Samer Zabaneh

samer.zabaneh@lw.com

+1.737.910.7302

"Very skilled and highly respected practitioner."

Chambers USA 2024

"Whip-smart, pragmatic and he makes the effort to maintain a high level of knowledge and awareness of his client's business and industry."

Chambers USA 2024

"A reliable, trusted and business-savvy advisor."

Chambers USA 2024

"A highly skilled technical lawyer who combines that skill with excellent commercial nous."

Chambers USA 2024

Band 1 – Corporate/M&A and Technology: Corporate & Commercial

Chambers USA 2024

"Sam is very experienced. He has substantive skill counseling across financing, M&A, corporate governance and even capital markets."

Chambers USA 2023

"Sam is a good M&A lawyer with a lot of experience."

Chambers USA 2023

"He's a stellar lawyer."

Chambers USA 2023

"Good instincts on where to be more aggressive and where clients need to be cautious."

Chambers USA 2021

"Thoughtful, efficient and very responsive."

Chambers USA 2021

Profile

Sam Zabaneh, the firm’s Austin Office Managing Partner, advises public and emerging private companies and their venture capital and private equity investors through their life cycles, from formation to liquidity.

Drawing on more than two decades of experience, Sam advises clients across industries — particularly technology and life sciences — on a broad range of corporate issues, including:

General corporate matters
Various capital raising and liquidity event transactions
Private and public equity financing
Mergers and acquisitions
Corporate governance and periodic reporting requirements of publicly held companies

Experience

Representative clients include:

Aceable
Big Commerce
Next Coast Ventures
RetailMeNot
RVshare
Tritium Partners

Sam’s experience includes advising:

Sale of financial services company to private equity backed company
A public e-commerce company in its sale to a private equity firm*
A software company in its initial public offering*
A UK-listed company in its acquisition of private US industrial companies*
An e-commerce company in its initial public offering and subsequent follow-on public offering*
An e-commerce analytics company in its sale to a public company*
A private equity firm in its acquisition of a transportation and logistics company*
A logistics company in its sale to a private equity firm*
An e-commerce company in its sale to a public company*
A public semiconductor company in the sale of one of its divisions*
A private equity firm in the leveraged buyout of an internet company*
A private semiconductor company in its sale to a public company*
Public and private companies in corporate governance and SEC reporting obligations*
Private technology companies and venture capital firms in preferred stock and debt transactions*