Heather A. Barnhouse
LL.B., M.B.A., B.Sc.
Associate
Year of Call: 2005 (Alberta)

Office: Edmonton

Languages Spoken: English, French

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Heather is a member of the firm’s Technology and Corporate Commercial Groups. Heather has experience drafting, reviewing and negotiating a broad range of technology-related as well as corporate/commercial agreements to assist clients with all aspects of their business, from organization, structural management, operational, financing and exit transactions (i.e. mergers and acquisitions).

Heather advises clients with respect to corporate issues relating to statutory requirements, shareholder and director issues, liability issues and other related matters from an organizational, operational and transactional perspective.

Heather also gained experience in software licensing, implementation support, service level and maintenance agreements.

Heather also has experience advising on regulations as well as drafting, reviewing and negotiating clinical trial agreements and ancillary documents related to clinical research for two of Canada’s largest research-intensive universities, focusing principally on confidentiality agreements, material transfer agreements, licensing agreements, service agreements, grant agreements, collaboration agreements and consulting agreements.

Heather has experience in managing, protecting and commercializing intellectual property for entities in the private as well as the public sector, gained from her work with the Research Services Office at the University of Alberta, where the technology was often developed and commercialized using government funding assistance.


AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Corporate | Commercial
Financial Services
Intellectual Property (IP)
Mergers & Acquisitions
Technology
Technology Transactions

EDUCATION
University of Alberta, LL.B. (with Distinction), 2004
University of Alberta, M.B.A., 2003
Concordia University College of Alberta, After-degree Diploma, 1999
University of Alberta, B.Sc., 1998

Heather helps clients organize their businesses as well as draft and negotiate contracts pertaining to their area of business. She also advises clients with respect to completing transactions involving their business.

REPRESENTATIVE WORK
Counsel to Matrikon Inc. on its US$139 million acquisition by Honeywell International Inc.
Acquisition of Valens Pharma Ltd. by Oncolytics Biotech Inc. by way of plan of arrangement for a purchase price valued at CDN$2.35 million in Oncolytic Biotech Inc. shares

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Member, Law Society of Alberta
Member, Edmonton Bar Association
Member, Canadian Bar Association (Intellectual Property Subsection)
Member, New York Bar Association
Director, Board of Directors, Lifesaving Society, Alberta and Northwest Territories Branch
Director, Board of Directors, Lifesaving Society National Branch
Legal Advisor, Lifesaving Society, Alberta and Northwest Territories Branch
Clinical Research Contract Professional

PRO BONO
Drafting and negotiating license agreements for proprietary technology for Lifesaving Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories
Drafting "Legally Speaking" articles for Lifesaving Society publications, advising on legal matters relating to aquatic facility management and lifeguards

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Member, Board of Directors, Lifesaving Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories
Legal Advisor, Lifesaving Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories