Scott Partridge

Scott Partridge and Partridge LLC provide full-service counseling in meeting the challenges confronting litigants in high-risk disputes. An expert in litigation and trial strategy, Scott has been in the vanguard over the past decades in designing, implementing, and administering creative alternatives to costly, inefficient, and uncertain litigation. Scott has decades of experience participating in various alternative dispute resolution procedures, as outside counsel, in-house counsel, and as a business executive. He personally has been involved in hundreds of mediations, scores of arbitrations, and thousands of complex negotiations with adversaries and government regulators and agencies.

Before launching Partridge LLC in January of 2023, Scott served as General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Bayer US from 2018 to 2022, and led its team of legal and other professionals responsible for ensuring compliant and innovative growth, reducing and effectively managing litigation, protecting Bayer’s reputation, and providing business partnering counsel to the Company’s agriculture, pharmaceutical and health care businesses.

Prior to joining Bayer, Scott was Vice President for Global Strategy for Monsanto Company where he guided global competition policy, coordinated strategic advocacy on critical issues, and led the Company’s dispute resolution activities. Scott developed and led a multifunctional team across Government Affairs, Law, Public Relations, Corporate Strategy and Commercial Operations to create and advance U.S. and international business strategies and goals. He was instrumental in the negotiation of Bayer’s acquisition of Monsanto and led the Monsanto team responsible for global government approvals.