Samson Mesele

Samson Mesele is Partner and General Counsel at Union Square Ventures.
He began his legal career as a corporate attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York, where he advised public and private companies, private equity firms and boards of directors across a broad range of transactions and industries.
Samson received his B.S.
in economics from Duke and his J.D.
from Yale Law School.
As a law student, Samson served as a Teaching Fellow for Financial Theory in the Economics Department at Yale.
Before attending law school, Samson worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley.
Samson is from Charlotte, North Carolina.