
Introduction
Samantha Barbere’s practice primarily focuses on mergers and acquisitions and general corporate governance. Samantha represents both general corporate and healthcare clients and advises businesses on a broad range of complex transactional matters.
My focus
Mergers & Acquisitions
I represent both buyers and sellers in the purchase and sale of businesses through stock and asset transactions. I frequently partner with tax counsel to advise clients on potential tax implications of proposed deal structures and counsel clients on the most tax advantageous structure for their transactions. I typically represent middle-market and start-up companies, whose businesses span a wide variety of industries including, technology based companies, life sciences, health services, and food and beverage.
General Corporate
I represent clients in the negotiation and preparation of a wide variety of commercial agreements. I also assist clients with entity formation, corporate structuring and restructuring, capital raises, and the dissolution or winding down of their business.
Cannabis
I have assisted clients with their investments in cannabis-related companies and advise on a wide range of issues including legal planning, corporate guidance, and compliance strategies.
Looking ahead
I see consumer priorities driving an influx of mergers and acquisitions between the healthcare and technology sectors. In an effort to keep up with consumer demands, there is a competitive interest among businesses to break free of in-person limitations. I believe that consumers’ fierce desire to gravitate toward businesses that prioritize remote convenience will lead healthcare industries to seek to implement creative remote-based technology, thereby causing an influx of M&As between the two industries.
In the news
- Corporate Counsel
Corporate Counsel announces finalists for its 2025 Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards
Aug 4, 2025This article announcing the finalists for the 2025 Women, Influence & Power in Law Awards highlights Boston Corporate partner Amy O’Keefe, co-leader of NP’s Women in Dealmaking initiative, as a finalist in the “Law Firm Collaborative Leadership” category, and Long Island Healthcare partner Michele Masucci and associate Samantha Barbere as finalists in the “Law Firm Mentor & Mentee Collaboration” category. The WIPL awards recognize in-house and law firm women leaders and allies who have demonstrated a commitment to advancing the empowerment of women in law.
Admitted to practice
New York
Education
Maurice A. Deane School of Law, Hofstra University, J.D., cum laude
Long Island University, B.A., magna cum laude
Recognition
- Selected, through a peer-review survey, for inclusion in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch 2025 in the field of Corporate Law; listed in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch since 2024
- Recognized, The M&A Advisor 2025 Emerging Leaders Award
Insights And Happenings
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Partner / Co-Leader, M&A & Corporate Transactions Team / Co-Leader, Cannabis Practice- Rochester
- Office:+1 585.263.1236Mobile:+1 585.281.3076
- lgreen@nixonpeabody.com
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Kevin M. Grant
Partner / Co-Leader, M&A & Corporate Transactions Team- New York City
- Office:+1 212.940.3759
- kgrant@nixonpeabody.com
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Todd Tidgewell
Partner / Leader, Corporate Practice Group- Albany
- Office:+1 518.427.2705
- ttidgewell@nixonpeabody.com
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Christopher P. Keefe
Partner / Chair, Business & Finance Department- Boston
- Office:+1 617.345.1350
- ckeefe@nixonpeabody.com
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