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Year called to bar: 1987
Susan Seller leads the firm's Pension and Benefits practice and is co-head of the Employment Services Practice Group. She advises both public and private companies and other organizations 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 transactions as well as insolvencies and restructurings. Susan assists with executive compensation matters and supplementary retirement plans and advises clients on a full range of employee benefit issues arising in the general employment law and unionized context. She also advises clients on pension plan wind ups and conversions, pension asset transfers and surplus payments, and regularly counsels pension committees and boards with respect to pension governance matters. In addition to her practice, Susan regularly writes and speaks on pension and employee benefit topics. Her professional memberships include the Association of Canadian Pension Management, the Pension and Benefits Section of the Ontario Bar Association and the Canadian Pension Benefits Institute.
De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited (“DHC”) completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of the Dash 8 aircraft program from Bombardier Inc. (“Bombardier”) for gross proceeds of approximately US$300 million
On February 27, 2015, Calgary-based Newalta Corporation (Newalta) completed the sale of its Industrial Division to Revolution Acquisition LP (Revolution), a subsidiary of Toronto-based Birch Hill Equity Partners Management Inc. (Birch Hill), for cash proceeds of $300 million. The Industrial Division is comprised of several business streams including major facilities and assets located across Canada. The sale creates a new stand-alone company, Terrapure Environmental, which has its headquarters in Burlington, Ontario.