Biographies

Scott J. Jordan, the director of the firm's real estate practice, combines his broad real-estate knowledge with practical business experience to assist clients in real estate, development, corporate and public-financing transactions, private securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, business formations and structures and other business needs. He has handled more than $5 billion in financing transactions.

Jordan has counseled numerous borrowers, lenders, issuers and underwriters in complex financing transactions, and has represented both buyers and sellers in numerous mergers and acquisitions, including representing a seller in a $42 million asset sale on Florida's west coast, and a buyer in a $48 million stock purchase. He has also represented developers in the development, rezoning, conversion, purchase and sale of properties.

Before joining Tripp Scott, Jordan worked for 10 years as a corporate executive with a retail company.

Active in the local community, Jordan serves as a committee member of John Alden Life's Sports Day Challenge to Benefit Cystic Fibrosis committee, the Greater Ft. Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce's Trustee project team and the St. Thomas Aquinas High School Charitable Foundation. In addition, he serves on the board of directors of the Boca Greens Homeowner's Association as the secretary for  St. Joan of Arc Ushers Ministry and the Boward Education Foundation, where he also participates on the executive committee.

Jordan holds a law degree with honors from St. Thomas University School of Law, a master's degree in business administration and a bachelor's degree from Florida Atlantic University. He attended the University of Louisiana Monroe on a football scholarship.