates. He is a Chartered Professional Accountant in Canada.

He has more than 25 years of experience advising multinational enterprises on global transfer pricing, including corresponding international taxation, accounting, and financial matters.

Prior to joining Charles River Associates, Mr. Kemp was Partner and National Leader of Baker Tilly’s Global Transfer Pricing & Dispute Resolution practice in Canada.

Practice areas

He works with clients to establish pricing strategies for cross-border transactions and advises on issues that can arise when operations expand to multiple jurisdictions. He is an expert in transfer pricing planning, documentation, and dispute resolution matters. These consultations have included tangible and intangible assets, intellectual property, financial transactions, management fees, services and cost reimbursements.

Mr. Kemp has defended transfer pricing policies under audit by Canadian and foreign taxation authorities, encompassing field audit negotiations, Notice of Objection appeals, Competent Authority submissions, and Advanced Pricing Arrangements.

From a transaction perspective, Mr. Kemp has significant experience regarding the identification and assessment of intangible assets and intellectual property, as well the evaluation of financial transactions and corresponding determination of loan interest rates and guarantee fees.

From an industry perspective, he has considerable experience regarding investment advisory and fund management companies, including the determination of advisory, sub-advisory, distribution, management and related service fees.

Recent matter highlights
  • Mr. Kemp has been repeatedly recognized as one of the leading transfer pricing advisors and one of the leading tax controversy advisors, “Highly Regarded”, by International Tax Review, World Transfer Pricing and World Tax guides, respectively.
  • Further, the transfer pricing practice at Charles River Associates in Canada is acknowledged by International Tax Review World Transfer Pricing Guide as one of the “world’s leading transfer pricing firms”.
Recent matter highlights
  • Mr. Kemp has been repeatedly recognized as one of the leading transfer pricing advisors and one of the leading tax controversy advisors, “Highly Regarded”, by International Tax Review, World Transfer Pricing and World Tax guides, respectively.
  • Further, the transfer pricing practice at Charles River Associates in Canada is acknowledged by International Tax Review World Transfer Pricing Guide as one of the “world’s leading transfer pricing firms”.
Practice areas

He works with clients to establish pricing strategies for cross-border transactions and advises on issues that can arise when operations expand to multiple jurisdictions. He is an expert in transfer pricing planning, documentation, and dispute resolution matters. These consultations have included tangible and intangible assets, intellectual property, financial transactions, management fees, services and cost reimbursements.

Mr. Kemp has defended transfer pricing policies under audit by Canadian and foreign taxation authorities, encompassing field audit negotiations, Notice of Objection appeals, Competent Authority submissions, and Advanced Pricing Arrangements.

From a transaction perspective, Mr. Kemp has significant experience regarding the identification and assessment of intangible assets and intellectual property, as well the evaluation of financial transactions and corresponding determination of loan interest rates and guarantee fees.

From an industry perspective, he has considerable experience regarding investment advisory and fund management companies, including the determination of advisory, sub-advisory, distribution, management and related service fees.

Address:
401 Bay Street
Suite 900, PO Box 46
Toronto, Ontario M5H 2Y4
Tel:+1-416-323-5563 Email:Contact this practitioner Website:http://www.crai.com