Samantha C.G. Si

Ms. Si’s experience includes advising:

M&A

• Open Co, an online lending platform for individuals, in its acquisition of BizCapital, a B2B SME lending platform
• Eleusis, a life sciences company dedicated to transforming psychedelics into medicines, on the sale of the company to Beckley Psytech, a clinical stage company operating in the same sector
• Duke Street, Wagamama management, and certain other shareholders in connection with the acquisition by The Restaurant Group plc of the Wagamama group companies
• Platinum Fortune on the sale of Jagex, a UK gaming company, to Carlyle
• LanguageLine on its acquisition of Capita Translation and Interpreting, a translation and interpretation business
• OTA on its acquisition of Kriya RevGen LLC, a hotel revenue management solutions platform
• Novolex (a Carlyle portfolio company) on their acquisition of Vegware, a pioneer in plant-based compostable food service packaging and utensils 
• Fortress Investment Group on the acquisition of Vannin Capital, a UK-based litigation funding business
• 4Wall Entertainment, an AV equipment provider on its acquisition of Smart AV
• Hellman & Friedman on the disposal of a minority stake in the Securitas Direct Verisure Group
• Astorg Partners on its acquisition of Audiotonix, a global producer of audio mixing consoles
• Integro, an Odyssey Investments portfolio company on its acquisition of Risk Transfer Group, an international insurance and reinsurance broker
• An asset manager and a private equity firm on the acquisition, and re-investment in a global specialist insurance and reinsurance broker

Emerging Companies

• Bessemer Venture Partners on Raft.ai’s US$30 million Series B round
• Index Ventures as lead investor on the US$52 million Series B funding round of GetHarley
• Euler on its US$32 million financing round led by Haun Ventures with participation from Variant, Jump Crypto, and Uniswap Labs Ventures, among others
• RobinAI, a legal-tech startup, on its Series A and Seed rounds
• Tactic on its seed financing round led by Index Ventures, joined by Visionaries Club and IFG.VC 
• Crowdcube on its US$13.5 million financing led by Circle alongside existing investors 
• Osler Diagnostics on its US$85 million Series C round
• Carbon Clean, a global leader in cost-effective industrial carbon capture, on the investment made by Chevron, one of the world’s leading integrated energy companies
• Moneybox on its £30 million Series C fundraising round
• Lead investor in Foretellix’s US$135 milion Series C round
• Lead investors on the financing round of Brusa HyPower
• Lead investor in Cambridge Epigenetix’s US$88 million Series D round
• Lead investor in Oviva’s US$80 million Series C round
• Investors in H2Pro Ltd’s US$75 million Series B round
• Lead investors in V7’s US$33 million Series A round
• Climate Innovation Capital on its investment in Groundwork’s US$18 million Series B round
• The joint lead investors, Coatue and Index Ventures, on their US$49.25 million investment in the US$151 million Series A-2 fundraising round of Linktree, a social media reference landing page / bio link tool
• Index Ventures on multiple series financings in various startups and growth companies including Beauty Pie, Sylvera, Motorway, LocTax, Workbounce, and Okendo

Insurance

• Just Group Plc, on the increase of its reinsurance coverage on tranches of existing and new business, and the expected implementation of a new mortality basis, in its longevity reinsurance arrangements with two reinsurers (SCOR SE and General Reinsurance)
• Rothesay Life plc on a new longevity reinsurance arrangement with MetLife