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Experience:
Scott Davis is the head of the US Mergers and Acquisitions group at Mayer Brown LLP. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, securities, and the problems that arise in corporation law from real or perceived conflicts of interest between a company's officers or directors and its shareholders. He has had a significant role in a number of important mergers and acquisitions involving public companies, many of them valued well in excess of $1 billion.
Scott has been recognized by Chambers Global as among the world's Leading Lawyers for Business and by Chambers USA as among America's Leading Lawyers for Business. Chambers Global noted his "outstanding depth of knowledge in securities and corporate law" and his "ability to get everybody back on track in deal negotiations." Chambers USA (2007) has praised him as "'smart and practical'" and "'a tremendous project manager who is the glue that holds a deal together.'" Chambers had earlier noted Scott's "extraordinary skills and excellent control of his team. . . . A problem solver who is strong on the law and in finding solutions, he is very thorough and easy to work with."
Scott was recognized in The Best Lawyers in America (2007), PLC Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions Handbook (2007-08 edition) and Illinois SuperLawyers (2007), and was selected by Chicago Lawyer as one of Chicago's ten leading M&A lawyers (2005). Scott was also one of 134 US lawyers named a Client Service All-Star in 2006 by BTI Consulting Group for "delivering the absolute best client service."
Scott teaches corporate law at the University of Chicago Law School. He is also the Vice President of the Chicago Police Board, an agency appointed by the Mayor of Chicago to decide misconduct cases brought against Chicago police officers and to select candidates for Superintendent of Police when there is a vacancy in that office.
Scott has been a lawyer at Mayer Brown since 1977 and a partner since 1983. He joined the firm after serving as a law clerk to The Honorable Luther M. Swygert of the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Notable Engagements:
Representation of CBOT Holdings, the parent of the Chicago Board of Trade, in CBOT Holdings' merger with CME Holdings (market value of $12 billion as of closing).
Representation of Chemtura in its stock-for-stock merger with Great Lakes Chemical, in which Great Lakes became a subsidiary of Chemtura (market value of $1.5 billion as of the date of announcement).
Representation of Oshkosh B'Gosh in the $312 million sale of the company to Carter's.
Representation of Chemtura in the sale of its Refined Products business to Sun Capital for about $80 million.
Representation of Swisscom, a major shareholder in Infonet Services, in the sale of Infonet to BT Group for about $965 million.
Representation of the largest of the Golden Harvest companies in the sale of a 90% interest in those companies to Syngenta for about $180 million.
Representation of Abbott Laboratories in connection with its spin-off of Hospira.
Representation of Devon Energy in its stock-for-stock merger with Ocean Energy, in which Ocean became a subsidiary of Devon (market value of $3.5 billion as of the date of announcement).
Representation of Devon Energy in its acquisition of Mitchell Energy & Development (market value of $3.1 billion as of the date of announcement).
Representation of Devon Energy in its $3.5 billion acquisition of Anderson Exploration.
Representation of George Weston in its $1.765 billion acquisition of Bestfoods Baking.
Representation of Dow Chemical in the merger in which Union Carbide became Dow's subsidiary (market value of $9.3 billion as of the date of announcement).
Representation of Dow Chemical in the divestiture, effected in connection with the Union Carbide merger, of Dow's ethyleneamines business to Huntsman.
Representation of Dow Chemical in the divestiture, effected in connection with the Union Carbide merger, of Dow's ethanolamines business to Ineos.
Representation of Janna Systems in the $870 million acquisition of Janna by Siebel Systems.
Representation of Vedior in its $80 million acquisition of Acsys.
Representation of Illinois Tool Works in the merger in which Premark became ITW's subsidiary (market value of $3.6 billion as of the date of announcement).
Representation of Sears, Roebuck in its disposition of Western Auto Supply to Advance Auto for $175 million plus 40 percent of the stock of Advance Auto.
Representation of Dow Chemical in its acquisition of the public minority interest in Mycogen.
Representation of Dow Chemical in the disposition of Radian International to Dames & Moore for approximately $115 million.
Representation of Abbott Laboratories in its acquisition of International Murex Technologies for approximately $234 million.
Representation of Dow Chemical in the sale of the DowBrands business for more than $1 billion to S.C. Johnson & Son.
Representation of Leonard Green & Partners in its $310 million acquisition of approximately 160 community newspapers from Hollinger International.
Representation of The Restaurant Company in its acquisition of the public minority interest in Perkins Family Restaurants for approximately $70 million.
Representation of Dow Chemical in the $970 million sale of its controlling interest in Destec Energy to NGC (part of the acquisition of all of Destec by NGC for $1.27 billion).
Representation of Jacor Communications in its $190 million acquisition of Premiere Radio Networks.
Representation of Jacor Communications and the Zell/Chilmark Fund in connection with Jacor's $650 million acquisition of Citicasters.
Representation of Abbott Laboratories in connection with its $876 million acquisition of MediSense.
Representation of Dow Chemical in the formation of Radian International LLC, a limited liability company controlled by Dow combining the environmental services businesses of Dow and Hartford Steam Boiler Insurance.
Representation of independent directors of REN Corporation-USA in connection with the $177 million acquisition of the 47% publicly held minority interest in that company by a subsidiary of Gambro.
Representation of LG Electronics (Goldstar) in its $350 million acquisition of control of Zenith Electronics.
Representation of Santa Fe Pacific in its merger (valued at about $4 billion) with Burlington Northern.
Representation of Dow Chemical in the $140 million sale of its Central and South American pharmaceuticals business to Roussel-Uclaf.
Representation of Dow Chemical in the $5.1 billion sale of its controlling interest in Marion Merrell Dow to Hoechst (part of the acquisition of all of Marion Merrell Dow by Hoechst for $7.1 billion).
Education:
Harvard Law School, JD, 1976; Member, Board of Editors, Harvard Law Review, Yale University, BA, 1972. | 