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Sam Snider

Sam Snider

Partner and Atlanta office managing partner at McDermott Will & Schulte, focused on cross-border M&A, joint ventures, and private placements.

Oct 7, 2026

18:36
[laughs]
18:37
I, I saw this statistic.
18:39
You know, when you think about, when you think about African deals, or at least when I think about African deals, you've got, like, mining and minerals is one category of things.
18:48
You've got sort of people playing around the edges doing consumer stuff, trying to figure out how they're gonna take advantage and ride the wave.
18:56
And then you have the big infrastructure investment that needs to happen because it, it is an emerging mar- It shouldn't take you three hours to get to the airport in Lagos, you know, when you're two miles away.
19:10
No offense to Lagos, that just was something that came to mind.
19:13
But the thing that was interesting is when you think about those big infrastructure projects, in my mind, like, you know, just because that's what it's been for, like, a generation, that's going to be Chinese investment coming in and some mix of debt and equity, and your local government is going to wind up completely in hock to the Chinese.

21 MINS LATER

40:04
But, but it is, it is distinctly more difficult in emerging markets for various reasons, I would imagine.

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