Samantha Chang
Associate
Samantha 's Assistant
Biography
Samantha Chang is a litigation and dispute resolution lawyer with particular focus on corporate-commercial and securities litigation.
Samantha regularly represents private and public clients across a broad range of industries. She advises clients in complex commercial litigation involving shareholder disputes, proxy fights, investment accounts, contractual disputes, intellectual property disputes, and competition law. She has acted as litigation counsel in obtaining court approval of plans of arrangement. Samantha has appeared as counsel in applications, trials, and appeals in all levels of court in British Columbia and in Federal Court, as well as in commercial arbitrations.
Before joining McEwan Partners, Samantha practiced at an international law firm in Vancouver, where she acted as junior counsel in one of the most prominent competition law class actions in Canada.
Samantha is the Vice President of the Executive Board of the Vancouver Bar Association and a member of the the CBABC Women Lawyers Forum Executive. She is also a contributing editor of The Advocate.
Samantha is fluent in Cantonese.
Recognition
- Brian Tsuji Graduating Award in Law Award, 2013
Education
- JD, University of British Columbia (2013)
- B. Comm. Marketing, McGill University (2009)
Associations
- Member, Canadian Bar Association (2010-present)
- Member, Trial Lawyers’ Association of British Columbia (2015)
- Member, Professional Women’s Network (2015)
- Member, American Bar Association (2016)
- Vice President, Vancouver Bar Association (2019)
- Director, Vancouver Bar Association (2017-2019)
- Member at Large (Mentoring Committee; Awards Committee), Canadian Bar Association Women Lawyers Forum Executive (2017)
- Member, Advocates’ Society (2017)
Bar Admissions
- British Columbia (2014)
Notable Cases
Yi Teng Investment Inc. v. Keltic (Brighouse) Development Ltd., 2019 BCCA 357, successful both on application and on appeal on behalf of the defendant developer seeking to discharge a certificate of pending litigation. Both the chambers judge and Court of Appeal concluded that the plaintiff’s claim gave rise to no “interest in land”.
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Ken McEwan Q.C., Samantha Chang and Will Stransky Successful in Opposing An Interlocutory Injunction Application for Yukon Mining Company
On December 3, 2019, Ken McEwan, Q.C., Samantha Chang, and Will Stransky successfully opposed an application for an interlocutory injunction and obtained costs of the application payable in any... Read more
January 8, 2020Ken McEwan, Q.C., Emily Kirkpatrick, and Samantha Chang, acting on behalf of the defendant developer Keltic, successfully strike plaintiff’s claim
In Yi Teng Investment Inc. v. Keltic (Brighouse) Development Ltd., Ken McEwan, Q.C., Emily Kirkpatrick, and Samantha Chang, acting on behalf of the developer Keltic, succeeded in its application... Read more
January 8, 2020