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Scott M. LewisAdministrative Partner
Experience
• Represents a wide variety of closely held and small to middle market companies in the manufacturing, retail, service and sports/entertainment industries
• Facilitates the completion of acquisitions, sales, business combinations and divisions
• Assists clients with private equity and debt offerings, real estate acquisitions, construction and leasing matters, employment issues, intellectual property licensing and a variety of institutional debt facilities.
• Guides formation of tax-exempt organizations
• Clients include a sports and entertainment marketing company, a professional sports team, advertising agencies, a regional grocery chain, a regional steel processing company, medical and dental professionals, and Green manufacturers
• Applicant for LEED Green Associate Accreditation
Background
• More than two decades of practice, first as a principal with well-known Cleveland law firm, and then with Meyers Roman Friedberg & Lewis since 2002
• Represented a professional hockey team and a multi-use indoor recreational facility
• Frequent lecturer and author on the topics of structuring and analyzing business transactions
Memberships & Associations
• Alternate member of the Board of Governors of the International Hockey League
• Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Corporate & Securities Law Sections
• Board Secretary and Member, Executive Committee of the Cleveland Jewish News
• Trustee of Cleveland Men’s Organization for Rehabilitation through Training
• Cleveland Sight Center, International Services Center and Cleveland Hillel Foundation
• Member, Orange Village Planning and Zoning Commission
Education
• University of Michigan, B.A., magna cum laude, 1981
• University of Chicago, J.D., with Highest Distinction, 1984
