Bio
Sam is a Corporate Partner.
Sam advises businesses, entrepreneurs, shareholders and investors throughout the lifecycle of their organisations – supporting clients to achieve their strategic objectives, while managing legal risk and ensuring regulatory compliance.
With particular expertise in mergers, acquisitions, and business disposals, Sam works closely with clients and other professional advisers throughout every stage of the transaction – including advising on negotiations, due diligence, share purchase agreements, asset purchase agreements, and disclosure letters.
He also specialises in helping businesses establish effective governance procedures, maintain statutory compliance and address issues that arise during the operation and growth of their companies; supports clients with investment and funding transactions; and assists businesses with managing changes to their corporate structure, shareholder arrangements, and governance frameworks.
Examples of Sam’s work include:
- Advising several partners on their buy-in to a corporate veterinary partnership, including secured lending to support the deal.
- Supporting the founder of a food and beverage business on their exit by way of sale to a competitor, including deferred payments based on future business performance.
- Supporting several owner-managed opticians in their sale and joint venture arrangements with an acquisitive national corporate chain.
- Supporting numerous financial advice businesses on their disposals to a national consolidator.
- Supporting a multi-generational family in the sale of their building supplies company to a national chain.
- Supporting a large family business in the food production sector restructure their corporate and partnership interests in order to streamline a diverse mixed-asset portfolio.