Robert Scott is a corporate and commercial lawyer with a background in media and technology, venture capital, blockchain, private equity and general corporate representation to businesses of all sizes. He has worked with a variety of public and private companies, start-ups and individuals in connection with business structuring, financings, operations and mergers and acquisitions, and from 2017 to 2022 served as General Counsel of The Arena Group (NYSE: AREN), a public media technology company and publisher of Sports Illustrated, Men’s Journal, Parade and TheStreet.
Mr. Scott has also worked extensively with data center and Bitcoin mining operators.
Mr. Scott began his career at MinterEllison in Australia, before joining the corporate finance group at Shearman & Sterling LLP in New York in 2000, working on large, multi-jurisdictional financings, representing both issuers and underwriters. He later moved to King & Spalding LLP, where he spearheaded a variety of public and private financings, before launching a boutique practice in New York City servicing clients in the startup and venture world and rights owners in media and entertainment.
Mr. Scott serves as Secretary and a Director of the Robot Heart Foundation, a music and arts 501c3 public charity, and serves on the Board of Directors of Hope for Ukraine, a 501c3 public charity supporting the victims of the war in Ukraine. In addition, Mr. Scott co-founded forward-thinking lifestyle company Further Future, which has produced large scale festivals combining music and cultural content with talks and workshops by world-renowned thought-leaders in a range of fields including business, science and technology and the arts.
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