Scott Alderton Scott Alderton is a founder and partner of the Firm. He received his B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1982 and his J.D., cum laude, in 1985 from Loyola Law School. He has served as an adjunct professor of securities law at Loyola Law School and is a member of the Business Law and Intellectual Property Sections of the American Bar Association. Scott is a member of the California Bar. Scott is a corporate and technology lawyer who focuses exclusively on advising middle-market, technology, emerging growth, and development stage companies in the areas of corporate and securities, mergers and acquisitions, high technology, business, licensing, intellectual property, the Internet and multimedia. Scott s practice includes a wide variety of federal and state securities laws matters, including the representation of venture capital funds, issuers and investment bankers in public offering registrations and private placements of securities, counseling both public and private clients in reverse merger and/or exchange transactions with public shell companies (i.e., alternative public offerings), as well as counseling issuers in connection with federal and state securities law reporting requirements. Scott has over twenty-two years experience working with technology and emerging growth companies at all stages along their evolutionary path. In addition to his extensive background and teaching experience in the field of securities law, Scott has particular expertise in software and other technology licensing; technology transfer, distribution and marketing agreements; capital formation, venture capital and financing transactions; mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; commercial contracts; executive employment agreements; general website operational matters (such as the preparation of website terms of use or service and privacy policies, and compliance with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act), protection of copyrights, trademarks, domain names and trade secrets; electronic commerce; and the development, acquisition and clearance of rights in intellectual property (particularly with respect to information technology, the Internet and new media products). Scott is a frequent speaker on matters relating to technology, intellectual property, capital formation and capital raising transactions and the representation of technology and emerging growth companies.