Scott Minot
“I love getting to know my clients, their businesses, and their goals and working with them and their team to develop and execute business and legal strategies and solutions through start, growth, and exit.”
About Scott
Scott is a corporate transactional attorney with more than 18 years of broad legal and business experience within law firms, in-house and private practice. Scott has significant experience advising entrepreneurs and both privately held and publicly traded domestic and international companies within a broad range of industries in connection with various routine and complex commercial transactions, including corporate strategy and planning, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, debt and equity financings, corporate organization and governance, litigation management and various other business and legal strategies and solutions.
Scott grew up in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated from Woodward Academy prior to attending The University of Georgia where he received a degree in Economics. Scott received his law degree from Mercer University School of Law in Macon, Georgia. Scott lives in Brookhaven with his wife, Courtney, and their daughters Grayton and Sailor.
Services &
Skills
Commercial Transactions
Mergers & Acquisitions
Joint Ventures
Contract Negotiations
Complete Business Life Cycle Representation
Private Placements
Private Securities Offerings
Corporate Finance
Fundraising for Start-ups
Corporate Structuring & Entity Formation
General Counsel Representation
General Corporate Law
Representative Experience and Transactions
Lead counsel in the representation of a privately held engineering company in connection with a $90 million roll-up of multiple similarly situated companies in exchange for cash and rollover equity.
Lead counsel in the representation of a $35 million privately held manufacturing company in connection with the acquisition by a private equity firm of all of its equity in exchange for cash and rollover equity.
Lead counsel in the representation of a $36 million privately held software company in connection with the acquisition by a private equity firm of all of its equity in exchange for cash and rollover equity.
Representation of a $50 million privately held manufacturing company in connection with the acquisition by a strategic buyer in exchange for cash.
Lead counsel in the representation of a retail chain in the sale of substantially all of its assets to a $3 billion publicly traded company in China.
Representation of a privately held company in connection with its formation of, ownership in and management of a multi-million dollar international joint venture within the global bio-fuel market (initially within Latin America and Africa).
Representation of a publicly traded company in connection with the restructure of a billion dollar international joint venture in the Philippines.
Representation of a publicly traded company in connection with the purchase, by a Philippine subsidiary, of all the issued and outstanding preferred shares of a BVI international business company; value of the preferred shares $141 million.
Representation of a privately held company in connection with its proposed multi-million dollar investment in a sugar cane based ethanol production project in the Dominican Republic and the formation of an international joint venture with respect thereto.
Representation of a publicly traded company in connection with its, and its wholly owned U.S. and Canadian subsidiaries, emergence from bankruptcy and its reorganization and reincorporation pursuant to its chapter 11 plan of reorganization.
Representation of various family trusts having assets in excess of $100 million in connection with the structuring and implementation of various family office operations providing a centralized source of strategies for long term wealth accumulation, management and preservation for wealthy clients and coordinating the services provided to these clients in areas such as trusts and estates, investment management, financial services, banking, insurance, tax and legal planning, and fiduciary management.