130 Adelaide St W, Suite 1005, Box 17, Richmond-Adelaide Centre, Toronto, ON
Year called to bar: 2003 (ON); 2010 (AB)
Sean is a partner at Brown Mills Klinck Prezioso LLP (BMKP Law), practising pensions, benefits and executive compensation law. Sean has more than 20 years of experience advising on pension fund investments, plan terminations, plan administration and compliance issues, disputes over the use of plan assets, development and documentation of pension and employee benefit plans, issues arising from corporate transactions and commercial insolvencies, and adherence to fiduciary duties. Sean also has experience advising on the establishment and implementation of incentive compensation arrangements, including, phantom stock, stock option, deferred share unit plans, share appreciation rights, employees profit-sharing plans and supplementary retirement plans. Sean has twice been seconded to major Canadian financial institutions to assist with pension and benefit-related issues and actively participates in organizations advocating for the Canadian retirement industry. Prior to joining BMKP Law in 2024, Sean practised in the pension group at a pre-eminent Canadian law firm. Sean has been recognized for his expertise by The Legal 500; Best Lawyers; Chambers and Lexology Index; and was 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.
