Blaine is KPMG Canada’s National Leader, Family Office, Tax, bringing more than 25 years of experience advising some of Canada’s most influential families, family offices, and private enterprises.
Blaine’s work focuses on helping ultra-high-net-worth families navigate complexity, preserve wealth, and build enduring legacies across generations. He specializes in integrated tax, estate, and succession planning for families and business owners with sophisticated domestic, cross-border, and international needs. Blaine’s work spans estate and trust planning, ownership and governance structuring, residency and mobility planning, life insurance strategies, unique and illiquid assets, business succession, post-mortem planning, and transaction structuring. He regularly assists clients with acquisitions and dispositions, corporate reorganizations, global income tax strategies, CRA audits, and complex compliance matters.
Blaine has been a featured speaker for the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada giving regular updates on Canadian tax changes and developments; he has presented on tax issues associated with mergers and acquisitions; he has participated in pre-budgetary consultations with government; and he has been a regular contributor to national media.