Sam Corbett is a partner in the firm's Belfast office. He specialises in all aspects of business recovery and insolvency related matters and has extensive experience acting for local and national banks, financial institutions, funds, creditors and insolvency practitioners. Sam has acted on a number of high profile corporate restructurings in Northern Ireland in recent years. Sam is also an adept litigator and specialises in advising financial institutions and banks on financial services and insolvency related litigation. Sam actively prosecutes and defends many litigation cases at the Commercial Court and Chancery Court in Northern Ireland.
Areas of Expertise
Restructuring & Insolvency/Litigation & Dispute Resolution/White Collar Crime/Restructuring & Insolvency/Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Experience Advising:
- Johnston Press Plc on the administration of the Group and Pre-Packaged Sale of its business and assets to bondholders
- EY as Administrators of McErlain's Bakery (Magherafelt) Limited (Genesis Crafty)
- KPMG as special liquidators of IBRC which is currently the largest, most complex and cross jurisdictional insolvency on the island of Ireland
- Quinn Group on all aspects of its corporate restructuring of debt in the region of circa €1.3 billion
- The Administrators of the Carvill Group, the Taggart Group of companies, Fultons Fine Furnishings and KPL Contracts Ltd
- Bank of Ireland, First Trust Bank, Ulster Bank, Danske Bank, Santander and Lloyds Plc, in relation to contentious litigation matters
- The Administrators of Valto Limited, Quito Developments Limited, Shanidar Limited, Ormeau Gasworks Limited and Acheson & Glover Limited
- Various distressed loan purchasers in respect of a wide variety of restructuring and enforcement matters arising from their purchase of loan portfolios
- The Administrators of the Wildrose Group of companies
- DETI on the first successful income payments order application in Northern Ireland
Market Recommendations
"He is phenomenally intelligent, one of the brightest I have ever worked with." (Chambers UK 2020)
Sources describe him as a "highly talented practitioner" who is "ascending very quickly." (Chambers UK 2019)
He is "unbelievably diligent and very technical," adding that "he clearly loves what he does." (Chambers UK 2018)
‘His work ethic is second to none’. (Legal 500 UK 2018)
Professional activities
Sam is a Law Society accredited mediator in commercial and civil disputes. Sam also lectures and tutors at the IPLS on the Insolvency and Civil Litigation modules.
Education
- LLB, Queens University Belfast, 2004
- IPLS, Queens University Belfast, 2006
- Solicitor, Law Society of Northern Ireland, 2006
- Solicitor, Law Society of England & Wales, 2016
Sam Corbett
Partner, Restructuring & Insolvency
Belfast