Scott Prior | London | Hogan Lovells

Scott Prior

Senior Associate Corporate & Finance

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Scott Prior
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  • Overview
  • Experience
  • Credentials
  • Insights and events

Scott Prior supports clients on various complex transactional and advisory matters, ranging from private and public cross-border mergers and acquisitions to equity capital markets transactions covering initial public offerings as well as secondary raises relating to both shares and global depositary receipts.

Scott trained and qualified at the firm in February 2020 and has since represented international and domestic clients across a number of industry sectors including logistics, property, healthcare and technology. He has advised clients ranging from well-established FTSE-100 listed companies to private equity sponsors and large financial institutions.

As part of his career Scott was seconded to our international office in Singapore and has worked with clients across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas.

Representative experience

Bohai Leasing on the US$1.75bn sale of Global Sea Containers Limited to Stonepeak.

Vodafone on its joint venture with Accenture to create a new global services company, Vodafone Shared Operations Limited (VSOL). 

Prax (and the administrators of its upstream business) on its agreement to sell its entire UK North Sea upstream oil and gas business to Serica Energy plc.

AmerisourceBergen on its US$6.47bn acquisition of Alliance Healthcare from Walgreens Boots Alliance.

CPI Property Group S.A. on its €1.57bn joint hostile takeover (with Aroundtown SA) of, Globalworth Real Estate Investments.

Clipper Logistics on its £1bn takeover by GXO Logistics.

Mail.ru Group on its US$600m debt and equity fundraising.

DBAY Advisors Limited on its £307m take private of AIM listed Telit communications plc.

Shaftesbury on its £300m underwritten equity capital raise.

Electra Private Equity PLC on the demerger of Hostmore plc onto the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange.

B2C2, a crypto trading firm, on its private sale to SBI Holdings.

Credentials

Education
  • Legal Practice Course, BPP University Law School, 2018
  • Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP University Law School, 2017
  • BA (Hons) History, Durham University, 2014
Bar admissions and qualifications
  • Solicitor, England and Wales