Samantha M. Coffey

Samantha M. Coffey is a partner at Leverage Law Group, LLC in Leawood, Kansas. She represents investors, developers, and lenders in renewable energy transactions throughout the country. Her practice includes distributed generation and utility scale solar projects. Her work addresses the legal relationships involved in financing energy development, bringing together clients who invest capital, develop projects, and provide lending within a transaction.

Samantha earned a B.A. from the University of Iowa in 2015. She later received a J.D. from Drake University Law School in 2018, with Order of the Coif recognition. Her education provides a foundation in legal reasoning, research, and written analysis. Those skills support review of the transaction structures and obligations through which investors, developers, and lenders participate in renewable energy financing.

Samantha has experience with solar transactions involving partnership flip and master lease structures. Before her current practice, she practiced in Iowa and focused on real estate transactions. That earlier work connects her background to legal matters involving property and transfers. Her renewable energy practice builds on that transactional experience while addressing financing arrangements for solar projects at both distributed generation and utility scale levels.

Samantha M. Coffey is licensed in Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa. Her work combines current renewable energy transaction experience with a prior concentration in real estate. Energy projects require legal arrangements that account for the roles of developers and financing participants. Her background supports attention to those relationships and the structures through which clients take part in a project, from the developer’s commercial objectives to the legal interests of investors and lenders.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Leverage Law Group, LLC
• Member, The Missouri Bar
• Member, Kansas Bar Association
• Member, Iowa State Bar Association

Licensed State

• Missouri
• Kansas
• Iowa

Education

• Drake University Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Iowa
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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