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Samantha Caspar
Senior Attorney
Samantha Caspar is a senior attorney in the Financial Services and Corporate practice groups. She advises public and private companies in a wide range of corporate and commercial financing transactions. Samantha’s substantive experience includes mergers and acquisitions, including public and private mergers, asset acquisitions and stock purchases. She also regularly handles structuring and negotiating secured and unsecured credit facilities, as well as amending credit arrangements to support business operations and M&A activity. In addition, she counsels clients on corporate governance, legal compliance and industry best practices, and provides guidance on general contract negotiation and analysis.
Samantha has assisted on a variety of key transactions, including:
- Representing a Maryland-based bank holding company in its strategic merger with a financial services holding company. The transaction was formalized through an agreement and plan of merger and reorganization, positioning the Maryland entity as the surviving corporation.
- Advising a distributor of roofing, waterproofing and exterior products in the refinancing and US$300 million upsize of its existing Term Loan B facility, increasing the total to US$1.275 billion.
- Representing a pharmaceutical company in the sale of its skincare-focused subsidiary to a private investment firm.
- Advising a mortgage lending company in its equity sale to a private investment affiliate, through which the sole owner sold 100% of the company’s equity interests.
- Representing a distributor of residential and commercial roofing materials in a secondary public offering of 5 million shares of its common stock by a private equity affiliate.
- Advising a distributor of residential and commercial roofing materials in a US$500 million private offering of senior secured notes due 2030.
- Representing a private equity investment firm in its acquisition of a specialty manufacturing company.
- Advising a national convenience store operator in the sale of 26 retail locations, including fuel stations, to a regional competitor.
- Representing a regional bank holding company in its US$1.4 billion acquisition of a multistate community bank.
- Advising a bank holding company in its agreement to acquire a federally chartered savings bank from a national insurance and financial services group.
Education
- University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., cum laude, Senior Editor and Acquisitions Committee, Alabama Law Review, 2016
- University of Alabama School of Law, LL.M., Business Transactions, magna cum laude, 2016
- University of Alabama Manderson Graduate School of Business, M.B.A., summa cum laude, 2016
- Wright State University, B.S., summa cum laude, 2012
Admissions
- Florida, 2018
- Ohio, 2016
Memberships & Affiliations
- Pro Bono Partnership of Ohio
- Fatherhood Committee member, Talbert House
- Wills for Heroes
- Veterans Legal Assistance Clinic
Languages
- English
- Spanish (fluent in comprehension, reading, and writing; conversational in speaking)
- Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America Ones to Watch 2026 for Banking and Finance Law and Corporate Law
- Author, “When Congress Passes the Buck: How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Exposed Flaws in Granting the President Sanctioning Powers,” 46 Seattle U. L. Rev. 709, 2023.
- Author, “You Can Check-in Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave: Forced Mental Health Treatment and Advance Directives,” 40 Quinnipiac L. Rev. 395, 2022.
- Author, “Verbal Bullying in School: The Constitutional and Psychological Argument That Government Intervention Makes Things Worse,” 46 SIU Law Journal 417, 2022.
- Author, “The Alarming Legality of Security Manipulation Through Shareholder Proposals,” 44 Seattle U. L. Rev. 707, 2021.
- Author, “The Case for Abolishing Absolute Prosecutorial Immunity on Equal Protection Grounds,” 49 Hofstra L. Rev. 315, 2021.
- Author, “Who Watches the Watchmen? Character and Fitness Panels and the Onerous Demands Imposed on Bar Applicants,” 50 N.M. L. Rev. 383, 2020.
- Author, “Mental Health and the Constitution: How Incarcerating the Mentally Ill Might Pave the Way to Treatment,” 20 Nev. L. J. 547, 2020.
- Author, “Worse than Punishment: How the Involuntary Commitment of Persons with Mental Illness Violates the United States Constitution,” 47 Hastings Const. L. Q. 499, 2020.
- Author, “Comrades or Foes: Did the Russians Break the Law or New Ground for the First Amendment?” 39 Pace L. Rev. 43, 2018.
- Author, “Wherefore is Fortunato? How the Corpus Delicti Rule Excludes Reliable Confessions, Helps the Guilty Avoid Responsibility, and Proves Inconsistent with Basic Evidence Principles,” 41 Am. J. Trial Advoc. 459, 2018.
- Author, “The Implications of Marijuana Legalization on the Prevalence and Severity of Schizophrenia,” 28 Health Matrix 175, 2018.