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Scott S. Frederick

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Scott Frederick represents developers, buyers, sellers, landlords, and tenants in acquiring, developing, leasing, financing and selling real estate across the United States.

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Represented a real estate development company in the acquisition, development and leasing of real estate across the United States for a variety of commercial uses, including shopping centers, department stores, grocery stores and restaurants.

Represented a developer in the development of multi-use student housing projects in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and North Carolina.

Represented a national health care developer in the development and leasing of medical office buildings and hospital facilities.

Professional Biography


Scott represents developers, buyers, sellers, landlords, and tenants in acquiring, developing, leasing, financing and selling real estate across the United States, including retail properties, shopping centers, office buildings, multifamily and multiuse projects, condominiums, undeveloped land, health care properties and other commercial properties. Scott also represents special servicers in the leasing and sale of REO properties.

Scott has extensive experience in government contracts, having previously worked in Washington, D.C. for a USAID contractor. He uses that practical experience now to counsel government contractors on bidding issues and contract compliance.

Scott graduated summa cum laude from the University of Alabama School of Law where he was the editor in chief of the Alabama Law Review and a member of the John A. Campbell Moot Court Board. Prior to law school, he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyzstan, and later worked on USAID projects in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan aimed at carrying out land reform and stimulating land market development in Central Asia.

  • Represented a real estate development company in the acquisition, development and leasing of real estate across the United States for a variety of commercial uses, including shopping centers, department stores, grocery stores and restaurants.

  • Represented a developer in the development of multi-use student housing projects in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi and North Carolina.

  • Represented a national health care developer in the development and leasing of medical office buildings and hospital facilities.

  • Represented a regional developer in the acquisition and redevelopment of formerly distressed shopping centers and retail spaces.

  • Represented a special servicer in the leasing and disposition of office park properties, medical office buildings, shopping malls and retail centers.

  • Represented national, regional and local landlords in negotiating retail leases with tenants.

  • Represented a franchisee of a national restaurant chain in negotiating leases with its landlords.

  • Listed in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ for Real Estate Law (2021 – 2024)
  • Selected to Mid-South Rising Stars in Real Estate Law (2019 – 2023)
  • Hon. Edward E. Carnes, Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
  • Co-author – "U.S. Supreme Court Holds that Bankruptcy Credit-Bidding May Not Be Denied and Resolves Circuit Split in Favor of Secured Creditors," CRE Finance World (Autumn 2012)

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Education

  • University of Alabama School of Law, J.D., 2013, summa cum laude
    • Editor in Chief, Alabama Law Review, 2012 – 2013
    • Dean M. Leigh Harrison Award
    • L. Susan Doss Prize, endowed by Harper Lee
    • Order of the Coif
  • Middlebury College, M.A., Italian, 2002
  • University of the South (Sewanee), B.A., History, 2001, cum laude

Admissions

  • Alabama, 2013

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