Sam Phillips

Sam is the Founding Managing Director of K3 Advantage. With over 15 years of experience in advisory services, and having been a client himself, he founded the business to transform due diligence, improve the transaction experience and unlock greater value from data across the deal lifecycle. He works closely with private equity investors, lenders and management teams, helping them navigate complex transactions with greater clarity, efficiency and confidence.

Before founding K3 Advantage, Sam held senior leadership roles within transaction advisory practices, where he built and led a market-leading Transactions team that completed more than 100 deals with an aggregate value exceeding £1bn. Throughout his career, he has advised on acquisitions, disposals, refinancing events and investment transactions across a wide range of deal sizes and structures.

His experience is predominantly private equity-led, spanning both buy-side and sell-side transactions, giving him a deep understanding of the priorities and challenges faced by investors, management teams and business owners alike. He has worked across most sectors, with particular expertise in TMT, consumer, manufacturing and healthcare, and is known for combining commercial insight with a pragmatic, data-driven approach to delivering successful transaction outcomes.