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A&O Shearman Offices
599 LEXINGTON AVENUE
NEW YORK, NY 10022-6069
NEW YORK
United States
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Mr Scott Petepiece
Work Department
Mergers & Acquisitions
Position
Partner and Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group Leader
Career
Scott Petepiece is the Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group Leader, the Americas Mergers & Acquisitions Team Leader, and a Lead Industry Coordinator for Private Capital. He has extensive experience in all aspects of public company transactions, including negotiated mergers, unsolicited/contested transactions, topping bids, consortium investments, proxy contests, ’34 Act reporting, minority investments, activist campaigns and other contentious situations. Scott is also actively involved in advising private equity sponsors, pension funds and state-owned enterprises in all types of transactions, including acquisitions and consortium investments.
His representative clients include Altice USA, Nokia, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Fairfax Financial, Temasek, American Axle and Citigroup.
In addition to his work for clients, Scott is also a Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he teaches a course in cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
Memberships
New York
Education
LL.B.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
Delivering multi-jurisdictional and multi-disciplinary advice, A&O Shearman is highly capable in the full gamut of M&A matters, including high-profile company deals, joint ventures, and carve-out transactions. Scott Petepiece – Americas team head – concentrates on large-scale M&A in the infrastructure, energy and manufacturing industries, while deputy leader Daniel Litowitz has worked on sector-defining deals in the worlds of media, telecoms, healthcare and consumer goods; both practitioners are based in New York. In the same office, Clare O’Brien‘s notable areas of practice include restructurings, joint ventures, and acquisitions. The firm offers further transactional experience in Texas and the Bay Area, with a special emphasis on core industries like technology and energy. Daniel Mitz in Menlo Park is recommended for his knowledge of tech transactions. Following the merger of Allen & Overy and Shearman & Sterling, the team has expanded. William Schwitter in New York spearheads both the US corporate and private equity practices, bringing a wealth of experience in leveraged buyouts, strategic acquisitions and special committee fiduciary matters. In the same office, Stephen Besen stands out for his track record in multijurisdictional transactions, while Paul Burns is particularly noted for his wide experience in the life sciences and technology industries. The latter is a particular area of growth for the New York-based team, which also includes Dario de Martino. Jesse Debban, who joined from Farella Braun + Martel LLP in June 2022, expands the M&A bench in San Francisco.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Project finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Tax > Financial products
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Finance > Fintech
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Real estate > Real estate
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)