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Scott Robson

Partner

Calgary
SRobson@blg.com
403.232.9589

Expertise

Nicole Bump

Practice Assistant

Calgary
NBump@blg.com
403.266.1395
403.232.9646

Scott advises clients across various industries on a broad range of corporate and securities matters, including:

  • mergers and acquisitions
  • public and exempt market offerings of debt and equity securities
  • shareholder activism and corporate governance
  • reorganizations and restructurings of corporations, partnerships and other entities
  • continuous disclosure and stock exchange matters

Scott also assists clients with preparing corporate and transactional documents, including a wide variety of commercial agreements.

Scott provides legal services through a Law Corporation.

Experience

  • Acted for the Government of Canada in its $4.5 billion acquisition of the Trans Mountain and Puget Sound Pipelines and related terminals.
  • Acted as Canadian counsel for Stone Canyon Industries LLC, in connection with its’ approximately $1 billion acquisition of the parent holding company of Industrial Container Services.
  • Acted for AutoCanada Inc. in connection with its private placement of $125 million aggregate principal amount senior notes and concurrent take up by way of cash tender offer of senior notes with $124.5 million aggregate principal amount.
  • Acted for Optiom Inc. in connection with its sale of a majority interest to private equity firm Novacap Investments, Inc.
  • Acted for Trimac Transportation Services Inc. in its $70 million acquisition of Gibson Energy's Canadian trucking business.
  • Acted for Kelt Exploration Ltd. (TSX:KEL) in connection with its short-form prospectus offering and concurrent private placement of $90 million principal amount of convertible debentures.
  • Acted as Canadian counsel for EagleTree Capital in connection with its acquisition and related financing of a majority stake in FuseFX, LLC, a visual effects studio providing visual effects services for episodic television, feature films, commercials and VR productions.
  • Acted for Northern Property REIT (TSX:NPRUN) on Canada's largest multi-family real estate transaction, being the $305 million acquisition of True North Apartment REIT and the $535 million acquisition of a private multi-family portfolio from affiliates of Starlight Investments Ltd. and Public Sector Pension Investment Board. 
  • Acted for Raging River Exploration Inc. (TSX:RRX) in connection with its $109 million acquisition of Rock Energy Inc. (TSX:RE).
  • Acted for Redneck Oilfield Services and Raptor Oilfield Services in connection with the sale of all of their issued and outstanding shares to Strad Energy Services Ltd. (TSX:SDY), with a transaction value of approximately $30.6 million. 
  • Acted for Arsenal Energy Inc. (TSX:AEI) in connection with a statutory plan of arrangement involving Lone Pine Resources Canada Ltd. 
  • Acted for AutoCanada Inc. (TSX:ACQ) in connection with its various acquisitions of automobile dealerships across Canada via both share purchase and asset purchase, with an aggregate transaction value of over $100 million.
  • Acted for Norrep Capital Management Ltd. in connection with Norrep Short Duration 2015 Flow-Through Limited Partnership’s long form prospectus offering of partnership units for gross proceeds of approximately $19 million.
  • Acted for PetroNova Inc. (TSXV:PNA) in connection with Petroamerica Oil Corp.’s (TSXV:PTA) acquisition of all of PetroNova’s issued and outstanding common shares by way of a statutory plan of arrangement, with a transaction value of approximately $29 million.
  • Acted for Stonehaven Exploration Ltd. (TSXV:SE) in connection with its amalgamation with Deventa Energy Inc.
  • Acted for Front Range Resources Ltd. (TSXV:FRK) in connection with its short-form prospectus offering and concurrent private placement of $22 million of flow-through-shares and common shares.
  • Acted for Canadian Equipment Rentals Corp. (TSXV:CFL) in connection with the sale of all of the issued and outstanding shares of its wholly-owned subsidiary, MCL Waste Systems and Environmental Inc. to GFL Environmental Inc. for cash proceeds of approximately $12 million.
  • Successfully acted for public company dissident shareholders on numerous occasions in connection with various proxy battles.
  • Acted for Guangxi Bossco Environmental Protection Technology Co., Ltd. (SZSE: 300422) in connection with its purchase of all of the issued and outstanding shares of RemedX Remediation Services Inc. for approximately $13 million.

Beyond Our Walls

Professional Involvement

  • Member, Canadian Bar Association
  • Member, Law Society of Alberta
  • Member, Calgary Bar Association

Community Involvement

  • Volunteer, United Way
  • Volunteer, BLG Business Venture Clinic

Bar Admission & Education

  • Alberta, 2015
  • JD, University of Windsor, 2014
  • B.Sc., University of Alberta, 2008

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