Ward, Rick

Scott Levine advises on the tax aspects of corporate transactions, including international and domestic mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, spin-offs and other divestitures, restructurings, financings, and joint ventures.

Scott also has negotiated private letter rulings with the Internal Revenue Service in the corporate, financial instruments, and energy credit tax areas. He has advised on the tax aspects of structuring cross-border acquisitions and financial instruments.

Scott has worked with financial institutions including Huntington Bancshares on issues related to its acquisition of Sky Financial Group, FNB on its acquisition of Iron and Glass Bancorp, and Bank of America on various cross-border financings. In the renewable energy sector, Scott advised SunPower on its acquisition of PowerLight and Solyndra on issues related to solar energy credits. Other representative clients include Celgene, Dow Corning, Pfizer, and T-Mobile.

Before joining Jones Day, Scott was a senior manager in the national tax office of a Big Four accounting firm.

Scott has been an adjunct professor at George Mason University School of Law, where he taught courses on corporate and international taxation. He has lectured at internal continuing professional education programs and participated as a panelist on programs addressing a wide range of topics from corporate tax to electronic commerce issues.

Scott is a member of the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (Tax Section).