Jeffrey Scott

Practice Areas

Securities, antitrust, and corporate governance litigation, criminal defense and regulatory investigations, trial and appellate

Career

Jeff Scott is a partner in S&C’s Litigation Group and co-head of the Firm’s securities litigation practice. Jeff has secured significant successes for clients in a wide range of areas, including securities, antitrust, and commercial civil litigation and regulatory and criminal investigations, as well as in other bet-the-company actions during the past twenty years. Barclays, Banco Popular, BlockFi, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Diebold Nixdorf, Goldman Sachs, Rocket Companies and other corporations and financial institutions have turned to Jeff for their most pressing representations. Jeff has successfully defended Barclays on numerous occasions, including in a trial of a hedge fund’s alleged $1 billion plus contract claim, which involved a derivatives transaction that was terminated during the height of the financial crisis.

As a generalist, Jeff has also represented corporations and financial institutions in a number of prominent SEC and DOJ investigations and regulatory enforcement proceedings involving allegations of securities fraud and money laundering and antitrust, CFTC, OFAC and Bank Secrecy Act violations. Jeff has obtained a number of non-public declinations in regulatory and criminal investigations.

Jeff served as a law clerk to the Honorable Clarence Newcomer, United States District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania (1996-1998).

Professional Memberships

Served as a member, New York City Bar Association’s Securities Litigation Committee, Litigation Committee, Professional Responsibility Committee, Professional and Judicial Ethics Committee and Council on Judicial Administration; Member, Providence College’s National Board of Overseers

Personal

Brooklyn Law School (J.D., 1996); Providence College (B.A., 1993)