Pamela Chan Ebejer
Partner, Toronto
Dentons

Pam Chan Ebejer (She/Her/Hers) is a partner in the Employment, Labour and Pensions group of Dentons’ Toronto office.

Pam regularly provides strategic and legal advice to plan sponsors and administrators on all aspects of defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans, including design and amendment, fiduciary responsibilities, governance and funding issues, and regulatory compliance. Pam also has extensive experience advising on pensions, retirement and savings plans, and employee benefit matters in corporate transactions, including asset and share transactions, and in assisting clients develop and amend executive and deferred compensation plans.

In her labour and employment practice, Pam supports local, national and international employers in all areas of labour, employment and human rights law, including: employment contracts and policies; employment standards; discipline and termination; the duty to accommodate; workplace investigations; collective agreement negotiation, administration and arbitration. She has been counsel-of-record at all levels of court in Ontario.

Pam is also regularly retained by organizations to act as an independent investigator of allegations regarding workplace harassment and sexual harassment, discrimination and bullying.

Scott Sweatman
Partner, Vancouver 
Dentons

Since 1990, Scott's expertise has included pensions, benefits, executive compensation and related tax law. Scott helps clients establish and sustain pension, benefit and deferred compensation plans, providing counsel on regulatory compliance, pension, governance and funding issues, as well as the impact of mergers and acquisitions on these plans. From a tax perspective, he works with clients to develop executive and deferred compensation plans, and advise them on issues around stock options, retiring allowances, profit sharing and corporate reorganizations. Scott also assists professional athletes in establishing retirement compensation arrangements. He also acts as an arbitrator in public sector pension plan disputes.

Scott also assists national and multi-national clients, as well as multi-employer plan sponsors, with provincial, federal and Income Tax Act compliance. For over fifteen years, he worked as a senior consultant with two major multi national actuarial and accounting firms. With this experience, he is uniquely positioned to provide strategic legal consulting advice in tandem with professionals from the actuarial and accounting professions.

Scott is the past Co-Chair of the Alberta-British Columbia Joint Expert Panel on Pension Standards, working with five of Alberta and British Columbia’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.  He is past national and regional chair of the Canadian Pension & Benefits Institute, past chair of the Pension, Benefits and Compensation Section of the Canadian Bar Association (British Columbia), past chair of the Corporate Counsel Section of the Canadian Bar Association (British Columbia), former member of the Pension Advisory Council to the British Columbia Government, and former member of the Trustee Act Modernization Committee of British Columbia.

Scott also served on the Board of Directors of NAV Canada from 2010 to January, 2022, Canada’s national private sector civil navigation services provider which has pension plan assets in excess of $7 billion. He is a past member and also past chair of NAV’s Pension Committee and past member of their Corporate Governance Committee.

Scott is recognized in the 2011- 2023 editions of The Best Lawyers in Canada in the area of Employee Benefits Law & Real Estate Law. He is also recognized by Chambers Global (2013- 2021) 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.

 ATTEND TO LEARN:

• Understand key strategies for attracting senior-level talent, including deferred compensation, pension plans, and flexible work arrangements.
• Identify the benefits of designing employee compensation and benefits plans that align with employer objectives.
• Recognize potential risks and unintended entitlements embedded in employment agreements when terminating long-service employees.
• Explore strategies to mitigate legal risks and reduce the chances of successful litigation during no-cause dismissals.