Jeremy Forgie practises in the Pension & Employee Benefits and Tax Groups. He is involved primarily in the areas of employee benefits, pensions and executive compensation.

Jeremy's practice emphasizes advising private and public sector employers, numerous Canadian and foreign consulting firms and financial institutions on cross-border, pension, tax, trust and benefit issues arising in connection with corporate transactions, privatizations, insolvencies, surplus and contribution holiday disputes, ongoing compliance with regulatory requirements and the development and documentation of pension and employee benefit plans and related investment products, funding and custody arrangements.

Jeremy has extensive experience in advising some of the largest pension plans in Canada on plan design, pension fund investment, divestiture, acquisition and wind-up issues. In addition to his pension practice, Jeremy works extensively with some of Canada's largest public corporations in advising on the design, implementation and taxation of executive and directors incentive and stock compensation plans.

Jeremy is recognized in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2007 and Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business 2008 as one of the leading pension and benefits lawyers in Canada. He is cited in the Federated Press Directory of Professionals as a "distinguished contributor," and in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2008, he was voted by peers as one of the leading employee benefits lawyers in Canada.

Jeremy has written and spoken across North America on a wide range of topics in the areas of pensions (including related fiduciary, trust and custodial issues), employee benefits, executive compensation and related income tax and pension law issues. Jeremy recently completed a six-year term on the Legal Advisory Committee (Financial Services Commission of Ontario).