Scott E. Moran is a principal with the firm. His practice focuses on representing businesses and their owners in a wide range of corporate, transactional, estate planning and other legal and business issues. Scott has extensive experience in the following areas: international, telecommunications, entertainment, media, energy and sports.
Scott is a widely-recognized international corporate attorney and executive. He has represented both corporate and individual clients in all aspects of a business transaction, primarily the drafting and negotiation of agreements, the formation and structuring of corporate entities, and general business advice. Scott’s experience covers the range from multi-billion dollar deals to smaller transactions, assisting clients in the operation of their businesses and the transactions that support them. He has worked extensively in the following areas: asset purchases and sales; mergers and acquisitions; joint ventures and partnerships; content, technology and software licensing; broadcast and cable television programming distribution; mobile, broadband, and new media content; telecommunications services and equipment sales; media and telecom regulatory affairs (U.S., Latin America and Europe); construction and engineering; utility interconnection; supply-chain management; corporate marketing, compliance (government contracting, antitrust, FCPA); sports club/league acquisitions and operations; professional athlete, sponsor, marketing, and vendor contracts; press/media issues and game broadcasts (television, radio, and internet); stadium/venue construction and management; international trade; consulting services; estate planning; confidentiality agreements; physical security; and external affairs.
Prior to joining BFV, Scott was Senior Counsel at Turner Broadcasting, negotiating and managing programming-distribution deals for Turner’s twelve cable television networks in the U.S., including CNN, Headline-News, TNT, TBS, Turner Classic Movies, and Cartoon Network, and supporting the company’s new media efforts and Latin America networks. Before his work with Turner, he served for six years as counsel for BellSouth/AT&T with the company’s Latin America and large business/enterprise divisions. Scott’s legal career in Atlanta began as an associate at Troutman Sanders LLP with the firm’s international and corporate practice groups. He has also acted since 1999 as International Counsel for the Atlanta Silverbacks professional soccer club, working closely in club operations, with its club-affiliates in Europe and Latin America and with Atlanta’s international community. Scott moved to Atlanta in 1998 after clerking for a federal judge in the United States District Court in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Prior to and during his legal career, he served as a Military Intelligence officer in the U.S. Army from 1990-2001, leaving active duty with the rank of Captain.
Scott was admitted to the Georgia Bar in 1997 and the District of Columbia Bar in 1999. He is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Atlanta Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the Georgia Hispanic Bar Association. Scott has served on the Board of Directors of the Georgia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, been a youth mentor for the Latin American Association, and appeared in local print, radio and television speaking on legal, business, sports, and community matters.
Scott was born in New York and raised in Puerto Rico in a bicultural Irish and Spanish family. He lives in Atlanta with his wife Gretchen and their two boys, Liam and Oliver. In addition to his legal and community work and spending time with his family, Scott enjoys soccer, football, scuba, riding, travel and reading. He is a native Spanish and English linguist, is conversant in Portuguese and has limited proficiencies in French and Italian.
Education
B.A., University of Notre Dame, 1990
Concannon Programme in International Law, London, 1995-96
J.D., University of Notre Dame, 1997
Bar Admissions
Georgia, 1997
District of Columbia, 1999
Professional Memberships
State Bar of Georgia
DC Bar
Georgia Hispanic Bar
Articles and Publications
The Business of Futbol, Part 2(March 2010)
World Cup match in Atlanta could offer unique sponsorships(January 2010)
Atlanta Makes Final 18 for U.S. World Cup Bid(January 2010)
The Business of Futbol(September 2009)
As Atlanta Shoots for World Cup, Local Firm Leads Russia's Bid (August 2009)
Summer of soccer a proving ground for image(June 2009)