Marie-Claude Berger Paquin is an associate within Fasken’s Investment Products and Wealth Management group. She has extensive experience in matters of compliance, investment funds as well as pension fund asset management.
Marie-Claude has significant experience in compliance and is in a position to support managers of pension assets and investment funds with their various compliance issues in a Canadian context. For that purpose, she worked for more than five years as a legal counsel compliance for the pension asset management services (Canada, United States and United Kingdom) within a multinational in the aviation industry. She acquired an extensive knowledge of the laws and regulations applicable to pension funds.
With over five years of experience as an investment fund analyst with the superintendence of securities markets at the Autorité des marchés financiers , Marie-Claude advises clients from various industries in matters relating to both investment funds and mutual funds. Marie-Claude is also a member of the Compliance Committee of the Conseil des fonds d’investissement du Québec.
Marie-Claude obtained a bachelor’s degree as well as a master’s degree in law from the Université de Sherbrooke. She also completed a Professional Master’s degree in international trade law at the University of Montpellier in France.
Before joining Fasken, Marie-Claude worked as Chief Compliance Officer at a subsidiary dedicated to the international management of pension fund assets of a Canadian multinational in the aviation industry.