Sam Richards Email & Phone Number

New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

My work focuses on enabling innovation and designing processes that scale, across:- Technology & Digital, including Open Banking,- Payments & Cards, - FinTech Partnerships.

London, United Kingdom

I established and led the legal function at JustGiving, an innovative FinTech with a start-up culture that is a consumer-facing social platform for giving. Through donations and crowdfunding, JustGiving has helped over 24 million people raise over $4 billion for charities and other good causes since being founded in 2001.

London, United Kingdom

I specialised in complex corporate transactions (often cross-border), with a focus on public and private M&A, including joint ventures and corporate governance. I advised a wide variety of sectors (including FS, technology, pharmaceuticals, energy and media) and clients (financial institutions, multinationals and investment funds).

Broad ranging corporate/commercial legal practice, with a focus on commercial contracts and competition law, for both government and private sector clients.