Sam D. Sherman

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Sam Sherman is an associate in the Axinn's Antitrust group. His practice focuses on antitrust transactions, litigation, and government investigations. He has represented both U.S. and multinational clients across a variety of sectors, including life sciences, technology, and cannabis.

Sam D. Sherman

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Sam earned his JD at Stanford Law School, where he was awarded the John Hart Ely Prize for Outstanding Performance in Lawyering for Innovation in Artificial Intelligence and also earned two Gerald Gunther Prizes for Outstanding Performance in Communications Law. Sam was a summer associate with Axinn in 2019.

Prior to law school, he was a Research Fellow at Stanford University, where he used cutting-edge social scientific methods to study difficult questions of law and public policy and co-authored two articles about improving government service delivery based on empirical evidence. Sam holds a BA in Mathematics and Economics from Wake Forest University, where he was a Nancy Susan Reynolds Scholar and recipient of the David and Lelia Farr Prize for Excellence in Economics (awarded to one graduating economics major for outstanding achievement).

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JD – Stanford Law School (2020)
BA, summa cum laude – Wake Forest University (2015)

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December 18, 2022

The FTC’s New Unfair Methods of Competition Policy Statement: To What Extent Will The Approach Survive in Court?

Axinn associate Sam Sherman co-authored the Competition Policy International article, "The FTC’s New Unfair Methods of Competition Policy Statement: To What Extent Will the Approach Survive in Court?"

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May 25, 2022

Antitrust Litigation is Coming to Cannabis

Axinn partner Lisl Dunlop and associate Sam Sherman co-authored the Cannabis Business Executive article, "Antitrust Litigation is Coming to Cannabis."

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Antitrust

April 6, 2022

Axinn Matter Named 2022 GCR Behavioural Matter of the Year – Americas

Axinn is pleased to announce that Google’s defense of DOJ and State AG investigations and related litigation and multi-district class actions – which we have worked to defend alongside Freshfields, Ropes & Gray, Williams & Connolly, Wilson Sonsini, and Yetter Coleman – was named “Behavioural Matter of the Year – Americas” by Global Competition Review. This award recognizes “creative, strategic and innovative work carried out in a non-merger matter before an enforcer in the Americas.” The Axinn team is led by partners Daniel Bitton and John Harkrider, and includes partners Bradley Justus and Russell Steinthal, counsel James Hunsberger and David Pearl, and associates Caroline Boisvert, Chris Erickson, Drew Freeborn, Neelesh Moorthy, Sam Sherman, and Allison Vissichelli.

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May 3, 2021

Axinn Advised Columbia Care in its $240M Acquisition of Green Leaf Medical

Axinn represented Columbia Care, a market leader in the two largest cannabis markets in the world (California and Colorado) in its acquisition of Green Leaf Medical, a privately held, fully-integrated cannabis multi-state operator based in the mid-Atlantic region for $240 million with the potential for additional performance-based milestone payments. Announced on December 22, 2020, the acquisition of Green Leaf will expand Columbia Care’s operational scale and footprint in four key, limited license markets by materially enhancing the scale and capabilities of its seed-to-sale operations. The deal closed on June 11, 2021.

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