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Samantha Kirby

Samantha Kirby

Goodwin, United States

Position

Partner, Chair, Financial Services

Career

Samantha Kirby is Chair of Goodwin’s Financial Services group and co-chair of the Banking and Consumer Financial Services practice. Samantha advises boards and management of financial institutions, fintech companies (including fintechs operating in the crypto space), and other financial services firms on strategic corporate governance and bank regulatory and compliance matters, SEC reporting, and capital markets and M&A transactions. For banks, Samantha’s transactional work includes mutual-to-stock conversions, holding company formations, and de novo bank chartering. In addition to working with the firm's full service bank and thrift clients, Samantha has worked extensively with nonbank financial services providers to establish limited purpose trust banks and other nontraditional vehicles for providing fiduciary and asset management services, and advises banks and trust companies that manage collective investment funds and other commingled pools.

Education

JD, 2001

Georgetown University Law Center

Master of Science in Foreign Service, School of Foreign Service, 2001

Georgetown University

BA, 1997

Wellesley College (magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)

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