Mark Zigler*
Partner

Practice Area
Pension and Benefits, Class Actions,
Expertise
Pension and Benefit Issues in Bankruptcy and Restructuring, Pension and Benefit Litigation and Regulatory Proceedings, Multi-Employer Pension and Benefit Plans
Called to the Bar
Ontario, 1980
Mark Zigler is a senior partner in the Pensions and Benefits Group with over 40 years of experience. He also chairs the firm’s class action committee. Mark served as the firm’s managing partner from 2006 – 2012.
Mark advises trustees of pension and benefits trusts as well as unions and groups of employees and pensioners. He has also acted as counsel in many high profile cases and class actions across Canada involving pensions, benefits and other employment related issues as well as major insolvency cases. He is co-editor and author of Employee Benefits in Canada now in its 4th edition and senior editor of the IFEBP Canadian Legal & Legislative Reporter. In 2009 he was named to the Ontario Advisory Council on Pensions and Retirement Income. In 2018-2019 he served as lead Commission counsel to the Gillese Inquiry into Long Term Care Homes in Ontario.
Mark has consistently been recognized as a leading practitioner in the field of Pensions and Employee Benefits by the Lexpert organization, Best Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Global and Who’s Who Legal Canada. He has also been selected to the Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. In 2015, he was awarded the Ontario Bar Association Award for Excellence in Pensions and Benefits Law. Mark has also served as an adjunct professor of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2015 and 2018.
*practicing through a Professional Corporation
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Education
LL.B., 1978, University of Toronto
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Memberships / Affiliations
- Former Chair, Multi-Employer Pension Plan Advisory Committee, Financial Services Commission of Ontario
- Member, International Foundation of Employee Benefits Plans and Past Chair of its Public Sector Plan and Government Relations Committees
- Member, Ontario Minister of Finance’s Advisory Committee on Pensions
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
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Latest News & Events
Mark Zigler and George Dzuro to Speak at the 56th Annual Employee Benefits Conference
July 13, 2023
Mark Zigler and George Dzuro will be speaking at the IF’s 56th Annual Employee Benefits Conference, September 10-13, 2023. The Conference will take place at the Palais des congrès de Montréal in Montréal, Québec. Mark will take part in a panel discussion on Legal/Legislative Developments — Central Canada and George will participate in a panel
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Mark's Publications
- Legislative Developments and the Top 20 Cases of 2017 - 2018
- Legislative Developments and the Top 20 Cases of 2016 - 2017
- Legislative Developments and the Top 20 Cases of 2015 - 2016
- Legislative Developments and the Top 20 Cases of 2014 - 2015
- Legislative Developments and the Top 20 Cases of 2013 - 2014
- Legislative Developments and the Top 20 Cases of 2012 - 2013
- Legislative Developments and the Top 20 Cases of 2011 - 2012
- Legislative Developments and the Top 20 Cases of 2010 - 2011
- Legislative Developments and the Top 20 Cases of 2009 - 2010
- Legislative Developments and the Top 20 Cases Of 2008 - 2009
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Employee Benefits in Canada – author and co-editor, soon in its 4th Edition (2015), 3d edition (2005)