Bio

Scott Bartel is a partner in the Sacramento office of Lewis Brisbois and co-chair of the Securities and Corporate Finance Practice. Scott focuses his practice on the representation of corporations and financial institutions. He has substantial experience in the areas of corporate finance, public and private offerings, corporate governance and reorganization, acquisitions, divestitures, securities transactions and litigation. In addition, Scott represents a number of Chinese domestic companies, as well as other foreign private issuers, in connection with their capital raising efforts and acquisitions in the United States. His experience includes serving as a member of the Division of Corporate Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. While at the SEC, he examined public offerings, annual reports, proxy statements, and drafted “no-action” interpretive letters. Later, as a senior attorney in one of the division’s branches of corporate analysis and examination, he was responsible for the SEC’s supervision of proxy contests, leveraged buyouts, and going private transactions. Scott also served on the staff of the Corporate and Securities Division of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. While working for the Board, he administered the federal regulations pertaining to federally chartered savings and loan associations and savings banks and drafted the Board’s first securities offering regulations. He was then appointed Assistant Deputy Director of the Corporate and Securities Division and was responsible for the interpretation and implementation of the regulations he drafted. In private practice, Scott has substantial experience in all aspects of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and cross border business transactions. He has represented numerous companies in their initial public offerings, follow on offerings, PIPE’s and other private placements. He regularly represents public companies before the SEC in both corporate finance and enforcement matters. Scott has also represented many commercial banks and thrifts in their de novo organization, capital raising and mergers and acquisition matters. In litigation, he has represented corporate and individual clients in securities litigation, shareholder derivative actions, regulatory enforcement and administrative proceedings and general business and corporate governance litigation and appeals in state and federal court. Scott has been recognized for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in America, in the area of Securities Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, and Corporate Governance and Compliance. He has also been recognized as a Northern California Super Lawyer in the area of Securities Law, and as a Top Lawyer for Securities & Corporate Finance in Sacramento Magazine. Education: Georgetown University Master of Laws, 1986 ,University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law Juris Doctor with distinction, 1982 , University of California, DavisBachelor of Arts with honors, 1979.