Samantha Horn

Law Practice

Samantha Horn is a partner in the Toronto office of Stikeman Elliott and practices corporate and commercial law. Her practice is primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and private equity and venture capital financing, including investments and buy-outs, as well as fund formation activities. Ms. Horn is the head of Stikeman Elliott's Private Equity and Venture Capital Group in Toronto.
Ms. Horn as been recognized by the 2010 Lexpert/American Lawyer's Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada for Corporate Mid-Market and The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2010, as a leading practitioner in the Corporate Mid-Market and Private Equity sectors. She is also listed in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2010 for Securities Law, and PLC’s Which lawyer? as “highly recommended” for Private Equity: Fund Formation and “recommended” for Private Equity: Buyouts.

Professional Activities
Ms. Horn is the immediate past chair of the Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association and was appointed in August 2010 to the Council of the ABA’s Business Law Section. Ms. Horn is also a member of the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity Association, Women in Capital Markets and WAVE - Women's Association of Venture and Equity, a U.S. organization. She is a committee member for the Capital Connection of the Association for Corporate Growth Toronto.
During the time she was an associate at Stikeman Elliott, Ms. Horn was seconded for a short period of time to Working Ventures Canadian Fund Inc., a labour-sponsored venture capital fund, as an investment analyst.
She has participated as a speaker in various seminar programs with respect to private equity and venture capital financing and fund formation, most recently at the ABA meeting in Vancouver in April 2009 and Chicago in August 2009.

Publications
Ms. Horn has written various articles on issues of interest to private equity and venture capital firms which include:

“To bind or not to bind: a recent case on a binding letter of intent”.
“Top 10 Issues to Consider in Creating a Private Equity Fund”.
“Employee Optionholders and Shareholders – Foresight is Key to Maintaining Flexibility for the Future”.
“OSC Decision in Momentas Case Raises Registration Concerns for Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds”.
“Representation and Warranty Insurance: A Better Way to Get Deals Done?”
“Board Observers Beware: A Discussion of Liabilities and Risks Facing Board Observers from a United States, Canadian, and Italian Law Perspective”.
“Staying Out of Jail: Beware of Section 347”.
Representative Work
CAI Funds in connection with DynaPlas Ltd., and Shred-Tech Inc.
OMERS Private Equity in its acquisition of Give and Go Prepared Foods, in its acquisition of Maxxam Analytics International Corp.
OMERS Private Equity and Marketwire on the acquisition of Sysomos Inc.
JLA Ventures in its investment in I Love Rewards Corp. and on the conversion of its existing investment in I Love Rewards Inc. into exchangeable shares.
JLA Ventures in its investments in Glassbox Television Inc.
Canterbury Park Capital L.P. in its investment in Paragon Pharmacies Limited.
XPV in its investment in Pionetics Corporation.
QuickPlay Media Inc. in various financings.
VentureLink funds in connection with various investments.
Zylog in its acquisition of assets of the Brainhunter Group.
Maximum Seafood in the sale of shares to Premium Brands Holdings Corporation.

Education

Queen's University (LL.B. 1991, economics 1986-1988).

Bar Admission

Ontario, 1993.