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De-risking your U.S. pension: choices and challenges

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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Canada, USA
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December 11 2012

Defined benefit plan sponsors have become very focused on ways to control their asset volatility and to remove pension liabilities from their balance sheets

Have you assumed pension termination liability? Long arm of the U.S. PBGC reaches non-U.S. parent

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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Canada, USA
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April 20 2012

One of the most difficult rules for our non-U.S. based clients to accept is controlled group liability for plan termination under Title IV of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended (ERISA

Why are corporate formalities important?

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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Canada, USA
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March 5 2010

Many compensation and pension actions require the approval of a company's board of directors, or a committee of the board, and for good reason

U.S. pension funding relief passes at last, but imposes back-door executive compensation limits

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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Canada, USA
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July 12 2010

The Pension Protection Act of 2006 required faster funding of defined benefit plans, generally funding shortfalls over 7 years

The myth of the "hands off" prototype plan

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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Canada, USA
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March 10 2010

True or false?

Short term reprieve delays fee disclosure, but don't put compliance on the back burner

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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Canada, USA
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July 15 2011

The issue of whether plan fees are too high, which I write about regularly, will not go away

Don't rely on SPD disclaimers: the US Supreme Court to rule on remedies for deficient employee communications

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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Canada, USA
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December 3 2010

Readers of our Canadian posts know that allegedly deficient participant communications have generated lawsuits in Canada

Canadian equity compensation 101

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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Canada, USA
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March 14 2012

As US multinational companies (and their related cross-border activities) continue to grow and expand, US lawyers and human resources professionals may be asked to consider issues related to equity compensation for their Canadian-based employees more and more

More 401(k) plan fee disclosures: what to do by August 30

Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
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Canada, USA
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August 13 2012

For many years, critics of the current 401(k) fee system have claimed that high fees were hidden and not clearly disclosed by vendors