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Nadine Côté

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Nadine Côté is Counsel in the Toronto office specializing in employment law and executive compensation.
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Nadine has practised for several years in the labour and employment law group at Canada's leading law firms and in-house at Manulife Financial and BMO Nesbitt Burns.

She is the author of the only comprehensive book in Canada on executive compensation titled "Executive Compensation: A Director's Guide", published by Thomson Reuters.

She also authors quarterly newsletters on executive compensation and is a frequent speaker on employment law matters.

Nadine has expertise in:

  • wrongful and constructive dismissal
  • executive arrangements
  • incentive compensation
  • employment standards
  • privacy
  • human rights
  • labour
  • pension and benefits

Nadine has drafted and advised on numerous:

  • employment and severance agreements
  • executive contracts
  • change of control agreements
  • retention arrangements and security-based compensation plans, including deferred share units, restricted and performance share units
  • employee share purchase plans
  • share appreciation rights
  • stock option plans.

Nadine has worked extensively on the executive compensation disclosure in the annual proxy circulars of public companies.

She has also worked on the labour and employment matters, privacy implications, executive compensation plans, executive agreements and prospectus disclosure in several prominent transactions, including:

  • Bell Globemedia's $1.7 billion acquisition of CHUM.
  • Cameco's spin-off of its gold mining assets with the $253.2 million IPO and secondary offering of Centerra Gold Inc.
  • BFI Canada Income Fund's combination of BFI Canada and IESI Corp. in a deal valued at $1.1 billion.
  • The consortium led by Brookfield Properties Corp. in the combined acquisition of O&Y Properties Corp. and O&Y Real Estate Investment Trust valued at over $2.1 billion.

Professional Associations & Activities

  • Member, Law Society of Upper Canada
  • Member, Canadian Bar Association

Other Activities

  • University of Guelph, Lecturer: employment standards, human rights, labour law, workers compensation, 2001
  • Osgoode Hall Law School, Guest Lecturer, Executive Compensation, Winter 2010, 2011
  • Speaker at various Human Resources Associations, including Brantford Human Resources Network, Niagara Human Resources Professional Association, Peterborough Human Resources Association 2001-2003

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Assistant

  • Claudia Paterson, 416.369.5286

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View this lawyer's education Education

  • LL.B., University of Western Ontario, 1997
  • B.Comm., Concordia University, 1992

View this lawyer's calls to the bar Called to the Bar

  • Ontario, 1999