With offices across San Francisco, Silcon Valley, Austin, New York, London and Singapore, the attorneys at Baker Botts L.L.P. are well-positioned to advise clients on country specific laws and local market trends in cross-border technology transactions. The group assists clients with various matters including energy tech, venture capital transactions, M&A and licensing. Samantha Hale Crispin leads the practice from Dallas, and has significant experience advising media, technology and energy tech clients in all aspects of M&A. In New York, Jonathan Gordon supports technology clients with acquisitions, and in Washington DC, Brendan Dignan has significant expertise in the fintech and blockchain space. Other key members of the team include Austin based Steve Mann and J. Michael Portillo.
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'They have an excellent and close-knit team. Their reputation and quality of work is superb. Very client friendly and great to work with. Broad range of expertise across sectors. Excellent value for the quality of service provided.’
‘We primarily work with Samantha Crispin, who heads the group at Baker Botts. Samantha is one of the best lawyers I’ve ever worked with, across the board. Her reputation, quality of work and client service are second to none. ’
Key clients
- Antipodean Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and MitoQ Ltd (operating subsidiary)
- Astra Navigation, Inc.
- Banyan Software Holdings, LLC
- Broken Hill Proprietary (USA) Inc. / BHP Ventures
- Brené Brown, LLC
- Corastone, Inc., formerly known as ATAP Market Technologies, Inc.
- Dolan Family, The / Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp.
- DXC Technology Company
- DZS, Inc.
- Eaton Corporation
- Eden GeoPower, Inc.
- H-E-B, LP
- Hyphen Solutions, LLC
- HyVelocity, LLC
- Ifly Holdings LLC
- Lapis Energy Holdings LP
- Lazarus3D, Inc.
- Liberty Broadband Corporation
- Liberty Media Corporation
- MariaDB plc / Special Committee of the Board of Directors of MariaDB plc
Work highlights
Represents Tronic, a Web3 based brand engagement application, in connection with a wide variety of M&A, equity investments, debt and financing arrangements and other general corporate matters, valued in excess of $12.5bn.
Advise the HyVelocity consortium in the creation of a joint venture to develop a hydrogen hub in Houston with up to $1.2bn in grant money from the U.S. Department of Energy and additional private investment well in excess of that amount from the seven core industry participants to advance the clean hydrogen ecosystem in Texas, Southwest Louisiana, and along the U.S. Gulf Coast and to create the nation’s largest clean hydrogen hub.
Represented Consensys, the world’s leading Ethereum software company, in the $425m PIPE revamp of SharpLink Gaming, Inc, one of the most prominent cryptocurrency deals of the past 12 months.
Practice head
Samantha Hale Crispin
Other key lawyers
Jonathan Gordon;Brendan Dignan; Steve Mann; J. Michael Portillo