Amanda Smith Hatt

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Amanda’s practice focuses on corporate commercial, corporate finance and corporate governance. She routinely provides advice regarding acquisitions, lender side financing, tech start-ups, venture capital investments and general corporate commercial transactions.

Amanda is qualified to practice law in Nova Scotia, England and Wales. While practicing in the United Kingdom, she worked on a number of large international corporate transactions including a $3 billion sovereign bond issued by the Government of Ghana in collaboration with African development banks and investment bankers in London and New York.

Amanda brings further experience in the area of privacy law and cybersecurity, particularly in the context of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union. She assists companies with international reach to ensure they are complying with their GDPR obligations.

Amanda is involved in several altruistic pursuits outside of her professional responsibilities including being a board member of McInnes Cooper’s Corporate Social Responsibility Committee and the Cole Harbour Parks and Trails Association. Amanda initiated a partnership between McInnes Cooper and the Refugee Sponsorship Training Program (“RSTP”) and regularly does pro bono work for both RSTP and the Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia (“ISANS”). She also runs the Little Free Library in the Cole Harbour Heritage Park.

An outdoor enthusiast, Amanda has canoed across Nova Scotia through the Shubenacadie Canal system and cycled the length of PEI along the Confederation Trail. She is an avid traveler having lived in three different continents and visited over 25 countries. Amanda taught herself how to ride a motorcycle while volunteering in Vietnam and still enjoys the hobby when time and weather permit. She is happily married with an athletic daughter and an adopted sphynx cat from Ukraine.