Deron Waldock is a partner and co-head of the National Pensions, Benefits & Executive Compensation group in Toronto. He provides strategic legal advice to employers with respect to pension plans, profit-sharing plans, registered retirement savings plans, welfare benefits plans, retirement compensation arrangements and other areas of executive compensation. He has broad and deep experience with respect to the treatment of plans on purchase or sale of a business and corporate reorganizations (including CCAA) and provides advice as to entitlement to use of surplus assets. Deron has a strong governance practice and is a frequent speaker on this topic. Deron represents universities, municipal bodies, governmental agencies, multinational corporations and jointly trusteed and multi-employer pension plans. In addition, he has significant transaction experience involving numerous publicly traded entities with pension plans involving employees in numerous Canadian jurisdictions.