Advised and represented a large newspaper publisher in multiple corporate transactions involving the acquisition and/or divestiture of employee benefit plans and pension or retirement plans, and the resulting asset and liability transfers.
Work
We offer legal services that include advice, courtroom and tribunal advocacy, negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, policy development and strategic planning. Below are examples of work we have performed for our clients.
Represented a large retail sector employer in the transition of its extensive employee benefits platform to new insurers, negotiating all aspects of the new insurance and service-related contracts.
Successfully defended a plan administrator in an application seeking survivor benefits contrary to the pension plan terms.
Represented multiple school boards in claims relating to enrolment in the Ontario Municipal Employees’ Retirement System.
Obtained summary judgment to enforce an ESA-only contractual termination provision.
Successfully defended private sector employers in entitlement appeals at the WSIB and WSIAT.
Represented a hospital in an interest arbitration in which the panel refused to grant multiple classification adjustments.
Negotiated Public Sector Labour Relations Transition Act resolutions involving multiple public sector employers.
Successfully defended an employment agency in related employer proceedings.
Pension counsel to one of Canada’s leading steel producers in its Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act restructuring.