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Susan Nickerson

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. · McCarthy Tétrault

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About

Head of McCarthy Tétrault’s Pensions, Benefits, & Executive Compensation Group, known for strong relationships in the Canadian pensions and benefits sector and a proven track record of success. Advises on fiduciary duties and risk management, plan conversion and funding, plan design and implementation, and the pensions and benefits aspects of corporate transactions, restructurings and insolvencies; she is a Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the ACPM, Past Chair of ACPM’s National Policy Committee, and the first recipient of the Don Ireland Award from the ACPM.

Practice areas

Pensions & BenefitsExecutive CompensationCorporate / M&ARestructuring & InsolvencyGovernance

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Expertise

Canadian pensions and benefits sectorFiduciary duties & risk managementPension plan conversion & fundingPlan design & implementationPensions aspects of corporate transactions, restructurings & insolvenciesBoard governance structures and systems

Education

  • LLB, University of Windsor, 1996
  • LLM, Osgoode Hall Law School, 2003

Admissions

  • Ontario Bar, 1998
  • Nova Scotia Bar, 2018