Samantha Hale Crispin is a seasoned M&A lawyer with 25 years of experience advising corporate clients and their boards of directors in complex M&A, capital markets and strategic business transactions. She regularly represents corporate clients and their boards of directors when evaluating related party transactions, controlling stockholder matters and complicated governance and disclosure matters. 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.
Publicly traded and privately held 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 on all manner of capital raising transactions, including IPOs, secondary equity offerings and high yield, convertible and exchangeable debt offerings.
Samantha serves on the Board of Trustees for The University of Texas Law School Foundation, the Executive Committee for the Center for Women in Law and the board of directors of the North Texas Business Council for the Arts. She also serves as the President of the North Texas chapter of the Society of Corporate Governance Professionals.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Capital Markets
Strategic Transactions
Serves on Baker Botts' Executive Committee and previously served as Chair of Baker Botts' Women's Initiative, the Global Women's Forum
Member of the Board of Trustees for The University of Texas Law School Foundation
Serves on the Executive Committee for the Center for Women in Law and on the Board of Directors of the Business Council for the Arts
Recognized as a "Stand-Out Lawyer" by Thomson Reuters, 2022-2024
Recognized as one of the "Top Women in Dealmaking" by The Deal, 2021, 2022, & 2023
Listed in Chambers USA for Corporate/M&A in Texas, 2021-2024
Recognized as one of the "Top 21 in 21-Women in Tech" by Kayo Conference Series, 2021
Winner of Client Choice Award: M&A - Texas, 2016
Recipient of the "Outstanding Woman Lawyer Award" by Dallas Women Lawyers Association, 2020
Recognized as one of "The Most Powerful Business Leaders in Dallas-Fort Worth" by D CEO Dallas 500, 2019 & 2020
Named one of the "Best Lawyers in America" by Best Lawyers (Woodward White, Inc.), 2016-2024
Named one of the "Best Lawyers in Dallas" by D Magazine, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2018-2024
Recognized as a Texas Super Lawyers-Rising Star (Thomson Reuters), 2008-2010, 2013
