Sam advises financial institutions, corporates and entrepreneurs in complex, cross-border commercial matters in the English Courts and in international arbitrations. He specialises in corporate and shareholder disputes, contract disputes, energy and commodity disputes, and financial crime.
Sam also has experience in contentious trust and private wealth matters. He advises trustees, executors, and beneficiaries in relation to a broad range of disputes.
Background
Sam graduated from Manchester University and Imperial College London, and qualified as a solicitor at Macfarlanes in 2016. Shortly afterwards, he moved to Switzerland and worked for international law firms in Geneva. He joined Enyo in 2022.
- Adelon AG -v- Sib Coal AG [2021]
- Integral Petroleum SA -v- Petrogat FZA & Ors [2021] EWHC 1365 (Comm)
- Integral Petroleum SA & Ors -v- Bank GPB International SA & Ors [2022] EWHC 659 (Comm)
- Farhad Azima -v- RAKIA & Ors [2022] EWHC 790, [2022] EWHC 1295, [2022] EWHC 2727, [2022] EWHC 2980, [2023] EWHC 693, [2023] EWCA Civ 507, [2023] EWHC 1923, [2023] EWHC 2108
- Karam Al Sadeq -v- Dechert LLP & Ors; Jihad Quzmar -v- Dechert LLP & Another [2022] EWHC 1197, [2023] EWHC 795, [2023] EWCA 1467, [2024] EWCA 28
- Acting for a minority shareholder in a multi-million dollar LCIA arbitration concerning a major Georgian telecommunications company.
- Obtaining a worldwide freezing injunction for a Swiss commodities trading company in support of arbitration proceedings.
- Acting for a UK and Swiss oil trader in a multi-million dollar LCIA arbitration against the largest crude oil producer in Turkmenistan.
- Acting for a major Brazilian oil producer in a multi-million dollar dispute concerning the quality of a shipment of very low sulphur fuel oil (VLSFO).
- Acting for various parties in response to Norwich Pharmacal proceedings.
- Acting for a major Cypriot retail bank in relation to a dispute arising out of its acquisition of another Cypriot bank’s business in 2018. "
