Samantha Gilley Rachlin

Practice Areas

Samantha focuses her practice on public finance, where she has experience serving as bond counsel, borrower’s counsel, disclosure counsel, underwriter’s 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 conduit financings for non-profit corporations across the country, including in Texas, Florida, Ohio, Louisiana, New Mexico, Illinois, and California.

Samantha’s clients include non-profit corporations, 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. Samantha’s representative experience includes conduit financings for non-profit corporations, general obligation financings, fixed and variable rate financings, and lease-revenue financings. Samantha also advises governmental clients on general public law matters, including elections, open government, and economic development.