Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Samantha concentrates her practice on debt financing transactions, representing public and private companies and private equity clients and their portfolio companies in acquisition financings, dividend recapitalizations, and refinancings; companies and ad hoc committees of creditors in out-of-court restructuring transactions and bankruptcy cases; and debt funds in unsecured, mezzanine and secured lending. She has handled numerous cross-border transactions, out-of-court restructurings, amend-and-extend transactions, and financing transactions for the software, business services, industrials and hospitality industries, film portfolios and FCC-regulated companies.

University of California, Hastings College of the Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1997; Pomona College, B.A., Economics, 1994.