Keith N. Sambur

Keith Sambur is a nationally recognized debt finance attorney who counsels private capital firms on complex, bespoke financing transactions and serves as co-head of Holland & Knight's Private Credit Practice.

For more than two decades, Mr. Sambur has advised private investment funds – including equity sponsors and credit funds, asset managers, hedge funds, portfolio companies, independent sponsors and other alternative capital providers – on intricate financing transactions across a broad range of industries. His practice is distinguished by a focus on customized capital solutions that combine legal innovation, commercial judgment and deep market knowledge.

Mr. Sambur is recognized in Chambers USA 2026 for Banking & Finance, where clients highlight his sharp commercial instincts, technical excellence and ability to navigate demanding financing challenges from legal and financial perspectives. He is particularly valued for helping clients execute transactions that require creative thinking, sophisticated structuring and coordination among multiple stakeholder groups.

Mr. Sambur's practice encompasses the full spectrum of debt financing matters, including acquisition and leveraged financings, direct lending and private credit transactions, structured and hybrid capital solutions, dividend recapitalizations, refinancing transactions, liability management transactions, preferred equity investments, restructurings and other special situations. He is known for designing creative capital structures that provide certainty of closing and strategic flexibility while addressing business, regulatory and execution challenges. Mr. Sambur's experience spans traditional and non-traditional financing arrangements, as well as mergers and acquisitions (M&A) and derivatives, to meet unique investment objectives and market conditions. His long-standing work for private capital firms on liability management exercises and hybrid capital structures – including matters that have led to litigation or in which he has assisted with litigation – predates current market terminology and gives clients a practical, contextual understanding of the risks that matter most.

Clients trust Mr. Sambur across a wide range of industries. He has particular depth in digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence, including data center construction, equipment and conversion financing, as well as national security and defense, healthcare (including service organization structures), business services, transportation, real estate and energy. Mr. Sambur's market knowledge, reliability and tenacity have allowed him to build decades-old relationships with some of the world's leading alternative asset managers.