40 King St W, Suite 5800, Scotia Plaza, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 1993 (NS)
Hugh Wright is a partner at Miller Thomson LLP. His practice focuses on pensions and benefits, providing advice to pension plan sponsors, administrators, and service providers on a full range of pension and benefit matters. Wright is a leader in Canada’s retirement income system, having been chairman of Canada’s national pension industry organization, the Association of Canadian Pension Management (ACPM), and advocating for regulatory reform with governments across Canada on behalf of ACPM and private clients. Wright frequently presents to pension industry organizations on a variety of legal and governance issues faced by plan sponsors and administrators. He is a trusted advisor to participants in the pensions and benefits field providing strategic counsel in various areas including plan governance, funding, and administration, labour law, mergers and acquisitions, pension fund investments, cybersecurity, plan transfers, amalgamations and consolidations, insolvency, and restructuring. He focuses on finding efficient and effective solutions for clients, enabling them to navigate the complex regulatory and legal framework in which they operate and realize their strategic and business objectives.