Scott is a finance lawyer and corporate attorney who represents investors, banks and companies in a wide variety of transactions.

Accolades

Best Lawyers: Corporate Law (2022-2025)

Representative Experience

• Represented Bank of America in the trading of distressed debt instruments with commercial banks and hedge funds.
• Represented Barclays Bank in the negotiation and documentation of senior credit facilities for the development and construction of project finance projects.
• Restructuring counsel responsible for complex avoidance actions, valuation disputes, director and officer claim evaluation, cross-border inter-company disputes and contested asset sales.
• Represented Morgan Stanley in connection with warehouse residential and commercial mortgage credit and repurchase facilities.
• Represented Misoxer Kraftwerke AG and Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft Laufenburg AG in connection with a cross-border leveraged lease for Misoxer Kraftwerke AG.
• Led financing transactions to close $100 million of early-stage preferred equity investments in Sphera Optical Networks by Soros Private Equity Partners, The Mayfield Fund, Worldview Technology Partners, Pequot Private Equity, and Oak Investment Partners.
• Served as a liquidating trustee and as General Counsel of chapter 11 debtors.
• Represented Global Crossing in connection with the negotiation of billions of dollars of project finance transactions, including the documentation of complex project operations, administration and maintenance agreements, and cross-border buy-sell transaction structures.

Education

• Duke University School of Law, J.D. (1997)
  Moot Court Board
• Duke University, A.M. (1997)
• DePauw University, B.A. (1992) magna cum laude
  Phi Beta Kappa

Admissions

• North Carolina State Bar
• New York State Bar

Professional

• Duke University Triangle Alumni Board of Directors, co-chair