Amanda Linett

First Year of Call
Ontario, 2002

Areas of Practice
Mergers & Acquisitions

Description
Amanda Linett is a partner and Co-Head of the Mining Group and a member of the firm’s Partnership Board. She is also a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity and Capital Markets Groups and a member of the Management Committee in the Toronto office. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions (cross-border and domestic), private equity and corporate finance transactions. Amanda has extensive experience advising senior management, boards of directors, special committees and other transaction participants in numerous M&A transactions (both friendly and hostile) as well as private equity firms and pension funds on public and private M&A transactions and strategic investments. She also represents issuers and underwriters in a wide range of corporate finance transactions, and regularly provides advice on corporate governance and securities regulatory compliance matters.

Professional Activities
Amanda is a member of the Canadian Bar Association and the Law Society of Ontario. She is also a member of the American Bar Association, where she is an active member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee. Amanda taught corporate finance at the University of Western Ontario as an adjunct professor.

Background
Amanda has worked in the firm’s London, England office.