Sam Gardiner

Sam Gardiner is a partner in the Salt Lake City office of Mayer Brown and a member of the Emerging Companies & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Capital Markets practices. Sam is also part of the Life Sciences and Technology industry groups. For over 24 years, Sam has been a trusted advisor to his clients in a full range of transactional matters. His M&A experience includes counseling buyers or sellers in financial or strategic transactions involving private or public companies in a wide variety of industries. Sam also advises companies and investors in early-stage, venture capital and other private equity financings, debt financings, registered public equity financings, PIPEs, recapitalizations, restructurings and strategic partnering transactions. In just the last decade, Sam has assisted clients in more than 100 mergers and acquisitions, financings, or similar transactions.

• Selected as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” (Utah) by Chambers USA (currently: Corporate/M&A), 2006–2023
• Included in The Best Lawyers in America (Corporate Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law), 2010–2016, 2018–2022
• Included in Utah Business Legal Elite (Corporate Law & Transactions), listed since 2006

• Brigham Young University, BA, cum laude, Philosophy
• Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School, JD, cum laude

• Utah

• Member, Utah State Bar Association
• Member, Utah Chapter, Association of Corporate Growth
• Member, Board of Directors, Open Doors