Tuesday, March 3, 2020 

8AM - 9AM

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: February 27, 2020 at 12PM

Session Description

Stay current with an overview of recent case law, legislative updates and developments in persion and benefits governance.. This session will highlight noteworthy legal developments from the last year that will be of interest to those who deal with pension and employee benefit issues. 

Speaker

Scott Sweatman
Partner
Dentons Canada LLP

Scott Sweatman is a partner at Dentons Canada LLP. Since 1990, Scott has focused his practice on pensions, benefits, executive compensation and related tax and trust law. For over fifteen years he worked as a senior consultant with two major multinational actuarial and accounting firms. In 2007 and 2008 Scott was Co-Chair of the Alberta-British Columbia Joint Expert Panel on Pension Standards working with five of Alberta and BC’s leading experts in pensions to review pension legislation in the two provinces and make recommendations to both governments for fundamental reforms to pension legislation. Scott is past national and regional Chair of the Canadian Pension & Benefits Institute. He also serves on the Board of Directors of NAV Canada, Canada’s national private sector civil navigation services provider which has pension plan assets in excess of $6 billion. Scott is a current member and also past chair of NAV’s Pension Committee and a member of their Corporate Governance Committee.
Scott is recognized in the 2011-2020 editions of The Best Lawyers in Canada in the area of Employee Benefits Law. He is also recognized by Chambers Global (20132017) and Chambers Canada (2016-2020) as a leading lawyer in the area of Pensions & Benefits. Scott is consistently recommended by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, Pensions and Employee Benefits. He has been practising law since 1987.