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Ari Kaplan is a partner at Koskie Minsky LLP and is recognized as a leading practitioner in the area of pensions and employee benefits by both the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and Best Lawyers in Canada. His clients include trustees of multi-employer pension plans, employee and pensioner groups, private and public sector trade unions and individuals. Ari's practice has a litigation focus with an emphasis on pension trust, surplus and wind up matters; administrative law and class proceedings involving pension rights; spousal pension and marriage breakdown entitlements; plan governance and regulatory compliance. Ari appears regularly before the Ontario Superior Court, Divisional Court and the Financial Services Tribunal and has appeared as counsel before the Federal Court of Canada, the Ontario Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada. Ari is the author of the book Pension Law (Toronto: Irwin Law, 2006), winner of the 2007 Walter Owen Book Prize, which is presented by the Foundation for Legal Research for excellence in legal writing and to reward outstanding new contributions to Canadian legal literature. His comprehensive study of Canadian pension law and regulation has been cited as an authority by the Supreme Court of Canada and other appellate courts and tribunals, and appears in law libraries across the country and internationally. Ari holds an LL.M. in administrative law, is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto and an Assistant Professor at the University of Western Ontario and teaches courses in pension law at both institutions. Ari also teaches at Osgoode Hall Law School's Essential Course on Pensions. Ari writes and speaks regularly for pension-industry publications and organizations, including Benefits Canada, Employee Benefits News Canada and the Canadian Pension and Benefits Institute. Ari is the editor-in-chief of the bimonthly Canadian Legal & Legislative Reporter and a contributing author to Employee Benefits in Canada (Third Edition Revised), both published by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP), and is part of the IFEBP teaching staff. Ari sits on the executive of the pension and benefits section of the Ontario Bar Association, and also sits on the Boards of Directors of Hillel of Greater Toronto and Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto and is a past-president of the Canadian Jewish Law Students' Association Selected reported decisions appearing as counsel: Kerry (Canada) Inc. v. DCA Employees Pension Committee (subnom Nolan v. Ontario (Superintendent of Financial Services)), [2007] O.J. No. 2176 (Ont. C.A.), rev'g [2006] O.J. No. 960 (Ont. Div. Ct.) supp. reasons [2006] O.J. No. 2141 (Ont. Div. Ct.), aff'g (2004), 41 C.C.P.B. 65 (Ont. FST) and (2004), 42 C.C.P.B. 119 (Ont. FST) and aff'g (2004), 44 C.C.P.B. 156 (Ont. FST). Potter v. Bank of Canada, [2007] O.J. No. 1174 (Ont. C.A.), rev'g in part (2006) 52 C.C.P.B. 147 (Ont. SCJ); related (2005) 45 C.C.P.B. 98 (Ont. SCJ) Cousins v. Canada (Attorney General) and Marine Atlantic Inc., [2007] F.C.J. No. 635 (Fed. Ct.), currently on appeal to the Federal Court of Appeal. Paramount Pictures (Canada) Inc. v. Dillon, (2006) 53 C.C.P.B. 88 (Ont. SCJ) and CBS Pictures Canada Inc. v. Dillon, [2006] O.J. No. 3669 (Ont. SCJ) Dhillon v. Hamilton (City), [2006] O.J. No. 2664 (Ont. SCJ) Paul v. Ontario (Superintendent of Financial Services) (2005), 48 C.C.P.B. 80 (Ont. FST) Monsanto Canada Inc. v. Ontario (Superintendent of Financial Services) (2004) 242 D.L.R. (4th) 193 (S.C.C.), aff'g 220 D.L.R. (4th) 385 (Ont. C.A.); aff'g (2001) 198 D.L.R. (4th) 109 (Ont. Div. Ct.) Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board v. Ontario (Superintendent of Financial Services) (subnom Stairs v. Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board) (2004), 236 D.L.R. (4th) 514 (Ont. C.A.), aff'g (2002) 33 C.C.P.B. 255 (Ont. Div. Ct.) and (2003), 36 C.C.P.B. 154 (Ont. Div. Ct.), and var'g (2002) 35 C.C.P.B. 103 (Ont. Div. Ct.) Baxter v. Ontario (Superintendent of Financial Services) and National Steel Car Limited (2004), 43 C.C.P.B. 1 (Ont. Div. Ct.) Hinds v. Ontario (Superintendent of Pensions) (2002), 58 O.R. (3d) 367 (Ont. C.A.) Fraser v. Falconbridge Ltd. (2002), 33 C.C.P.B. 60 (Ont. Sup. Ct.) C.F. Kingsway Inc. v. Goetz (2002), 32 C.C.P.B. 226 (Ont. Sup. Ct.) Maynard v. Ontario (Superintendent of Pensions) (2000), 23 C.C.P.B. 145 (Ont. Div. Ct.) |
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