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

Sidley Austin LLP
70 St Mary Axe
London
EC3A 8BE
England
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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)

Sam HamiltonSidley Austin LLP

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 Crooksbrings 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.