Sam specialises in structured and unstructured trade, commodity and export finance, advising both financial institution and corporate clients on a range of financing products including pre-export financing, prepayment financing, letter of credit and payment instrument facilities and working capital and borrowing base financings. Sam has extensive experience advising clients on a wide variety of supply-chain finance structures and has acted for electronic platform providers and platform participants. He regularly advises on risk distribution techniques, including funded and unfunded participations and standby letters of credit and demand guarantees, and on insurance-related issues. Sam has acted on matters in relation to numerous jurisdictions across mainland Europe, CIS, Africa, Asia and the Americas and in connection with a significant range of commodities including oil, gas, metals and soft commodities.
Sam is a regular speaker at the Sullivan trade and export finance seminars and is a member of the ITFA Emerging Leaders Committee.
Bar & Court Admissions
Solicitor, Senior Courts of England and Wales
Education
- College of Law: Legal Practice Course
- University College London: Masters in Public Law and Human Rights
- The Queen’s College, Oxford: Law
Awards & Honors
- The Legal 500 UK, Trade Finance - London - "Next Generation Lawyer" (2022)
- Chambers UK, Commodities: Trade Finance (UK-wide) - "Up & Coming Lawyer" (2022)
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ITFA's July 2022 NewsletterJuly 27, 2022
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Press ReleaseMay 5, 2022
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WorldECRIssue 108, April 2022
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flowMarch 10, 2022
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Press ReleaseDecember 14, 2021
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Press ReleaseOctober 21, 2021
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Press ReleaseSeptember 29, 2021
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Client AlertJanuary 15, 2021
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Press ReleaseJanuary 5, 2021
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Press ReleaseDecember 9, 2020
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Client AlertSeptember 2, 2020
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Client AlertJune 17, 2020
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September 27, 2019
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Sullivan Press ReleaseJune 28, 2019
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Sullivan Press ReleaseMay 3, 2019
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Press ReleaseFebruary 1, 2018
Seminars & Presentations
- Key Legal Issues in Trade Finance in 2022
St. Botolphs Church Hall, Bishopsgate, London (March 31, 2022) - A Practitioner’s Guide to Trade and Commodity Finance – a new edition and beyond
Trade & Export Finance Webinar (January 27, 2022) - Structuring Trade Finance Transactions Using SPVs: How to Balance the Risks and Rewards
Trade & Export Finance Webinar (October 21, 2021) - Managing Shifts In Supply Chain Dynamics
GTR UK 2021 (October 19, 2021) - Financing Receivables — Structures and Issues
Trade & Export Finance Webinar (March 25, 2021) - Trade Finance in 2020: annus horribilis, lessons for the future or a bit of both?
Zoom virtual program (November 5, 2020) - Challenges to trade and commodity finance in 2020
Le Restaurant de Paul, London (January 23, 2020) - Taking, amending and enforcing security in trade finance transactions
(July 18, 2019) - Insurance and finance case law update
(November 22, 2018) - Uses of Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) in structuring financing transactions
(June 21, 2018) - Bills of Exchange, Promissory Notes and Other Independent Payment Undertakings
Pinners Hall, 105-108 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1EN (8.45 - 10.00 am) (July 27, 2017) - “Crisis, What Crisis?” – What has the industry worried and what should the industry be worried about?
Pinners Hall, 105-108 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1EN (July 21, 2016)