Sam Hamilton > Sidley Austin LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Sidley Austin LLP Offices

70 St Mary Axe
London
EC3A 8BE
England
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Sam Hamilton

Work Department
Global Finance
Position
Partner
Career
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.
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Acquisition finance
(Hall of Fame)Drawing upon a ‘great diversity of transaction experience across multiple asset classes and throughout the capital structure’, Sidley Austin LLP provides ‘super commercial and very responsive’ advice to a borrower-focused client base engaged in new money deals as well as refinancing work for portfolio companies. James Crooks ‘brings a huge amount of market insight and knowledge to every transaction’, ensuring that he is able to ‘guide clients deftly through how and where to push on terms’. The practice was recently bolstered by the arrival of Joe Kimberling, as well as new joint practice heads Sam Hamilton and Jay Sadanandan, all of whom joined from Latham & Watkins.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus > Life sciences and healthcare
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech: regulatory
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: white-collar crime (advice to individuals)
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Real estate > Property finance