Samay Shah

Partner, Africa Practice Group Slaughter and May View profile

Samay is a partner with a broad corporate, commercial and financing practice. He is a leading partner in our dedicated Africa practice group and has extensive experience of advising on transactions across Africa and in the Middle East.

Samay has a broad financing practice covering acquisition finance, general bank finance and project finance, as well as restructurings.  He also has broad experience advising on corporate and commercial transactions, particularly in the infrastructure, energy and natural resources sectors. Samay spent five months on secondment at Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York in 2012.

Relevant experience includes:

• Sasol, the South African chemicals and energy company, on a number of financing matters
• Attarat Power Company and the project sponsors, Eesti Energia AS and YTL Power International Berhad, on the approximately $1.6bn project financing and development of a 554MW oil shale-fired power plant at Attarat um Ghudran, Jordan
• Aker Energy on its proposed reserves based loan financing of its participating interest in the DWT/CTP licence area offshore Ghana, as well as certain other matters