About Scott
Mr. Whittaker is Chair of the firm's Business Section. He represents clients in a wide variety of transactions, including buying, selling and merging companies; private placements of securities; venture capital and private equity transactions; joint ventures; roll-ups, spin-offs and split-ups; and all phases of real estate acquisitions, development and financing. Mr. Whittaker joined Stone Pigman in 1984.
Mr. Whittaker is Chair of the firm's Business Section. He represents clients in a wide variety of transactions, including buying, selling and merging companies; private placements of securities; venture capital and private equity transactions; joint ventures; roll-ups, spin-offs and split-ups; and all phases of real estate acquisitions, development and financing. Mr. Whittaker joined Stone Pigman in 1984.
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Professional Affiliations
Awards & Recognition
- Lawyer of the Year: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, New Orleans (2025)
- Lawyer of the Year: Corporate Law, New Orleans (2024)
- Lawyer of the Year: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, New Orleans (2022)
- Lawyer of the Year: Venture Capital Law, New Orleans (2020)
- Lawyer of the Year: Corporate Law, New Orleans (2017)
- Lawyer of the Year: Venture Capital Law, New Orleans (2014)
- Lawyer of the Year: Mergers and Acquisitions Law, New Orleans (2013)
- Recognized: Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Recognized: Cannabis Law
- Recognized: Corporate Law
- Recognized: Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Recognized: Project Finance Law
- Recognized: Real Estate Law
- Recognized: Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Recognized: Venture Capital Law
- Practice Area: Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
- The Best Lawyers in America named him "Lawyer of the Year" in New Orleans for Venture Capital Law in 2014 and Mergers & Acquisitions Law in 2013.
- He has previously been recognized in the fields of Corporate Law, Securities Law, Venture Capital Law and Real Estate Law.
- He has also been named in the field of Corporate Law/Mergers and Acquisitions to Chambers U.S.A., Who's Who Legal - The International Who's Who of Merger & Acquisitions Lawyers, and Louisiana Super Lawyers.
- Mr. Whittaker is the 2011 recipient of the Louisiana State Bar Association President's Award. In 2014 he received the Stephen T. Victory Memorial Award from the Louisiana State Bar Association.
