Baker Botts L.L.P.

Corporate

Partner

Department Chair - Corporate (Firmwide)

Samantha Hale Crispin is a seasoned M&A lawyer with over 20 years of experience helping publicly traded and privately held corporate clients and private equity funds in complex M&A, capital markets and strategic business transactions. Samantha is firmwide Chair of the Corporate Department and serves on the firm's Executive Committee. Her clients include the media, technology, energy and energy tech, infrastructure and construction products industries. Strategic and private equity buyers and sellers rely on Samantha's counsel for M&A transactions, including corporate reorganizations, spin-offs and split-offs, joint ventures, strategic alliances, and opportunistic, distressed and/or bankruptcy-related acquisitions and dispositions. She also advises in public offerings, PIPEs and other capital raising transactions.

State Bar of Texas

New York State Bar

Dallas Bar Association

Society for Corporate Governance, President - Dallas Chapter

Business Council for the Arts, Board of Directors

Center for Women in Law, President - Executive Committee

J.D., The University of Texas School of Law, 1999 B.A., Political Science & Economics, University of Richmond, 1995

Recognitions include: Top Women in Dealmaking 2021, The Deal * Client Choice Award: M&A - Texas 2016, ILO * Outstanding Woman Lawyer Award 2020, Dallas Women Lawyers Association * The Most Powerful Business Leaders in Dallas-Fort Worth 2019 & 2020, D CEO Dallas 500 * Best Lawyers in America 2016-2021, Best Lawyers (Woodward White, Inc.)