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Borden Ladner Gervais LLPPartner
Andrew Harrison

Andrew Harrison

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22 Adelaide Street West, Suite 3400, Toronto, ON M5H 4E3

Pension and Benefits, Public Company Mergers and Acquisitions, Purchase and Sale of a Business and 3 more

About Andrew Harrison

Andrew Harrison is a lawyer practicing pension and benefits, public company mergers and acquisitions, purchase and sale of a business and 3 other areas of law. Andrew received a B.Com. degree from University of Natal, South Africa in 1982, and has been licensed for 37 years. Andrew practices at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto, ON.

Andrew Harrison (Toronto, Ontario)

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Services

Areas of Law

  • Other 6
    • Pension and Benefits
    • Public Company Mergers and Acquisitions
    • Purchase and Sale of a Business
    • Automotive
    • Banking and Financial Services
    • Investment Management

Practice Details

  • Firm Information
    Position
    Partner
    Firm Name
    Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
  • Representative Cases & Transactions
    Cases
    Representative Work: Plan Design
    Administration: Advising on issues of pension plan governance, including fiduciary duties, proper delegation
    statutory requirements.
    Providing strategic advice
    advocacy regarding legislative
    regulatory reform.
    Structuring, reviewing
    drafting pension
    benefit plans
    amendments
    employee communications.
    Conducting legal compliance audits of pension plans
    pension funds.
    Providing legal opinions concerning pension legislation, plan terms
    rights of plan members.
    Advising on compliance
    establishment of compliance procedures.
    Investments
    Funding: Advising regarding the regulation of the investment of pension fund assets
    pension-eligible investment products, including innovative investments such as derivatives
    hedge funds.
    Reviewing
    drafting funding agreements, including master trust agreements, pension trust agreements, pooled fund arrangements, segregated funds
    insurance contracts.
    Preparing investment agreements
    statements of investment policies.
    Advising on pension fund investments, including structuring
    compliance.
    Designing
    advising on the administration of locked-in investment vehicles, such as life income funds (LIFs)
    locked-in retirement accounts (LIRAs).
    Transactions: The Government of Canada in its $4.5 Billion acquisition of the Trans Mountain
    Puget Sound Pipelines,
    related terminals.
    Structuring
    advising on amendments, mergers, demergers, conversions
    terminations of pension
    benefit plans.
    Structuring
    advising on corporate purchases, sales, financings, mergers
    demergers
    other transactions involving pension
    benefit plans.
    Advising regarding entitlement to pension fund surplus,
    the recovery of surplus, including surplus sharing agreements
    contribution holidays.
    Financial Institutions: Advising domestic
    foreign banks, trust companies, insurance companies
    securities dealers in all aspects of financial services regulation in Canada, including ownership restrictions, operating requirements, permissible corporate structures
    product development.
    Advising Canadian banks, both domestic
    foreign-owned, in all aspects of bank
    financial services regulation in Canada.
    Advising financial services corporations, such as banks, insurance companies
    investment dealers, regarding asset sales
    corporate restructurings.
    Other: Negotiating
    completing complex business arrangements, such as investments, divestitures, commercial contracts, shareholder
    partnership agreements,
    lending
    other financing arrangements.
    Providing general corporate
    commercial advice to businesses.
    Coordinating teams of lawyers in complex projects
    transactions.
    Advising corporations regarding acquisitions
    sales of businesses.

Experience

  • Bar Admission & Memberships
    Admissions
    1989, Ontario
    Memberships

    Professional Involvement

    •Immediate Past Chair of the Board, Association of Canadian Pension Management
    •Member, International Pension and Employee Benefits Lawyers Association
    •Canadian Editor, International Pension Lawyer

    Community Involvement

    •Director, International Mountain Bicycling Association (Canada)

  • Education & Certifications
    Law School
    University of Natal, South Africa
    Class of 1984
    LL.B.

    Queen's University
    Class of 1988
    LL.B.
    Other Education
    University of Natal, South Africa
    Class of 1982
    B.Com.

Andrew Harrison

Partner at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower22 Adelaide Street West, Suite 3400Toronto, ON M5H 4E3Canada

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