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Baker Botts L.L.P. Offices
2001 ROSS AVENUE
DALLAS, TEXAS 75201-2980
TEXAS
United States
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Samantha Hale Crispin
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Partner
Department Chair – Corporate (Firmwide)
Career
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.
Memberships
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
Education
J.D., The University of Texas School of Law, 1999
B.A., Political Science & Economics, University of Richmond, 1995
Personal
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.)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
(Firms to watch)Digital infrastructure is a key focus at Baker Botts L.L.P. and the firm advises on terrestrial and subsea fiber transactions, and tower and data center projects. The practice, led by Samantha Hale Crispin in Dallas, Natasha Khan in Houston, and Jonathan Gordon in New York, has also carved out a niche in the Latin American telecoms and digital infrastructure market; as a key advisor to Liberty Latin America, the firm is involved in acquisitions, mobile tower site monetization agreements and the negotiation of spectrum asset agreements.
United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
At Baker Botts L.L.P., the team handles a broad array of issues, ranging from tech-related venture capital transactions to outsourcing and development arrangements, as well as licensing matters. The team primarily works with clients in the digital infrastructure, energy tech, and life sciences sectors. The practice is jointly led by Dallas-based Samantha Hale Crispin, who handles corporate transactions, private equity deals, and strategic alliances for clients in the TMT sector, and New York-based Jonathan Gordon, who assists clients with both public and private M&A as well as with the acquisition and sale of digital assets. In Washington DC, Luke Pedersen offers know-how in cloud computing, SaaS agreements, and open-source software.
Lawyer Rankings
- Technology transactions United States > Media, technology and telecoms
- Firms to watch United States > Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
Firm Rankings
- Energy > Energy litigation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Environment > Environment: regulatory
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Real estate > Real estate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: transactions
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)