Samantha Hait

Practices

Overview

Samantha Hait is a corporate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She has extensive experience providing legal and strategic guidance to global financial institutions, sponsors and borrowers on a range of complex financing transactions, including acquisition financings, fund financings and other structured financing products. Her practice currently focuses on knowledge, markets and strategy for the U.S. Debt Finance Practice, with broad responsibility for client engagement and strategy, market intelligence, knowledge resources, thought leadership and attorney education.

Thought Leadership

Publications

Co-Author, “Avoiding Traps When Documenting Make-Whole Premiums for Term Loans,” The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Lending & Secured Finance 2018

Co-Author, “Recent Developments in Fund Financing: Hybrid Facilities, Insider Leverage and Overcall Limitations,” GLI – Fund Finance 2018, Second Edition

Co-Author, “Escrow Funding in the Term Loan B Market,” The International Comparative Legal Guide to: Lending & Secured Finance 2017, Fifth Edition

Co-Author, “The Use of Net Asset Value Facilities for Portfolio Acquisitions,” GLI – Fund Finance 2017, First Edition

Memberships & Affiliations

American Bar Association

New York State Bar Association

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

New York

Languages

English
Hebrew

Education

Fordham University School of LawJ.D.magna cum laude2011
Order of the Coif

Notes and Articles Editor, Fordham Urban Law Journal
Brandeis UniversityB.A., Politicssumma cum laude2008
Phi Beta Kappa