Bio

Scott Wilson, leader of the Corporate and Securities Practice Group, advises clients regarding middle market mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, the sale of securities, private fund formation, the preparation of partnership and operating agreements and the drafting and negotiation of complex commercial arrangements. A member of the firm's board of directors, Scott maintains a transactional practice focused on advising private equity clients, independent sponsors, traditional and self-funded searchers and other investors in connection with acquisitions, preferred and growth equity investments and similar transactions. Scott regularly advises on corporate governance issues and counsels public companies on novel issues, including those pertaining to Maryland corporate law and Maryland REIT law, the legal duties owed by officers, directors and trustees attendant to strategic transactions and other significant decisions. He frequently serves as special Maryland counsel, counsel to special committees or counsel to event-driven demand committees of Maryland corporations. Scott is nationally ranked by Chambers USA as a leading lawyer in REITs: Maryland Counsel and in Maryland for Corporate/Mergers and Acquisitions. Scott is a past chair of the Business Law Section of the Maryland State Bar Association and currently serves as the vice chair of the Committee on Corporation Law of the section.