Sam Zucker
Partner
Sam Zucker is a partner in O'Melveny's Silicon Valley and New York offices and transactions chair of the Firm’s Life Sciences Practice. Sam concentrates on corporate transactions for growth, life sciences, healthcare, and technology companies in the US and overseas. His practice includes mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, joint ventures, strategic alliances and partnerships, venture capital and private equity financings, international and multi-jurisdictional transactions, public and private securities offerings, and regulatory matters including SEC, NASDAQ, and NYSE rules and regulations. He works extensively with the Firm's international offices on acquisitions, joint ventures, and financings throughout the world.
Sam advises his clients' management and boards of directors on corporate governance and critical strategic matters, including acquisitions, corporate development, and capital market strategies as well as general corporate and regulatory issues.
Illustrative Professional Experience
- Mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances and partnerships, and public and private financings
- Cross-border and multi-jurisdictional transactions
- Concentrated representations of investors and portfolio companies in healthcare, biotechnology, and medical devices
Professional Activities
Clerkship, Honorable Fred I. Parker, US Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit
Visiting Scholar, Yale Law School, Ford, Holtzmann, and Olin fellow
Member, Entrepreneurs Foundation Advisory Committee of Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Recognitions
- Chambers and Partners, USA, Leading Lawyer in "Corporate/M&A" and "Life Sciences" sections (2007-12)
- Chambers and Partners, Global, Leading Lawyer in "Corporate/M&A" (USA - Foreign Experts; China - Experts Based Abroad)(Spotlight Tables)(2012)
- The Legal 500, Recommended Lawyer in "Capital Markets: Equity Offerings;" "Healthcare: Life Sciences;" and "Venture Capital and Emerging Companies" categories (2012)
- The Legal 500, Recommended Lawyer in "Mergers, Acquisitions and Buyouts: Venture Capital and Emerging Technology" category (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, and 2011)
- Named to the Daily Journal's 2011 list of the Top 25 Biotech Lawyers in California
- Named to the Daily Journal's 2008 "Top 20 Under 40" list of leading California lawyers under the age of 40
- Named to the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal's 2008 "Top 40 Under 40" list of rising stars in the Silicon Valley business community
- LMG Life Sciences, "Life Sciences Star" for outstanding transactional work (2012)