N Scott Fletcher

Practice Areas

Securities litigation, internal investigations, government enforcement, commercial litigation and arbitration.

Career

Scott Fletcher is recognized as one of the leading securities litigation and enforcement attorneys in the country. Scott has more than 30 years of experience representing officers, directors, board committees, and companies. He defends clients across the country in securities class actions, shareholder derivative disputes, M&A challenges, SEC and DOJ enforcement actions, and internal investigations. He has also tried commercial and bankruptcy-related cases to verdict and obtained several multimillion-dollar commercial arbitration awards.

Before forming his own firm, Scott was co-head of the securities litigation and enforcement groups at Jones Day and at Vinson & Elkins. For more than 30 years he has represented clients in matters ranging from routine securities litigation and enforcement actions to complex, multi-jurisdictional matters that require a coordinated response by multiple defendants to the DOJ, SEC, state attorneys general, state securities regulators, class action plaintiffs, shareholder derivative claimants, internal investigators, and auditors.

Personal

JD, Tulane Law School, 1989 (Notes & Comments Editor, Tulane Law Review; Order of the Coif); AB, Harvard University, 1984 (cum laude); Law Clerk, Hon. Andrew G.T. Moore, II, Delaware Supreme Court, 1989-90.