Susan G Seller
Canada Guide 2025
Band 3 : Pensions & Benefits
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About
Provided by Susan G Seller
Practice Areas
Susan heads the firm's national pension and benefits practice and is co-head of the employment services practice group. She advises corporations and other organisations 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 reorganisations, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, as well as insolvencies and restructurings.
Career
Admitted to the Ontario bar, 1987.
Personal
Susan is the author of the Pensions volume of Halsbury's Laws of Canada (First Edition) and is currently at work on a reissue of this publication. She is also the lead author of the chapter on the duties of directors in the pension context in the book, Directors' Duties in Canada (7th Edition). She has been an instructor in the Osgoode Professional Development Certificate Program in Pension Law program since its inception and is a frequent contributor to an online digital publication for the benefits industry as a member of its expert panel.
University of Alberta, BA (Hon.), 1980, with First Class Honours; University of Toronto, LLB, 1985; York University (Osgoode Hall Law School), LLM, 2009
Chambers Review
Canada
Susan Seller is an experienced lawyer with a strong track record of providing pension and benefits diligence and advice in connection with high value M&A transactions. Based in Bennett Jones' Toronto office, she is also active on pension regulatory and governance issues in addition to fund investment matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Susan has a remarkable depth of experience that serves us well. She is highly diligent, making sure that small details are not glossed over when looking at the big picture."
"Susan is helpful, responsive and knowledgeable."
"Susan is very knowledgeable and has been able to explain difficult things so well that I can relay it onto my colleagues in a digestible way. Her responsiveness is second to none."
"Susan has a remarkable depth of experience that serves us well. She is highly diligent, making sure that small details are not glossed over when looking at the big picture."
"Susan is helpful, responsive and knowledgeable."
"Susan is very knowledgeable and has been able to explain difficult things so well that I can relay it onto my colleagues in a digestible way. Her responsiveness is second to none."