Elizabeth M. 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, The Legal 500, and the Lexology Index, and is the recipient of the Ontario Bar Association’s 2017 Award of Excellence in Pensions and Benefits Law.