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Lynn Scott is a partner in the firm’s Corporate Practice Group. She concentrates her practice in corporate and securities law, with an emphasis on emerging growth companies in the technology and pharmaceutical and biotechnology fields; public and private equity offerings; mergers and acquisitions; corporate governance issues; and licensing, joint development and strategic alliance transactions.

Ms. Scott’s recent experience includes representing:

Start-up and early stage technology, telecommunications and biotechnology companies in their formation, structuring, financing and general corporate matters.
Companies in connection with license, strategic alliance, sales, supply, development and services agreements.
Growth companies in their corporate finance and general corporate matters.
Institutional and corporate venture capital funds in their investment activities.
Companies in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.
Ms. Scott’s recent experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry includes representing venture capital investors in investments in early stage pharmaceutical and biotech companies and representing early stage pharmaceutical and biotech companies in licensing, development, financing and merger and acquisition transactions.

Awards and Recognitions
Ms. Scott was named one of Nightingale’s Outstanding Healthcare Transaction Lawyers for 2008. She has been included in The Best Lawyers in America for corporate law, venture capital law and private equity and leveraged buy-out law and named a Georgia Super Lawyer by Atlanta magazine.

Professional Activities
State Bar of Georgia – Advisor to Women and Minorities in the Profession Committee
Atlanta Bar Association – Past Vice Chair of Business and Finance Section
American Bar Association – Business Law Section and committees on Venture Capital, Private Equity and M&A
Education
J.D., magna cum laude, Mercer University,
– Research Editor, Mercer Law Review
– Member, Brainard Currie Honor Society
– Member, Phi Kappa Phi
B.S., University of Georgia
Admitted to Practice
Georgia, 1988
Additional Information
Publications
Ms. Scott has co-authored and authored numerous articles on corporate and securities law topics, including an article regarding board composition published in American Venture magazine.

Speeches
She is a frequent speaker at national and local seminars focusing on corporate and securities laws, private equity transactions and technology issues topics. She has chaired Thompson West Legalworks Southeastern Private Equity Summit and co-chaired its Southeastern M&A Forum. She has participated in webcasts on legal topics and topics related to the advancement and retention of women in the legal profession. She has chaired Practicing Law Institute’s “Doing Deals” seminars and various other legal and financial services seminars.

Mr. Cohen is Chair of the firm’s Corporate Practice Group. He concentrates on transactional matters including public and private company mergers and acquisitions, going private transactions, and equity and debt financings. Mr. Cohen has lectured on venture capital financing and employment and trade secret issues. In 2004, 2005 and 2006 he was named a “Georgia Super Lawyer” by Atlanta Magazine and in 2003, 2007and 2008 he was named one of Georgia’s “Legal Elite” by Georgia Trend Magazine. Clients of Mr. Cohen include publicly held and private companies in the technology, healthcare, distribution and retail industries. Mr. Cohen also represents groups of early-stage “angel” investors in their fundraising activities, venture capital funds and companies seeking venture capital funding.

Professional Activities
Board of Directors, American-Israel Chamber of Commerce, Southeast Region
Delegate, Governor Sonny Perdue’s Technology and Trade Mission to Israel, November 2005
Board of Advisors, Atlanta Legal Aid Society
Atlanta Venture Forum
Technology Association of Georgia
State Bar of Georgia, Uniform Commercial Code Committee
Education
J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1984
– Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
B.S., Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, 1981, Accounting and Finance
– Cum Laude  
Admitted to Practice
State of Georgia, 1984
Representative Transactions
Represented joint venture of non-profit Blue Cross/Blue Shield companies in $9.5 million investment in informatics company that closed on October 16, 2008.
Represented specialty finance company in closing $200 million warehouse financing facility from Goldman Sachs Credit Partners L.P.
Represented public life sciences company in closing $15 million secured financing facility from GE Capital Corporation.
Represented German company in acquisition of an interest in a Georgia textile company.

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