Partner
François Parent has been practising in the area of pension and benefits law since 2001. His practice focuses on the various legal issues arising in this field, such as pension plan administration and governance, statutory compliance, pension plan termination, issues relating to surplus assets and their use: pension plan splits, mergers and changes to employee benefits (including to post-retirement benefits).

He represents clients before the courts in litigious matters in this field, and also works in conjunction with members of the firm’s Business Law Group on all pension and benefits issues in mergers and acquisitions. In addition, Mr. Parent has extensive experience in drawing up and implementing retirement compensation arrangements.

Articles and presentations

• Développement des compétences essentielles pour les comités de retraite - Les régimes interjuridictionnels, Federated Press, May 11, 2010
• Régimes de retraite et avantages sociaux : un sujet d’actualité, Pension Seminar, March 31, 2010
• In Fact and in Law, The Member-Funded Pension Plan : a Defined Benefit Pension Plan that Limits the Employer’s Financial Risk, February 2010
• In Fact and in Law, Recent developments in pension plans: Reform of federal plans / New Quebec regulation respecting Bill 30, November 2009
• Liquidation des régimes partiellement capitalisés – Régimes de retraite : droit et contestation, Federated Press, September 10, 2009
• Les régimes de retraite dans un contexte d’insolvabilité ou de faillite – Insolvabilité et restructuration commerciale, Insight Information Co., April 20, 2009
• Les régimes de retraite et avantages sociaux dans un contexte transactionnel, Camp d’entraînement sur les conventions d’affaires, Canadian Institute, January 29, 2009
• IPEBLA Comparative Survey Project (Review of the current situation in Canadian pension law), IPEBLA Journal, September 2008
• Quebec Legal Update (Quebec – recent changes in pension law), 2008 Pensions Summit: Securing the Future, Conference Board of Canada, April 28, 2008