Scott W. Loveless
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MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS EXPERIENCE
Scott Loveless is one of Utah's leading mergers and acquisitions attorneys. He has extensive experience assisting clients with complex / strategic mergers, acquisitions, disposition of businesses and their assets, as well as leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, proxy contests, stock swaps, rollups, equity transactions, tender offers, asset exchanges, business restructuring, spin-offs, legal due diligence for merger and acquisition targets, as well as general corporate, business formation, and venture capital and private equity transactions. Mr. Loveless' clients cover a broad range of industries including medical, pharmaceutical, construction, intellectual property, aviation and mining.
Because of his reputation for handling high-profile transactions, Mr. Loveless has earned recognition by his peers in notable publications. Since inception, Chambers USA - America's Leading Business Lawyers has recognized Mr. Loveless as one of the top corporate/mergers and acquisitions lawyers in Utah. Best Lawyers in America has recognized Mr. Loveless for his experience in the areas of corporate governance and compliance, corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and securities law, and Mountain States Super Lawyers and Utah Business magazine's "Utah's Legal Elite" have each listed Mr. Loveless as a leader in the field of mergers and acquisitions law.
Mr. Loveless received his L.L.M. in taxation and his Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University. From 1971 to 1978 he worked as legislative counsel in the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. He is licensed to practice in the states of Utah, Virginia, and Colorado.
Mr. Loveless is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Brigham Young University where he teaches mergers and acquisitions law. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of Meritas Law Firms Worldwide, the world's largest organization of independent commercial law firms (www.meritas.org). He is a past member of the Board of Trustees of the Pioneer Theater Company and past President and Board member of The Days of '47, Inc., an annual celebration of Utah's heritage.
Representative Transactions:
- Merit Medical Systems, Inc. acquisition of BioSphere Medical, Inc. for approximately $96 million
- Barrick Gold, acquisition of the Cortez Mine interest from Rio Tinto for $1.7 billion
- $210 million Kinross Gold acquisition of Crown Resources
- Franklin Quest/Covey Leadership Center merger
- Acquisition of Brighton Ski Resort by Boyne USA, Inc.
- Salt of Access Communications to McLeod USA, Inc.
- Sizzling Platter, Inc. sale of majority interest to Valor Equity Partners.
- Salt Lake Stingers sale to Larry H. Miller Baseball, Inc.
- Utah State Retirement System partnership with USAA Real Estate Company.
- Merit Medical Systems, Inc. purchase of the Angleton Division of Mallinckrodt, Inc.
- Kinross Gold Corporation’s acquisition of Amax Gold Corporation; Kinross Gold Corporation as buyer in the acquisition of Amax Gold Corporation; Kinross Gold U.S.A., Inc. as buyer in the purchase of all of the stock of NERCO DeLamar Mining Company, NERCO Metals, Inc. and Palms Mining Company from NERCO Minerals, Inc.; Kinross Gold U.S.A., Inc. in connection with the creation of a joint venture with Kennecott Corporation and Kiewit Mining Group, Inc. and the financing of the transaction with Elders Resources Finance Ltd.; Kinross Gold U.S.A., Inc. as buyer in connection with the acquisition of all of the stock of Kiewit Rawhide Corp. from Kiewit Mining Group, Inc.
- Acquisition of US Synthetic Corporation by Bain Capital Fund.
- Access Communications, Inc. $110,000,000 Credit Facility
- Sale of Harris Research, Inc. (a/k/a Chem Dry) to Summit Partners
- Unibase Technologies, Inc. as seller of its technology to Affiliated Computer Services, Inc.
- Cyanco Company as borrower and joint venture partner in the construction, financing and creation of a joint venture with Degussa Corporation
- Dynix, Inc. as seller in connection with a merger of Dynix, Inc. into a wholly-owned subsidiary of Ameritech Corporation
- Workers Compensation Fund in various acquisitions including Pinnacle Risk Management Services, Inc. and ManagedComp
- Buzas Enterprises, Inc. in the sale of the New Britain Rock Cats.
- Barrick Gold Corporation’s acquisition of High Desert Mineral Resources of Nevada, Inc.
- North American Capital, LLC sale of Pinnacle System Technology to Bell & Howell Processing Systems Company.
- Simon Transportation Services Inc. sale to Jerry Moyes.
- Terabit Computer Specialty Company Inc. sale of assets to Evans and Sutherland Computer Corporation
- Young Family Racing acquisition of Bonneville Raceways
