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Susan G. Seller

Partner

Co-Head of Employment Services Practice

Co-Head of Employment Services Practice |

T: 416.777.5638

Toronto

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T: 416.777.5638


Toronto

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  • Recent Experience
  • Recent Recognition
  • Insights, News & Events
  • Related Services
  • Recent Experience
  • Recent Recognition
  • Insights, News & Events
  • Related Services

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

Susan leads the firm's pension and benefits practice and is co-head of the Employment Services Practice Group. She 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.

Chambers Canada 2018

She is responsive, professional, and has all the qualities you want in legal counsel.

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.

Education

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

Bar Admissions

Ontario, 1987

Recent Experience

Bird Construction Inc., in its $96.5-million merger with Stuart Olson Inc.
Riverstone Holdings LLC, as Canadian counsel, in its acquisition of International-Matex Tank Terminals from Macquarie Infrastructure Corporation for US$2.67 billion.
Stone Canyon Industries Holdings LLC and Kissner Group Holdings, as Canadian counsel, in their US$3.2-billion agreement to acquire K+S Aktiengesellschaft's North and South American salt business, including Morton Salt and Windsor Salt.
True Wind Capital and its portfolio company, Transflo, in Transflo's approximately $20-million acquisition of Microdea, a document management software company in the transportation and logistics sector.
Canadian Utilities Limited, an ATCO company, in the sale of its entire Canadian fossil fuel-based electricity generation portfolio for approximately $835 million, which was completed in three stages, through the sale of its interest in the Cory project in Saskatchewan to SaskPower International Inc., a sale of its interest in the Brighton Beach project in Ontario to Ontario Power Generation Inc., and a sale of the balance of the applicable generation assets through a sale of its equity interest in ATCO Power Canada Ltd. to Heartland Generation Ltd., an affiliate of Energy Capital Partners.
Diversified, in its acquisition of the business of Advanced Presentation Products.
1908 GP Inc., in the formation of 1908 LP and the formation and capitalization of POI Holdings LP by a syndicate of private Canadian investors led by Cody Church, on behalf of Clear North Capital, together with a team that included Rakesh Saraf (formerly of ATRF) and Kenny Albert (formerly of Kilmer Capital), and the acquisition of a majority interest in the business of POI Business Interiors Inc., a provider of workspace environment solutions and a Steelcase distributer in Ontario.
Wilbur-Ellis Holdings II, Inc., in its acquisition of Nachurs Alpine Solutions.
Devon Canada Corporation and Devon Canada Crude Marketing Corporation, in their approx. $3.8-billion sale of substantially all of their assets to Canadian Natural Resources Limited.
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc., in its approximately US$300-million acquisition of RPM Technologies.
Kissner Group Holdings LP, completed its acquisition of NSC Minerals Ltd., a market-leading provider of salt products in Western Canada and the North Central United States, from an investor group led by Altas Partners.
Canadian counsel to Conagra Brands, Inc. in its $10-9 billion acquisition of Pinnacle Foods Inc.
Longview Aviation Capital Corp., in its acquisition of the Dash 8 program from Bombardier Inc.
Klondex Mines Ltd., in its US$462-million acquisition by Hecla Mining Company pursuant to a Plan of Arrangement.
The Board of Directors of Sears Canada, in Sears' CCAA proceedings, one of the largest court-supervised liquidations in Canadian history.
Schlumberger Production Management, on the purchase of the Palliser Block assets in Alberta from Cenovus Energy Inc. for cash consideration of $1.3 billion.
Canadian Natural Resources Limited, in completing C$12.74-billion acquisition of a 70 percent working interest in the Athabasca Oil Sands Project and other oil sands assets.
Cenovus Energy Inc., in its $17.7-billion acquisition of ConocoPhillips’ Deep Basin conventional assets in Alberta and British Columbia and 50% interest in the FCCL Partnership 
Northern Transportation Company Ltd., counsel for the CCAA debtors
Stantec Inc., in its $1.25 billion credit facilities to finance, in part, the successful acquisition of MWH Global, Inc. for approximately US$793 million.
Waste Connections, Inc., in an approximately $13 billion merger with Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd.
Precision Castparts Corp., in its US$560 million acquisition of Noranco from MidOcean Partners and PSP Investments.
Extendicare Inc., a leading provider of care and services for seniors throughout Canada, in the $83 million acquisition of the home health business of Revera Inc.
Newalta Corporation, in the sale of its Industrial Division to Revolution Acquisition LP, a company formed by Birch Hill Equity Partners, for cash proceeds of $300 million.
Repsol S.A., in the proposed $15.1 billion acquisition of Talisman Energy Inc.
Canadian counsel to Regal Beloit Corporation, in the US$1.44 billion world-wide acquisition of the Power Transmission Solutions business (“PTS”) of Emerson Electric Co.
Harvest Operations Corp., in the sale of its subsidiary North Atlantic Refining Limited (NARL) to SilverRange Financial Partners LLC. The sale includes NARL's Canadian refining and marketing businesses in Newfoundland.
ATCO Ltd., in the disposition of ATCO I-Tek Inc. and ATCO's Australian IT operations to affiliates of Wipro Ltd. ("Wipro") for aggregate sale proceeds of approximately $210 million.
Darling International Inc., in its acquisition of all the assets of Rothsay, a division of Maple Leaf Foods Inc., for approximately $645 million.
Glencore International, in its acquisition of all the outstanding shares of Viterra for approximately $6.1 billion by way of a plan of arrangement and the sale of certain assets of Viterra to each of Agrium and Richardson International for aggregate proceeds of approximately $2.6 billion.
Flint Energy Services, in its acquisition by URS Corp for $1.25 billion pursuant to a plan of arrangement.
The Sterling Group, in its acquisition of the Liqui-Box Corporation ("Liqui-Box") from DuPont.
Meridian Credit Union, in its merger with Desjardins Credit Union to create Ontario's largest credit union with 263,000 members and $8 billion in assets under management.
CUNA Mutual Group, in its acquisition by Co-operators Life Insurance and Central 1 Credit Union.
The committee of first lien and second lien secured creditors, in the US$1.5 billion restructuring of Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Limited by way of a plan of arrangement.

Recent Recognition

Chambers Canada
Ranked, Pensions & Benefits
The Legal 500 Canada
Recommended, Labour and Employment
Recommended, Pensions
LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell
Received a BV Distinguished Peer Review Rating
Best Lawyers in Canada
Recognized as one of Canada's leading Labour and Employment lawyers

Insights, News & Events

Announcements

Bennett Jones Advises on $3.2-Billion Agreement to Acquire K+S Americas Salt Business, Including Morton Salt and Windsor Salt

October 05, 2020
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones is Recognized in Chambers Canada 2021

September 10, 2020
       

Blog

Alberta Announces Additional Relief Measures for Pension Plan Administrators Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

July 02, 2020
       

Articles

Navigating pension fiduciary duties during coronavirus pandemic

June 09, 2020
       

In the News

Susan Seller on Navigating Pension Fiduciary Duties

June 09, 2020
       

Blog

Carry Forward of Health Care Spending Account Credits Amidst COVID-19 Pandemic

June 08, 2020
       

Blog

New Solvency Special Payments Relief Regulations for Federally Regulated Pension Plans

June 02, 2020
       

Blog

Ontario Issues New Guidance to Pension Plan Administrators and Sponsors Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 26, 2020
       

Blog

Canada Revenue Agency Announces Pension Relief Measures and Guidance Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

May 06, 2020
       
2020
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Event

Employee Relations and Reputation Management During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Part Two

Speaking Engagements

Employee Relations and Reputation Management Webinar Series

April 30, 2020
       

Blog

Solvency Funding Relief for Federally Regulated Pension Plans Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

April 16, 2020
       

Blog

OSFI Provides Further Guidance to Administrators of Federally Regulated Pension Plans Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

April 09, 2020
       

In the News

Susan Seller on Pension Funds and Charitable Donations

April 09, 2020
       

In the News

Benefits and Pensions Monitor: Relief Measures for Pension Plan Administrators in AB, SK and NS

April 08, 2020
       

Blog

Alberta, Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia Announce Relief Measures for Pension Plan Administrators Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic

April 06, 2020
       

Speaking Engagements

Susan Seller presents Pension Plan Governance and Risk Management

March 04, 2020
       

Articles

Legal Case Highlights Thorny Issue of Consent Benefits Under DB Pension Plans

December 10, 2019
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones is Top-Tier in The Legal 500

November 18, 2019
       

Announcements

Bennett Jones' Leading Lawyers in Chambers Canada 2020

September 19, 2019
       

In the News

A Look Ahead at Pension Legislative Changes for 2019

December 28, 2018
       

Articles

Cannabis in the Workplace

November 26, 2018
       

Articles

Draft CAPSA guidance offers limited help with missing plan members

June 26, 2018
       

Speaking Engagements

Osgoode Professional Development Certificate Program in Pension Law

April 04, 2018
       

In the News

Susan Seller in Canadian HR Reporter on Free Prescription Drugs for Seniors

March 28, 2018
       

In the News

Susan Seller on Pension Reform in Ontario

March 06, 2018
       

Articles

2018 to be a significant year for pension reform in Ontario

January 23, 2018
       

Announcements

Schlumberger/Torxen Purchase Cenovus Assets

October 18, 2017
       

Articles

Administrators will need to revisit governance policies under Ontario's latest pension changes

May 31, 2017
       

Blog

New Funding Framework for DB Pension Plans Announced

May 23, 2017
       

Speaking Engagements

Osgoode Certificate Program in Pension Law 2017

March 22, 2017
       

Articles

Federal target - benefit conversions face an uphill battle

December 02, 2016
       

In the News

Susan Seller in Law Times on Pension Plan De-Risking

August 30, 2016
       

Updates

Ontario Takes Action on Pension Funding Reform

August 4, 2016
       

Blog

CPP Reform - And the ORPP is Almost (Undeniably and Reliably) Dead

July 05, 2016
       

Articles

What Employers Need to Know to Comply with the ORPP Act

April 26, 2016
       

Articles

Directors' Duties in Canada, 6th ed.

April 06, 2016
       

Articles

Transfer of DC Plan Assets Improved Under Ontario's Current Regime

March 14, 2016
       

Speaking Engagements

Osgoode Certificate Program in Pension Law 2016

March 02, 2016
       

Blog

An Update on the ORPP for Employers

February 18, 2016
       

Blog

How will the ORPP Impact Alberta-based Employers with Employees Working in Ontario?

February 03, 2016
       

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