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Sam Lawson

Partner

Melbourne

+61 383 721 109

Sam is a highly experienced Commercial Partner, with a practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, investments and fundraising, joint ventures, technology contracting, corporate governance and broader business advisory matters. 

EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

Sam has practised at other leading firms in Australia and the United Kingdom, as well as in-house as general counsel of Sigma Healthcare Limited. He has extensive mid‑market transactional work experience guiding founders, investors and business leaders through complex and strategic legal challenges.

Sam brings to Moray & Agnew a pragmatic, solutions‑driven style, with extensive experience guiding founders, investors and business leaders through strategic legal challenges.

He has provided deeply embedded commercial support to clients across pharmaceuticals, healthcare, logistics, food, IT, and emerging industries, as reflected in the breadth of the matters he has led.

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

  • Joint venture and shareholders agreements across healthcare, food retailing, and fast‑growing consumer brands
  • Complex commercial contracting in pharmaceuticals, technology procurement, logistics, and retail networks
  • Support for early‑stage and growth‑stage companies during investment rounds and equity structuring
  • Ongoing legal support to businesses requiring quasi‑in‑house commercial counsel services.

Sam’s recent mergers and acquisitions experience includes advising:

  • Bourne Digital on its sale to Accenture
  • The management team of Invetech on their management buyout from Fortive Corporation
  • Get Wines Direct on its sale to Boozebud
  • A care economy entrepreneur on the acquisition of Complete Care Disability Services
  • Olympic33 on investment/joint venture in Sentient Dynamics
  • Sigma Healthcare on is acquisition of Medical Industries Australia.

Expertise

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Laws (Hons), 2000, University of Adelaide

Memberships

  • Law Institute of Victoria