Adam Santa Maria

Adam Santa Maria is a corporate finance executive with a range of experience gained over 10 years of advising many of Australia's leading corporations undertaking corporate and commercial transactions, both as legal advisor and in investment banking, and as corporate consultant. Mr Santa Maria has particular expertise in corporate and commercial law, focusing on governance and risk. He also has experience in transaction structuring, management and execution.

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40under40 Winners

40under40 Award Winner 2021

All 40under40 winners for 2021

Name	Current company

Damion Verhoogt	Bruce Rock Engineering
Aaron Teo
Adam Santa Maria	SPARK Co-Lab
Alex Dorsch	Chalice Mining
Andy Wood	Committee for Economic Development of Australia
Ben Aldridge	30 Foot Drop
Ben Hollings	Blue Ocean Monitoring
Brendan Parker	LiveMine
Brittany Garbutt
Cameron Scadding	Source Certain
Christian Stanes	Peritas
Daniel Estrin	Estrin Saul Lawyers
David Jenaway	A&O Shearman
Dawn McAleenan
Ella Hickman	Hickman Family Lawyers
Erin Studsor
Gina Ravenscroft	Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
James Staples
Jaydon Hirst	JMH Group WA
Jess Karlsson	The General Gumala Foundation
Jo Hawkins	The University of Western Australia
Joe Oliver	Delorean Corporation
Justin Linney	Linneys
Kate Holsgrove	Tourism Council WA
Kate Kirwin	She Codes Australia
Katie Day	Fortescue
Kim Smith	Standing Strong
Kyla Smith
Melissa Strutt	3BY2
Michael Bartier	Atlas Building
Navik Shah
Neale Crawford	Recharge Petroleum
Neil Miles
Paul Claxton
Rebecca Epworth
Rob Mason	WA Fuel Supplies
Sophie Doyle	Alf the Label
Steven Russell	Blasta Brewing Company
Tim Cornish	Pentanet
Wade Jolly	KTrans

Share Transactions

Person Activity

	REMUNERATION UPDATE: Executive Chairman, Acacia Coal	02 Nov 2020
	REMUNERATION UPDATE: Executive Chairman, Acacia Coal	24 Aug 2020
	REMUNERATION UPDATE: Executive Chairman, Acacia Coal	30 Jun 2020

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Related Information

Positions - Previous

Position	Company	Year	Company's current rank
Managing Director	Discovery Capital Partners	2016 - 2022	22
Executive Chairman	Acacia Coal	2015 - 2021
Non-Executive Director	Future Battery Minerals	2018 - 2019	197
Co-Founder, Director	SPARK Co-Lab	2015 - 2018
Group Legal Counsel, Company Secretary	Matrix Composites & Engineering	2015 - 2018	49
Consultant	Argonaut	2015 - 2016	8
Principal Legal Counsel, Manager of Equity Capital Markets	Argonaut	2009 - 2015	8
Lawyer	Allens	2006 - 2009	4
Client Support Officer, Wealth Management	ANZ Banking Group	2002 - 2004

Directors Interest

Company	Date	Transaction type	Number of shares	Price per share	Transaction value	Nature of change
Future Battery Minerals	2019-08-29	Issued	1,833,333	$0.00		Other
Acacia Coal	2018-10-03	Issued	1,273,400	$0.00	$1,273	Rights issue
Acacia Coal	2018-08-09	Issued	65,000,000	$0.00	$650	Other

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M&A Deals

Announced	Bidder	Target	Transaction Type	Total Value
22/07/20	Acacia Coal	Sparc Technologies	Reverse takeover	$5.90m	>>

Political Donations

Party	Amount	Year
Liberal Party WA	$4950.00	2025