SAM HAMILTON is a global co-leader of the firm’s Leveraged Finance practice. He has more than 20 years’ experience working on a broad range of complex leveraged finance transactions. He has particular experience advising private equity sponsors across a range of finance products.
Sam has been involved in a significant number of market defining transactions and his broad, multi-product, experience has seen him help structure numerous cutting edge “first of their kind” financings.
Sam is consistently recognized for his work by numerous industry ranking guides, including most recently:
- Legal 500 UK 2025 – Recognized in the “Hall of Fame” for Acquisition Finance.
- Chambers UK 2025 – Ranked for Banking & Finance: Big-Ticket where clients note that “He has vast experience and commercial awareness.”
- Legal 500 UK 2024 – Recognized in the “Hall of Fame” for Acquisition Finance.
- Chambers UK 2024 – Ranked for Banking and Finance: Big-Ticket where clients note that “Sam is technically skilled and always available to discuss and give proper advice. He also thinks about aspects outside of the financing world - implications on the client, implications on the deal and the deal dynamics; he covers all areas. He is a super good financing lawyer.”
- Chambers Europe 2024 – Ranked for Banking and Finance – UK where sources say that “Sam is very impressive; he has a deep understanding of the leveraged finance market and is pragmatic and adept at understanding what the real issues are to getting the deal done.”
- Chambers Europe 2023 – Ranked for Banking and Finance – UK where he is praised as “both brilliant and a critical thinker.”
- Chambers UK 2021 – Ranked for Banking and Finance – “One of the brightest lights in sponsor-side finance, providing cutting-edge advice and winning his clients the very best terms in the market.”
- Legal 500 UK 2021 – “He is one of the smartest and most effective and commercial lawyers in London and should be regarded as his generation's market-leading finance lawyer.”