Scott Jalowayski has over 20 years of experience advising private equity funds, their portfolio companies, and other global and regional investment managers on complex investments and M&A transactions in Southeast Asia, China, and Japan.

His experience spans across a range of transaction types, including leveraged and unleveraged control acquisitions, minority investments, joint ventures, divestures, and restructurings. His sector expertise covers life sciences and healthcare, interactive and digital media, technology, consumer products, and real asset and infrastructure enterprises.

Scott has significant digital infrastructure experience having advised multiple sponsors on data center acquisition, investment, and development projects in Australia, Korea, Japan, Singapore, and the Philippines.

Scott is highly regarded as a leading lawyer for private equity and M&A work, including buyouts and venture capital investments by Chambers, Legal 500, and the IFLR1000. Clients commend him for being “a trusted partner, with not only excellent professional knowledge but also strong commercial sense. He always thinks from a client’s perspective and provides timely and thorough advice” and “has strong technical and commercial skills.” Another client recognizes his ability to “provide proper guidance in a complicated deal situation.”

Representative Experience

• TPG Rise Fund in its investment in BillEase, a leading consumer lending platform in the Philippines.
• TPG in multiple proposed acquisitions across Southeast Asia, including in Indonesia, the Philippines, and India.
• KKR in its investment in Privy, a digital trust provider based in Indonesia.
• STACK Infrastructure in its joint venture with Hickory, a leading Australian commercial real estate developer, to develop and operate 124MW of data center capacity in Melbourne, Perth, and Canberra.
• STACK Infrastructure in its joint venture with ESR Group Limited, to develop and operate 72MW of data center capacity in Osaka, Japan.
• STACK Infrastructure in its joint venture with Oaktree, to develop and operate a data center in Tokyo, Japan.
• STACK Infrastructure in its joint venture with ESR Group Limited, to develop and operate a 48MW data center in Incheon, Korea.
• Zensho Holdings in its US$621 million acquisition of The Snowfox Group, a multi-channel and international Japanese food business.
• Goldman Sachs/West Street Capital Partners in its US$750 million acquisition, together with Pagoda and QIC, of Icon Cancer Care, a leading oncology services provider in Australia, and in its later sale of Icon to EQT.
• C2 Capital Partners in its investment in Stella & Chewy’s, a leading North American pet food manufacturer
• C2 Capital Partners in its investment in Petcurean, a leading North American pet food manufacturer.
• C2 Capital Partners in its investment, together with Cornell Capital, in KDC/One, a leading Beauty, Personal Care and Home Care solutions ODM.