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Scott Petepiece
Partner




Education

University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law, LL.B., 1993
University of Western Ontario, B.A. (Hons.), 1990


Practice

Mr. Petepiece, a partner in the firm’s New York office, represents United States and multinational corporations in acquisitions and sales of public and private companies and in joint ventures and strategic alliances. Mr. Petepiece has also been actively involved in representing private equity sponsors in various transactional matters.


Recent Experience

  • Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. in its pending acquisition by Bank of America Corporation
  • The Dow Chemical Company in its pending $15 billion acquisition of Rohm and Haas Company
  • The Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc as a member of the consortium (comprised of Fortis SA/NV, Fortis N.A. and Banco Santander Central Hispano, S.A.) that acquired ABN AMRO Holding NV
  • Boston Scientific Corporation in connection with its contested $27 billion cash and stock acquisition of Guidant Corporation
  • Cadbury Schweppes plc in connection with the demerger of its beverage business
  • The Bank of Nova Scotia in its acquisition of a minority stake in First BanCorp, a Puerto
    Rican-chartered financial holding company
  • Goldman Sachs Global Infrastructure Partners I, L.P., in connection with its acquisition of Union Site Management, L.L.C.
  • Barclays Bank PLC in connection with its acquisition from Wachovia Corporation of the U.S. mortgage servicing business of HomEq Servicing Corporation
  • Citigroup, Inc. in connection with its $6 billion acquisition of Federated Department Stores’ credit card business, its $7 billion acquisition from GE Capital of The Home Depot’s private label credit card portfolio and related credit card business, the sale of its electronic financial services business to JPMorgan Chase Bank and the renegotiation of its credit card program with Sears Holdings
  • Carlyle Infrastructure Partners, L.P. and Merrill Lynch Global Private Equity in connection with several potential acquisitions
  • National Bank of Greece in connection with the sale of Atlantic Bank of New York to New York Community Bancorp, Inc.
  • Quest Diagnostics Incorporated in connection with its cash merger acquisition of LabOne Inc. and in its cash election exchange offer for Unilab Corporation
  • AES Corp. in connection with the restructuring of its Chilean operations, including the debt tender offers, equity offering and bond offering by its Chilean subsidiary, AES Gener
  • NBC Universal Inc. in connection with its acquisition of the Bravo programming service from Cablevision Systems Corporation and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. and the restructuring of its minority investment in a publicly traded company
  • General Electric Company in connection with its attempted $45 billion stock-for-stock acquisition of Honeywell International Inc.
  • Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. in General Electric Company’s tender offer for Smallworldwide plc
  • BASF AG (Germany) in its acquisition of American Cyanamid from American Home Products Corporation, and on its acquisition of AMCOL International’s global polymers business
  • Morgan Stanley Capital Partners in connection with the sale of Enterprise Reinsurance Holdings Corporation to Imagine Insurance Company Limited (Bermuda)
  • Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated in connection with the sale of its Puerto Rican private banking business to Santander Securities Corporation


Bar Admissions/Qualifications

New York