Scott L. Olson
Partner
Scott practices in the firm's Corporate/Securities section. His experience includes public and private offerings of equity and debt securities for corporations and investment companies, as well as mergers and acquisitions of solvent and bankrupt entities. Scott counsels public companies regarding various aspects of the federal securities laws, proxy solicitations and corporate governance matters. Scott also represents both borrowers and lenders across a spectrum of corporate finance matters.
Representative Experience
- Represented the underwriters in a $1.0 billion IPO for an investment company that purchases MLP securities
- Represented a litigation support services company in a $130 million senior loan facility, a subordinated debt facility, three tranches of junior subordinated debt and an equity investment
- Represented the issuer in a $2.0 billion senior secured notes offering to finance an LNG receiving terminal
- Represented affiliated oil and gas production investment companies in syndicated and secured credit facilities aggregating $1.5 billion
- Represented the underwriters in a $70 million primary offering of common stock by an investment company owning MLP securities
- Represented an LNG receiving terminal operator in a $285 million IPO of an MLP
- Represented a refiner in a $380 million IPO
- Represented a New York-based lender in a $55 million credit facility to a steel products manufacturer
- Represented a construction company in a $28 million primary offering of common stock
- Represented an alternative energy resources company in a $70 million IPO
- Represented a solid waste hauler in a $150 million senior notes offering
- Represented a publicly-traded target in a $130 million merger of assisted living facility companies
- Represented a wood products manufacturer debtor in bankruptcy in connection with the $140 million disposition of its businesses
- Represented four operating units of a debtor in bankruptcy with the $180 million disposition of its businesses that provided offshore drilling services, vessel design and construction services as well as engineered products to offshore companies
- Represented a publicly traded target in a $130 million merger of sporting goods companies
- Represented the borrower in a $20 million debtor-in-possession revolving credit facility financing of a restaurant chain
- Represented a telecommunications provider in a $300 million debtor-in-possession revolving credit facility
Publications
- SEC Adopts Mine Safety Disclosure Rules (January 11, 2012)
- Recent Ruling Allows a Shareholder Lawsuit to Proceed After a Negative Say-on-Pay Vote: Quirk or Harbinger? (October 6, 2011)
- DC Circuit’s Proxy Access Decision to Stand, but SEC to Allow “Private Ordering” of Proxy Access (September 20, 2011)
- Oil and Gas Companies Should Expect Increased SEC Scrutiny of Operations and Reserves (September 6, 2011)
- SEC Replaces Credit Ratings with New Wide Market Following Test for Shelf Registration Statement Eligibility (September 1, 2011)
- PCAOB Floats Possibility of Mandatory Audit Firm Rotation Financial Fraud Report (January 2012) (August 31, 2011)
- DC Circuit Panel Vacates Proxy Access Rule (July 28, 2011)
- PCAOB Considers Changes to Standards for Auditors’ Reports on Audited Financial Statements Financial Fraud Report (November/December 2011) (July 6, 2011)
- SEC Proposes Rules for Compensation Committees and Compensation Advisers (April 21, 2011)
- SEC Proposes Rules to Implement the Dodd-Frank Act’s Mine Safety Disclosure Requirements (January 25, 2011)
- SEC Proposes Disclosure Rules for Payments by Resource Extraction Issuers (January 13, 2011)
- Takeaways From SEC Comments On New Oil, Gas Rules (pdf) Law360 (December 2, 2010)
- SEC Issues Interpretive Guidance Regarding Liquidity and Capital Resources Disclosures (October 20, 2010)
- SEC Proposes Enhanced Short-Term Borrowing Disclosure Rules (October 20, 2010)
- "Betting No End to Internet Gambling" 4 J. Tech. L. & Pol`y 2 (1999)
- "The IRA Provisions of the 1997 Tax Act" Tax Advisor (May 1998)
- "Guide to Roth IRAs and Estate Planning" Tax Advisor Direct (1998)
- "The Potential Liabilities Faced by In-House Counsel" 7 U. Miami Bus. L. Rev. 1 (1998)
- "Time to Spend, Not Save" Financial Planning (September 1997)
- "Comment: The Case Against Affirmative Action in the Admissions Process" 58 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 991 (1997)
Professional Recognition
- Texas Rising Star, Texas Monthly (2008, 2009, 2011)
