Scott DeWald

For more than 40 years, Scott DeWald has helped clients plan and execute strategies, solve problems, and realize opportunities using business law, primarily in corporate and LLC formation, financing and acquisition transactions, and contract negotiations. His clients include public and private companies (startups, as well as medium- and large-sized businesses), for-profit and nonprofit corporations, LLCs, partnerships, and government agencies.

Scott's practice is concentrated on mergers and acquisitions, financing and other commercial transactions, raising capital, joint ventures, new business formation, and both simple and complex contracts. He has represented buyers and sellers in stock and asset acquisitions and mergers in a variety of industries, including biotechnology, employee leasing, newspapers, banking, university technology licensing, automobile dealerships and auto loan financing, automobile parts and supplies, e-commerce, software development and licensing, computer hardware manufacturing, plastics manufacturing, computer data services and consulting, cable television, commercial spin-offs of university research, health care, financial institutions, contracting, hospitality, and wholesale jewelry equipment. He has represented entrepreneurs in emerging companies and larger, established corporate issuers, as well as underwriters, venture capital investors, and angel investors, in connection with private offerings of debt and equity securities, including debentures and preferred stock financing transactions, spanning startup capital, venture capital, and initial and secondary public offerings.

Scott is a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association and its Task Force on the Model Asset Purchase Agreement. He serves as the chair of the Legislative Committee of the Business Section of the State Bar of Arizona. He has worked with state legislators to pass over nine (9) Arizona bills governing limited liability companies, corporations and partnerships, including the 2020 Arizona Limited Liability Company Act (a comprehensive revision to the prior LLC statute), the 2016 Arizona Business Entities Competitive Omnibus Act, 2013 legislation amending the Arizona Corporations Code, 2008, 1998, 1997, 1996 and 1994 legislation amending the Arizona Partnership and Limited Liability Company Acts, interstate banking, and 1990 technical and clarifying amendments to the Arizona Antitakeover Statute affecting Arizona public corporations. He was a member of the Editorial Board that drafted the Official Comments to the Arizona Limited Liability Act and has written and lectured extensively on the Act.