Scott D. Chenevert

Practice Focus

Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Energy Transition, Mergers and Acquisitions, Securities, Private Equity and Venture Capital

Scott Chenevert is a partner in our Business Section with 28 years of professional experience. He resides in our Baton Rouge office. He practices primarily in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, equity and debt investments, joint ventures, energy-as-a-service, and corporate governance. Scott has represented private and public companies in technology and professional services, energy and oilfield services, and real estate development industries. Scott also has extensive experience serving as outside general counsel for privately held and family companies.

Scott serves as chair of the board of directors of the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge. Scott is also a member of, and served as the 2023 chair for, the Southeast Louisiana (SoLA) Super Region Committee. He also previously served as a member of the board of directors of BRAC from 2006-2013, serving as its chairman in 2012.

Scott recently was named to Baton Rouge Business Report’s 2024 Capital Region 500, a list of 500 powerful and influential business and community leaders in Baton Rouge.

Education

J.D., magna cum laude, from Washington and Lee University, 1997
B.S. in Accounting from Louisiana State University, 1994

Representative Matters

Bernhard Capital Partners on behalf of Aventia (a BCP portfolio company) in its acquisition of St.Germain.
Bernhard Capital Partners on behalf of Grace Hebert Curtis Architects (a BCP portfolio company) in its acquisitions of Orcutt | Winslow and Hastings + Chivetta Architects.
Bernhard Capital Partners in its acquisition of Brailsford & Dunlavey.
H&E Equipment Services, Inc. in its acquisitions of One Source Equipment Rental, Precision Rentals, Giffin Equipment and Lewiston Rental, the sale of its Komatsu earthmoving distributorship to Waukesha-Pearce Industries, LLC, and its acquisition of the equipment rental assets of Giffin Equipment.
Danos in its acquisitions of Performance Energy Services from Quanta Services, and Wood’s offshore labor supply operations in the Gulf of Mexico.
Shobe & Associates in its sale to Carson Wealth.
Seniors’ Advisory Services in its sale to Alliant Insurance Services.
Bernhard Energy Solutions in several energy infrastructure and Energy-as-a-Service transactions.
Bascom Hunter Technologies, Inc. in its acquisitions of TelGaAs and Semeach International.
Cajun Ready Mix Concrete in its sale to Holcim.
General Informatics in its sale to a portfolio company of Rosewood Private Investments.
Woodson Incorporated in its sale to Gunnison, a portfolio company of Warren Equity Partners.
Surge Outdoors in its acquisition of Barnett Outdoors from GSM Outdoors.
Synergy Outdoors in its sale to a portfolio company of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.
Stonetrust Commercial Mutual Insurance Holding Company in its demutualization and sale of business.