Sam Fowler-Holmes > Sullivan & Worcester LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Sullivan & Worcester LLP Offices
TOWER 42
25 OLD BROAD STREET
LONDON
EC2N 1HQ
England
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Sam Fowler-Holmes
Work Department
Trade & Export Finance Group
Position
Sam Fowler-Holmes 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, pre-payment financing, letter of credit and payment instrument facilities and working capital and borrowing base financings.
He has extensive experience advising clients on a wide variety of supply-chain finance structures and has acted for electronic platform providers and platform participants. Sam regularly advises on risk distribution techniques, including funded and unfunded participations and standby letters of credit and demand guarantees, and on insurance-related issues. He 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 International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA) Emerging Leaders Committee.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Trade finance
(Leading individuals)Sullivan & Worcester LLP has ‘a dedicated team with depth of knowledge and they are great people to work with‘. The firm is not only a key adviser to financial institutions, funds, corporate borrowers, agents and trustees, international and industry bodies on the full range of traditional trade finance instruments, but it is also a leading player in the development of digital banking in trade finance platforms. Geoffrey Wynne
(who is ‘the most experienced trade finance lawyer in the market‘), the ‘hugely knowledgeable, commercially aware‘ Simon Cook (who is ‘super-attentive to clients, and commercial when needed‘), Sam Fowler-Holmes (who is ‘super-attentive to clients, and commercial when needed‘), and Mark Norris (who ‘seeks to find solutions and understands that cost management is particularly important‘) are the lead partners. Managing associate Hannah Fearn and head of the UK insurance and disputes practices Marian Boyle are also key to the practice. Wynne recently assisted Lloyds Bank with the template structure for the UK’s first digital ‘promissory note’ purchase under the International Trade and Forfaiting Association’s (ITFA) Digital Negotiable Instrument initiative (DNI).