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Scott M. Zemser
Partner, New York
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Scott M. Zemser
Partner
1155 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York
10036-2787
United States
T: + 1 212 819 8960
F: + 1 212 354 8113

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Awards
Euromoney Names 20 White & Case Lawyers to World's Leading Banking Lawyers List - 2005




Practice Experience
Scott M. Zemser is a partner in the Bank Finance Practice of White & Case LLP.  Mr. Zemser concentrates his practice on domestic and international banking and finance.  He represents banks and other financial institutions as lead arrangers and participants in structuring, negotiating and documenting complex acquisition, tender and bridge financings, first lien/second lien financings, recapitalizations, asset based financings, convertible note financings, ship financings, mezzanine financings and workouts and restructurings.

Representative clients of Mr. Zemser include Credit Suisse, BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs, Fortis Bank, Bank of America and Deutsche Bank.

Recent Experience:
  • BNP Paribas and The Royal Bank of Scotland as the Mandated Lead Arrangers and Calyon, as Co-Arranger in connection with the $2.9 billion international senior bridge facilities made available to Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc., the Carlyle Group and Merrill Lynch to help finance their $16.7 billion acquisition of The Hertz Corporation from Ford Motor Company
  • Credit Suisse as sole bookrunning manager and Deutsche Bank Securities as joint lead manager in connection with GC Impsat Holdings I Plc's (a wholly owned indirect subsidiary of Global Crossing Limited) offering of $225 million in aggregate principal amount of its 9.875% senior notes due 2017
  • BNP Paribas, London Branch, as Administrative Agent under the National Amusements, Ltd. (UK) senior credit facility and the Steering Committee comprised of lenders thereunder, as well as BNP Paribas, as a lender under the National Amusements, Inc. (US) senior credit facility, in connection with the restructuring of approximately $800 million in aggregate indebtedness of National Amusements, Inc. and National Amusements, Ltd. (including securing the credit facilities with substantially all of the assets of National Amusements and its subsidiaries and the associated intercreditor arrangements with senior noteholders and other holders of senior indebtedness)
  • Goldman Sachs Credit Partners L.P. and Credit Suisse as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners in connection with the $350 million secured credit facility for Global Crossing Limited
  • BNP Paribas as Administrative Agent in connection with a $1.175 billion senior secured credit facility to Enexus Energy Corporation (Enexus Energy will be created by the spin-off of six reactors at five of Entergy Corporation's nuclear power plant sites to occur prior to October 1, 2009)
  • Deutsche Bank Securities Inc., as sole lead arranger and bookrunner in connection with the $150 million delayed-draw term loan facility for Flowers Foods Inc. in connection with their acquisitions of Southern Bakeries and Holsum Bakery.
  • BNP Paribas as lead arranger and issuer in connection with a $333 million syndicated letter of credit facility for Sikorsky International Operations (a subsidiary of United Technologies Corporation)
  • Credit Suisse, as lead arranger in connection with the $225 million secured credit facility for Quality Distribution LLC (majority owned by Apollo Management) in connection with their acquisition of Boasso America Corporation

Mr. Zemser is listed in the Euromoney/IFLR Guide to the World's Leading Banking Lawyers.  Prior to joining White & Case, Mr. Zemser was a partner and head of the New York Banking and Institutional Finance Practice at another leading international law firm.  Prior to entering law school, Mr. Zemser worked on Wall Street as an analyst for the investment banking firm of Kidder, Peabody & Company.

Mr. Zemser received his B.A. degree cum laude, from the Business School at the State University of New York at Albany in 1982, and his J.D. degree from Benjamin N. Cardozo Law School in 1990 and served as a Senior Editor of the Cardozo Law Review.  Mr. Zemser is the author of "Insider Trading by Foreigners in United States Securities Markets:  A Pervasive Problem and Prosecutorial Nightmare" 11 Cardozo Law Review (May 1990).  Mr. Zemser is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Heyman Center for Corporate Governance, the mission of which is to raise public and academic awareness of pressing corporate and securities issues and to produce and disseminate research on a broad range of corporate and securities topics.  Mr. Zemser is also a member of the American Bar Association, the New York Bar Association and the LSTA.

Bars and Courts
New York State Bar, 1991

Education
JD, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, 1990
BA, State University of New York at Albany, 1982

Languages
English

Citizenship
United States



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