Representative Experience
Representing Banks and Other Lenders, Mortgage Servicers and Insurance Companies
Practicing law for more than thirty five years, Scott has a proven track record representing community, regional and national banks, as well as mortgage servicers and other lenders. His expertise is concentrated in matters of lending, enforcing creditors’ rights, and representing creditors in bankruptcy court and related proceedings. He regularly counsels banks and other lenders in bankruptcy proceedings, workouts and foreclosures. Additionally, Scott serves as national bankruptcy counsel to several large international insurance companies counseling them on bankruptcy issues related to defending claims and other matters.
Among the matters Scott has handled are:
Scott successfully represented an internationally known shoe company that acquired 27 stores in the Bakers Footwear bankruptcy in a contested 363 sale.
He served as co-counsel for an internationally known aluminum manufacturer which successfully acquired assets of the debtor valued over $300 million through a 363 sale in the Noranda Aluminum Chapter 11 case.
Scott represented numerous landlords and creditors in Patriot Coal, Payless ShoeSource, Armstrong Energy, Abengoa Bioenergy and various Chapter 11 cases.
Scott served as co-counsel in the Peabody Energy Chapter 11 for the case’s largest shareholder who petitioned the Court to appoint an equity shareholders’ committee.
He represented the senior secured lender in the collection of the client’s secured debt in the state court Vatterott Educational Centers receivership.
Scott represented a locally owned St. Louis bank in a complex restructuring of a borrower’s debt, which included the negotiation and drafting of an intercreditor agreement with another bank that had competing interests.
Scott represented a medical supply distributor in the successful acquisition of substantially all assets of the debtors in a contested 363 sale.
He has served as counsel to numerous creditors’ committees, including Superior Insulating Tape Company, Juvenile Shoe Corporation, Kawin Chotin Jewelers, Sky Top Sunroofs, St. Louis Leasing, and others. In St. Louis Leasing he served as lead counsel to a committee of secured investors comprising over $50 Million in secured claims and guided the group to a successful conclusion in a complex Chapter 11 reorganization case.
Corporate and Real Estate
Scott assists clients with a variety of contractual matters, including asset purchase agreements, stock agreements, licensing agreements and non-competes, as well as a variety of real estate related matters and closings, including a $20 million sale of an apartment complex. He has also successfully litigated or negotiated a host of title insurance claims and related matters.
