Scott Clarke > Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP > Calgary, Canada > Lawyer Profile
Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP Offices
855-2ND STREET S.W.
SUITE 3500, BANKERS HALL, EAST TOWER
CALGARY, ALBERTA T2P 4J8
Canada
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Scott Clarke
Work Department
Securities
Position
Scott focuses on mergers and acquisitions, power projects, corporate finance, private equity and governance matters, with a particular emphasis on renewable energy. He has extensive experience in a wide variety of domestic and cross-border acquisitions and financings. He has acted as counsel to issuers and underwriters across many sectors, including power, cleantech, alternative energy, oil and gas services, oil and gas exploration and development, high-tech, private equity and financial services.
Scott regularly acts for Independent Power Producers (IPP’s) to bring projects from greenfield opportunities through to their commercial operation date. This requires advice and negotiation on acquisition/disposition agreements, joint venture and partnering agreements, input on regulatory and environmental matters (including bidding into calls for power), oversight of EPC and O&M agreements and project financing involvement.
Memberships
Member of SAC of the Alberta Securities Commission.
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Energy and natural resources > Power
Particularly noted for its expertise in projects and commercial transactions, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP’s power practice draws on transactional partners Keith Byblow (Calgary), Sébastien Vilder (Montreal), Scott Clarke (Calgary) and up-and-coming name, Ky Kvisle (Toronto). The transactional team is supported by a growing regulatory offering led by Calgary-based energy regulation head Terri-Lee Oleniuk and also including Toronto-based counsel Reena Goyal, who recently joined from McCarthy Tétrault — Goyal contributes significant in-house experience gained during an eight-year stint at the Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO). Since publication, former team head Vivian Kung departed the firm.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Transport > Aviation
- Banking and finance
- Capital markets
- Competition and antitrust
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Indigenous law
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- International expertise
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Pensions
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax