LAWYER PROFILE

Sami Mir

Global 2026

A&O Shearman

Ranked in 3 practice areas

Projects: Agency Financing

USA

6 years ranked

Project Finance

Latin America - International Counsel

5 years ranked

Projects

USA

14 years ranked

About

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Practice Areas

Sami is in the Projects, Energy and Infrastructure Group and ECA Group and serves as the Firm's relationship partner for a number of IFIs, including IFC, IDB Invest, DFC, U.S. Exim Bank, NADB and EDC.

Sami's practice is predominantly focused on advising lenders (including ECAs, MLAs, other official credit agencies and commercial lenders) and sponsors on project finance and PPP transactions, as well as equity and fund investments, in Latin America and emerging markets around the world. He is a native English speaker and is fluent in Spanish.

Sami is ranked Band 1 for Agency Financing 2020-2023 and band 2 for Projects by Chambers USA 2022. Sami has been ranked Band 2 for Project Finance by Chambers Latin America 2024. Legal 500 has noted him as “an up and coming name amongst lending agencies.” In addition, Sami was named a 2016 Law360 “Rising Star,” which recognized his work as a top project finance attorney under the age of 40.

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

Chambers Global Guide

Projects: Agency Financing - USA

Band 1

Individual Editorial

Sami Mir works with agencies operating across the Americas in the most sophisticated of agency-backed financings for large energy and infrastructure projects.

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Project Finance - Latin America - International Counsel

Band 2

Individual Editorial

Sami Mir enjoys extensive experience representing institutional investors, especially multilateral credit agencies, in important Latin American project finance mandates throughout the region, including in Chile and Central America.

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Projects - USA

Foreign expert in Latin America-wide

Individual Editorial

Sami Mir works with agencies operating across the Americas in the most sophisticated of agency-backed financings for large energy and infrastructure projects.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Sami is commercially minded and looking to move a transaction forward.
Projects: Agency FinancingChambers Global Guide
Sami Mir is a knowledgeable lawyer with a solution-driven approach. He always wants to move things forward, and we appreciate that.
Project FinanceChambers Global Guide