Partner Scott Rosenthal Selected to Portland Business Journal’s 2025 40 Under 40 Class

PORTLAND, Ore.—Stoel Rives LLP, an AmLaw 200 firm, is pleased to announce that the Portland Business Journal has named real estate partner Scott E. Rosenthal a 40 Under 40 award recipient for 2025. PBJ chose the honorees from almost 300 nominees based on their career achievements, leadership, influence, and community involvement. The winners will be honored at an event on July 17 at the Hilton Portland Downtown. More information can be found here.

Rosenthal advises real estate developers and investors pursuing high-impact commercial, residential, and industrial real estate projects shaping urban, suburban, and rural communities across the Western United States.

Rosenthal is also a key part of Stoel Rives’ nationally recognized affordable housing practice where he helps developers pursuing projects with complex financing and capital structures including using tax-exempt bond financing and the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit.

A native Portlander committed to serving his local community, Rosenthal is a member of the Portland Metro Chamber Government Affairs Executive Committee and a board member of Robison Jewish Home, a non-profit that owns hundreds of rent-regulated apartments in downtown Portland for seniors and those with disabilities. Portland Metro Chamber selected him for its Leadership Portland Class of 2024, a nine-month civic engagement program designed to inform and train Portland’s future leaders about business, government, and community sectors working together to address the critical issues that impact the region.

Rosenthal is also a graduate of the Anti-Defamation League’s Glass Leadership Institute, a year-long leadership development program for professionals. He currently serves on the ADL’s Pacific Northwest Legislative Advocacy Committee, focused on combating antisemitism and discrimination through advocacy and educational outreach to Oregon’s civic and public leaders. Prior to practicing law, Rosenthal was a policy advisor to Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley.

Since 2023, Best Lawyers^® has included Rosenthal in its Ones to Watch in America for Real Estate Law.