Expertise
Sam acts for investors, developers and occupiers on a spectrum of acquisitions, disposals and portfolio management matters.
Sam is particularly active within the Firm's Leisure; Workspaces; and Logistics and Light Industrials sub-sectors and guides a number of international investors and brands as they expand their portfolios in the UK.
- 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 ongoing store roll out (EMEA)
- AM Alpha with respect to a number of asset management mandates
- Greater Manchester Pension Fund with respect to the acquisition, letting and subsequent disposal of an industrial asset (£30m)
- Greater Manchester Pension Fund on the property aspects of its £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.
- Atmos Padel on all matters, including their ambitious national expansion
- Aberdeen Group PLC in relation to its sale of an 84,000 sq ft distribution centre
- 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)