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Band 3

Pensions & Benefits

Nationwide - Canada

10 Years Ranked

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Provided by Michael Wolpert

Canada

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Michael practises exclusively in the area of Pensions and Benefits law. He provides private and public sector clients, including boards of trustees, with strategic advice and practical counsel about legal, legislative and regulatory issues surrounding retirement plans, employment benefits and related human resource matters. In business transactions, Michael advises clients on the pension and benefit implications. He assists clients with drafting, amending and interpreting a wide variety of plan and trust documentation and provides support on pension and benefit litigation. Michael is also highly experienced in the legal aspects of governing, administering and documenting group benefit plans, including non-pension post-retirement benefit plans.

For many years, Michael has been active in the area of legislative reform for pensions through a variety of forums. He is a member of the Legal Consultative Committee for Alberta Treasury Board and Finance. Michael served on the Advisory Committee for the Joint Alberta-British Columbia Drafting of Pension Legislation, which was formed by those two governments to provide input and advice into the development of a new joint pension standards act and regulation for the two provinces.

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Pensions & Benefits - Nationwide - Canada

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Band 3
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Michael Wolpert of Fasken splits his time between Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver and is widely praised for his work in pension and benefits reorganisations, as well as advising on the governance and administration of both private and public sector pension plans.

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