One of Canada's leading project finance lawyers, Scott gives clients rigorous, solution-focused counsel to help them advance their objectives in lending matters of all levels of complexity.
Head of Torys’ Project Finance practice and co-head of the Banking and Debt Finance practice, Scott has broad experience representing all of the principal parties on projects, including lenders, sponsors, equity investors, arrangers and underwriters, contractors, service providers and public authorities, on a variety of complex project finance transactions. His work regularly focuses on the energy, infrastructure and mining industries.
Scott’s finance experience extends to corporate banking transactions and he frequently advises lenders and borrowers in transactions which include bank credit facilities, bond financings, structured finance transactions, mezzanine financings and derivatives.
Scott is a very solution-oriented and commercial lawyer who manages large mandates well.’
—Chambers Canada, 2023
2019-2025 | Chambers Canada—Leading lawyer in project finance |
2019-2024 | Chambers Global—Leading lawyer in project finance |
2020-2025 | The Legal 500—Leading partner in infrastructure projects |
2011-2022 | IFLR1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms—Market leader in banking and project finance |
2015-2025 | Best Lawyers in Canada—Leading lawyer in banking and finance law and project finance law |
2016-2024 | Lexpert/American Lawyer’s Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada—Leading lawyer in project finance |
2012-2023 | The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory—Leading lawyer in project finance, banking & financial institutions, infrastructure law, energy: electricity and private equity |
2019 | Expert Guides: Best of the Best—Leading lawyer in project finance |
2017 | Power Finance & Risk’s 15th Annual Deals and Firms of the Year Awards—Canada Attorney of the Year |
Scott is an adjunct professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School where he teaches commercial law.
Before joining Torys, Scott advised on some of Europe’s largest financing transactions with international law firm in London. While in Europe, Scott was also seconded to the international commercial bank ABN AMRO, where he was special legal adviser to the Global Head of Loan Syndications in Amsterdam, Netherlands.