Scott Meza has over twenty years experience assisting businesses in complex transactions, including mergers, acquisitions and spin offs of public and private companies and sophisticated equity and debt financings and recapitalizations. Scott has wide-ranging experience in managing these types of transactions for technology based companies as well as for companies operating in regulated environments like telecommunications and health care. Representative transactions include stock-for-stock combinations, cash out mergers, tender and exchange offers, management buyouts; distressed company acquisitions, including bankruptcy auctions; corporate spin-offs and divestitures and corporate governance matters. Scott also regularly represents venture funds and emerging growth companies in a variety of financing transactions, ranging from preferred stock sales; subordinated debt lending and licensing and other strategic alliances. Scott has been a leader in organizing networks of accredited "angel" investors which actively invest in emerging growth companies around the country. Scott also advises senior management and boards of directors on executive employment and compensation issues and equity incentive plans. Areas of Concentration · Public and private company mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and recapitalizations · Venture capital and private equity investing · Executive employment/compensation counseling Professional & Community Involvement · Member, Mid-Atlantic Venture Association · Member, the Association for Corporate Growth · Virginia Biotechnology Association · Tech Council of Maryland Awards & Recognition · Listed, SmartCEO, Legal Elite, 2009 · Listed, Legal 500 US, 2008 edition Noteworthy Experience · In addition to his corporate practice, Scott has served as a mediator of business disputes in closely held businesses Articles, Publications, & Lectures Miscellaneous · Scott is a frequent author and lecturer before professional organizations and academic institutions on topical corporate issues, including mergers and acquisitions and venture capital and angel investing. |