Maggie Carmichael

Practice Areas

Pensions, Benefits and Executive Compensation

Career

Maggie is a pension and benefits lawyer with Toronto-based firm, Brown Mills Klinck Prezioso LLP, and 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 and governance matters and works with employers in the design, drafting and implementation of incentive compensation plans. Maggie also provides advice on the pension, benefits and equity-based compensation aspects of corporate transactions, including mergers & acquisitions and reorganizations.

Prior to joining BMKP Law, Maggie practiced in the pension group at a pre-eminent Canadian law firm.

Professional Memberships

• Canadian Bar Association, Pension and Benefits Law Section, Member

• Ontario Bar Association, Pension and Benefits Law Section, Member

Publications

• The Legal 500 Canada – Rising Star: Pensions (2023, 2024)

Experience

Representative Work:

• Acted as counsel to a number of pension plan administrators, including a multi-national pharmaceutical company and a multi-national technology company, on corporate reorganizations.

• Advised a manufacturing and distributing company in Companies Creditors’ Arrangement Act proceedings with respect to the wind-up of its defined benefit and defined contribution pension plans and the treatment of surplus.

• Advised on the merger of several single employer pension plans into an Ontario jointly-sponsored pension plan.

• Acted as counsel to a multi-national industrial manufacturing company in respect of its Canadian pension and savings plans, including governance, compliance and regulatory matters.

• Advised on the acquisition of a Canadian home improvement and construction products retailer, which included providing advice on the retailer’s pension, benefits and equity-based compensation arrangements as well as the drafting and implementation of post-closing incentive compensation plans.

• Provided advice to financial institutions and borrowers in connection with pension aspects of various credit facilities.

Education