SCOTT ANDERSON is a Senior Attorney at the law firm of Fabyanske, Westra, Hart & Thomson, P.A., and chair of the firm’s private business practice group.  He is a practicing attorney and a former practicing certified public accountant who works with closely-held businesses and their principals, dealing with acquisitions, financial structures, and succession plans.  For more than 40 years, Mr. Anderson has worked on hundreds of sale of business transactions including asset purchase, stock purchase and merger transactions on both taxable and tax-free basis.  He has been involved in all aspects of sale of business transactions including preparing businesses for sale, negotiating investment banking agreements, evaluating and structuring transactions, assisting with the preparation and evaluation of due diligence materials, negotiating transaction documents with parties and their related lenders, as well as assisting in bringing transactions to a successful closing.  The size of these transactions has ranged from a few million dollars to deals with transaction values approaching two billion dollars.  Mr. Anderson is currently a member of the American Bar Association and the Minnesota State Bar Association, and a former member of AICPA and the Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants.  He earned his B.A. degree from Augsburg University and his J.D. degree, cum laude, from William Mitchell College of Law.