Mark A. Surchin ’78
Partner, Goodmans LLP
Elected 2015
President, Alumni Association, 2015-2019
Mark Surchin recently retired as a partner of Goodmans LLP in Toronto where he had an active transactional and advisory practice in the area of business law. Mark is recognized as a leading lawyer in various publications and now plans on playing a "senior counsel" role where he helps younger lawyers establish their new practice while he focuses more on his board work. Mark is adjunct faculty at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto where he teaches a corporate law and governance course. He also is on the governing board of the regulator of lawyers in Ontario as well as on the governing board of its for-profit insurance company.
The native of Montreal became president of the Brandeis Alumni Association on July 1, 2015 and the first Canadian to lead the organization that represents the University’s increasingly international alumni body. Surchin founded the Alumni Club of Toronto in 2000 and has served on the Alumni Association Board of Directors since joining as a vice president in 2007. He helped establish the Brandeis-Canada Endowed Scholarship to support Canadian students and raise the University’s profile north of the border. In 2024 created a scholarship in the name of his late parents, Hyman and Meta Surchin, to mark the University's 75th Anniversary.
Surchin graduated summa cum laude with high honors in Politics from Brandeis in 1978 and was elected Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his JD from the University of Toronto.