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 Canadia n legal

literature. The text has been cited a s an authority by courts, tr ibunals,

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 i n Chambers Global and Lex pert, and has

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

by Best Lawyers in Canada. Ar i is a partner at Koskie Min sky LLP in

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

including Kerry and Mo nsanto 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 ti me, Ari is a part ner at Paper Bag

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

ent music label. He tweets as @ar imap.

Mitch Frazer is a partner and the chai r 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 speak s regularly on pension, benef‌its, employ-