Overview
Sam Snider focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions and private placements, including corporate minority investments and corporate JVs. He has closed more than 75 M&A and capital transactions with aggregate value in excess of $12 billion.
Before returning to private practice in 2017, Sam was chief legal and compliance officer, responsible for both the legal and cybersecurity functions, at a leading health information technology company. Prior to this position, he was vice president and lead acquisition counsel for a FTSE 100 information and analytics corporation, where he led the global M&A legal function.
Results
- Represented Baker Hughes in its sale of its reciprocating compression business to a private equity purchaser*
- Represented General Electric Company in its:
- Sale of its gasification technology business to Air Products International*
- Multi-jurisdiction, multi-disciplinary global restructuring projects in over 90 countries, supporting its business transformation and divestiture strategy*
- $2.45 billion acquisition by a portfolio company of GE Energy Finance all of the pipeline assets of Enron Corp.*
- Acquisition by GE Energy of substantially all of the assets of AstroPower, Inc.*
- Acquisition by GE Energy of the Enron Wind Energy business*
- Represented Scientific Atlanta, Inc. in connection with its acquisition of the Actives Business of Arris International, Inc. and Texscan de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.*
- Represented Plateau Excavation, Inc., in its sale to Sterling Construction Company, Inc.*
- Represented The Coca-Cola Company in its:
- Acquisition of Fairy Bottling Zambia, Ltd. (Zambia)*
- Acquisition of a majority interest in the non-alcohol ready to drink beverages business of Kgalagadi Breweries Limited (Botswana)*
- Acquisition of the on the non-alcohol beverages business of Zambian Breweries PLC (Zambia)*
- Acquisition of a majority interest in the non-alcohol ready to drink beverage business of Swaziland Beverages Ltd. (Eswatini)*
- Acquisition of a minority interest in the non-alcohol ready to drink *beverages business of Maluti Mountain Brewery Limited (Lesotho)*
- Sale of Montevideo Refrescos S.R.L. (Uruguay) and Commercializadora y Productora de Bebidas Los Volcanes (Paraguay) to Coca-Cola FEMSA*
- Transition of Anheuser-Busch Inbev’s majority interest in Coca-Cola Bottling Africa*
- Represented Pinnacle Renewable Energy Inc., in its acquisition of a 70% interest in the wood pellet manufacturing business of, and formation of a JV with, Westervelt Renewable Energy, LLC*
- Represented United Parcel Service in its acquisition of the minority interest in a majority-owned joint venture in Nigeria*
- Represented Greenway Health in connection with its:
- 20 percent investment in Lightbeam Health, Inc.*
- Acquisition of PeopleLYNK patient portal platform*
- US$644 million acquisition of Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc.*
- US$100 million of SuccessEHS, Inc.*
- Acquisition of assets of Misys Open Source Solutions health information exchange business*
- Represented RELX Group in connection with its:
- Divestiture of Totaljobs Group Ltd. To a subsidiary of Axel Springer AG*
- Acquisition of Portfolio Media Inc.*
- Divestiture of LexisNexis Insurance Software Solutions business*
- Divestiture of LexisNexis Deutschland GMBH to Wolters Kluwer*
- Minority investment (19.9 percent) in RocketLawyer, Inc.*
- US$4.1 billion acquisition of ChoicePoint, Inc., a leading provider of public records, background screening and insurances solutions*
- Acquisition of Wadhwa & Co. Nagpur*
- Divestiture of Latin American division (Mexico, Chile, Argentina)*
- Acquisition of BuyerZone.com, Inc.*
- Divestiture of certain US and Canadian trade exhibition and publishing assets*
- US$775 million acquisition of Seisint, Inc.*
- US$150 million acquisition of Dolan Media Company*
- Represented LINPAC Group Limited in connection with its:
- £860 million acquisition by Montagu Capital*
- Divestiture of its Plastics Division to Genpak, LLC*
- Represented Charys Holding Company, Inc. in connection with its US$200 million acquisition of Crochet & Borel Services, Inc.*
- Represented Habasit Holding AG in connection with its US$82 million acquisition of Summa Industries*
- Represented Hoshizaki America, Inc. in connection with its US$215 million acquisition of Lancer Corporation*
*Matter handled prior to joining McDermott
Community
- American Bar Association, member
- Georgia Bar Association, member
- International Association of Privacy Professionals, member
Credentials
Education
New York University School of Law, JD, 2000
Vanderbilt University, BA, magna cum laude, 1997
Admissions
Georgia
