King & Spalding LLP

Senior Associate

Sam Muir is a senior project development (PPP) and construction lawyer based in the firm’s Abu Dhabi office in the UAE. He advises sponsors, lenders, developers and procurers on large-scale, complex and first-of-a-kind infrastructure projects across the MENA region, particularly the UAE and Saudi Arabia. His clients include sovereign wealth funds, giga and mega project developers and leading multi-national corporations.

Mr. Muir’s experience spans the spectrum of social and hard infrastructure – from schools and hospitals to rail and shipping; from solar and wind farms to green ammonia and hydrogen production; from district cooling to data centres. His practice covers the full project lifecycle, including conception, structuring, tendering, bidding, negotiation and contract and claims management; he is familiar with most commonly used contract forms in the region including PPA, PPP, BOT, BOOT, EPC, DBO, D&B and O&M contracts. Sam is known for translating technical complexity into bankable, balanced contracts and for guiding projects from conception through to execution with a pragmatic, commercially focused approach. Both Sam and the deals he has led have been recognised with leading industry awards.