Jason R. Scoby

Jason leads O’Neil Cannon’s Corporate Practice Group. He advises and represents individuals, businesses, and banks on a variety of corporate, banking, and business-related issues, including mergers and acquisitions, commercial loan transactions, corporate issues, contract negotiation and preparation, and business entity selection and formation.

Jason Assists Clients With

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Complex commercial loan transactions for lenders and borrowers
• Corporate matters, including business entity selection and formation, shareholder agreements, and operating agreements
• General business issues, including complex contract negotiation and preparation

  Experience/Representative Client Work

• Represented numerous clients in the purchase and sale of businesses, including in the plastics, manufacturing, transportation, distribution, retail, healthcare, and business services industries
• Represented multiple bank and borrower clients in their commercial loan transactions
• Drafted, negotiated, and finalized numerous business agreements on a variety of transactions, including terms and conditions, independent contractor agreements, non-compete agreements, non-disclosure agreements, leases, distribution agreements, supply agreements, and licensing agreements
• Represented numerous clients on the formation of their businesses and the preparation of their organizational documents, including operating and shareholder agreements

  Professional Associations & Affiliations

• Milwaukee Bar Association
• State Bar of Wisconsin
• American Bar Association
• Midwest Business Brokers & Intermediaries
• Inaugural Member, Young Association for Corporate Growth (YACG)
• Past Chair, Milwaukee Bar Association’s Corporate, Banking & Business Section (4 consecutive terms)

  Awards/Distinctions

• Selected for inclusion in 2013–present Wisconsin Super Lawyers, Law & Politics and Milwaukee Magazine
• Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® –Corporate Law, 2021–present
• Selected for inclusion in 2011 and 2012 Wisconsin Super Lawyers Rising Stars, Law & Politics and Milwaukee Magazine
• Marquette Law Review, Associate Editor

  Education

• Marquette University Law School (J.D., cum laude)
• University of Wisconsin-Madison (B.A., with Distinction)