Samantha Kirby

Practice Areas

Samantha Kirby advises financial institutions, fintech companies, and other financial services firms on strategic corporate governance, SEC reporting, and capital markets and M&A transactions. Her transactional work also includes mutual-to-stock conversions, holding company formations, and de novo bank chartering.

Samantha regularly represents clients before federal and state regulatory agencies, including the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the FDIC, the Massachusetts Division of Banks, and numerous other state bank regulators.

Samantha regularly speaks about corporate governance, strategic planning, and other topics of interest to financial institutions to legal and banking industry groups, including the American Bankers Association and the Bankers Associations of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Vermont, and Maryland.

Personal

JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 2001; MSFS Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service, 2001; BA Wellesley College, 1997 (magna cum laude).