Alison Youngman
SENIOR PARTNER,
STIKEMAN ELLIOTT LLP

 

Career Overview

Ms. Youngman is a senior partner of Stikeman Elliott with wide-ranging corporate and commercial experience in a variety of industries, advising both public and private corporations. She leads the firm’s Outsourcing Group, is co-chair of the firm’s Negotiated Acquisitions Group and is a member of the firm’s Technology Group. She deals primarily with outsourcing transactions, both for suppliers and customers, mergers and acquisitions, commercial matters, including joint ventures, licensing and distribution, and cross-border investments.
Ms. Youngman is a member of the firm’s Management Committee in Toronto and serves as a co-chair of the ABA Negotiated Acquisitions Committee Task Force on Joint Ventures. She is a member of the Licensing Executives Society, the ABA Cyberspace Committee, the CBA Corporate Laws Committee and coordinates the firm’s membership in the Sourcing Interests Group, a leading forum for major participants in strategic outsourcing.
Ms. Youngman is recognized by 2003 LEXPERT, the Canadian legal directory, as a “leading practitioner” in the area of Technology Law and is rated by Martindale-Hubbell as “AV”, their highest category concerning legal ability and ethical standards. Ms. Youngman is a co-author of Intellectual Property in Canada (Juris Publications) and Mergers and Acquisitions in Canada (Kluwer). She is a frequent speaker and author of a wide range of corporate and commercial matters, including numerous papers and presentations on outsourcing and international joint ventures. Called to the Ontario Bar in 1986 and admitted as a solicitor for England and Wales in 1994.