Vancouver

Suite 2800 Park Place

666 Burrard Street

BC

Phone 604.643.2969

Fax 604.605.3599

shatch@davis.ca

SHAWN HATCHAssociate Counsel

PROFILE

Shawn Hatch's preferred areas of practice are Pensions & Benefits lawand Corporate / Commercial / M&A law.

Pension and Benefits

Mr. Hatch's pension and benefit practice covers:

• The establishment of new pension and benefit plans• Negotiation of agreements with service providers such as investment

managers, custodians, actuaries, benefit consultants, carriers andunderwriters

• Advising on trustee duties and obligations as well as plan governanceand administration

• Advising on plan mergers, amalgamations, reorganizations andwind-ups

• Facilitating the resolution of pension and benefit disputes betweenlabour and management.

Mr. Hatch has extensive experience acting for and advising jointlytrusteed boards. Mr. Hatch regularly acts as counsel for a number ofprovincewide public sector pension and benefit plans, as well as anumber of multi-employer and single-employer pension plans.

Mr. Hatch has also acted as special counsel to government in respect ofan initiative to restructure provincewide public sector pension plans asjointly trusteed plans. In addition, Mr. Hatch has acted as special counselto facilitate the restructuring of the pension plan of a major utility in theprovince.

Mr. Hatch has acted as an independent third party appointee of anindustrial inquiry commission to settle the terms of a provincewidebenefit plan.

Corporate Commercial

Mr. Hatch maintains a diverse and active corporate practice includingacting for a major forestry company. Mr. Hatch has acted in respect of a

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number of significant acquisitions, tax-driven corporate reorganizationsand a number of domestic and foreign joint ventures.

AREAS OF PRACTICE

Corporate / Commercial / M&A, Forestry Law, Pensions & BenefitsLaw, Wills, Estates & Trusts, China & Southeast Asia

PUBLICATIONS & SEMINARS

• Course coordinator, Continuing Legal Education Pension andBenefits courses

OTHER ACTIVITIES

• Past chair and member, Canadian Bar Association (Pension andBenefits Subsection)

• Member, Canadian Bar Association (Business Law and Wills, Estateand Trust Subsections)

• Member, Canadian Pension and Benefits Institute

EDUCATION

• LL.B., University of British Columbia, 1978• B.A., University of British Columbia, 1975

PLACE AND YEAR OF CALL

• British Columbia, 1979