McCarthy Tétrault

Pensions & Benefits

Deron is co-Chair of McCarthy Tétrault’s seven-lawyer national Pensions, Benefits & Executive Compensation practice. Deron provides strategic advice to employers with respect to the legal and regulatory aspects of pension plans, profit sharing plans, registered retirement savings plans, welfare benefits plans, retirement compensation arrangements and other areas of executive compensation and their related investment arrangements. He has broad and deep experience with respect to the treatment of plans on purchase or sale of a business and corporate reorganizations (including CCAA) and advises as to entitlement to use of surplus assets, and transactions involving numerous publicly traded entities with pension plans involving employees in numerous Canadian jurisdictions. He advises both private and public sector clients that included universities, governmental agencies, multinational corporations and jointly-trusteed and multi-employer pension plans.

Ontario, 1994; Alberta, 2007

Past chair of both the Canadian Pension and Benefits Institute Ontario Region and the pensions and benefits executive of the Ontario Bar Association. Deron is currently a member of the International Pension and Benefits Lawyers Association and the Association of Canadian Pension Management.