Lawson Lundell LLP has a Vancouver-based pension and employee benefit specialist team that focuses on advising clients in Western Canada. Clientele of the firm includes employers and boards of trustees of multi-employer pension and benefit plans in a wide range of sectors such as financial services, manufacturing, government and resources. The team are experts in the Income Tax Act and provincial and federal pension standards issues facing plan sponsors and administrators. The firm also assists clients with regulatory issues involved with governing, litigating, investing, merging and terminating pension and employee benefit plans. The practice is led by Murray Campbell, who assists boards of trustees and sponsors of pension and benefit plans in British Columbia, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Kenneth Burns focuses on legislative and regulatory compliance, governance and plan design, while Lisa Chamzuk centres her practice on multi-employer pension plans and employee life and health trusts. Megan Kaneen is noted for her work on pension plans for single-employer plans and multi-employer plans.
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Key clients

  • CMAW Target Pension Plan Board of Trustees

Lawyers

Leading partners

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Next Generation Partners

Junior partners with significant recognition from clients and peers in the market and key roles on multiple matters.

Practice head

Murray Campbell

Other key lawyers

Kenneth Burns; Lisa Chamzuk; Megan Kaneen