Shoosmiths LLP

Banking & Finance

Sam is a Principal Associate in the Manchester Banking & Finance team, with experience in a range of debt finance work including real estate finance, acquisition finance and general corporate lending.

He advises clients across a range of sectors, including living, student housing, industrial, retail, hotels, and healthcare. His clients include banks, property developers and investors, local authorities, high net worth individuals and alternative lenders.

Sam often leads high value and complex transactions, with extensive experience on investment and development financings on LMA documents. Sam has been ranked as a ‘Leading Associate’ in the 2025, 2026 and 2027 Legal 500 UK rankings.

Work highlights

• advising Balia Limited (a joint venture between Olympian Homes and Housing Growth Partnership) on the £75m refinancing of its PBSA scheme in Nottingham

• advising Renaker Build on £123m development facilities from Maslow Capital to fund the construction of the Elizabeth Tower and Victoria Tower residential developments in Manchester

• advising a clearing bank on a £111.83m debt facility supporting the acquisition and refinancing of a 65-property portfolio across Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and Ireland

• advising Vita Student on £146m senior and £27.5m mezzanine development funding for a PBSA scheme in Manchester

• advising Origin Homes (a joint venture between Feldberg Capital and Henry Boot plc) on an £84m development financing for a portfolio of industrial properties.

Sam graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne with a first class honours degree in History before going on to complete the GDL with Commendation and the LPC with Distinction at the University of Law. Sam joined Shoosmiths in 2014 as a paralegal in the Manchester Real Estate team before commencing his training contract in September 2015. He qualified into the Banking team in March 2017