Michael Mazzuca

Partner

Michael Mazzuca is a Partner and the Practice Co-ordinator of the firm’s Pensions and Employee Benefits Group. Michael has extensive experience in providing legal advice across Canada to boards of trustees of multi-employer pension plans (MEPPs) and other jointly governed plans, including health and welfare plans and training funds. He also advises trade unions as well as plan member and retiree groups across Canada concerning legal matters related to plan governance, fiduciary duties and plan investments.

Michael’s experience includes litigating significant pension and benefit cases before administrative tribunals and various levels of court across Canada, including class actions. Michael has represented clients before the Ontario Financial Services Tribunal on matters relating to statutory and regulatory compliance, including partial wind-ups and funding requirements for multi-employer pension plans (MEPPs).

Michael is an adjunct professor at the University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law, Chair of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Ontario Financial Services Tribunal, a former Chair of the Ontario Bar Association, Pension and Benefits Section, current Treasurer of the Canadian Bar Association, Pension and Benefits Section, instructor for the International Foundation of Employee Benefits Advanced Trustee Management Standards Program, Director of the Multi-Employer Benefit Plan Council of Canada, and a regular speaker at conferences on pensions and employee benefits.

Experience

• MEPPs' Fight for Solvency Funding Relief
• Gay Lea Foods (Participating Cooperatives of Ontario Trusteed Revised Pension Plan)
• Aegon Canada Inc. v. ING Canada Inc.

News

• Eleven KM Lawyers and Six KM Practice Areas Listed in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2011
• KM Law Experience in Class Actions
• Michael Mazzuca, Anthony Guindon and Simon Archer Adjunct Faculty at the University of Western Ontario Law School

Memberships/Affiliations

• Adjunct Professor, University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law
• Director, Multi-Employer Benefit Plan Council of Canada
• Treasurer, Canadian Bar Association, Pension and Benefits Section
• Chair, Legal Advisory Committee of the Ontario Financial Services Tribunal
• Member, MEPP Advisory Committee of the Financial Services Commission of Ontario
• Member, Ontario Bar Association
• Member, International Pension and Employee Benefits Lawyers' Association
• Member, Canadian Pension and Benefits Institute
• Member, International Foundation of Employee Benefits Plans