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Samantha Myers

+44 (0)20 7759 6976 samantha.myers@gowlingwlg.com

Work Department

Corporate, M&A & Capital Markets; Listed Investment Funds; Natural Resources; Retail & Leisure; Equity Capital Markets

Position

Partner, Head of UK Cannabis Group

Career

Samantha Myers is a principal associate in the corporate group, specialising in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets.

Samantha has extensive experience of acting for companies, or their advisers, on IPOs and secondary transactions. She regularly advises on a range of domestic and cross border M&A transactions, including public takeovers.

Samantha’s experience includes a secondment to the Corporate Finance team of N+1 Singer where she worked on various Main Market and AIM transactions including IPOs, secondary fundraisings (including placings, rights issues and open offers) and acquisitions. She also provided rule advice and guidance on compliance and regulatory matters.

EXPERIENCE

Samantha’s recent experience includes advising:

• Pacific Industrial & Logistics REIT plc (PILR), a property investment fund, on its admission to AIM and associated placing of £12.2 million, and £27 million property portfolio acquisition
• Hummingbird Resources plc (HUM), the West African gold company, on its $71 million equity fundraising