Mark Firman is a partner in the Montreal office’s Tax group. His practice focuses on pensions, benefits, and executive compensation issues in corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, insolvencies, reorganizations, and financings. Mark advises on all aspects of pensions, benefits, and executive compensation law, including the taxation of equity incentives; retirement and health and welfare benefits; pension plan and trust fund administration; pension fund investment structuring; governance; pension plan de-risking; and corporate disclosure obligations relating to incentives, pensions and other employment benefits. Mark brings a unique perspective to his practice, informed by his previous experience as in-house counsel at the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Canada’s largest single-occupation pension fund.
Publicis Groupe SA, a multinational company from France, acquired Nurun Inc, a Montreal-based provider of digital marketing services, for $125 million, from Québecor Média Inc.
