130 Adelaide St W, Suite 1005, Box 17, Richmond-Adelaide Centre, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 2003 (ON); 2010 (AB)
Sean Maxwell is a seasoned pension, benefits, and executive compensation lawyer with 20+ years of experience. He is a partner at BMKP Law LLP, a pension, benefits, and executive compensation law boutique. Sean advises employers, plan administrators, and financial institutions on pension governance matters, pension fund investments, plan terminations, plan administration and compliance issues, surplus utilization and withdrawal, and the implementation of new pension and employee benefit plans. His expertise includes issues arising from corporate transactions and commercial insolvencies, and the establishment and implementation of incentive compensation arrangements, including phantom stock, stock option, deferred share unit (DSU) and share appreciation rights plans, employee profit-sharing plans, and supplementary retirement plans. Sean has twice been seconded to major Canadian financial institutions to assist with pension and benefit-related matters and actively participates in organizations advocating for the Canadian retirement industry. Sean has been recognized by Chambers and Partners, Best Lawyers, The Legal 500, and the Lexology Index, was featured on Benefits and Pensions Monitor’s 2025 Hot List and was named one of Thomson Reuters’ Stand-out Lawyers in 2021.
On August 31, 2018, the Government of Canada indirectly acquired the Trans Mountain Pipeline system and the Trans Mountain Expansion Project (TMEP), through Trans Mountain Corp. (a subsidiary of the Canada Development Investment Corp. (CDEV)) from a subsidiary of Kinder Morgan Canada Ltd. (KML) for cash consideration of $4.5 billion.
HollyFrontier Corporation (HFC) announced the completion of the acquisition of Suncor Energy’s Petro-Canada Lubricants business (PCLI) for $1.125 billion. The transaction closed on February 1, 2017.
Intact Financial Corporation, through a wholly owned subsidiary, completed its acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding shares of Canadian Direct Insurance Inc. from Canadian Western Bank. The acquisition was financed by IFC exclusively with excess capital. The acquisition enhances IFC’s position in Canada by extending its direct-to-consumer operations from coast to coast.
