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Susan G. Seller provides deep and wide-ranging expertise that helps clients navigate the often complex environment that is pensions and benefits.

Overview

Susan is a partner in the firm’s pension and benefits practice. Susan advises both public and private companies and other organizations on issues relating to plan governance, administration and compliance, pension fund investment and fiduciary duties. She also advises on pension and benefit issues arising in corporate transactions as well as insolvencies and restructurings. Susan assists with executive compensation matters and supplementary retirement plans, and advises clients on a full range of employee benefit issues arising in the general employment law and unionized context. She also advises clients on pension plan wind ups and conversions, pension asset transfers and surplus payments, and regularly counsels pension committees and boards with respect to pension governance matters.

In addition to her practice, Susan regularly writes and speaks on pension and employee benefit topics, and is the author of both the Halsbury's Laws of Canada volume on pensions and the Ontario Pension Law Handbook, Second edition. She has served on the teaching faculty of The Osgoode Certificate Program in Pension Law and The Directors College on pension governance issues. In addition, she completed her part-time LL.M. (Labour and Employment) at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Susan has been a member of the Executive of the Canadian Bar Association's National Pension and Benefits Law Section and was actively involved in submissions on legislative reform in the pension area. Her other professional memberships include the Association of Canadian Pension Management, the Pension and Benefits Section of the Ontario Bar Association and the Canadian Pension Benefits Institute. Prior to joining Bennett Jones, she led the pension practice at the Toronto office of an international law firm and was also previously with a major Canadian benefits consulting firm.

Client Work

The lead arrangers and the lending syndicate of a US$2.55-billion term facility and US$600-million revolving credit facility to support the US$6.3-billion sale of Nuvei
Employment Hero Holdings, as Canadian counsel, in its acquisition of Humi Holdings, valued at over C$100 million
MustGrow Biologics in its acquisition of NexusBioAg, which provides crop nutrition solutions, including micronutrients, nitrogen stabilizers, biostimulants, and foliar products, from Univar Solutions Canada
LSI Industries (Nasdaq; LYTS), a manufacturer of commercial lighting and display solutions, in its acquisition of Canada’s Best Store Fixtures, a provider of retail fixtures and custom store design solutions for grocery, quick service restaurant, c-store, banking and specialty retail environments
Discovery Silver Corp in its $425-million acquisition of Newmont Corporation interest in its Porcupine Operations
Magna Mining in entering into a definitive share purchase agreement with a subsidiary of KGHM International

Recognitions & Awards

Chambers Canada

Ranked, Pensions & Benefits

The Legal 500 Canada

Recommended, Labour and Employment
Recommended, Pensions

Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory

Repeatedly Recommended, Pensions & Employee Benefits

Best Lawyers in Canada

Recognized for Employee Benefits Law

LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell

Received a BV Distinguished Peer Review Rating

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

  • University of Alberta, BA (Hons.), 1980, with First Class Honours
  • University of Toronto, LLB, 1985
  • York University (Osgoode Hall Law School), LLM, 2009

Bar Admissions

  • Ontario, 1987

News, Events & Speaking Engagements

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Pension Plan Governance and Managing Board Risk

March 5, 2023
Susan G. Seller
Susan G. Seller
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Susan Seller in Benefits Canada

September 24, 2021
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Susan G. Seller