Scott A. Minot

Scott's representative transactions have included drafting, reviewing and negotiating, among other things: asset/stock purchase agreements; merger, joint venture and strategic alliance agreements; shareholder/operating/partnership agreements; private placement memorandums; funding/contribution agreements; placement agency agreements; broker agreements; employment/independent contractor agreements; licensing agreements; SaaS agreements; development agreements; vendor agreements; reseller agreements; consulting agreements; supply/distribution agreements; service agreements; equity incentive plans; commercial leases; franchise agreements; loan and security agreements; protective covenant agreements (non-competition, non-solicitation, confidentiality, work-for-hire, invention assignment, etc.); NDAs; term sheets, LOIs and MOUs; and various other corporate and transactional agreements. (See list of representative transactions)

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.

• Lead counsel in the representation of a $17M privately held drilling and rock blasting company in connection with the acquisition by a strategic buyer of its full equity in exchange for cash.

• Lead counsel in the representation of the leading school fundraising company in the United States in connection with its purchase of the assets of some of its competitors.

• Lead counsel in the representation of a promotional products company in connection with the sale of substantially all of its assets to a publicly traded company in exchange for cash and equity.

• Lead counsel in the representation of a privately held $36M software company in connection with the acquisition by a private equity firm of its full equity in exchange for cash and rollover equity.

• Lead counsel in the representation of a privately held engineering company with a $90M roll-up of multiple 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 retail chain in the sale of substantially all of its assets to a $3 billion publicly traded company in China.

• Lead counsel in the representation of multiple HVAC commercial services companies in connection with the sales of substantially all of their assets in exchange for cash and equity.

• Representation of several private corporations in connection with raising capital, private placements, the issuance and sale of stock and the formation of various strategic alliances.

• Representation of various wealthy individuals and family trusts in connection with the structuring and implementation of various family office operations.

• Lead counsel in the representation of a large investment management firm in connection with negotiating placement agency agreements with respect to raising several hundred million dollars through various private placement offerings.

• 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 multi-million dollar privately held services company in connection with its acquisition by a private equity firm in exchange for cash, debt and warrants.

• Lead counsel in the representation of multiple technology and software companies in connection with various software-as-a-service (SaaS), license, OEM and distribution, value-added reseller (VARs), development and professional services agreements.

• 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 technology company in connection with the formation, development and implementation of a billion-dollar international joint venture with News Corporation.

• 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.