Mr. Shean is recognized for his representation of Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in its US$522 million secondary offering in the Capital Markets: Equity Offerings category.The Legal 500 US 2011

R. Scott Shean

Orange County
  • 650 Town Center Drive
  • 20th Floor
  • Costa Mesa, CA 92626-1925
  • USA
 
 

R. Scott Shean is the Managing Partner of the Orange County office. His practice focuses on general corporate and securities matters, mergers and acquisitions, and capital markets.  Mr. Shean serves as outside corporate counsel to both public and private companies from various industries, including software, healthcare, real estate, energy, gaming, Internet and biotechnology.

Mr. Shean was named to the Daily Journal's “20 to Watch Under 40” list, recognizing top attorneys under the age of 40 in California.

In recent years, Mr. Shean's clients have included Watson Pharmaceuticals, Complete Production Services, Vizio, Skilled Healthcare Group, Amgen, HCP, Medicis Pharmaceutical Corporation, Harrah's Entertainment, Paul Frank Industries, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, Piper Jaffray, Bank of America, Roth Capital and Stifel Nicolaus Weisel.

 

Mr. Shean's representative transactions include:

  • Actavis, Inc. in its US$8.5 billion acquisition of Warner Chilcott plc (pending)
  • J.P. Morgan as financial advisor to Thermo Fisher in its US$13.6 billion acquisition of Life Technologies (pending)
  • Medicis Pharmaceutical in the US$2.6 billion acquisition by Valeant Pharmaceuticals
  • Perella Weinberg Partners, as financial advisor to One Lambda in the pending acquisition by Thermo Fisher Scientific for US$925 million
  • Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the US$7 billion acquisition of Amylin Pharmaceuticals by Bristol-Myers Squibb
  • Quest Software in its US$2.4 billion acquisition by Dell
  • Watson Pharmaceuticals in its US$5.65 billion acquisition of Actavis Group and related financing, making Watson the third largest global generics company
  • Complete Production Services in its US$6.2 billion merger with Superior Energy Services
  • Clarient in its US$600 million sale to General Electric
  • Watson Pharmaceuticals in its US$1.8 billion acquisition of Arrow Group and its US$2 billion acquisition of Andrx Corporation
  • Visiogen, Inc. in its US$400 million sale to Abbott Laboratories
  • HCP, Inc. in its US$3 billion acquisition of Slough Estates USA
  • ICOS Corporation in its US$2.1 billion sale to Eli Lilly
  • FileNet Corporation in its US$1.6 billion sale to IBM
  • Varco International, Inc. in its US$5 billion merger with National Oilwell
  • Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. in its US$10.3 billion acquisition of Caesars Entertainment
  • Amgen Inc. in its US$17.7 billion acquisition of Immunex Corporation
  • Pan Pacific Retail Properties, Inc. in its multi-billion dollar acquisitions of Western Properties Trust and Center Trust, Inc.
  • Paul Frank Industries in its sale to Saban Capital
  • Automotive.com in its sale to Primedia, Inc.