Mazzatto, Kim

Sam Mawn-Mahlau practices in the Business Law area. He serves as general counsel and advisor to businesses in the technology, finance, and life sciences areas. His clients are focused on rapid growth through highly incentivized and educated workforces and focused business plans. Most of his clients either have or are developing valuable proprietary assets and a strong brand name, and many are focused on either a near to medium term exit strategy or on an acquisitive/accretive strategy for growth. These clients include public companies that rely on Davis Malm for representation in sophisticated transactional matters, prominent universities and hospitals that seek experience and knowledge in commercializing intellectual property, and newly formed corporations in need of general counsel capable of helping them steer their way through their full life cycle.

Sam has been involved in numerous venture capital financings, licensing agreements, and mergers and acquisitions, and has worked with many technology companies on successful long-term partnerships, collaborations, and joint ventures with other companies. His international experience includes extensive experience working with companies doing business in India, China, and Canada, as well as many other jurisdictions around the world.

Prior to law school, Sam served as deputy director for the Massachusetts Democratic Party and as a campaign manager for then-state senator (now Congressman) John W. Olver. Sam began his legal career as a tax lawyer. Over the course of the last decade, however, he has worked through most of the 12 steps to recovery from being a tax lawyer and has come to practice mainly as general counsel and advisor to businesses. Nonetheless, many of his clients continue to bring him matters motivated by complex tax issues, including cross-border transactions and joint ventures between taxable and tax-exempt entities, and he still obtains a guilty pleasure from parsing through lengthy tax regulations when the opportunity arises.

Sam is married with three children, whose photographs fill his office. He speaks no foreign languages.