Bio

Sam Dames is a partner specialising in Tax. She has been with the firm since 1996. She is primarily involved in the tax aspects of UK and cross-border structured finance, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate tax including stamp taxes and VAT. Sam has advised on a wide range of tax issues across a variety of industry sectors, in particular advising clients in the Financial Services, Hotels & Leisure, Infrastructure & Project Finance, Lifesciences and Technology, Media & Telecommunications sectors. Sam advises on a wide variety of transactions, from the innovation required in order to implement structured finance transactions to the skills needed to marshal due diligence exercises across several jurisdictions on global acquisitions. Sam is a member of the tax committee of the Quoted Companies Alliance, which focuses on issues for smaller quoted companies. Sam is also a member of the PPP Forum and The Infrastructure Forum tax groups and the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry tax committee.