Stephen Pincus Quoted in "Ottawa tightens tax rules on hybrid investment product; REITs among those targeted in crackdown against stapled securities", The Globe and Mail

Excerpt from "Ottawa tightens tax rules on hybrid investment product; REITs among those targeted in crackdown against stapled securities", by Simon Avery:

There are only a handful of businesses that will be affected by the government's clamp down, says Stephen Pincus, a senior partner at Goodmans LLP specializing in corporate finance and M&As, but Ottawa is clearly moving to prevent a bigger trend. "The government made these changes because they had a concern that there might be other entities that might want to use this sort of structure," he said.