- Represented a timber REIT in the negotiation of, and subsequent follow-on investments into, a joint venture to acquire $1.39 billion of timberlands with a consortium of private equity investors.
- Represented a paper manufacturer in the sale of multiple paper mills and facilities with significant operations, including with complex ongoing environmental issues.
- Represented a leading fuel cards payments company in its $690 million acquisition of a Canadian global payments technology company. The transaction won “Foreign Inbound Deal of the Year” from Canadian Dealmakers.
- Represents a privately held leading restaurant franchisor in the start-up and establishment of a food manufacturing business, as well as a logistics and distribution business.
- Represented a leading restaurant franchisor in the negotiation of technology, logistics, and distribution agreements.
- Counsel to several venture capital and private equity firms in investments into portfolio companies and other matters.
- Represented a publicly traded paper and packaging manufacturer in its $1.8 billion acquisition of a consumer packaging business, including mills and converting facilities, in a transaction structured as an UP-C, forming a $6 billion joint venture partnership.
- Represented a leading payments provider in negotiations to establish a closed-loop gift card joint venture with an aggregate value of more than $1 billion.
- Represented a leading packaging and paper provider in more than ten acquisitions of converting manufacturing businesses in multiple bolt-on transactions ranging in value from $30 million to $300 million.
- Represented a leading fuel cards payments company in a $3.4 billion acquisition of a fleet and diversified payments technology company.
Partner,
- Phone: +1 404 881 4955
- Email: scott.kitchens@alston.com
Clients welcome Scott’s strategic approach to corporate transactions, venture investments, and technology and logistics transactions. He assists companies in the technology, payments, and industrial sectors, among others, as they embark on mergers and acquisitions, investments, supply chain agreements, licensing, and other commercial arrangements to strengthen their companies.
- Represented a Fortune 50 logistics company in supply chain, warehousing, and distribution agreements.
- Represented a U.S.-based flooring manufacturer in its $1.5 billion purchase of a specialty Italian wall and floor tile manufacturing company.
- Counsel to one of the world’s largest financial institutions in all phases of a cloud implementation in 37 countries, including privacy, security, regulatory, and transactional matters.
- Represented a fuel card payments company in its acquisition of a SaaS- and hardware-based telematics fleet management technology company.
- Negotiated the $80+ million sale of a leading provider of paperboard packaging’s heat transfer label technology division to a competitor.
- Counsel to a leading travel technology provider in its $400 million acquisition of a majority interest in a leading Asian airline global distribution system.
- Represented a leading provider of paperboard packaging in the sale of its flexible film business to a competitor.
- Represented a flooring manufacturer in its $150 million purchase of a laminate flooring technology company.
- Represented a building products manufacturer in the acquisition of a siding and façade manufacturing business.
- Represented an international semiconductor firm in the buyout of a U.S.-based semiconductor technology business.
- Represented an international movie studio in forming a joint venture with Atlanta-area developers to develop and build the largest Atlanta-area TV, movie, and videogame studio.
- Negotiated a client’s acquisition of a packaging converting facility and related businesses.
- Represented one of the world’s largest chemical companies in its acquisition of bioethanol production technology and related bioethanol joint ventures.
- Counsel to a leading provider of flexible packaging in its acquisition of a medical packaging manufacturing facility in a divestiture mandated by the Department of Justice.
- Counsel to a leading provider of technology services to the wholesale automotive auction industry in connection with technology licensing transactions.
- Represented a producer of paper and pulp products in a $400 million acquisition of production facilities in a cross-border insolvency transaction.
- Represented a media conglomerate in its strategic disposition of its online gaming division and related assets.
Scott Kitchens is a partner in Alston & Bird’s Corporate & Business Transactions Group. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, equity investments, and complex commercial transactions. He has extensive experience leading transactions in the payments, technology, manufacturing, and distribution industries, especially in the acquisition or sale of privately held targets and divisions of public companies. Additionally, Scott is noted for his pragmatic and cross-functional approach, especially on deals involving complex tax, regulatory, or environmental issues.
Scott received his J.D. in 2007 from Vanderbilt University, where he served as an editor of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, received the Chancellor’s Law Scholarship, and served as president of the Law School Honor Council. He earned his undergraduate degree in finance, summa cum laude, from the University of Mississippi, where he was awarded the Taylor Medal. Scott is an avid outdoorsman and cyclist and is on the board of directors of the Path Foundation, a non-profit focused on developing multiuse trails in Atlanta and the southeastern United States.
Scott is listed in The Best Lawyers in America© in the areas of Mergers & Acquisitions and Technology.
Bar Admissions
- Georgia
Education
- Vanderbilt University (J.D., 2007)
- University of Mississippi (B.B.A., 2004)