Samantha Gleit

Samantha Gleit is a partner at Feuerstein Kulick and leads the firm’s debt finance and corporate restructuring practices. Samantha specializes in advising institutional and alternative investors on high-risk lending, creditors' rights, and corporate restructuring.  Since joining Feuerstein Kulick, Samantha has structured many of the largest debt facilities in the cannabis industry to date.  

Her expertise focuses on complex debt structures in regulated industries, as well as debtor-in-possession financing, acquisition financing, and related commercial transactions.  In addition to representing banks, private equity funds, family offices and private investors, Samantha advises companies (ranging from startups to large public companies) on growth financing, senior and subordinate debt structures, receiverships, foreclosures, workouts, capitalization, and compliance.

Samantha was selected by Crain's New York Business for their list of "2023Notable Women in Law"; and in 2021 was selected by Law360 as a "Rising Star" honoring attorneys under 40 whose legal accomplishments transcend their age. Samantha was also selected as a Rising Star in the 2015 –2025 editions of New York Metro Super Lawyers® and featured in The New York Times Magazine Super Lawyers® Top Women Attorneys in the New York Metro Area. Samantha is an adjunct professor at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where she co-teaches a course in cannabis law.  Her publications include having co-authored an article featured on the cover of the ABI Journal discussing suggested reforms to the federal bankruptcy process.  Earlier in her career, Samantha was awarded the International Bar Association’s Insolvency Scholarship for her award winning article on distressed law firms. Prior to joining Feuerstein Kulick, Samantha worked at King & Spalding LLP in New York, in the corporate finance and investments group.