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.
Samantha serves on the boards of directors of the Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Dallas and the North Texas Business Council for the Arts. She is a Leader with the Center for Women in Law and previously served as the firmwide chair of the Baker Botts Global Women's Forum and as a member of the firm's Diversity & Inclusion Committee.
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
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, 2022-2023
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.), 2016-2022
Named one of the "Best Lawyers in Dallas" by D Magazine, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Recognized as a Texas Super Lawyers-Rising Star (Thomson Reuters), 2008-2010, 2013