Scott Tobin is a partner in the corporate practice group of law firm Taylor English Duma, LLP. Scott provides strategic legal and business advice to high-growth businesses and those who govern, manage, and invest in them. Throughout his career, Scott has held various corporate positions in addition to his law practice, including service as a senior executive, board member, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. His varied experience helps him to better manage risks and capitalize on growth opportunities, leading to successful outcomes for his clients.

Clients rely on him for business growth and succession planning and counsel regarding board governance, strategic partnerships, licensing, mergers and acquisitions, emerging companies, and venture capital, as well as corporate litigation representation. A significant portion of Scott’s business practice focuses on managing risk and capitalizing on growth opportunities for privately held technology companies and their investors, as well as a broad range of other industries. He partners with clients at business-critical junctures, raising capital and leveraging capital and technologies, as well as when owners or managers are joining or exiting a business. Additionally, Scott serves as US general counsel to expansion-minded overseas companies, advising them on all aspects of US market entry. His litigation work concentrates largely on disputes among private company investors, lenders, directors, and management. During the internet boom of the late 1990s, Scott led the buyout of a long-time software client by an NYSE-listed company.

Before returning to private practice, Scott spent over a decade as both principal and manager of a succession of entrepreneurial business ventures. His career has included partnership in AmLaw 100 law firms and various corporate positions. Scott served as board member, president, general counsel, and principal financial officer of a publicly traded molecular diagnostics company; as CEO of a formerly Nasdaq-listed North Carolina furniture manufacturer in which he became the lead investor; as general counsel to a global software firm; and as executive vice president for global strategies and venture investment portfolio manager for a publicly traded communications technology company. His legal experience has included service as Atlanta managing partner of a European law firm and assistant attorney general for the state of Georgia.