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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

Lexpert/Thomson Canada’s Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2011—Repeatedly recommended practitioner in 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

Woodward White’s Best Lawyers in Canada 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012—Leading lawyer in securities law and corporate law

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

Scott has recently represented

• 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
• 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
• the underwriters in Bonavista Energy Trust’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 Fund
  • in its C$492 million subscription receipt financing to purchase Lyco Energy, a private U.S. company, one of the first acquisitions of a U.S. entity by a Canadian income fund
  • in its C$100 million plan of arrangement acquisition of TriLoch Resources
  • in its C$2.4 billion merger with EnerMark Income Fund
• Suncor Energy in the establishment of its US$1 billion universal shelf prospectus and subsequent US$500 million note offerings in the United States
• 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
• Canadian Energy Services & Technology in its C$60 million initial public offering and TSX listing – the first public listing in Canada of a mud service company – and in its subsequent C$100 million equity financings and its conversion transaction
• Canyon Services Group 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
• 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 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
• Gran Tierra Energy in its C$600 million plan of arrangement transaction with Solana Resources
• Canadian Energy Services & Technology in its aggregate US$85 million acquisitions of Fluids Management II and Champion Drilling Fluids
• 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
• Cork Exploration in its C$100 million combination transaction with Profound Energy

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. Before joining Torys, Scott was a partner at another major Canadian law firm.

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