Scott Petepiece
Scott Petepiece is a Partner at Shearman & Sterling. He is the Global M&A Practice Group Leader, the Americas M&A Team Leader, and the Private Capital Industry Leader. He has extensive experience in all aspects of public company transactions, including negotiated mergers, unsolicited/contested transactions, topping bids, consortium investments, proxy contests, '34 Act reporting, minority investments, activist campaigns and other contentious situations. Scott is also actively involved in advising private equity sponsors, pension funds and state-owned enterprises in all types of transactions, including acquisitions and consortium investments.
His representative clients include Altice USA, Nokia, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Fairfax Financial, Temasek, American Axle and Citigroup.
In addition to his work for clients, Scott is also a Lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School where he teaches a course in cross-border mergers and acquisitions. He also teaches the section on transaction structuring for the M&A Academy.
Shearman & Sterling is a multinational law firm headquartered in New York City. They have over 850 lawyers around the world speaking more than 60 languages and practicing U.S., English, French, German, Italian, Hong Kong, OHADA and Saudi law. The firm represents many of the world’s leading corporations and major financial institutions, as well as emerging growth companies, governments and state-owned enterprises, often working on ground-breaking, precedent-setting matters.