Scott M. Fabry

During his years of practice, Scott has been involved with hundreds of purchase, sale and merger transactions involving a variety of industries such as asphalt manufacturing, fabrication, stamping, machining, die casting and manufacturing operations, and he has also been involved in a number of transactions involving distributors, construction services, medical devices, and software and other technology transfers. Scott is particularly skilled in acquiring businesses for clients out of receivership and bankruptcy proceedings, and he is able to utilize leveraged purchase and redemption transactions as an exit strategy for founding owners and as an avenue for existing management to obtain ownership. Scott works closely with the estate planning practice group to develop sophisticated strategies for transitioning businesses to the next generation, and he is skilled at structuring complex buy-sell arrangements to facilitate succession and provide liquidity in the event of death or other events that result in a transfer of ownership.

Over the years, Scott has utilized his expertise in partnership taxation to structure complex partnership and joint venture arrangements for operating companies and developers, often times involving Rehabilitation Tax Credits and New Markets Tax Credits to facilitate debt and equity financing for such projects.

In addition to his legal practice, Scott serves on a number of advisory boards for his clients in an effort to more fully understand the challenges facing a client's business and to help implement strategies that will allow his clients to achieve goals while maximizing value.

Scott primarily serves clients in the following areas:

• Business Counseling
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Private Equity, Venture Capital and Corporate Finance
• Succession Planning and Exit Strategies
• Federal Tax Planning
• Tax Credits