Peter Brown *
- Bachelor of Arts, Simon Fraser University (1994)
- LLB, University of British Columbia (1997)
- British Columbia (1998)
- Ontario (2023)
“It is important that you get reliable and practical advice from a lawyer who understands your business and your industry. My clients depend on me as a trusted advisor to help them achieve their goals and objectives.”
Peter J. Brown is a regulatory and business lawyer. He provides advice on a wide range of transactional and day-to-day business activities for commercial clients and financial institutions. Peter often acts in the role of General Corporate Counsel for his clients, providing legal and strategic advice to help them succeed in accomplishing their business and organizational goals.
In particular, Peter has extensive experience in working with credit unions, including the following:
- credit union mergers and collaborations
- technology and software contracts
- banking system and digital online banking contracts
- credit card suppliers
- privacy and data protection compliance
- securitizations and financings
- loan acquisitions and syndications
- executive employment contracts
- corporate governance
- purchase and sale of insurance and financial planning agencies general regulatory compliance
Peter is a Partner at EKB and has been with the firm since 1996, when he first started as an articled student at EKB. He acted as managing partner of the firm between 2013 and 2016.
* Practicing through a Professional Law Corporation
- Lead counsel for approximately 25 credit union mergers over the years
- Has acted for almost all of the credit unions in the B.C. credit union system and acts as General Corporate Counsel for several credit unions on an ongoing basis, including Stabilization Central Credit Union of British Columbia
- Assists with the review and revision of three to four sets of Rules/Bylaws for credit unions each year
- Represented 34 B.C. credit unions and over 40 Ontario credit unions for a credit card supplier contract
- Represented five credit unions from B.C., Manitoba and Ontario, on a joint retainer basis, in connection with the negotiation of digital banking contracts
- Legal advisor for numerous CUSOs and other credit union collaborations
- Borrower’s counsel on the negotiation and completion of a US$100 million foreign bank deposit transaction for a credit union
- Borrower’s counsel for credit unions in connection with financings from CIBC, Desjardins and other similar lenders
- Assisted with the negotiation of multiple banking system contracts with Canadian and U.S. banking system suppliers
- Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada for work in Corporate Law since 2021 and Privacy and Data Security Law since 2021
- Nominated for Recognition by The Best Lawyers in Canada for the Best Lawyer in:
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- Banking and Finance Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Peter has acted as a guest lecturer for the Professional Legal Training Course, the bar admission course of the Law Society of British Columbia
- President and Director of Globalaw Limited, an international legal network with over 80 member law firms and 3,000 lawyers worldwide
- Former Director on the Board of Directors of an independent private school in Surrey, British Columbia