I. Scott Bogatz

I. Scott Bogatz is a partner at Reid Rubinstein & Bogatz whose practice spans commercial law, transactions, litigation, and bankruptcy. He advises businesses on formation, financing, capitalization, operations, disputes, restructuring, and other significant commercial matters. His career includes private practice and in-house leadership roles, giving him experience with legal issues from the perspectives of outside counsel and business management. He has worked with clients in real estate, development, gaming, technology, restaurant, and hospitality sectors.

Bogatz earned a B.A. from the University of Nevada, Reno in 1985 with high distinction and a J.D. from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1988, where he graduated in the top portion of his class. He later completed a real estate executive seminar at Harvard Business School. His legal and business education supports a practice involving complex transactions, governance questions, commercial disputes, restructuring decisions, and financially significant business matters.

Bogatz has handled commercial matters ranging from business formation and financing to litigation and bankruptcy. His experience includes a partnership dispute involving a major master-planned development and restructuring work involving prepackaged bankruptcy. He has served in senior in-house roles, including general counsel positions connected with gaming, technology, and hospitality businesses. Earlier private practice experience at prominent Nevada firms further developed his ability to address high-value transactions, litigation, and corporate problems.

I. Scott Bogatz brings more than three decades of commercial legal experience to matters involving business growth, disputes, and financial pressure. His combination of transactional, litigation, restructuring, and in-house work allows him to assess legal questions in the context of business operations and decision-making. He helps companies evaluate risk, structure transactions, manage conflicts, and respond to changing financial circumstances. His practice emphasizes practical legal judgment across the life cycle of complex business matters.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Reid Rubinstein & Bogatz
• Member, State Bar of Nevada
• Founding Member, Advisory Board, Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada Las Vegas
• Active Participant, Legal Aid Center of Southern Nevada
• Founding Member, Advisory Board and Chair, Minority Development Task Force, University of Nevada Las Vegas Business School

Licensed State

• Nevada

Education

• University of Colorado, Boulder
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Nevada, Reno
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)
• Harvard Business School
  Real Estate Executive Seminar – Capital Markets, Project Finance

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