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Lexpert/Thomson Reuters' Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, 2011-2012—Repeatedly recommended practitioner in corporate finance and securities

Best Lawyers in Canada, 2006-2013—Leading lawyer in corporate and securities law

Lexpert's Special Law Inserts appearing in The Globe and Mail's Report on Business Magazine 2011—Most frequently recommended lawyer in corporate commercial, and corporate finance and securities

Legal Media Group/Euromoney’s IFLR1000: The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms, 2011—Leading Canadian lawyer in capital markets

Lexpert/American Lawyer’s Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, 2006—Among the 40 corporate lawyers to watch

Scott has recently represented

Securities Distribution Transactions

• Canadian Energy Services in its C$225 million offering of 7.375% senior unsecured notes
• the underwriters in Athabasca Oil Sands’ C$1.35 billion initial public offering, the largest initial public offering in the history of Canada’s oil and gas industry
• Suncor Energy in the establishment of its US$1 billion universal shelf prospectus and subsequent US$500 million note offerings in the United States
• dealer syndicates in TransAlta’s establishment of a C$2 billion medium term note shelf program and C$250 million offering of rate-reset preferred shares
• the underwriters in Bonavista Energy Corporation’s C$420 million public offering of subscription receipts, C$425 million public offering of subscription receipts and convertible debentures, and C$214 million public offering of units
• Enerplus Resources Corporation in its C$492 million subscription receipt financing to purchase Lyco Energy Corp., a private U.S. company, one of the first acquisitions of a U.S. entity by a Canadian income fund
• Agrium in its US$125 million cross-border debenture offering and US$110 million cross-border common share offering in the United States
• Calpine Natural Gas Trust in its C$270 million initial public offering and TSX listing
• the underwriters in Petrofund Energy Trust’s C$250 million public offering of subscription receipts
• the underwriters in a C$260 million private placement of senior secured notes for partial financing of a C$1.8 billion maritime/northeast pipeline
• the underwriters in InterOil’s US$231 million cross-border public offering of notes and common shares
• the underwriters in TriStar Oil & Gas’s C$287.5 million public offering of subscription receipts
• Canyon Services Group Inc. in its C$125 million public and private common share issuances
• Alberta Oilsands in its C$250 million public offerings and private placements of securities and dissident proxy contest
• the underwriters in TORC Oil & Gas Ltd.'s C$100 million bought deal private placement of subscription receipts and flow-through subscription receipts
• the underwriters in New Star Energy Limited's C$120 million private placement of subscription receipts
• the underwriters in Red River Oil Inc.'s C$120 million private placement of subscription receipts v
• Canadian Energy Services & Technology Corp. in its C$60 million initial public offering and TSX listing (the first public listing in Canada of a mud service company) and subsequent C$150 million equity financings v
• the underwriters in Southern Pacific Resource Corporation's C$80 million public offering of common shares
• the underwriters in DeeThree Exploration Ltd.'s C$52 million public offerings of common shares
• the underwriters in ENTREC Corporation's C$52 million public offering of common shares
• the underwriters in Valeura Energy Inc.'s C$15 million public offering of common shares
• the underwriters in Xtreme Drilling and Coil Services Corporation's C$17 million public offering of common shares

Mergers and Acquisitions Transactions

• Gran Tierra Energy in its C$600 million plan of arrangement transaction with Solana Resources and its C$200 million plan of arrangement transaction with Petrolifera Petroleum Ltd.
• Canadian Energy Services & Technology Corp. in its conversion transaction and its aggregate US$350 million acquisitions of Fluids Management II, Ltd., Champion Drilling Fluids Inc., AES Drilling Fluids, LLC and a United States based manufacturer of oil and gas field treating chemicals
• Macquarie Group in its acquisition of Tristone Capital Global
• Calpine Natural Gas Trust in its C$1.3 billion merger with Viking Energy Royalty Trust
• Fairquest Energy in its C$700 million plan of arrangement transaction with Fairborne Energy Trust
• ENMAX in its C$207 million takeover bid for Cordero Energy Inc.
• Cork Exploration in its C$100 million combination transaction with Profound Energy Inc.
• Enerplus Resources Corporation in its: (i) US$430 million cross-border acquisition Lyco Energy Corp.; (2) C$100 million plan of arrangement acquisition of TriLoch Resources Inc.; and (iii) in its C$2.4 billion merger with EnerMark Income Fund

Scott is a past chairman of the Canadian Bar Association’s Securities Law Section (Alberta Branch – South). He is a former member of the Alberta Securities Commission’s Securities Advisory Committee.

Scott serves as a director and corporate secretary of a number of public and private corporations.