About the Authors

• Author: Ari Kaplan, Mitch Frazer
• Pages: 667-668

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Ari Kaplan, BA (Hons) (McGill), LLB, LLM (Osgoode), was the sole

author of the f‌irst edition of Pension Law, which won the 2007 Walter

Owen Book Prize for outstanding new contribution to Canadian legal

literature. The text has been cited as an authority by courts, tribunals,

and law commissions, including the Supreme Court of Canada. He is

an adjunct professor of law at the University of Toronto, and a past

associate professor of law at the University of Western Ontario. Ari is

top-ranked among his peers in Chambers Global and Lexpert, and has

been named “Lawyer of the Year” for Employee Benef‌its Law, Toronto,

by Best Lawyers in Canada. Ari is a partner at Koskie Minsky LLP in

Toronto, where he has been counsel on some of Canada’s leading cases,

including Kerry and Monsanto before the Supreme Court of Canada. In

2010, Ari was the Attorney General’s appointee as trustee on the Law

Foundation of Ontario. In his spare time, Ari is a partner at Paper Bag

Records (paperbagrecords.com), a leading North American independ-

ent music label. He tweets as @arimap.

Mitch Frazer is a partner and the chair of the Pensions and Employ-

ment Practice at Torys LLP. His practice focuses on all aspects of pen-

sions, benef‌its, employment, and executive compensation. He is an

adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and a for-

mer adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University.

He is the author of A Practical Guide to Private Pension Plans in Canada

(2012), publishes and speaks regularly on pension, benef‌its, employ-