Toronto
Email: terra.klinck@bmkplaw.com
Direct:416-922-1106
Mobile:289-795-4598
Main:416-368-6800
Year of Call: Ontario, 1997
Terra has over 25 years’ experience advising both provincially and federally regulated employers and plan administrators, primarily in the private sector, on all legal issues relating to DB and DC pension plans, including: governance, fiduciary responsibilities, plan administration and regulatory compliance, funding requirements, pension fund investment and surplus utilization.
Terra has a wealth of experience advising private sector employers restructure their legacy DB pension arrangements, including investment restructuring and de-risking initiatives (e.g., buy-in and buy-out annuity purchases), plan mergers and plan wind-ups.
Terra has extensive experience advising on pension and benefit matters in corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, insolvencies and restructurings.
Terra is advisor to a large professional association in conjunction with its development and implementation of a retirement program for its 40,000 members, which includes a novel annuity purchase feature.
Terra advises a number of large multinational and domestic employers, across numerous sectors, on a myriad of ongoing Canadian pension issues, including governance, investment matters, compliance, plan consolidations and mergers and acquisitions related activities.
Terra acted as pension and benefits counsel to a large steel manufacturer in its 2014-2017 Companies Creditors’ Arrangement Act proceedings, in which the restructuring of legacy pension and post-retirement benefits were a critical aspect of the restructuring. She then acted for this employer in 2018 in the successful further restructuring of the "post-retirement benefit deal" with the unions and retiree groups.
