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Elizabeth Brown

Elizabeth Brown is one of Canada’s leading pension, benefits, and executive compensation lawyers, bringing more than 30 years of practice experience to her role as a founding partner of BMKP Law LLP. She advises public‑sector/broader‑public‑sector, and private‑sector employers, plan sponsors, and administrators on defined benefit, defined contribution, and jointly sponsored pension plans, as well as group benefit arrangements. Elizabeth’s expertise includes complex multi-party plan design and funding matters, major plan restructurings; administration, governance, fiduciary duties, regulatory compliance, plan design, major plan restructuring, mergers, wind‑ups, de‑risking strategies, and pension litigation. She is counsel to the Employer Sponsor of the University Pension Plan Ontario. Elizabeth was recently appointed to the OMERS Sponsors Corporation Board of Directors — serving on the Corporate Governance & Risk Committee and the Plan Design Committee — and to the National Ballet School Board of Directors. She is recognized by Chambers and Partners, Best Lawyers, Lexpert, and the Lexology Index, and is the recipient of the Ontario Bar Association’s 2017 Award of Excellence in Pensions and Benefits Law.

Elizabeth M. Brown

Elizabeth Brown is an experienced pension and benefits lawyer with Toronto-based firm, BMKP Law LLP. She advises public and private sector employers on a wide range of regulatory governance, compliance and administration matters relating to pension and employee benefits plans. Elizabeth appears as counsel on pension litigation disputes and has extensive experience advising on large corporate transactions, including insolvencies, mergers and acquisitions, and reorganizations. She provides ongoing advice to provincially and federally-regulated plan sponsors and administrators on jointly sponsored pension plans, defined benefit and defined contribution plans, and savings and profit sharing plans.

Maggie Carmichael

Maggie maintains a broad practice covering all aspects of pension, benefits and executive compensation law. She regularly provides advice to sponsors and administrators of provincially and federally regulated defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans on plan design, administration, compliance, funding, investment and governance matters, as well as plan mergers, plan wind-ups, and the distribution of surplus. Maggie also provides advice on the pension, benefits and equity-based compensation aspects of corporate transactions, including mergers & acquisitions and reorganizations. Maggie has experience working with employers in the design, drafting and implementation of incentive compensation plans, and with tax and other compliance issues relating to incentive compensation plans.

Sean Maxwell

Sean has extensive experience with a wide range of legal issues relating to pension and employee benefit plans. In his practice, Sean advises on pension fund investments, plan terminations, ongoing plan administration and compliance issues, disputes over the use of plan assets, development and documentation of pension and employee benefit plans, issues arising from corporate transactions and commercial insolvencies, and adhering to fiduciary duties. Sean also has experience advising on the establishment and implementation of incentive compensation arrangements, including phantom stock, stock option, deferred share unit plans, share appreciation rights, employees profit-sharing plans and supplementary retirement plans. Sean has been seconded to major Canadian financial institutions to assist with pension and benefit-related issues twice during his career.