Scott Levi is a partner in the Firm's Capital Markets Group and a founding member of its Public Company Advisory Group. Scott counsels management and boards of U.S. publicly traded companies on a day-to-day basis, across issuers ranging widely in size (from S&P 500 companies to micro-caps), industry and home country. In this practice, he advises on corporate governance, compensation disclosure, periodic reporting to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (including annual, quarterly and current reports), ongoing compliance with U.S. federal securities laws and the rules of major U.S. stock exchanges, registration statements on Form S-8, proxy advisor/investor policies, board and committee independence, auditor independence and auditor changes, insider trading, Rule 10b5-1 and Regulation FD questions, share repurchase programs, and shareholder activism. In addition, he leads companies through the corporate governance aspects of listing in the United States, including setting up policies and procedures for being a public company.

Scott is expert in the complex beneficial ownership reporting and liability regimes under Sections 13(d) and 16 of the U.S. Exchange Act, and works with investment funds, private equity sponsors, hedge funds, state-owned entities, sovereign wealth funds, and high net-worth individuals, as well as insiders at U.S. companies, on structuring and reporting investments based on these requirements. Scott also has a track record for successfully assessing and winning securities regulatory rulings and no action requests with the SEC with regard to shareholder proposals under Rule 14a-8 and other regulatory matters. Trained as a general capital markets attorney, Scott additionally has experience representing issuers and banks in a range of transactions, including registered offerings and Rule 144A/Reg S offerings/liability management.

In addition to serving domestic clients, Scott is actively involved with companies throughout Latin America and the Middle East.

Scott is a regular speaker on U.S. securities law topics, having spoken before the Society for Corporate Governance, the Mexican REIT Association, Stafford webinars, and RealTransparentDisclosure. Scott also maintains an active pro bono practice, and is on the board of directors for Lawyers Alliance of New York.

While in law school, Scott served as a judicial extern for Judge Victor Marrero of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, taught legal writing to first-year law students as a Littleton Fellow and was a senior editor of the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law.