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Sam Pout

Partner

Portrait of Sam Pout

Sam Pout

Partner

Contact
CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP
Cannon Place
78 Cannon Street
London
EC4N 6AF
United Kingdom
Languages English

Sam is a partner in the CMS Transactions team in London and a member of our Corporate Technology sector. With expertise in a wide range of corporate matters across the Technology, Media and Gambling sectors including investments, joint ventures and mergers and acquisitions, Sam advises a variety of clients (entrepreneurs/start-ups, established management teams, investment houses and large corporates) across all aspects of the corporate lifecycle; from initial investment rounds, through to more complex fundraising and, ultimately, company disposals/exits.

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Relevant experience

  • The Gamesys Group, the leading online gaming group, and its majority shareholders, on its c.£490m sale to JPJ Group plc and pre-sale carve out of its sports betting and games content business.
  • Cox Automotive on its acquisition of the vehicle services provider and Bruntingthorpe operator C Walton Ltd, expanding its whole-life vehicle services offering.
  • Cox Automotive on the sale of its online business to consumer vehicle platform Motors.co.uk to eBay.
  • The Pentland Group on its sale of the Ted Baker footwear licensee, No Ordinary Shoes Limited, to Ted Baker.
  • Pentland Ventures on its investment into Gideon Brothers, the AI and robotics logistics and manufacturing solution.
  • Echo, the UK start-up that offers an app to help people manage their medication and order repeat prescriptions for delivery, on the completion of its sale to leading healthcare organisation McKesson, owner of Lloyds Pharmacy.
  • Smedvig Capital on its lead investment in a £9.5 million Series B funding round in app commerce company Poq.
  • SIS Group on its disposal of SIS LIVE Limited, a leading provider of connectivity services, to NEP, a worldwide outsourced technical production partner supporting premier content producers of live sports and entertainment.
  • AppyWay on its £2.25m seed and £7.6m series A fundraisings from Aviva Ventures, Hyundai Motor Corporation, Sumitomo Corporation and Breed Reply into the kerbside management & technology app enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
  • Advance Venture Partners on its lead investment in the $15.4m series B fundraise by Clippings Limited, the London based curated online marketplace for interior decoration. 
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Education

  • 2008 – LLB, Oxford Brookes, Oxford 
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Expertise

10/05/2016
Olswang ad­vises GAME Di­git­al PLC on its ac­quis­i­tion of Aug­men­ted Real­ity...
This art­icle was pro­duced by Olswang LLP, which joined with CMS on 1 May 2017.In­ter­na­tion­al tech­no­logy, me­dia and tele­coms law firm Olswang has ad­vised spe­cial­ist video game re­tail­er GAME Di­git­al PLC...
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31/08/2016
Olswang equIP mem­ber Crowd Con­nec­ted passes 1m USD fund­ing mark after new...
This art­icle was pro­duced by Olswang LLP, which joined with CMS on 1 May 2017.Olswang equIP mem­ber Crowd Con­nec­ted has closed a new fin­an­cing round, tak­ing the com­pany to over US $1 mil­lion in seed cap­it­al...
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07/09/2022
CMS ad­vises LiveScore on £50m stra­tegic in­vest­ment from Ring­i­er
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS has ad­vised LiveScore on a stra­tegic in­vest­ment from Swiss-based me­dia and tech­no­logy com­pany Ring­i­er, valu­ing the busi­ness at £500 mil­lion. Foun­ded in 2019 by former Gamesys...
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17/08/2021
CMS ad­vises WOW Tech Group on > EUR 1 bn busi­ness com­bin­a­tion with Love­honey...
Mu­nich – WOW Tech Group and Love­honey, two of the glob­al lead­ers for sexu­al well­ness products, join forces. To­geth­er with Swiss brand Amor­ana – ac­quired by Love­honey in 2020 – they now form the...
Deals
03/07/2019
CMS wins Best Leg­al Team for Early Stage Deals at UK­BAA Awards
CMS is proud to have been named 'Best Leg­al Team for Early Stage Deals' at the coveted UK­BAA An­gel In­vest­ment Awards 2019, held in Lon­don.This award re­cog­nises the law firm that has made the most sig­ni­fic­ant...
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14/06/2019
CMS ad­vises Gamesys on its £490 mil­lion stra­tegic com­bin­a­tion with JPJ...
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS has ad­vised lead­ing on­line gam­ing group Gamesys and its ma­jor­ity share­hold­ers on the entry in­to an agree­ment to sell Gamesys (oth­er than its sports brands and games) to JPJ...
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29/10/2018
CMS ad­vises on Mo­tors.co.uk sale to eBay
CMS has ad­vised glob­al auto­mot­ive ser­vices pro­vider, Cox Auto­mot­ive UK, on the sale of its con­sumer-fa­cing car search busi­ness, Mo­tors.co.uk, to eBay. The com­ple­tion is sub­ject to com­pet­i­tion clear­ance...
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25/05/2018
CMS ad­vises fam­ily app Hoop on £4m Series A fun­draise
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS has ad­vised Hoop, a fast-grow­ing mar­ket­place which helps fam­il­ies find and book or­gan­ised loc­al activ­it­ies for chil­dren, on its latest in­vest­ment led by Edge In­vest­ments (‘Edge')...
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16/05/2018
CMS ad­vises Smed­vig on £9.5m Series B in­vest­ment in app com­merce com­pany...
In­ter­na­tion­al law firm CMS has ad­vised Lon­don-based ven­ture cap­it­al firm Smed­vig Cap­it­al on its £9.5 mil­lion Series B fund­ing in­vest­ment in App com­merce com­pany Poq. Ven­ture cap­it­al firm Beringea and...
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