Elizabeth Brown, a founding partner of Toronto-based pension law boutique BMKP Law, is an experienced pension, benefits, and executive compensation lawyer. She advises public and private sector employers and Provincial governments on pension plan governance, compliance, and administration. She regularly provides advice to jointly sponsored pension plan sponsors. 

In 2021 she was appointed by a provincial government to serve on a three-person expert panel examining the financial health of a large Canadian jointly sponsored defined benefit pension plan.   Effective January 1, 2025, she has been appointed to serve a three-year term on the board of the sponsor corporation of one of the largest jointly sponsored plans in Canada.  

In addition, she has extensive experience advising clients on the pension aspects of insolvencies and restructuring and appears as pension litigation counsel.  Elizabeth is recognized for her expertise by The Best Lawyers in Canada, Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, the Legal 500 Canada, and Who's Who Legal: Canada. A former Chair of the National Pension and Benefits Section of the Canadian Bar Association, Elizabeth received the OBA Award of Excellence in Pensions and Benefits Law in 2017.  

Prior to obtaining her LL.B (Osgoode Hall Law School) and her LL.M (Leicester University),  Elizabeth graduated with a Bachelor of  Music in piano performance from Queen’s University, Kingston, continuing her piano studies thereafter in Vienna, Austria where she lived for a year following graduation.   

A career in pension law has not dampened a lifelong passion for and engagement with the world of art and music.