Sam is Practice Group Head of HWLE’s Melbourne Corporate and Commercial Group.
Sam is a transactional lawyer with extensive experience in strategic corporate advisory work, including capital raisings and public and private M&A. An experienced team leader, he has a proven ability to successfully deliver complex projects with a solution-focused attitude and an ability to understand and clearly define key value drivers and outcomes.
Sam acts for a broad range of clients including publicly listed companies, private equity funds, SMEs, start-ups and high net wealth individuals and over a variety of industries including technology (including fintech, biotech, medtech and SaaS businesses), property, retail, agribusiness, hotels and tourism, and not-for-profits. Sam regularly advises in respect of employee incentive schemes and corporate governance issues and is a member of the Governance Institute of Australia.
Expertise
Experience
- Ridley Corporation Advising on its $125 million accelerated non-renounceable entitlement offer and institutional placement as well as $50 million perpetual note issuance to fund the $375 million acquisition of Incitec Pivot Fertilisers;
- Compass Education Advising the founder shareholders on its sale to EQT.
- Salter Brothers Providing advice on various investments, including majority investment in e-prescription platform business; Series A lead funding of global payments API platform business; acquisition of global payments API platform business; strategic investment into eProcurement cloud-based marketplace; and investment into telecommunications service provider.
- Citation Group Advising on its foray into Australia with the acquisition of FCB Legal and various bolt on acquisitions, including its and $88M acquisition of foundU by way of takeover offer.
- MedAdvisor Advising on its ASX listing and initial public offering, circa $85 million in subsequent secondary raisings, acquisitions of Adheris Health from NASDAQ-listed Syneos Health and GuildLink and the sale of its ANZ business operations to Jonas Software.
- Mantra Group Advising on its acquisition of the Art Series Hotel Group.
