Scott Levine – Partner at Jones Day LLP
Scott Levine is a partner at Jones Day LLP and advises on the tax aspects of corporate transactions, including international and domestic mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, spinoffs and other divestitures, restructurings, financings, and joint ventures. He also has negotiated private letter rulings with the Internal Revenue Service on corporate, financial instruments, and energy credit tax. He also has advised on the tax aspects of structuring cross-border acquisitions and financial instruments.
Mr. Levine advised Procter & Gamble on the sale of its pet foods business to Mars, Essilor in its buyout of PPG's interest in Transitions, and Lam Research on its acquisition of Novellus Systems. In the renewable energy sector, he advised SunPower on its acquisition of PowerLight and Solyndra on issues related to solar energy credits. Other representative clients include Abbott Labs, American Greetings, Bank of America, Celgene, Dow Corning, Monsanto, and T-Mobile. Before joining Jones Day, Mr. Levine was a senior manager in KPMG's national tax office.
Mr. Levine graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in History in 1994, and from American University Washington College of Law in 1997. He currently serves as an adjunct professor of law, teaching corporate and international tax law at Georgetown University Law Center.