Scott W. Westhoff
Partner
Chicago
scott.westhoff@lw.com
+1.312.876.7605
PRACTICES
- Capital Markets
- Emerging Companies & Growth
- Public Company Representation
INDUSTRIES
- Healthcare & Life Sciences
- REITs
- Retail & Consumer Products
- Technology
EDUCATION
- JD, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, 2012
cum laude, Order of the Coif - BBA in Marketing, University of Iowa, 2000
LANGUAGES SPOKEN
PROFILE
Scott Westhoff advises clients in complex, high-profile capital markets transactions, as well as in general securities and corporate governance matters.
Scott regularly handles prominent capital markets transactions on behalf of issuers and investment banking firms in a wide range of industries, with a particular focus on the consumer retail, cryptocurrency, technology, and healthcare sectors. He also counsels public company clients on corporate governance and securities law matters.
Scott advises on:
- Initial public offerings, including deSPACs
- Block trades and follow-on offerings
- Equity-linked securities offerings
- Investment-grade debt offerings
- Periodic and current filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission
- Shareholder activism and contested elections
Given Scott’s extensive transactional experience, he helps clients efficiently navigate the regulatory process to reduce market risk. He brings a commercial perspective to develop pragmatic solutions to clients’ business imperatives, drawing on a previous career as a sales representative for a major medical device company.
EXPERIENCE
Scott has represented issuers and underwriters in equity and debt offerings by:
- American Eagle Outfitters
- Argo Blockchain
- The Better Being Co.
- Blue Bird Corporation
- Bluegreen Vacations
- CNH Industrial Capital
- Construction Partners
- Duluth Holdings
- Dun & Bradstreet
- Dutch Bros.
- Eagle Pharmaceuticals
- Harmony Biosciences
- Inotiv, Inc.
- Leggett & Platt
- Leslie’s
- Marathon Digital
- Marti Technologies
- Mayville Engineering
- Neogenomics
- Opiant Pharmaceutical
- Orbitz
- The Middleby Corporation
- Performance Food Group
- PetIQ
- PLBY Group
- A railroad and port operator
- SI-BONE
- SmileDirectClub
- Southeastern Grocer
- Sprout Social
- Thorne HealthTech
- TransUnion
- Viking Cruises
- VistaGen Therapeutics
- Vivid Seats
- Xponential Fitness