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Overview

Allyson Marta provides strategic advice on pensions and benefits aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including risks and broader corporate objectives. Her practice focuses on pensions and benefits in corporate transactions, creditor/debtor agreements, and restructurings and insolvencies. She advises clients on pension plan compliance, governance, investments and administration. Allyson also assists clients with navigating legal and regulatory matters related to retirement and benefit plans more broadly.

Allyson is active in pensions and benefits industry groups, including as a member of the Association of Canadian Pension Management – Ontario Regional Council and the CPBI Southern Alberta Regional Council. She is Past Chair of the Ontario Bar Association – Pensions and Benefits Law Section, a member of the Canadian Pension & Benefits Institute’s Southern Alberta Program Committee and a member of the Women in Pensions steering committee.

Prior to joining Bennett Jones, Allyson practiced law at other national business law firms and was a legal consultant with a leading global human capital and management consulting firm.

,,Working with Allyson feels like working with an extended member of the team. The strong working relationship she built resulted in a more ready exchange of information and creative problem-solving.,,

Chambers Canada

Client Work

Blue Ant Media in its acquisition of Thunderbird Entertainment Group via plan of arrangement under the Business Corporations Act (British Columbia)
Centuri Holdings, through a wholly-owned Canadian subsidiary, in its acquisition of Connect Atlantic Utility Services, Atlantic Canada’s leading electric utility services provider
Hut 8 Mining in its C$95-million sale of a 310-megawatt power portfolio to TransAlta
Heidelberg Materials North America in its binding purchase agreement to acquire the Edmonton, Alberta, assets of BURNCO, a successful fifth-generation family-owned construction materials company
strong>Plains All American Pipeline in its C$5.15-billion sale of its NGL business to Keyera
BioLife Solutions, as Canadian counsel, in its acquisition of PanTHERA CryoSolutions 

Recognitions & Awards

Chambers Canada 2025

Pensions & Benefits

Legal 500 Canada

Next Generation Lawyer, Pensions

Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory

Repeatedly Recommended, Pensions & Employment Benefits

Best Lawyers 2025

Recognized for Employee Benefits Law

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

  • University of British Columbia, JD, 2009
  • McGill University, BSc, 2004

Bar Admissions

  • Ontario, 2010
  • Alberta, 2011

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