Wheat, Michael E.

Scott Loveless is one of Utah's leading mergers and acquisitions attorneys. He has extensive experience assisting clients with complex / strategic mergers, acquisitions, disposition of businesses and their assets, as well as leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, proxy contests, stock swaps, rollups, equity transactions, tender offers, asset exchanges, business restructuring, spin-offs, legal due diligence for merger and acquisition targets, as well as general corporate, business formation, and venture capital and private equity transactions. Mr. Loveless' clients cover a broad range of industries including medical, pharmaceutical, construction, technology, intellectual property, aviation and mining.

Because of his reputation for handling high-profile transactions, Mr. Loveless has earned recognition by his peers in notable publications. Since inception, Chambers USA -America's Leading Business Lawyers has recognized Mr. Loveless as one of the top corporate/mergers and acquisitions lawyers in Utah. Best Lawyers in America has recognized Mr. Loveless for his experience in the areas of corporate governance and compliance, corporate, mergers and acquisitions, and securities law, and Mountain States Super Lawyers and Utah Business magazine's "Utah's Legal Elite" have each listed Mr. Loveless as a leader in the field of mergers and acquisitions law.

Mr. Loveless received his L.L.M. in taxation and his Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University. From 1971 to 1978 he worked as legislative counsel in the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. He is licensed to practice in the states of Utah, Virginia, and Colorado.

Mr. Loveless has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Brigham Young University where he taught mergers and acquisitions law. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of Meritas Law Firms Worldwide, the world's largest organization of independent commercial law firms (www.meritas.org). He is a past member of the Board of Trustees of the Pioneer Theater Company and past President and Board member of The Days of '47, Inc., an annual celebration of Utah's heritage.