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.

Nova Scotia Bar, 2018 Ontario Bar, 1998

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.

Susan obtained her LLB from the University of Windsor in 1996 and LLM from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2003.