Susan Nickerson
Canada Guide 2025
Band 1 : Pensions & Benefits
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About
Provided by Susan Nickerson
Practice Areas
Head of McCarthy Tétrault’s Pensions, Benefits, & Executive Compensation Group. Susan is well known for her strong relationships in the Canadian pensions and benefits sector and proven track record of success. Clients balancing their obligations to stakeholders with the complex interplay of macroeconomic conditions and regulations can rely on Susan’s unique insights to both plan ahead for change and quickly respond to evolving day-to-day issues. Her advice covers fiduciary duties and risk management, plan conversion and funding, and the implementation of new designs, as well as the pensions and benefits aspects of corporate transactions, restructurings, and insolvencies. Boards of directors can further draw on Susan’s expertise in all aspects of governance structures and systems, including both their development and implementation.
Career
Nova Scotia Bar, 2018
Ontario Bar, 1998
Professional Memberships
Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the ACPM and the Past Chair of ACPM’s National Policy Committee.
Susan was the first recipient of the Don Ireland Award from the ACPM in recognition of her outstanding volunteerism in the field of pensions and benefits law and governance.
Chambers Review
Canada
Susan Nickerson is based in McCarthy Tétrault's Toronto office and is particularly skilled at providing pensions law advice in the context of significant M&A deals. A valued source of strategic advice, she provides clients with a range of pensions governance support, including with regard to new pension plans.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Susan is very proactive in issue identification. She is one of the foremost active experts in the country and comes to us with issues that we wouldn't have identified on our own."
"Susan has the perfect combination of pension expertise and business acumen. Susan provides advice that is thorough, well-articulated and directly on point."
"Susan is the best. Her advice is practical and it is also founded in legal analysis. When she speaks to various audiences, she makes a difficult area of law very accessible and easy to understand."
"Susan is very responsive, very practical and quickly understood the matter."
"Susan is very proactive in issue identification. She is one of the foremost active experts in the country and comes to us with issues that we wouldn't have identified on our own."
"Susan has the perfect combination of pension expertise and business acumen. Susan provides advice that is thorough, well-articulated and directly on point."
"Susan is the best. Her advice is practical and it is also founded in legal analysis. When she speaks to various audiences, she makes a difficult area of law very accessible and easy to understand."
"Susan is very responsive, very practical and quickly understood the matter."
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