Scott K. Hvidt

Scott Hvidt is a partner in the Dallas office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. He practices in the firm’s Litigation Department and is a member of the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group. He maintains a broad-based antitrust and trial practice, including litigation in state and federal courts, merger and acquisition investigations and trials, and antitrust counseling.

Scott has experience in a wide range of antitrust and business litigation matters in both state and federal courts. He has represented clients in various cases involving class actions, antitrust claim, shareholder derivative actions, securities fraud, contract disputes, merger and acquisition litigation, 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 proudly maintains an active pro bono practice.

Scott has been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America for Litigation-Antitrust (2022-2025), and D Magazine Best Lawyers Under 40 (2025).

Representative Matters Include

• Advised SES in securing clearance from DOJ for the acquisition of Intelsat, a global satellite competitor.
• Key member of team representing LIV Golf and several professional golfers in major antitrust litigation against the PGA Tour and related issues. 
• Key member of trial team representing CHS that secured district court order rejecting the FTC’s attempt to enjoin Novant’s acquisition of two Charlotte hospitals from CHS.
• Key member of the trial team that defeated the DOJ’s challenge to AT&T’s $85.4 billion purchase of Time Warner.
• Secured summary judgment on behalf of KidKraft and MidOcean Partners, and a unanimous affirmance by the Eleventh Circuit, on monopolization and unfair competition claims brought by a disgruntled former distributor.
• Represents T-Mobile in defending putative class action antitrust claims challenging its acquisition of Sprint.
• Represents Nestle USA in defending X Corp.’s antitrust lawsuit relating to advertisers reducing ads on Twitter
• 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 Energy Transfer in successfully resolving contentious state court antitrust competitor challenge.
• Represents Southern Methodist University in business dispute in defense of its amendment to its Articles of Incorporation.
• Represents Tenet Healthcare in deceptive and unfair trade practices litigation against The Leapfrog Group.
• 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. 
• 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.
• Participated in and graduated from the Emerging Leaders in Philanthropy program with the Communities Foundation of Texas (2019–2020).

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

• Antitrust and Competition
• Class Actions
• Litigation
• 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