Adam Ngan, Toronto

About Adam

Adam's practice covers all aspects of pensions, benefits and executive compensation law, including plan administration, governance, investment, design and taxation. Adam regularly advises jointly sponsored and single employer pension funds on their real estate, infrastructure, private equity and other investments in Canada and abroad. He also advises on the pensions and employee benefits aspects of corporate transactions.

Adam provides legal services to both public- and private-sector pension plan sponsors and administrators.

Select Experience

Recent representative experience includes:

Lead counsel to the BC Financial Services Regulatory Authority in its successful dismissal of a regulatory appeal before the BC Financial Services Tribunal
Various pension funds on their private equity, real estate and hedge fund investments
Americold Realty Trust in connection with its acquisition of Nova Cold Logistics
Toronto-Dominion Bank on its acquisition of asset manager Greystone Managed Investments Inc.
Linamar Corp. in connection with its C$1.2-billion acquisition of MacDon Industries Ltd.
The Washington Companies on its US$1.5-billion acquisition of Dominion Diamond Mines

Professional Appearances

Co-speaker : Pensions Webinar Series: Key Topics and Developments in the Pensions and Benefits Sector
Blakes Business Class Seminar, Toronto, Ontario, November 19, 2024.
Co-speaker : Pensions Webinar Series: Key Topics and Developments in the Pensions and Benefits Sector
Blakes Business Class Seminar, Toronto, Ontario, May 14, 2024.
Co-speaker : Pensions Webinar Series: Key Topics and Developments in the Pensions and Benefits Sector
Blakes Business Class Seminar, Toronto, Ontario, November 28, 2023.
Co-chair : OBA Pensions & Benefits Law Program
OSFI/CRA/FSRA/DOF/MOF – Regulators Forum 2023, Toronto, Ontario, June 1, 2023.
Co-speaker : Pensions Webinar Series: Recent Developments in Pensions and Employee Benefits Law
Blakes Business Class Seminar, Toronto, Ontario, May 17, 2023.
Co-speaker : Pension Law and Administrative Law Issues
BC Financial Services Authority, Vancouver, British Columbia, December 2, 2022.
Co-speaker : Pensions Webinar Series: Key Topics and Developments in the Pensions and Benefits Sector
Blakes Business Class Seminar, Toronto, Ontario, November 30, 2022.
Co-speaker : Pension and Employee Benefits Updates for 2022
CPBI Live session – Webinar, Toronto, Ontario, October 18, 2022.
Co-chair : OBA Pensions & Benefits Law Program
OSFI/CRA/FSRA/DOF/MOF – Regulators Forum 2022, Toronto, Ontario, September 23, 2022.
Co-speaker : Crypto Currencies and Other Alternative Asset Classes: The Legal Challenges Facing Pension Plan Investors
IPEBLA Workshop, Amsterdam, Netherlands, August 30, 2022.
Co-speaker : Pensions Webinar Series: Key Topics and Developments in the Pensions and Benefits Sector
Blakes Business Class Seminar, Toronto, Ontario, June 9, 2022.
Co-speaker : Exiting the Pandemic: Insights on Executive Compensation and Pension Plan Investments
OBA Pensions & Benefits and Taxation Law Program, Toronto, Ontario, February 23, 2022.