Samantha Hale Crispin > Baker Botts L.L.P. > Dallas, United States > Lawyer Profile

Baker Botts L.L.P. advises clients ranging from emerging startups to global giants across sectors like Digital Infrastructure, Life Sciences, and Energy Tech. With expertise in venture capital, M&A, AI, and cybersecurity, the firm offers a full spectrum of services, led by Jonathan Gordon, global head of the tech and M&A teams, and Samantha Hale Crispin , chair of the corporate department. Based in New York and Dallas, respectively, Gordon specializes in cross-border acquisitions, joint ventures, and partnerships, while Crispin focuses on complex M&A, capital markets, and strategic transactions.

Demonstrating extensive expertise in complex private placements and senior notes offerings, Baker Botts L.L.P. is highly regarded by both issuers and underwriters within the energy and environmental industries. The firm’s capital markets team is regularly engaged by companies, financial advisors, and special committees, drawing upon its cross-border knowledge with European and North American jurisdictions. The two Houston-based joint heads Joshua Davidson and Doug Getten each specialize in refinancings of unsecured notes and common stock offerings. Samantha Hale Crispin also leads from Dallas, while New York’s Adorys Velazquez concentrates on securities law matters. Houston-based Travis Wofford and Carina Antweil are also highlighted as key.

Displaying extensive expertise in senior notes offerings and upsized private placements, Baker Botts L.L.P. routinely acts on behalf of both issuers and underwriters within the finance, energy, and waste management fields. The team has experience in advising foreign investors in redemptions of Series A preferred stock shares, leveraging its solid multi-jurisdictional capabilities across North America and Europe. The division is headed by the trio of Samantha Hale Crispin, Josh Davidson, and Doug Getten, with the Dallas-based former being a capital markets specialist, while in Houston, Davidson and Getten frequently represent initial purchasers and dealer managers.

Displaying extensive expertise in senior notes offerings and upsized private placements, Baker Botts L.L.P. routinely acts on behalf of both issuers and underwriters within the finance, energy, and waste management fields. The team has experience in advising foreign investors in redemptions of Series A preferred stock shares, leveraging its solid multi-jurisdictional capabilities across North America and Europe. The division is headed by the trio of Samantha Hale Crispin, Josh Davidson, and Doug Getten, with the Dallas-based former being a capital markets specialist, while in Houston, Davidson and Getten frequently represent initial purchasers and dealer managers.

Baker Botts L.L.P.’ capital markets team continues to handle high-value investment-grade offerings on both the issuer and underwriter side. The team is particularly strong in the energy sector, though is also active in the transport, retail, and distribution sectors. Senior counsel Joshua Davidson has extensive experience advising pipeline, midstream, oil and gas, coal, renewable energy, shipping, and refining companies on public and private debt offerings as well as liability management. He is also noted for his work on transactions involving master limited partnerships. Doug Getten has a strong track record advising exploration and production companies and midstream businesses as well as in the oil field services sector. The two partners jointly lead the practice, which sits within the firm’s corporate department, led by Samantha Hale Crispin in Dallas. Travis Wofford is well versed in securitization bonds. All lawyers mentioned are based in Houston, unless otherwise noted.