Sam Salt

Associate Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP

London +44 20 7953 2509

Sam Salt

Practices

Overview

Sam Salt is a corporate associate in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He has experience across a wide range of corporate law transactions, with a focus on private equity transactions and cross border public and private mergers and acquisitions.

Sam has spent time on secondment at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York, and The Blackstone Group International Partners LLP in London.

Prior to joining Kirkland, Sam worked on the following matters, advising:

  • Anthony Danon and Carmen Alfonso Rico in connection with the formation of their pre-seed/seed investment business, Cocoa; 
  • Corsair Capital on its sale of RGI SpA to CVC Capital Partners;
  • Palamon Capital Partners on its sale of Feelunique Holding Limited to LVMH;
  • InvestIndustrial on various matters, including:
    • its acquisition of CSM Ingredients, and
    • the sale of its interest in Polynt-Reichhold;
  • Aston Martin Lagonda on its £4.33 billion initial public offering; and
  • DS Smith on its £1.45 billion acquisition of Europac and related £1 billion fully underwritten rights issue.

Slaughter and May, London

  • Associate, 2020–2022
  • Secondment to The Blackstone Group International Partners LLP, 2020–2021
  • Secondment to Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, New York, 2019–2020
  • Trainee Solicitor, 2018–2020

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2020, Admitted to Practice as a Solicitor of England and Wales

Education

  • BPP Law School, LondonAccelerated Legal Practice CourseCommendation2018
  • BPP Law School, LondonGraduate Diploma in LawCommendation2017
  • Oriel College, University of OxfordM.St., Global and Imperial HistoryDistinction2016
  • University of BristolB.A., HistoryFirst Class Honours2015