Scott A. Huizenga

Scott is a member and past chair of Varnum's Business and Corporate Services Practice Team. He works with clients in a variety of industries, including education, manufacturing, and food retail. Providing extensive experience as a business counselor, Scott also focuses on transactional work, including mergers, acquisitions, sales and joint ventures.

Represented publicly-traded Chinese company in its acquisition of a southeast Michigan-based designer/manufacturer of conveyor and material handling systems. On-going representation of the client includes general corporate, finance, litigation and immigration counsel.

Represented a privately-owned maker of luxury wool carpets for the architectural design trade in its recapitalization involving a sale of assets to a Chicago-based private equity firm. The deal also included rollover investment by the client company owners.

Best Lawyers in America^®, Corporate Law, since 2007

Leading Lawyers: Mergers & Acquisitions Law; Publicly Held Corporations Law; Securities & Venture Finance Law

Martindale-Hubbell^® AV Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated

Better Business Bureau of West Michigan: director, 1996 - 2002; chair, 2001 - 2002

Grand Rapids Bar Association

State Bar of Michigan

Grand Rapids Symphony, director, 2001 - 2005

Michigan Campus Compact, director, 2008 - 2011

Opera Grand Rapids, director, 2005 - 2008

St. Cecilia Music Society, director, 2012 - present