Sam is an acting liquidator across a range of liquidations with investments and/or litigious assets throughout the U.S., Sub-Sahara, Asia and Europe. He has significant experience across trade finance (with a focus on emerging markets), financial services, mining and mining services, energy generation and retail, transport and logistics and large-scale infrastructure. Sam also sits on the board of directors of a number of companies, providing advice and assistance in difficult or crisis situations.
Prior to joining Kroll, Sam has spent nine years working in one of Australia’s leading insolvency and restructuring firms, where he was involved in numerous complex transactional advisory and restructuring engagements throughout Australia, including the successful re-licensing of the Toys R Us brand out of insolvency, as well as high profile matters such as the restructuring of RCR Tomlinson and McAleese Group. Sam has also spent considerable time seconded to various corporates to manage large scale teams delivering performance improvement and post-acquisition integration.
Sam is a Chartered Accountant and has a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia. Sam also completed the Graduate Diploma of Applied Finance (FINSIA) with a major of Corporate Finance and Advisory and the ARITA: Restructuring and Turnaround course. He also completed the Graduate Diploma of Chartered Accounting from Institute of Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand. Sam is a Member of the International Insolvency Institute (NextGen), a Member of the International Association of Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy Professionals (INSOL), a Committee Member of the INSOL Technical Newsletter committee and was also featured in the 2022 INSOL 40under40. He is the Cayman Islands Official Liquidator and a Member of Recovery and Insolvency Specialists Association (RISA) in Cayman Islands.
