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Scott McCleary is a principal of Meyner and Landis LLP and has been practicing law since 1987. Scott has in-depth experience providing transactional and litigation services to large corporations and financial institutions, closely held businesses, entrepreneurs and other business owners.
Scott provides counsel with respect to most types of commercial transactions, including commercial loan and workout agreements, real estate purchase and development agreements, asset sale agreements, commercial leases, construction agreements, stock purchase agreements, shareholder and operating agreements, and other agreements relating to for-profit and non-profit corporate governance.
When business disputes arise, Scott brings more than 30 years of commercial litigation experience to resolve them, including emergent applications, jury trials and appeals. Scott handles complex arbitrations and appears regularly in New Jersey state courts and New Jersey and New York federal courts.
Scott is immediately accessible and responsive to his clients. Whether a matter is transactional in nature or involves litigation, Scott works with businesses to provide practical and cost-effective legal solutions, recognizing the client’s larger business strategy.
His accomplishments have resulted in the firm’s recurring designation as one of the Go-To Law Firms of the World’s Leading Businesses. Firms are selected as Go-To Law Firms based on a national survey of General Counsel of Fortune 500 companies, as well as on in-depth research and analysis of various public filings and resources, according to publisher Incisive Media. Based on the opinions of members of the bar and the judiciary, Scott has received a Martindale-Hubbell rating of “AV Preeminent,” its highest rating for legal ability and ethical standards.
