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Scott Zemser
Position
Partner
Career
Scott Zemser is a partner in Mayer Brown’s New York office and Global Head of Leveraged Finance & Private Capital practice. He has more than 25 years of experience practicing in the US and international leveraged finance markets. He represents banks and other financial institutions as lead arrangers, underwriters and participants across all types of financings, including acquisition, tender and bridge financings; investment grade financings; secured high-yield debt securities; asset-based financings; and convertible note financings. Scott also represents banks and other financial institutions in their roles as administrative agents and lenders as well as ad hoc credit committees in connection with complex US and cross border workouts and restructurings including DIPS, 363’s and credit bids.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
(Leading Individuals)Praised as a ‘highly qualified, personable team’, Mayer Brown’s broad practice encompasses fund finance, structured finance, and supply chain finance. The firm is jointly led by Matthew O’Meara, Fred Fisher, and Scott Zemser, Fisher works out of Chicago and handles debt facilities for private equity funds and corporations. O’Meara is highly knowledgeable in debt financing transactions and is regularly called upon by asset managers, banks, finance companies, and institutional investors. Operating out of New York, Zemser is particularly well-regarded in the leveraged finance sector, and is highly skilled at asset-based financing and international restructurings. Christophe Wassaf is informed in secured and unsecured financing transactions, as well as liability management transactions, while Chicago-based Beth Vogel is another key team member.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading Individuals United States > Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders United States > Finance
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Tax > Financial products
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Tax > International tax
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Finance > Project finance
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Government > Government relations
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Real estate > Land use/zoning
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Transport > Rail and road: finance
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- International trade and national security > National Security
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
- Insurance > Advice to insurers
- Finance > Commercial lending: Advice to bank lenders
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Government > Government contracts
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense