Bio
Mr. Scott is the Managing Partner of Scott+Scott with offices in New York, Connecticut, Virginia, Texas, Ohio, Nebraska, California, and Delaware, as well as in Montréal, Amsterdam, London, and Berlin.
In addition to managing the Firm’s 140 lawyers in the United States and the Firm’s transatlantic offices, Mr. Scott advises some of the world’s largest multinational corporations in cartel damages and other complex matters. He has been retained to design corporate policies for the global recoupment of losses, and transatlantic private enforcement programs.
Mr. Scott also closely works with the Firm’s institutional investor clients, including hundreds of public pension systems throughout the United States and the European Union, to confirm their funds have proper safeguards in place to ensure against corporate malfeasance.
He currently represents multinational companies and hedge funds in cases involving, among other things, price-fixing in the trucks, foreign exchange, high voltage power cables, cardboard, and payment card sectors.
Mr. Scott’s antitrust cases in the United States have resulted in significant recoveries for victims of price-fixing cartels. Among other cases, Mr. Scott served as co-lead counsel in Dahl v. Bain Capital Partners, No. 1:07-cv-12388 (D. Mass.), an action alleging that the largest private equity firms in the United States colluded to suppress prices that shareholders received in leveraged buyouts and that the defendants recently agreed to settle for $590.5 million. He was lead counsel in Red Lion Medical Safety v. Ohmeda, No. 06-cv-1010 (E.D. Cal.), a lawsuit alleging that Ohmeda, one of the leading manufacturers of medical anesthesia equipment in the United States, excluded independent service organizations from the market for servicing its equipment. The case was successfully resolved in settlement negotiations before trial.
Mr. Scott has received widespread recognition for his antitrust and competition law work. In 2025, he was recognized by Lawdragon as being among the 500 Leading Global Financial, Antitrust as well as Global Plaintiffs Lawyers. Under his leadership, Scott+Scott also received top tier rankings by Legal 500 and Chambers. He has been elected to Who’s Who Legal: Competition 2015- 2024, which lists the world’s top antitrust and competition law lawyers, selected based on comprehensive, independent survey work with both general counsel and lawyers in private practice around the world. He has also received a highly recommended ranking by Benchmark Litigation for each of the years 2013-2015. In addition, Mr. Scott is continually recognized in the U.S. by Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers. In 2024, he was also recognized by Crains New York Business as a Notable Leader in Accounting, Consulting & Law.
In addition to his extensive competition law work, Mr. Scott has also taken the lead in bringing claims on behalf of institutional investors, such as sovereign wealth funds, corporate pension schemes, and public employee retirement funds. For example, he has been retained to pursue losses against mortgage-backed securities trustees for failing to protect investors. He also represented a consortium of regional banks in litigation relating to toxic auction rate securities (“ARS”) and obtained a sizable recovery for the banks in a confidential settlement. This case represents one of the few ARS cases in the country to be successfully resolved in favor of the plaintiffs.
Mr. Scott is frequently quoted in the press, including in publications such as The Financial Times, Bloomberg Law, The Economist, The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Wall Street Journal, and Law360. He is regularly invited to speak at conferences around the world and before Board of Directors and trustees responsible for managing institutional investments.
Highlights
- Lawdragon: 500 Leading Global Antitrust & Competition Lawyers (2025)
- Lawdragon: 500 Global Plaintiff Lawyers (2025)
- Lawdragon: 500 Leading Plaintiff Financial Lawyers (2025)
- Lawdragon: 500 Leading Global Litigators (Antitrust, Securities; 2025)
- Who’s Who Legal: Competition (2015-2024)
- Benchmark Litigation – Highly Recommended (2013-2015) & Litigation Star (2025)
- Crain’s New York Business – Notable Leader in Accounting,
Consulting & Law (2024)
Admissions
- State Court of New York
- State Court of Pennsylvania
- State Court of Connecticut
- United States Tax Court
- United States District Court for the District of Connecticut
- United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of Texas
- United States District Court for the District of Colorado
Representative Cases
- Dahl v Bain Capital Partners, No. 1:07-cv-12388 (D. Mass.) ($590.5 million settlement)
- Red Lion Medical Safety v. Ohmeda, No. 06-cv-1010 (E.D. Cal.)
Mr. Scott oversaw and settled the following landmark cases:
- In re Foreign Exchange Benchmark Rates Antitrust Litigation, No. 12-cv-07789 (S.D.N.Y.), a high-stakes litigation against some of the world’s largest banks centering on alleged price-fixing of foreign exchange transactions. The case settled for $2.3 billion.
- Multiple cases against Visa and Master Card filed in the United States and in the UK for individual merchants, alleging illegal manipulation of interchange fees which settled for a record setting total of $5.5 billion.
- In re Cattle Antitrust Litigation, 22-md-03031 (D. Minn.), a litigation filed on behalf of cattle ranchers and futures traders alleging a conspiracy among the nation’s meatpackers to suppress fed cattle prices. The case received preliminary approval of a proposed $83.5 million settlement with a single defendant (as of August 2025 pending final court approval).
- Alaska Electrical Pension Fund v. Bank of America, 1:14-cv-07126-JMF-OTW (S.D.N.Y), a derivates case alleging seven major banks conspired to rig the ISDAfix benchmark. The case settled for $325 million.
- In re Micro Focus Int’l PLC Sec. Litig. and Okla. Fire Pension & Ret. Sys. v. Newell Brands Inc., 18-cv-01549 (Cal. Super. Ct. San Mateo Cnty.), where he served as lead counsel and secured settlements of $107.5 million and $102.5 million.
- In re Alphabet Inc. Shareholder Derivative Litig., 3:21-cv-09388 (N.D. Cal.), where he established a $310 million fund and achieved the adoption of board and executive level reforms relating to the company’s mishandling of sexual harassment allegations against a senior executive (as of August 2025 pending final court approval).
- In re L Brands Derivative Litig., No. 20-cv-3068 (U.S. Dist. Ct., Southern District of Ohio), where he established a $90 million fund and achieved the adoption of workplace reforms in connection with a shareholder derivative action alleging serious workplace misconduct.
- Thurber v. Pharmacia, Inc., No. 2:99-cv-10368 (C.D. Cal.) ($122 million), a securities litigation which settled for $122 million.
- Cornwell v. Credit Suisse Grp., No. 08-3758 (S.D.N.Y.) a securities litigation centering on the misrepresentation of the bank giant’s risk management practices. The case settled for $70 million.
Education
- New York University School of Law (LL.M. in Taxation)
- Temple University School of Law (J.D., Moot Court Board, 1989)
- St. Lawrence University (B.A., cum laude, 1986)