Sam Cooper
Overview
Sam is an experienced commercial contracts lawyer with a diverse and comprehensive practice, advising clients across a wide range of sectors including sports, retail, luxury fashion, financial services, technology, life sciences, manufacturing, real estate, and health care. Sam focuses on drafting, negotiating, and managing complex commercial agreements, ensuring that his clients navigate their legal obligations efficiently and with minimal risk. Sam also has significant experience in high-value, cross-border transactions and has worked in the Middle East, advising clients based in both common law and civil law jurisdictions.
Career & Education
- University of Law, Chester, 2013
- Liverpool John Moores University , first class honors, 2012
- England and Wales
Sam's Insights
Firm News | 2 min read | 06.04.25
Crowell & Moring Advises Quantinuum on $1 Billion Joint Venture with Qatar’s Al Rabban Capital
Doha – June 4, 2025: Crowell & Moring advised Quantinuum, the world’s largest integrated quantum computing company formed by the merger of Cambridge Quantum and Honeywell Quantum Solutions, on its $1 billion joint venture with Al Rabban Capital, a prominent Qatari investment group.
Client Alert | 4 min read | 03.19.25
Publication | 01.01.25
Publication | 06.14.24
Representative Matters
- Advising a steel manufacturer on its complex, business-critical services arrangement with a port operator.
- Advising numerous Premier League and Championship football clubs on their sponsorship arrangements, including shirt sponsorship, shirt sleeve sponsorship, and stadium sponsorship.
- Advising two Premier League football clubs in relation to their kit supply agreements with a global sports brand.
- Advising a technology company on its agreements with various football leagues across Europe.
- Advising a client on its distribution and subsequent joint venture relationship with a French luxury design house.
- Advising a client on the establishment of a joint venture with a Italian luxury fashion house.
- Advising an international manufacturer of cosmetics and hygiene products in relation to the licensing of two of its brands.
- Advising a client on its relationships with well-known brands in the luxury fashion sector.
- Advising a client on the corporate restructuring of a mixed-use project development in the Levant valued at over US$310 million.
- Advising a listed Qatari real estate company on its joint venture with a Turkish healthcare company for the development and operation of a new private hospital in Qatar.
- Advising a client in the health care sector on its global distribution arrangements.
Sam's Insights
Firm News | 2 min read | 06.04.25
Crowell & Moring Advises Quantinuum on $1 Billion Joint Venture with Qatar’s Al Rabban Capital
Doha – June 4, 2025: Crowell & Moring advised Quantinuum, the world’s largest integrated quantum computing company formed by the merger of Cambridge Quantum and Honeywell Quantum Solutions, on its $1 billion joint venture with Al Rabban Capital, a prominent Qatari investment group.
Client Alert | 4 min read | 03.19.25
Publication | 01.01.25
Publication | 06.14.24
Insights
Sam's Insights
Firm News | 2 min read | 06.04.25
Crowell & Moring Advises Quantinuum on $1 Billion Joint Venture with Qatar’s Al Rabban Capital
Doha – June 4, 2025: Crowell & Moring advised Quantinuum, the world’s largest integrated quantum computing company formed by the merger of Cambridge Quantum and Honeywell Quantum Solutions, on its $1 billion joint venture with Al Rabban Capital, a prominent Qatari investment group.
Client Alert | 4 min read | 03.19.25
Publication | 01.01.25
Publication | 06.14.24
