Practice profile - Partner in the firm with 18 years' experience in corporate and commercial transactions
- Advises a broad range of businesses, working closely with management to achieve corporate goals
- Able to recognize and address concerns before they become problems; strives to provide quick service with innovative advice - knowledge of business makes him effective in negotiating contracts and enables him to convey difficult concepts clearly
- Past president of the Canadian Bar Association ? Alberta Branch
- Past chair of the CBA's Business Law Section and Real Property Law Section and past chair of the firm's Banking & Insolvency Practice Group
- Bachelor of Commerce degree, major in finance (1982), and worked in banking industry where he obtained a fellowship in the Institute of Canadian Bankers
- Registrar, Anglican Diocese of Edmonton
Representative work - Represents Schedule I banks on large and complex commercial financing transactions
- Negotiated pipeline relocation and highway overpass project with municipality for major land owner
- Represents major gas utility on commercial matters including gas franchises and purchase and sale of natural gas pipelines
- Proficient in purchase, sale and financing of commercial property including condominium developments and developments on leasehold lands
- Represents a major forest products company on commercial matters including negotiation of long term forest management agreement with the Province
- Negotiated a workout settlement on a mega-pipeline project in Atlantic Canada for a major pipeline construction company
- Experienced in advising boards of directors on governance issues
- Developed a provincial joint-venture template to be utilized by Alberta's Regional Health Authorities and groups of primary care physicians to assist in providing new and novel ways to deliver health care to Albertans
- Represented lender in financing fleet of jet aircraft
- Amalgamated two gas distribution utility companies
- Represented seller on disposition and take-back financing of a fleet of ships and barges operating in the Mackenzie Delta, NT
- Experienced in syndicated loan participation transactions
- Proficient with operation and financing of joint ventures, commercial trusts and limited partnerships
- Experienced in financing and dealing with First Nations and Metis business organizations
To contact Scott, call 780.482.9292 or emailswatson@mross.com.
Bar Admissions
Alberta, 1989
Professional Associations and Memberships
Canadian Bar Association - Alberta Branch, President
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