Mr Scott Vetri > Katten > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile
Katten Offices
50 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, New York 10020
United States
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Mr Scott Vetri
Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Scott Vetri serves as the co-head of the New York Real Estate practice. He has spent his career assembling and closing sophisticated commercial real estate transactions. In his national practice, he represents owners, funds and developers in financings, acquisitions, dispositions, leases and joint ventures.
Scott is in his element when working on a complex, time-sensitive transaction. Clients rely on his years of experience to drive their important deals from initial negotiations through to a successful closing. Having previously served as chief legal officer of Ark Investment Partners, an international, institutionally capitalized real estate fund and property management company, Scott views each matter from a client’s perspective. He also has past lender-side experience.
In deals that present unusual challenges, Scott is an asset to his clients. They include operators and managers of multifamily, office, industrial and hotel properties; in one instance, he successfully completed the sale of a hotel while it was still under construction. Whatever the complications on a particular deal, Scott frequently anticipates the challenges ahead and finds creative solutions to them. His goal for every matter is to close the deal efficiently and within his client’s time constraints.
Memberships
Scott is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI).
Education
JD, Syracuse University College of Law, magna cum laude, 1995; MCRP, Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey; BA, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, cum laude, 1988
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
With experience on the lender, owner, and operator sides, Katten regularly represents banks, funds, private equity investors, and developers on a range of investments, joint ventures, and financings. Development transactions, including land acquisitions and construction loan financings, make up another area of expertise with a strong pipeline of recent mandates relating to single and multi-family developments as well as affordable housing. Timothy Little chairs the department out of New York who, outside of transactions, has considerable experience covering workouts and restructurings. New York also features Louise Carroll is particularly involved in affordable housing and community development matters alongside Glenn Miller in Washington, DC. With prior experience as chief legal officer of Ark Investment Partners, Scott Vetri is another key name on financings, acquisitions, and dispositions. David Dlugie and Frank Arado, meanwhile, are known for their leading of the practice’s Midwest and Southeast real estate offerings, with the former in Chicago and the latter in Charlotte.
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Firm Rankings
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- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
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- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
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- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Healthcare > Service providers
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- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense