Overview
Samantha helps nonprofit and governmental clients access the tax-exempt bond market to finance critical capital projects nationwide.
Samantha has experience serving as bond counsel, borrower’s counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriters’ counsel, bank counsel, and lessee’s counsel in connection with a broad range of taxable and tax-exempt transactions, with an emphasis on both publicly-offered and privately-placed financings for non-profit corporations across the country.
Samantha’s clients include non-profit corporations, religious institutions, education clients, cities, counties, special districts, and other governmental entities. She has advised on various financing structures and techniques, totaling over $8 billion in par amount in the past three years, including general obligation financings, fixed and variable rate financings, revenue financings, lease-revenue financings, and conduit financings. Samantha also advises governmental clients on general public law matters, including elections, open government, and economic development. Samantha is recognized by Chambers USA as an Up and Coming lawyer in Texas Public Finance.
Samantha’s representative experience includes working as bond and borrower’s counsel on both publicly-offered and privately-placed non-profit conduit financings and lease-revenue financings across the country, including in Texas, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Mexico, and Ohio.
Experience
- Bond counsel on multi-jurisdictional revenue and lease revenue financings for charter schools and non-profit organizations throughout the country, including the largest-ever charter school financing in the United States.
- Underwriter’s counsel in connection with the U.S. Soccer Federation’s $200 million issuance of tax-exempt revenue bonds through the Fayette County Development Authority in Georgia.
- Bond counsel to a metropolitan county in the issuance of public facility corporation bonds for various county projects.
- Bond counsel on Texas charter school financings, including bonds guaranteed by the Permanent School Fund.
- Bond counsel for school districts in the issuance of taxable and tax-exempt school building bonds.
- Advised on $100 million in bonds for a lease-revenue financing for a metropolitan county multipurpose facilities project.
- Bond counsel for school districts in the issuance and remarketing of variable rate soft put bonds.
- Bond counsel for cities obtaining financial assistance through various programs administered by the Texas Water Development Board.
- Bond counsel for city and county certificates of obligation and general obligation bonds.
- Counsel to underwriters in connection with city, county, charter school, and school district tax-exempt and taxable obligations.
- Disclosure counsel to city, county, and school district issuers in connection with tax-exempt and taxable obligations.
- Disclosure counsel for county toll road revenue bonds and county general obligation bonds.
Accolades
Honors & Recognitions
- Recognized as a Leader in Public Finance, Texas, Chambers USA, 2025
- The Best Lawyers in America: One to Watch for Public Finance Law (2023–2026) and Securities/Capital Markets Law (2026)
Affiliations
Professional
- Houston Young Lawyers Association
- National Association of Bond Lawyers
- Women in Public Finance
- Texas Women in Public Finance
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Education
JD, University of Houston Law Center, Houston Law Review, 2015
BA, The University of Texas at Austin, with Highest Honors, 2010
Admissions
Texas
