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Sam Tansley is an associate in the firm’s capital markets and governance group. His practice focuses on representing issuers, sponsors and underwriters in public and private capital market transactions, mergers and acquisitions, securities law compliance and other general corporate law matters.
Prior to joining Ropes & Gray, Sam worked as an associate in the Melbourne, Australia office of another leading global law firm, where he advised clients on a variety of equity capital markets and M&A transactions. During law school, Sam was a member of the Melbourne University Law Review and tutored in Constitutional Law.
Experience
- Represented Trinseo plc, in connection with a transaction support agreement to, among other things, (i) redeem its existing $115 million 2025 Senior Notes with the proceeds of a new super holdco term loan, (ii) enter into a new $300 million super-priority revolving credit facility and (iii) exchange at least $330 million of 2029 Senior Notes for new 2029 Second Lien Senior Secured Notes at a discount to par, providing at least $49 million of discount capture.
- Represented Eversource Energy in connection with its joint venture with Orsted AS, the global leader in offshore wind power, to develop deepwater offshore wind farms off the coast of the New England states and in divesting in a series of transactions its offshore wind portfolio to Orsted AS and Global Infrastructure Partners, a leading infrastructure investor.
- Represented Verastem Oncology, a late-stage development biopharmaceutical company, on multiple equity offerings and strategic transactions, as well as ongoing disclosure and governance matters.
- Represented Zai Lab Limited, a commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company based in China and the United States, on its $200 million follow-on offering of American depositary shares in November 2024.
- Represented Better Home & Finance Holding Company in connection with it’s privately negotiated exchange of convertible notes held by an affiliate of SoftBank for new senior secured notes and related transactions.
- Represented the capital markets advisors to Ares Acquisition Corporation II, a special purpose acquisition company, in the proposed business combination between Ares Acquisition Corporation II and Kodiak Robotics, Inc., a leading provider of AI-powered autonomous vehicle technology.
- Represented LSB Industries, a leading North American producer of industrial and agricultural chemicals, on a number of secondary offerings, as well as ongoing disclosure and governance matters.
- Represented Trinseo plc, a leading global specialty material solutions provider, and certain of its affiliates, in connection with a $1.1 billion innovative financing transaction addressing the Company’s near term maturities in September 2023.
- Represented Aurora Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, on its business combination with Better Home & Finance Company, a leading digitally native homeownership company, in 2023.
- Represented the capital markets advisors to Thunder Bridge Capital Partners IV, Inc., a special purpose acquisition company, in a business combination between Thunder Bridge IV and Coincheck Group N.V., the holding company for the cryptocurrency trading service Coincheck, Inc.
- Represented Cutera, Inc., a provider of aesthetic and dermatology solutions for practitioners worldwide, in prepackaged chapter 11 cases to reduce the company’s debt by nearly $400 million, or over 90%, and raise $65 million in new money through a rights offering and DIP and exit financings from existing creditors.
- Represented Sanofi on its strategic PIPE investment in Ventyx Biosciences, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, in September 2024.
- Represented a management-led buyer consortium on the merger and going-private transaction iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited, announced in November 2023.
- Represented the initial purchasers in connection with multiple Blackstone Private Credit Fund investment grade bond offerings.
- Represented SILK Laser Australia Ltd (ASX: SLA) in connection with its 2020 IPO and 2021 follow on offering.*
- Represented Carbon Revolution Ltd (ASX: CBR) in connection with its 2019 pre-IPO issue of convertible notes, its 2019 IPO and its 2021 equity raising.*
- Advised the underwriters in connection with two equity raisings by Pointsbet Holdings Ltd (ASX: PBH) in 2020 and 2021.*
- Advised the lead manager and underwriter on the IPO of Touch Ventures Limited (ASX: TPV), the venture capital arm of Afterpay Limited (now owned by Block Inc. (NYSE: SQ)), in September 2021.*
*Experience prior to joining Ropes & Gray