Sam Fowler-Holmes

Practice Areas

Sam Fowler-Holmes specialises in structured and unstructured trade, commodity and export finance, advising both financial institution and corporate clients on a range of financing products including pre-export financing, pre-payment financing, letter of credit and payment instrument facilities and working capital and borrowing base financings.

He has extensive experience advising clients on a wide variety of supply-chain finance structures and has acted for electronic platform providers and platform participants. Sam regularly advises on risk distribution techniques, including funded and unfunded participations and standby letters of credit and demand guarantees, and on insurance-related issues. He has acted on matters in relation to numerous jurisdictions across mainland Europe, CIS, Africa, Asia and the Americas and in connection with a significant range of commodities including oil, gas, metals and soft commodities.

Sam is ranked in Chambers UK, 2025 for Commodities: Trade Finance and is recognised as a ‘Leading Individual’ for Trade Finance by The Legal 500 UK, 2025.

Sam is a regular speaker at the Sullivan trade and export finance seminars and is a member of the International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA) Emerging Leaders Committee.