Samantha Chapman

Samantha practises in corporate and commercial law, advising clients on a wide range of complex business transactions as well as operations contracts. Her experience includes purchases and sales of businesses across various industries, financing transactions, business formations and corporate restructurings as well as succession planning.

Samantha regularly negotiates and drafts both operational agreements and transactional documents on behalf of her clients with a view to maximizing the client’s interest and mitigating against business risks to her clients.

Earlier in her career, Samantha was involved in complex commercial disputes involving issues such as contract interpretation, shareholder disputes, fraud, and misappropriation of funds. That litigation experience has informed her corporate practice, giving her valuable insight into how courts deal with commercial disputes. As a result, Samantha is particularly effective at helping clients anticipate risk and structure transactions in ways that minimize the likelihood of future disputes.

In addition to her corporate practice, Samantha is also a registered trademark agent and assists clients with protecting their branding.

Expertise

Representative work

• Assist bankruptcy counsel with restructuring transactions as well as routinely implement corporate restructuring transactions, succession planning and creditor proofing purposes
• Represent borrowers to obtain acquisition financing as well as refinancings for general operations
• Routinely represent buyers and sellers in purchase and sale transactions, including representing a party on a transaction which included the buy-out of a key shareholder and the restructuring of companies under the CCAA, and representing minority shareholders on a contentious sale of their interest in a business to the majority shareholder