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Scott W. Ellison is a member of the firm, counseling and representing small and medium sized privately held companies in business and transactional law, commercial law, entity formation and tax matters. Scott’s practice also includes a significant amount of time assisting clients buy and sell businesses, and working with clients on mergers, reorganizations and acquisitions. He works with clients to help obtain financing from lenders, and to put into place contracts to memorialize the relationship of equity owners such as cross-purchase agreements, shareholder agreements, promissory notes and non-competition agreements.
Scott has a Masters of Law in Taxation. He advises his clients on the tax implications of their business strategies and transactions, permitting the clients to take such factors into consideration before making business decisions.
Prior to law school, Scott served in the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. In the ITA, Scott worked with American companies to resolve obstacles they were encountering with export transactions. It was this experience that fostered Scott’s interest in business law.
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603-621-7122
s.ellison@clrm.com
- Recipient of New Hampshire Business and Industry Association “Above and Beyond” award in May, 2008 for “contributions to help New Hampshire’s business community”
- Recommended in Chambers USA™ for Corporate/M&A
- Listed in Best Lawyers in America®
- Named as one of New Hampshire’s Top Attorneys in Corporate Law by New Hampshire Magazine’s Top Attorneys in New Hampshire
- Selected by Business and Industry Association of New Hampshire and the newspaper The Union Leader as one of New Hampshire’s 40 Under Forty, a group of 40 men and women who were recognized for their “contribution of time and energy to the community.”
- Named as of New Hampshire’s Legal Leaders: the Next Generation by New Hampshire Editions Magazine.
- University of Connecticut School of Law, Juris Doctor (Cum Laude), 1994
- Boston University School of Law, Masters of Law in Taxation (Valedictorian), 2000
- Dartmouth College, Bachelor of Arts, 1989
- “Too Much of a Good Thing and The Rights of NH Auto Dealers”, CPA Connection, July 2007
- “Negativity Equity Financing Under Scrutiny”, Dateline: NH (publication of the NH Automobile Dealers Association), December 2006
- “Negotiating Buy-Sell Agreements,” Northern New England Real Estate Journal, October 2006
- Author of the New Hampshire chapter in “Doing Business in States Other than the State of Incorporation,” Volume 85 of the corporate practice series, BNA (2006)
- Represented the acquirers of Environmental Resource Return
Corp., the ninth largest processor of construction and demolition
waste in the United States, in the merger and in the related
commercial and venture capital mezzanine financing
- Regularly represent purchasers and sellers of automobile
dealerships and related franchises, including practice in
front of NH Motor Vehicle Industry Board for subsequent
manufacturer disputes
- Prepare and negotiate non-competition agreements, non-disclosure
agreements and various other agreements to protect the rights
of employers
- Prepare shareholder agreements, cross-purchase agreements
and promissory notes and security agreements for shareholder
financing, to memorialize the relationships between entities
and their equity owners
- Prepare and negotiate distributorship agreements, sales
representative agreements, consignment agreements and supply
agreements
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