Scott is a corporate attorney and finance lawyer who represents investors, banks and companies in a wide variety of transactions.
He has more than two decades of experience advising clients on complex financial and corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, acquisition finance, ownership transitions, leveraged finance, refinancing and restructuring matters, and general corporate matters as outside general counsel.
Scott’s finance experience allows him to anticipate unique issues clients may face with respect to transaction funding structures, and to address finance and default risks. Scott enjoys the collaborative nature of corporate law and working closely with clients to structure efficient outcomes.
Best Lawyers: Corporate Law (2022-2027)
- Represented regional, national and international engineering and architecture firms in mergers, acquisitions, dispositions and ownership transition transactions.
- Represented clients from manufacturing, operations and maintenance, software, and technology firms in a wide variety of commercial transactions.
- Represented the borrower in a generational ownership transition financed by a U.S. Small Business Administration loan.
- Represented regional and international commercial banks in the negotiation and documentation of credit facilities and their related transactions.
- Represented corporate borrowers in the negotiation and documentation of secured and unsecured loan agreements.
- North Carolina State Bar
- New York State Bar
- Duke University Triangle Alumni Board of Directors, co-chair
- North Carolina Bar Association
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