Scott Lloyd Anderson
Of Counsel JD/CPA

Practice Areas
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Closely Held Businesses and their Principals
- Succession Planning
- Business and Tax Planning
- Estate and Succession Planning
- Licensing and Technology
- Bankruptcy, Workout and Loan Restructuring
Representative Transactions
- Acquisitions, disposition and mergers of closely held businesses
- Business financings, restructurings and recapitalizations
- Succession planning for businesses and owners
- Estate and trust planning
- Shareholder, member and partner disputes
- General business planning
Speeches
- “Dissecting the Purchase Agreement,” Lorman Education Services (July 2006)
- “Negotiating, Drafting and Closing Merger and Acquisition Agreements,” National Business Institute (March 2008)
- Speaker, “Advanced Family Law Seminar,” MNCLE (December 2009)
- “Merger and Acquisition Process,” National Business Institute (January 2012)
- “Business Law Bootcamp,” National Business Institute (January 2013)
- “Mergers and Acquisitions from Start to Finish,” National Business Institute (June 2013)
- “Forming Limited Liability Companies,” National Business Institute (January 2014)
- “Stock Purchase Agreements,” National Business Institute (April 2014)
- “Mergers and Acquisitions from Start to Finish,” National Business Institute (June 2014)
Professional Organizations and Achievements
- Member, American and Minnesota State Bar Associations
- Former Member, Minnesota Society of Certified Public Accountants
- Former Instructor of Business Law and Accounting, Augsburg College
- Former Instructor of Tax Research for the MBT Program, University of Minnesota
- Minnesota “Super Lawyer” – 20 plus years
Work Experience
- Fabyanske, Westra, Hart & Thomson, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota
President, 1994, 2000 and 2011
Of Counsel, January 2021 to present
Shareholder, January 1988 to December 2020
Associate, January 1986 to December 1987
- Estes, Parsinen & Levy, P.A., Minneapolis, Minnesota
Associate, April 1983 to December 1985
- KPMG, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Tax Accountant, November 1980 to April 1983
Education
- J.D., William Mitchell College of Law, cum laude, 1980
- Institute on International and Comparative Law
Kings College, University of London, summer 1979
- B.A., Augsburg College, cum laude, 1976
Admissions
- U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, 1980
- State of Minnesota, 1980
- Certified Public Accountant (Inactive), 1978
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