Scott Shea
M&A Advisor
Scott has entrepreneurial grit running through his DNA. After graduating in business from Texas Christian University in 2005, he joined his family’s four-generation company. Scott’s exceptional leadership skills and operational mindset were instrumental in driving his family’s legacy business to unprecedented performance, eventually leading to a 9-figure exit. Scott experienced firsthand the day-to-day grind and mixed emotions a family and enterprise go through during an acquisition.
In 2011, Scott’s love of numbers, relationships, and entrepreneurship organically led him to start his own private wealth practice, focusing on advising and consulting business owners. His entrepreneurial background and reputation as a champion advisor to his business owner clients created a perfect fit when he joined Final Ascent's deal team in 2022.
After accumulating his own dealmaking experience, Scott eventually acquired a welding company that was once part of his family’s legacy business.
Scott and his wife, Amanda, reside in South Louisiana with their three sons. Scott is also our firm’s scratch golfer. When he needs to quiet his mind, he finds solace on the fairway.
Where Allocators and Dealmakers Actually Meet with Rip Reeves
In this episode of The Deal Podcast, recorded on the Baton Rouge Podcast Tour, host Joshua Wilson and co-host Scott Shea sit down with Rip Reeves, CEO of Institutional Investor and former CIO of AEGIS Insurance Services. Rip walks through how global capital actually moves — the all...
From Folding Towels for Nick Saban to Owning a Bank with Scott Gaudin
In this episode, recorded live in Baton Rouge on our Louisiana Podcast Tour, host Joshua Wilson and co-host Scott Shea sit down with Scott Gaudin, President & CEO of Currency Bank. Scott traces his path from folding towels and parking cars under Nick Saban at LSU to acquiring a community bank charter and building it into a $260M concier...
Playing Offense or Defense With Your Company's Value with Ben Vance
We're Not a Construction Company, We're a People Company — Lenny Lemoine
In this episode, Joshua Wilson and co-host Scott Shea sit down with Lenny Lemoine, founder of LEMOINE, the Louisiana services company he and his brother Tim grew from a family lumberyard into a 1,500-person leader in building, infrastructure, and disaster response. Lenny walks through decades of building enterprise value: the early hard-bid years, the choice to drop ha...
The Hidden Asset Smart PE Firms Protect at All Costs with Jeffrey Koonce
Jeffrey Koonce is a Partner at Bernhard Capital Partners, a Baton Rouge-based services and infrastructure-focused private equity firm with more than $6 billion in AUM. A recovering CPA and former tax attorney at Phelps Dunbar, Jeff joined BCP as General Counsel and has been part of the firm's growth from its first...
He Buys Companies Everyone Else Is Running From — Nate Moore
Behind the Scenes of Middle Market Deals: A Roundtable with FA Mergers
From Courtside to C-Suite: Collis Temple III on Legacy, Leadership & Letting Go
Building & Buying: How S1 Technology Scaled Fast with Strategy, Culture, and Grit
