Sam Schlessinger

Mr. Schlessinger has served as Senior Vice President, General Counsel of Assertio since July 2021. Mr. Schlessinger joined Assertio as Senior Corporate Counsel in May 2020 and more recently served as Vice President, Legal, overseeing SEC reporting, corporate governance, due diligence and new business development, capital markets and licensing transactions, litigation, intellectual property, and compliance.

Most recently he served in the position of Corporate Partner for Dentons, LLP where he advised public and privately held clients in mergers and acquisitions, buyouts and recapitalizations, and securities transactions. In this role, he had significant transactional experience representing private equity and other clients in acquisitions and divestitures in regulated industries, with a specialty in healthcare.

Prior to this, he was a Corporate Associate at McDermott Will & Emery LLP, where he focused on pharmaceutical monetization agreements, private equity transactions, leveraged buyouts, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, and reorganizations.

Mr. Schlessinger holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the Pomona College and a juris doctorate from the University of Illinois.