Scott E. Andress

I regularly represent privately owned and publicly traded casino operators and developers; foreign and domestic gaming equipment manufacturers and distributors; sportsbook operators; commercial lenders and equity investors (banks, private equity management, and investment banking firms); and owners of qualifying gaming sites. More generally, I represent a wide variety of business organizations in general corporate and transactional work, including representing purchasers, sellers, and lenders in mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financing, and commercial real estate transactions.

For the gaming industry, my focus is on licensing, transactional work, and litigation. In these areas I handle compliance and other regulatory matters, lending transactions, equity investments and mergers and acquisitions, gaming site legality, and patron disputes. In regard to corporate and transactional work, I am also typically involved in mergers and acquisitions and commercial real estate transactions.

I have an undergraduate degree in engineering, and, prior to attending law school, worked as a management information consultant. Each of these experiences provide different perspectives, but complement each other. Today, based on my background, I have a very technical, precise way of approaching legal work, yet with vision of the overall business objectives. That early experience permeates my approach to the practice of law and how I manage a project.

I regularly represent my clients' interests and routinely appear before the Mississippi Gaming Commission; I have also appeared before the Mississippi Supreme Court on numerous occasions. Having tried a large number of early patron dispute cases, most of which were ultimately considered by the Mississippi Supreme Court, I played a leading role in establishing precedent for our state’s laws in that area.