WES SCOTT

Partner

Wes Scott

Leading your next capital markets transaction

Public and private financial institutions, including banks, bank holding companies and investment banks, as well as healthcare companies, including clinical trial and medical device companies, rely upon Wes Scott’s experience, judgment and business acumen to close their capital market transactions. Wes has quarterbacked numerous initial public offerings, primary and secondary follow-on offerings, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures and other transformative transactions. Wes leads the firm’s Banking and Investments initiative.

Wes regularly assists these companies and their boards of directors and special committees with the following:

Public and private offerings of equity and debt securities;
SEC, FINRA and FDIC reporting compliance;
Stock exchange listing compliance;
Mergers and acquisitions;
Strategic planning and executive succession;
Recapitalizations and restructurings;
Corporate governance best practices; and
General corporate matters.

His recent experience related to financial institutions includes providing counsel to:

Multiple community banks with respect to their ongoing legal and operational needs
An NYSE-listed bank in a private placement of $100 million of Subordinated Notes
An NYSE-listed bank in public offerings of $300 million of Subordinated Notes and $172.5 million of Preferred Stock
An NYSE-listed bank in multiple bank acquisitions involving aggregate proceeds in excess of $650 million
An NYSE-listed bank in a merger involving aggregate proceeds of approximately $50 million and a multi-branch acquisition valued at approximately $37 million
A NASDAQ-listed bank in connection with exit of its primary institutional investor through block trades and privately-negotiated transactions involving interrelated federal securities laws
An NYSE-listed bank in secondary sale of common stock involving aggregate proceeds of approximately $152 million
A NASDAQ-listed bank in connection with its IPO involving aggregate proceeds of approximately $45 million

His recent experience related to healthcare companies includes providing counsel to:

Multiple clinical trial and research companies in their sales to strategic acquirers involving aggregate proceeds of approximately $100 million
Numerous emerging growth medical device companies in obtaining debt and equity capital through angel investors and venture capital and private equity funds
A strategic acquirer in its acquisition of a behavioral health hospital involving aggregate proceeds of approximately $100 million
Multiple emergency medicine physician practice groups involving aggregate proceeds of approximately $325 million

Wes is a frequent contributor to Waller's Capital Markets and Securities Blog and has been published on TheCorporateCounsel.net and quoted in BankDirector.com and Accounting Today.

Wes is recognized by Best Lawyers for Corporate Governance Law and Mergers & Acquisitions Law.

Contact Info

Nashville | Memphis

(615) 850-8927

wes.scott@wallerlaw.com

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Wes' Related Experience

BancorpSouth closes public offerings of subordinated notes and Series A preferred stock

Represented BancorpSouth Bank in its public offerings of $300 million of Subordinated Notes and $150 million of Series A Preferred Stock.

Waller assists FB Financial in connection with secondary offering by controlling shareholder

Represented FB Financial in connection with secondary offering by Mr. James W. Ayers, the controlling shareholder of FB Financial, of $152 million of common stock.

FirstBank closes $100 million subordinated notes offering

Served as legal counsel to FirstBank in its $100 million subordinated notes offering.

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Services

Financial Services

Banks

Capital Markets & Securities

Mergers & Acquisitions

Corporate

Life Sciences & Medical Devices

Education

J.D., magna cum laude, University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
M. Taxation, University of Mississippi
B. Accy, summa cum laude, University of Mississippi
- CALI Award Recipient, Securities Regulation and Federal Taxation of Business Entities
- Federation of Schools of Accountancy - Outstanding Student Award
- National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame Scholar Athlete Award
- SBC Cotton Bowl Classic Scholar Athlete Award

Bar Admissions

Tennessee

Recognitions

Member, American Bar Association Business Law Section - Corporate Governance Committee Business Law Section - Federal Regulation of Securities Committee
Member, Tennessee Bar Association

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