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 Partner with EKB, with a regulatory and business law practice focused on credit unions, other financial services entities, and commercial clients. He advises on a wide range of transactional and day-to-day matters, including corporate governance, technology outsourcing arrangements, privacy and data protection compliance, financings, loan transactions, employment contracts, and regulatory compliance.
Peter often serves as general corporate counsel, providing legal and strategic advice that supports clients’ business and organizational goals. He has extensive experience advising credit unions on mergers and collaborations, technology and software contracts, banking systems and digital online banking contracts, credit card supplier arrangements, securitizations, financings, loan acquisitions and syndications, regulatory compliance, and insurance and wealth management agency acquisitions.
As leader of one of the largest Credit Union Practice Groups in Canada, Peter has acted for almost all the credit unions in the British Columbia credit union system and has represented credit unions across multiple provinces on complex commercial arrangements.
Peter has been with EKB since 1996, when he joined the firm as an articled student. He served as the firm’s managing partner from 2013 to 2016.
*Peter J. Brown practices through a Law Corporation.
- Lead counsel on over 25 credit union mergers.
- 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 multiple sets of Rules and Bylaws for credit unions each year.
- Represented 34 British Columbia credit unions and more than 40 Ontario credit unions in connection with a credit card supplier contract.
- Represented five credit unions from British Columbia, Manitoba, and Ontario, on a joint retainer basis, in connection with the negotiation of digital banking contracts.
- Acts as legal advisor for CUSOs and other credit union collaborations.
- Acted as borrower’s counsel on the negotiation and completion of a US$100 million foreign bank deposit transaction for a credit union.
- Acts as borrower’s counsel for credit unions in connection with financings from CIBC, Desjardins, and similar lenders.
- Assisted with the negotiation of banking system contracts with Canadian and U.S. banking system suppliers.
- Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada for Corporate Law since 2021.
- Recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada for Privacy and Data Security Law since 2021.
- Nominated for recognition by The Best Lawyers in Canada for Banking and Finance Law.
- Nominated for recognition by The Best Lawyers in Canada for Mergers and Acquisitions Law.
- Guest lecturer for the Professional Legal Training Course, the bar admission course of the Law Society of British Columbia.
- Immediate Past President and Director of Globalaw Limited, an international legal network with more than 80 member law firms and 4,000 lawyers worldwide.
- Former Director on the Board of Directors of an independent private school in Surrey, British Columbia.