Partner, Baker McKenzie LLP

Donna Walwyn heads the Pension and Employee Benefits Practice Group in Toronto. She has a wide range of experience in private practice and, prior to becoming a lawyer, worked for Ontario's pension regulator. Donna also practiced pension and benefits law exclusively with a leading boutique firm in Toronto before joining Baker McKenzie. Ms. Walwyn advises corporations, board of trustees, plan administrators and internal pension and benefits committees on all areas of pension and employee benefits law. These included plan and fund governance, regulatory compliance, retirement fund investment, fiduciary duties and obligations, executive compensation, health and welfare plan administration and pension and employee benefit issues in the general employment law and unionized context. She also provides pension specialist support in litigation and insolvency matters. Donna is the Immediate Past President of the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers, a Fellow of the Leadership Council for Legal Diversity, and a Member of the Ontario Bar Association, Finance Committee and the Law Society of Upper Canada, Equity Advisory Group as well as other professional and community associations. Ms. Walwyn is the recipient of a Lexpert Zenith Award for her work in advancing Diversity & Inclusion and an R.E.D. Award for Outstanding Pro Bono Contribution in Advancing Rights for Street Youth. Donna is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law and a 2000 call to the Ontario bar.

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