Scott Semer is a partner practising in our tax group.  Scott has advised international clients investing in infrastructure projects in the U.S. and worldwide, both directly and through infrastructure-targeted private equity funds.  Scott has also advised multi-national corporate clients on a wide variety of transactions, including public and private mergers, reorganizations, restructurings and acquisitions. He has extensive experience negotiating and structuring real estate joint ventures, including the use of public and private REIT.  Scott has structured hedge funds and private equity contributions, and has negotiated and drafted all manner of partnership agreements.  His practice also includes structured products, asset securitization vehicles, receivables financings and a variety of financial derivatives.
 
Scott is an adjunct professor at Columbia University School of Law in New York City, where he teaches a seminar entitled Deals: The Art of the Deal.

Scott has published numerous articles on U.S. and international tax issues.

Scott received his J.D. from Columbia University School of Law in 1997 where he was a three-time Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and served as Review and Essay Editor of the Columbia Law Review.  Immediately prior to joining Davies, Scott spent a year as Director of Transactional Studies at Columbia University School of Law.  He received his BFA in film and television in 1992 from the Tisch School of Arts at New York University.  Scott became a partner in 2005.

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