Expertise

Sam acts for investors, developers and occupiers on a spectrum of acquisitions, disposals and portfolio management matters.  

Experience

Recent experience includes advising:

  • Popeyes Louisiana Chicken with respect to its U.K. entrance and ongoing expansion
  • Aberdeen Group PLC in relation to its £15m sale of an office block
  • Manchester Metropolitan University on its acquisition of the Manchester Technology Centre, Oxford Road (68,448 sq ft)
  • Blank Street Coffee with respect to its U.K. entrance and store roll out
  • AM Alpha with respect to the asset management of a building in Central London
  • Greater Manchester Pension Fund with respect to the acquisition, letting and subsequent disposal of an industrial asset (£30m) and supported on their £150m investment into a Blackrock healthcare fund
  • LaSalle Investment Management with respect to its purchase of two unstabalised distribution sites (circa £90m)
  • Limitless Digital Group with respect to its pre-let of a 100,000 sq ft logistics facility and its letting of a 248,000 sq ft warehouse
  • TRV Holdings Limited in relation to its acquisition of their new offices and the development of a logistics facility.
Languages
  • Spanish - good command
Education
  • University of Nottingham – BA (Hons) History (2008)
  • Manchester School of Law – Graduate Diploma in law (2010) 
  • BPP (Manchester) – LPC (2011)