London
T : +44 20 7466 1645
M : +44 7799 072 965
Expertise
Get in touch
Expertise
Sam has extensive financial services experience across structured finance, alternative investment funds, capital markets and investment banking. Sam leads the Maples Group’s UK corporate and fiduciary services business in London. He is also an experienced independent director, having served on the boards of a wide range of alternative investment vehicles, including hedge funds, private equity funds and structured finance vehicles across a variety of jurisdictions and strategies since 2011 and brings deep financial services expertise and knowledge from various strategies, regions and structures.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Fiduciary Services
Entity Formation & Management Services
Background
Sam joined the Maples Group in 2011. He previously worked in corporate finance and investment banking at Macquarie Capital in London and in Melbourne. During his time at Macquarie, Sam worked on equity capital markets and merger and acquisition transactions across a variety of sectors and regions, including working with Macquarie’s investment funds. Prior to that, he worked in the antitrust, competition and trade group at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in Brussels, focusing on EU merger clearances and antitrust cases.
EDUCATION
University of Melbourne, Australia, Bachelor of Commerce.
University of Melbourne, Australia, LLB (Honours).
University of Melbourne, Australia, LLB (Honours).
Professional Activities
Member of The Institute of Chartered Accountants, Australia and New Zealand.
Member of the Chartered Secretaries Canada – Accredited Director designation.
Member of the Institute of Directors, United Kingdom
Member of the Chartered Secretaries Canada – Accredited Director designation.
Member of the Institute of Directors, United Kingdom
Knowledge
The CLOser - September 2019
18-September-2019
Cautious Dawn for Europe's New STS Securitisation Regime
13-May-2019
The CLOser - February 2019
19-February-2019
European Regulation Survey: The Impact of Brexit and BEPS
01-November-2018
EU Risk Retention and the Impact on the Securitisation Market
12-June-2018
Data Protection Changes and Preparing for the Impact on UK Securitisations
01-March-2018