Our Team

Woodward White's Best Lawyers in Canada 2009—Insolvency and financial restructuring

Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2008—Repeatedly recommended practitioner in insolvency and in financial restructuring

Practical Law Company’s Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2008—Recommended Canadian lawyer

Practical Law Company’s Restructuring and Insolvency Handbook 2008/2009—Recommended Canadian lawyer

Chambers & Partners’ Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers for Business, The Client’s Guide 2008—Leading lawyer in restructuring and insolvency

Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC’s IFLR 1000, Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms 2008—Leading lawyer in restructuring and insolvency

Lexpert, November/December 2006—One of Canada’s top 40 lawyers under 40

Lexpert/American Lawyer Media’s Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada 2006—One of Canada’s 25 litigators to watch

Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Guide to the Leading 100 Canada/U.S. Cross-Border Litigators in Canada 2005—One of Canada’s 25 litigators to watch

Scott has represented

• Berkshire in the Portus receivership and bankruptcy proceedings
• Heating Oil Partners Income Fund in its operating company’s Chapter 11 and CCAA restructuring proceedings
• Huffy Corporation in its successful restructuring under Chapter 11 and the CCAA
• United Air Lines in its Canadian restructuring proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act
• the successful restructuring of GT Group Telecom and the acquisition of the operating subsidiaries of GT by 360networks
• the Canadian Football League in the court-appointed receiverships of the Toronto Argonauts Football Club and the Hamilton Tiger-Cats Football Club
• the restructurings of Saskatchewan Wheat Pool and Irwin Toy
• the insolvency of Canada 3000, advising key aircraft lessors
• a number of restructurings in the retail industry, including those of Dylex (first restructuring) and Lewiscraft
• the lead lender in the restructuring and receivership of various companies in the entertainment sector, including the receiverships of Paragon Entertainment and HandMade Films
• the restructuring of loans to corporations in the telecommunications sector
• the restructuring of McWatters Mining (in which he acted for bondholders)

"Equitable Subordination in Canadian Insolvency Law," Six-Minute Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyer, Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto, March 2005. Also presented at the Law Society of Upper Canada Conference, Toronto, April 2003.

"Recognition of U.S. Bankruptcy Proceedings by Canadian Courts," Fourth International Symposium on Bankruptcy, June 2004.

"Head Above Water," co-author, Benefits Canada, March 2004.

"The Court’s Inherent Jurisdiction—What are the Limits?" Commercial Insolvency Reporter, vol. 15, no. 5, April 2003. Also presented at the Six-Minute Debtor-Creditor Lawyer Returns, Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto, April 2003.

"Insolvency and Financial Restructuring: Recent Developments of Importance," co-author, Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2002, Toronto: Silrun Information Services, 2002. Also published in Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada 2002, New York: Lexpert/American Lawyer Media, 2001.