Pamela Odina

Practice Areas

Pensions, Benefits and Executive Compensation

Career

Pamela is a pension and benefits lawyer with Toronto-based firm, Brown Mills Klinck Prezioso LLP. She maintains a broad practice covering all aspects of pension, benefits and executive compensation law. She regularly provides advice to public and private sector clients on pension plan design, administration, compliance, funding and governance. She also provides advice on corporate transactions, including mergers & acquisitions and reorganizations. Prior to joining BMKP Law, Pamela worked at a large national law firm where she assisted clients, including a newly formed jointly sponsored pension plan, on a broad range of corporate, commercial, and governance matters.

Professional Memberships

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

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

• Association of Canadian Pension Management, Member

Publications

• The Best Lawyers in Canada (2023-2024)

• The Legal 500 Canada (2024)

Experience

Representative Work:

• Advised an Ontario based public sector employer on the wind up of its pension plan arrangement and participation in a government-sponsored defined benefit pension plan and a jointly sponsored defined benefit pension plan.

• Advised an employer on the implementation of a surplus sharing arrangement with members of the employer’s defined benefit pension plan.

• Advises on matters related to retirement compensation arrangement (RCA) trusts.

• Advised a federally regulated private sector employer in binding arbitration regarding union demand for improvements to its large defined benefit pension plan.

• Advised a public sector employer in relation to the pension aspects of insolvency proceedings.

• Provided advice to an employer regarding the implementation of an Employee Life and Health Trust (ELHT).

• Provides advice to major Canadian and US financial institutions in connection with the pension aspects of various credit facilities.

• Advises employers on negotiation of buy-in and buy-out annuity purchases for defined benefit pension plans.

Education