Samuel Schwartz

Office Managing Partner, Toronto

Samuel Schwartz is the Managing Partner of the Toronto office of Davis LLP. He is qualified as a lawyer in both Ontario and Alberta and practises in the areas of corporate/commercial, corporate finance structuring and securities including merchant banking and public and private company transactions.

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His diverse client base includes Canadian and foreign companies involved in biotechnology, life sciences and computer hardware and software.

Sam has been regularly retained to assist established as well as start-up companies in accessing capital markets both in Canada and the United States.

In addition, he has been frequently requested to assemble professional teams of accountants and specialty counsel to assist Canadian companies in their business development efforts worldwide.

Selected Experiences

Professional Associations & Activities

Member, Canadian Bar Association
York University
Member of Board of Governors
Member of the Executive Committee, Board of Governors
Chair of the Academic Resources Committee
Chair of the Vice-President's Research and Innovation Initiative
Member of the Senate of the University
Jewish Federation of Greater Toronto
Member, Board of Trustees-Endowment Fund
In addition, Sam is a director of several corporations, including a large paper manufacturing and distribution company, and a private equity company.

Publications

Events

Patenting & Profiting: Practical Advice On Protecting And Commercializing New Technology
Davis LLP and Benoît & Côté Intellectual Property Seminar
Thursday, 27 October 2011
October 2011

In The News

Davis Team Advises VisualSonics in Sale to SonoSite
A team of advisors from Davis LLP was instrumental in the recent sale of VisualSonics Inc., a Toronto-based ultrasound technology company, to U.S. public company SonoSite Inc., with an aggregate transaction [more]
Tuesday, 3 August 2010
Samuel Schwartz Receives Osgoode's Alumni Golden Key Award
Davis LLP is pleased to announce Samuel Schwartz has been chosen to receive Osgoode's Alumni Golden Key Award for Achievement this year. The 2010 Awards will be presented on May 12, 2009. In recognition [more]
Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Olympic Torch finds home at Davis LLP
Vancouver - The BC Court of Appeal delivered its decision November 13th on whether or not the female ski jumping event should be included in the Vancouver Winter Olympics. The Court ruled against inclusion, [more]
Wednesday, 18 November 2009
Davis LLP's Expansion Plans and Aggressive Recruiting Campaign Draw Attention
First published in The Globe and Mail, February 14, 2007 | Beppi Crosarol Davis Makes its Pitch for Partners Few people know better than Doug Buchanan how hard it can be to crack Toronto's [more]
Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Davis LLP Announces New Partners, Associate and Associate Counsel
Davis LLP welcomes the following lawyers to the firm: Paul Beckmann, Q.C., Associate Counsel, Wills, Trusts & Estates (Vancouver) Bryan Dunn, Partner, Corporate Commercial, Japan (Vancouver) [more]
Tuesday, 16 January 2007

Samuel Schwartz

Office Managing Partner

Toronto

Phone
416.369.5278
Fax
416.777.7423
Email
sschwartz@davis.ca

Assistant

Jill Atkinson, 416.365.3527

Areas of Practice

Education

J.D., Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, 2010
LL.B., Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, 1972
M.A., Political Science, York University, 1969
B.A., University of Toronto, 1967
ICD.D, Certified Director Institute of Corporate Directors - 2006
STEP, The Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, 1998
Certified as a Trade-mark Agent in 1977, renewed 2006

Called to the Bar

Ontario, 1974
Alberta, 1978

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