Bio

Scott Adamson represents public and private company clients in buy-and sell-side transactions, including leveraged buyout, carve-out, 363 asset sales, and going-private transactions. He advises clients across a broad spectrum of industries, including health care, technology, manufacturing, service, and construction, and has completed cross-border transactions in Japan, Mexico, Ireland, Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Scott executes complex transaction structures, including stock sales, asset sales, statutory mergers, and tender offers, and transactions structured as tax-free reorganizations, spinoffs, and contributions. He represents buyers and sellers of companies bought and sold through auctions and advises clients on alternative liquidity strategies, including sale, leveraged recapitalization, private placement, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) transactions. In addition, Scott counsels clients engaged in debt and equity financing involving funds, mezzanine lenders, and banks. Scott has structured, implemented, and executed many of the largest and most complex transactions involving ESOPs to create liquidity on a tax-advantaged basis; to facilitate management buyout of a subsidiary, division, or portfolio company; to engage in a roll-up transaction; or to permit private equity investment on a tax­ advantaged basis. He has led some of the most significant transactions undertaken involving the sale of ESOP-owned companies to equity sponsors and strategic buyers.