Scott K. Hvidt

Scott Hvidt is an associate in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department, where he focuses on complex civil litigation, antitrust, class action and trial matters.

Scott has experience in a wide range of business litigation and antitrust matters in both state and federal courts. He has represented clients in various cases involving class actions, shareholder derivative actions, securities fraud, contract disputes, merger and acquisition litigation, antitrust claims, property rights disputes, and tortious interference claims. Scott has significant experience managing sophisticated clients through all stages of legal disputes: from advise and business strategy surrounding legal questions to trial and appeal. Scott has significant experience steering clients through the dispute initiation, complex and contentious discovery, dispositive motions, pre-trial and trial phases. Scott proudly maintains an active pro bono practice.

Scott has been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Litigation-Antitrust (2022-2025). He participated in and graduated from the Emerging Leaders in Philanthropy program with the Communities Foundation of Texas (2019–2020).

Representative Matters Include

• Represented AT&T, during investigation, litigation and trial, in its defeat of the U.S. government’s efforts to block AT&T’s multi-billion dollar merger with Time Warner.
• Represented LIV Golf and several professional golfers in major antitrust litigation against the PGA Tour. 
• Represented Delta Air Lines in a widely publicized dispute over Delta’s continued access to Dallas’s Love Field airport that resulted in Delta securing access to the airport.
• Represented KidKraft, Inc. and MidOcean Partners IV, L.P. in complex antitrust litigation, successfully defending against Section 1 and Section 2 Sherman Act claims.
• Represents Southern Methodist University in business dispute in defense of its amendment to its Articles of Incorporation.
• Represented Welltower in complex breach of contract and business dispute in Dallas County District Court and secured successful resolution. 
• Represented Oxley Leasing North Loop, LLC in property dispute against the City of Dallas and-secured summary judgment victory and final judgment in Dallas County District Court. 
• Represented Cal-Maine Foods, the largest shell egg producer in the United States, in highly complex federal antitrust multi-district litigation.
• Represented investment entity in complex and contentious securities litigation in Dallas County District Court and secured favorable resolution. 
• Represented major law firm in successful defeat of motion to disqualify in high profile intellectual property litigation. 
• Represented major law firm in successful defeat of variety of claims on summary judgment in Dallas County District Court. 
• Represents and has represented several other clients in business disputes in federal court and state courts. 
• Representing healthcare company in its defense of proposed transaction in response to a challenge by the Federal Trade Commission. 
• Representing telecommunications company in major antitrust class action. 
• Representing energy company in state court antitrust litigation. 
• In coordination with Advocates for Community Transformation, represented concerned West and South Dallas citizens in multiple litigations and private disputes to protect them and their neighborhoods against dangerous nuisances.

Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Scott served as a law clerk to the Honorable A. Joe Fish of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. Before entering law school, he worked as a litigation paralegal in the New York office of DLA Piper LLP and managed a two-week arbitration.

In 2015, Scott graduated from Columbia Law School, where he earned the James Kent academic distinction. He received the Julius Silver Foundation Award for best student note for Columbia’s Science and Technology Law Review. Scott also served as the Executive Articles Editor for Columbia’s Science and Technology Law Review. While in law school, he worked as an extern for the Honorable Debra Livingston of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and worked for the Lawyering in the Digital Age Clinic, where he represented a homeless disabled man in his successful appeal for supplemental security income.

Scott received his Bachelor of Arts in History from Princeton University, where he wrote for the sports section of The Daily Princetonian, played on the varsity men’s water polo team that took third place in the 2009 NCAA Final Four, and received the Scott Roche Award as a member of that team. Scott is happily married to his wife Jane and has four children (a son and three daughters). 

He is a member of the State Bar of Texas.

Capabilities

• Litigation
• Antitrust and Competition
• Class Actions
• Media, Entertainment, and Technology
• Securities Litigation
• Sports Law
• Trials

Credentials

Education:

• Columbia University - 2015 Juris Doctor
• Princeton University - 2010 Bachelor of Arts

Admissions:

• Texas Bar

Clerkships:

• USDC, Northern District of Texas, Hon. A.Joe Fish, 2015 - 2016