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Pensions & Benefits

Nationwide - Canada

9 Years Ranked

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Provided by Susan Nickerson

Canada

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Head of McCarthy Tétrault’s Pensions, Benefits, & Executive Compensation Group. Susan is well known for her strong relationships in the Canadian pensions and benefits sector and proven track record of success. Clients balancing their obligations to stakeholders with the complex interplay of macroeconomic conditions and regulations can rely on Susan’s unique insights to both plan ahead for change and quickly respond to evolving day-to-day issues. Her advice covers fiduciary duties and risk management, plan conversion and funding, and the implementation of new designs, as well as the pensions and benefits aspects of corporate transactions, restructurings, and insolvencies. Boards of directors can further draw on Susan’s expertise in all aspects of governance structures and systems, including both their development and implementation.

Career

Nova Scotia Bar, 2018

Ontario Bar, 1998

Professional Memberships

Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the ACPM and the Past Chair of ACPM’s National Policy Committee.

Susan was the first recipient of the Don Ireland Award from the ACPM in recognition of her outstanding volunteerism in the field of pensions and benefits law and governance.

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Pensions & Benefits - Nationwide - Canada

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Susan Nickerson is based in McCarthy Tétrault's Toronto office and is particularly skilled at providing pensions law advice in the context of significant M&A deals. A valued source of strategic advice, she provides clients with a range of pensions governance support, including with regard to new pension plans.

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