Pension Litigation

The Blakes Pension Litigation team advises on and represents clients in a wide variety of matters. Among these are disputes relating to pension funding and investment; validity of plan amendments; benefits eligibility, accrual and entitlements; claims arising from corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and closures; insolvency; priorities in bankruptcy; discontinuance of a pension plan; and class actions. Additionally, Blakes litigators have extensive experience acting for pension fund clients in dealing with the various pension regulators and administrative tribunals and regularly advise on the security of pension and benefit fund assets.

Blakes pension litigators have represented plan sponsors and administrators before regulatory tribunals, arbitrators and Canadian courts at all levels in pension-related cases. We also counsel employers on benefits-related issues, including those arising in unionized environments.

With offices across Canada, we are experienced with the laws specific to each jurisdiction, enabling us to effectively and efficiently resolve disputes involving multi-jurisdictional plans. We have appeared in major pension litigation in Ontario, Nova Scotia, Quebec, Alberta and British Columbia, and often interact with regulators in all of the other provinces.