Scott E. Waxman

Scott E. Waxman is a business lawyer and the managing partner of K&L Gates’ Wilmington office and a founding partner of that office. His practice focuses on organizational and operational issues involving limited liability companies, partnerships, statutory trusts, and special purpose corporations. He also advises on mergers and acquisitions, structured finance, securitizations, joint ventures, private equity, hedge funds, preferred securities, insurance premium financing, and other complex commercial and financial transactions.

Scott earned a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1990 and a B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1987, graduating with general honors in Chinese, Russian, and International Relations. He is admitted in Delaware and before the United States Tax Court. His academic background and long Delaware practice support work involving entity law, governance, finance, taxation, and the legal structure of sophisticated commercial transactions.

Scott advises financial institutions, service providers, investors, and business entities on governance, fiduciary duties, dissolution, winding up, restructuring, and transaction structure. He also assists litigators and serves as an expert witness before domestic and international tribunals on Delaware alternative-entity law. His practice frequently addresses the roles of trustees, collateral agents, servicers, escrow agents, securities intermediaries, paying agents, and independent managers or directors.

Scott E. Waxman has served for more than two decades on Delaware committees responsible for drafting limited liability company, partnership, and statutory trust legislation. He is a past chair of the Alternative Entities Subcommittee and serves on the Statutory Trust Committee. This legislative work gives him direct experience with the development of Delaware entity law and complements a practice focused on governance, transactions, finance, and sophisticated business structures.

Law Office Affiliations

• Managing Partner, K&L Gates LLP
• Past Chair, Alternative Entities Subcommittee, Delaware State Bar Association
• Member, Statutory Trust Committee, Section of Commercial Law, Delaware State Bar Association
• Member, Section of Taxation, Delaware State Bar Association
• Member, Pennsylvania State Bar Association
• Member, Taxation Section and Business Law Section, American Bar Association

Licensed State

• Delaware

Education

• Georgetown University Law Center
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• The Johns Hopkins University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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