Sheena Bassani

Legal Counsel at BARSALOU LAWSON RHEAULT LLP

Speaker

Sheena Bassani joined the law firm Barsalou Lawson Rheault in 2010 in her capacity Of Counsel. She holds a Bachelor of Civil Law (LL.B.) and a Bachelor of Common Law from McGill University. She has been a member of the Quebec Bar since 2000, and was a member of the Paris Bar for 14 years, where she began her career in the financial services sector. Her practice focuses on international tax and transfer pricing. Sheena spent ten years with two global professional services companies where she worked exclusively in international tax and transfer pricing. During this period, she was called upon to manage many highly complex transfer pricing files from the point of view of planning/documentation, implementation of transfer pricing strategy and dispute resolution. Sheena is also the author of numerous publications on transfer pricing, particularly in the field of global tax policy. Sheena has been invited multiple times to present briefs and speak to delegates of Working Party 6 (Transfer Pricing) and Working Party 1 (Tax Treaties) at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in Paris on various global tax policy issues, including transfer pricing of intangibles, Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) projects and binding arbitration. A regular speaker at various Canadian and international conferences, she has been invited to speak at the NABE Transfer Pricing Symposium (Washington) as well as numerous Canadian transfer pricing conferences including those organized by the Tax Executives Institute (TEI), the Canadian Tax Foundation (CTF) and the Association de Planification Fiscale et Financière (APFF). In addition to pursuing her engaging tax career, in 2023 she obtained a certificate from Wilfrid Laurier University in Positive Psychology, focusing on the scientific approach to human optimism and change in the workplace. Sheena was a speaker at the 2024 Mental Health Summit organized by the Barreau du Quebec.