Sam has over 20 years’ experience advising clients on significant and complex commercial disputes and contentious insolvency matters both in Australia and around the world.

In addition to Sam’s experience acting on significant commercial disputes for ASX listed and multinational companies, Sam’s experience spans many of the most complex and substantial insolvency related litigation that has taken place in Australia across the last 25 years including Ovato, Halifax Investment Services, RiverCity, One.Tel, Allco and Harris Scarfe. He has authored over 50 published articles on commercial disputes and insolvency related issues. 

Sam also has extensive experience advising both print and television media in relation to defamation, legislative restrictions on publication and copyright.

Prior to joining JWS, Sam studied at the University of Cambridge where he received a Masters of Law degree and was awarded the Clifford Chance CJ Hamson Prize for Comparative Law. He then worked in the London office of a large US law firm, Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft, where he worked on some of Europe’s largest restructurings and insolvencies including TXU Europe, British Energy and Parmalat.