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Scott Erickson has extensive experience providing general counsel representation to family and closely held businesses, including businesses in the sports and entertainment industry.
This experience includes:
corporate and business planning;
business acquisitions and sales;
shareholder and owner planning;
sponsorship and endorsement contracts, merchandising and brand identification; and
tax, estate and successorship planning.
Scott is chair of Leonard, Street and Deinard’s Sports and Entertainment Business practice group and a member of the Sports Lawyers Association. He is past chair of the Hennepin County Bar Association Business Banking and Franchise Section and a member of the Business, Probate, and Trust Law Sections of the Minnesota State Bar Association. He is also a member of the Sports, Business and Estate Planning Sections of the American Bar Association.
PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES
Extensive experience providing general counsel representation to family and closely held businesses and their owners, such as Taylor Corporation, Värde Partners, Inc., System Design Advantage LLC, Hunt Electric Corporation, BI Consulting Group, LLC and SafeWay Hydraulics, Inc.
Extensive experience providing general counsel representation to sports and entertainment businesses, such as Minnesota Timberwolves, Minnesota Lynx, Minnesota Vikings, United States Hockey League, GreenMark Enterprises, L.L.C. and Ron Schara Enterprises
Member, Steering Committee, Minnesotans for Major League Baseball (sponsored by the Minnesota Twins)
Experience with all four professional sports: basketball (NBA), hockey (NHL), baseball (MLB) and football (NFL)
Experience with amateur sports: soccer, swimming and hockey
EDUCATION
J.D., William Mitchell College of Law, 1983
B.A., magna cum laude, University of Minnesota, 1980
ADMISSIONS
State of Minnesota
State of Wisconsin
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota | 