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Samantha Smart

Senior Associate

Samantha Smart is an experienced corporate and commercial lawyer with a strong background in supporting companies across all industries in commercial transactions and corporate governance, particularly across the resources sector.

Samantha specialises in advising in relation to public and private mergers and acquisitions, due diligence, farm-in arrangements, joint venture structuring and secondary capital raisings. Samantha also regularly provides advice to clients on a broad variety of corporate law issues and corporate governance risk mitigation, including directors' duties, continuous disclosure requirements, company secretarial matters and general regulatory compliance issues involving the Corporations Act and the ASX Listing Rules.

Samantha is a member of the Australian Mining and Petroleum Law Association (AMPLA), the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies Inc (AMEC) and The Law Society of Western Australia.

Samantha is also a co-author of several articles published in various energy periodicals.


Representative Experience

    • Acting as lead lawyer for the acquisition by UK-based firm ASCO Holdings Limited of all of the shares in Northern Territory company Shore Base Pty Ltd including conducting comprehensive due diligence and preparing and negotiating ongoing service and fuel supply arrangements and other sale documentation.
    • Assisted Onsite Rental Group in relation to its AU$70 million acquisition of Statewide Equipment Hire, a company specializing in supplying equipment to the mining, construction and industrial sectors.
    • Assisting listed company bioMD Limited in their successful off-market scrip-based takeover bid for Perth-based public unlisted company Allied Limited.
    • Assisting in advising Lachlan Star Ltd in relation to its acquisition of DMC Newco Pty Ltd, the owner of the CMD gold mine project in Chile.
    • Assisting ASX-listed AusQuest Limited, a listed exploration company, in the preparation and negotiation of documents for an exploration joint venture with Cliffs Natural Resources Exploration Inc, a US-based iron ore producer, in Southwest Peru.
    • Assisting Fortescue Metals Group Limited in relation to their acquisition of 100% of the Cloudbreak Power Station and the Christmas Creek Power Station.
    • Acting for Clough Limited in its application to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) for reinstatement of the company registration of its subsidiary company.
    • Assisting Itochu Minerals & Energy of Australia Pty Limited in connection with its farmin to ASX-listed Western Desert Resources Limited's Roper Bar iron ore project in the Northern Territory.
    • Assisting Crocodile Gold of Canada in all Australian legal aspects of its AU$51 million acquisition of the Northern Territory and Western Australian gold exploration and production assets of GBS Gold Australia. 
    • Assisting ASX-listed Royal Resources Limited in its AU$30 million acquisition of the Razorback iron ore project in South Australia.

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    Education

    Murdoch University, LL.B., 2005
    Murdoch University, B.A., 2005

    Admissions

    Supreme Ct. of Western Australia, 2007