Vice President, The D.E. Shaw Group
Samantha Fang is a vice president of D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. and a member of the D. E. Shaw group’s Corporate Credit investment unit. In that capacity, she primarily works on investments in distressed and special situations, including bankruptcies, restructurings, opportunities in stressed equities, and litigation plays. Prior to joining the firm in 2019, Samantha was an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where she represented public and private clients on a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments, financings, and corporate governance and shareholder activism matters. She was a law clerk to the Hon. Thomas M. Hardiman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Samantha received her A.B. in economics from Harvard College, where she was designated a John Harvard Scholar for academic distinction, and her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review.