G. Scott Greenburg

PROFILE

Primary Practice

Corporate/M&A

Secondary Practices

Mr. Greenburg is a partner with more than 25 years experience in venture capital, public offerings, intellectual property and technology issues, mergers and acquisitions, complex commercial transactions and international product distribution.

Mr. Greenburg has completed more than 100 corporate transactions for companies such as: Starbucks Corporation; Aventail Corporation; Classmates Online, Inc.; Sambazon, Inc.; Maveron LLC; VoiceStream Wireless Corporation; Westin Hotel Company; Seattle SuperSonics (The Basketball Club of Seattle); WaveLink Corporation; Adams Harkness & Hill; Western Wireless Corporation; BOXLIGHT Corporation; Washington CEO Magazine; Oh Boy! Oberto; Cucina! Cucina!, Inc.; InSpa Corporation; and Sahale Snacks, Inc.. He has transactional experience in the Internet technology, software, medical technology, specialty retail, branded products, natural products, wireless telecommunications and hospitality industries.

Representative Experience

Corporate/Securities; Mergers and Acquisitions

Initial public offerings, including Starbucks Corporation, Western Wireless Corporation and QuintonCardiology Systems (underwriters counsel)
Billions of public equity and debt offerings, including VoiceStream Wireless Corporation
Public Tax Free Spin-off from Western Wireless Corporation
$29 billion merger proxy offering of VoiceStream Wireless Corporation, Omnipoint Corporation, and Aerial Communications, Inc.
Billions of 144A high yield subordinated debt offerings
Dozens of private placement offerings
Multiple rounds of seed, venture capital and equity or debt mezzanine financing for venture funds and venture backed companies, including financings for Sambazon; Accessline Holdings; InSpa; Calidora Skin Clinics, Inc.; Sahale Snacks, Inc.; ZSweet; Aventail Corporation; VoiceStream; Haydrian Corp.; SeaMed Corp.; WaveLink Corporation; Phix; Starbucks; RocketVox Corporation; Friskit, Inc.; ArtsPatron.com, Inc.; Medina Broadcast Group, Inc.; LockStream Corporation; Nth Dimension Corporation; InSpa Corporation; and Moonstruck Chocolatier
Dozens of corporate merger and acquisition transactions, including acquisition of Seattle SuperSonics Basketball Team and $700,000,000 of acquisitions of cellular/PCS telephone assets and businesses by Western Wireless Corporation and VoiceStream Wireless Corporation

Professional Background

Scott served as law clerk to Hon. W.T. Beeks, US District Court, W.D. Washington from 1980 to 1981.

Achievements

He has been named one of the "Lawdragon 500" Best Lawyers in America byLawdragon Magazine, for inclusion as a Best Lawyer in "Best Lawyers in America®"; one of "America's Leading Business Lawyers--Corporate/M&A" byChambers USA, a "Super Lawyer" by Washington Law & Politics, and a member of the "League of Justice" by Washington CEO Magazine; as well as being singled out by the Legal 500 as a "leading light" in K&L Gates' Technology Practice.

Professional/Civic Activities

National Faculty, Corporate Director's Institute
Washington State Bar Association, Corporate Act Revisions Committee
Seattle University Entrepreneurship Center Board
Past-President, Seattle-Northwest Chapter National Association of Corporate Directors
Event Chair, Seattle-Northwest NACD Corporate Director of the Year

Admissions

Bar of Washington
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington

Education

J.D., Seattle University School of Law (1980) cum laude, Editor-in-Chief Law Review
B.A., Washington State University (1977) cum laude, Business Administration/Management

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by G. Scott Greenburg

LIBRARY

Publications

Washington State Passes Legislation Authorizing Social Purpose Corporations: Bill to Permit Corporations to Seek Social, Environmental-Oriented Goals
Corporate Alert
April 16, 2012
Social Media and Mobile Platforms Change the Game for Directors
Puget Sound Business Journal
May 2010
Important Lessons from the SEC Enforcement Action Against Tyson Foods Regarding Disclosure of Perquisites
Preston Gates & Ellis Corporate Securities/Mergers and Acquisitions Alert
May 4, 2005
Calming the Corporate Governance Crisis
Washington CEO Magazine

Back to School: Corporate Directors Get an Education and a New Standard of Care
Washington CEO Magazine

High Times for Northwest Venture Capital
AEA Newsline

News

K&L Gates, Lawyers Recognized in Chambers USA 2012
Chambers USA 2012 has ranked more than 100 K&L Gates LLP lawyers across the United States as leaders in their respective practice areas. 
August 10, 2012

K&L Gates Advises HaloSource, Inc., on $80 Million Institutional Placing and AIM Admission
November 11, 2010

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Clients like Starbucks, Westin Hotel and the Seattle SuperSonics tap Greenburg.

— Lawdragon, October 2006

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