Samer Awadh

Samer works with clients in various industries, including:

• Agribusiness
• Manufacturing
• Mining
• Clean energy
• Technology

Samer’s recent experiences include acting as:

• Corporate and securities counsel to publicly traded companies, including on continuous disclosure, prospectus, issuer bid, reverse takeover and proxy dispute matters
• Lead counsel to the board of a Canadian public company in its successful response to various proxy battles initiated by a group of activist shareholders
• Lead counsel to a Canadian private company in its $50-million merger with a U.S.-based company
• Counsel to a group of investors in their divestiture of Saskatchewan assets valued at approximately $110 million in a clean energy facility
• Lead counsel to a Canadian group of companies in their acquisitions of agribusinesses in the aggregate amount of approximately $105 million
• Lead counsel to an agribusiness in connection with syndicated credit facilities in an aggregate amount exceeding $200 million
• Lead counsel to a group of crop input retailers with respect to the establishment and operations of their $20-million group

Samer has also acted for clients on some of the largest clean energy projects in Saskatchewan, including acting as the lead Saskatchewan counsel to the owner and manager of a $260-million wind energy project, and to a syndicate of Canadian and international banks in their $280-million financing of one of the largest wind energy projects in Saskatchewan.

• Director, The Public Pension and Benefits Administration Corporation (d.b.a. Plannera Pension & Benefits) (2024-present)
• Finance Advisory Board Member, Practical Law Canada (2023-present)
• Director, Economic Development Regina (2022-present)
• Director, Regina Symphony Orchestra (2021-present)
• Director, Regina Symphony Foundation (2021-present)
• Honourary Member-at-Large, National Business Law Section, Canadian Bar Association (2023-present)
• Chair, National Business Law Section, Canadian Bar Association (2021-2022)
• Officer, National Business Law Section, Canadian Bar Association (2018-2023)
• Executive Member, National Business Law Section, Canadian Bar Association (2016-2018)
• Director, Saskatchewan Sports Hall of Fame (2017-2023)
• Executive Member, Leaders Council, Hill and Levene Schools of Business (2017-2022)
• Chair, Saskatchewan Business Law South Section, Canadian Bar Association (2015-2018)
• Director and Treasurer, Regina Soccer Association (2015-2018)
• Editor, Saskatchewan Law Review (2012-2013)

• Author, “Canada Chapter in International Secured Transactions,” Thomson Reuters (2023)
  • The book is a treatise that examines the UNCITRAL (United Nations Commission on International Trade Law) Draft Guide on Secured Transactions, which is designed to promote increased access to low-cost credit by encouraging the introduction of effective and efficient domestic-secured transactions laws around the world. The book offers analysis of secured transactions law in over 30 commercial jurisdictions and leading practitioners from major law firms in North and South America, Europe, and Asia provide insightful, practical commentary on their respective countries security interests, comparing them with the provisions of UNCITRAL legislative guidelines and providing status review of implementation in their respective countries
• Co-author, “Canada Chapter in The Food, Beverage and Cosmetics Law Review,” The Law Reviews (2023)
  • The chapter provides an overview of the various legal and regulatory frameworks impacting the food and agribusiness sector. With a focus on recent developments, it examines areas such as unique issues related to financing and mergers and acquisitions, supply chain issues (including sustainability, anti-corruption, and labour and immigration), sales and marketing, general product liability, and the role of trade organizations,
• Presenter, “Board Governance Matters, including Board Duties, Liabilities, and Conflict of Interest Matters,” Numerous boards, including boards of publicly-traded companies, credit unions, self-governing bodies, business corporations, and not-for-profit corporations (2018–present)
• Co-author, “Delivery Delays, Foreign Laws and Payment Risks in International Sales Contracts,” 8:3 Global Ventures (September 2016)
• Co-presenter, “Typical Provisions in Real Estate Opinions,” Continuing Professional Development Seminar, Law Society of Saskatchewan (March 2016)

• Recognized in the 2025 edition of Chambers Canada (Corporate/Commercial, Saskatchewan)
• Recognized in the 2025 edition of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (Corporate Finance & Securities)
• BLG Research Fellow, University of Saskatchewan College of Law (2012)
• Orest and Marie Bendas Prize in Jurisprudence (2012)