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Fasken Offices

Fasken
3400 FIRST CANADIAN CENTRE
350 - 7TH AVENUE SW
CALGARY, AB T2P 3N9
Canada
Visit website 1 403 261 5350 1 403 261 5351

Scott Sangster

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+1 403 261 5377 [email protected]

Position

Partner

Career

Scott Sangster leads the Banking & Finance group in Calgary and is a foremost banking and finance lawyer, with extensive international and domestic experience in both bilateral and syndicated transactions. He structures and advises lenders, institutional and private, in implementing a variety of debt financing transactions, including complex inter-creditor and priority arrangements.

Practicing in the private equity, agribusiness, energy, real estate, logistics (including equipment and aircraft financing), fintech and diversified sectors, Scott leverages his more than 30 years’ of experience to assist clients in negotiating and executing the financing of acquisitions, divestitures, business combinations, restructurings, workouts and forbearances across these industries.

Professionally and personally Scott is known as a people-connector. Clients recognize Scott as going beyond the technical practice of law to serve as a key resource and he goes out of his way to support the people in his network on an ongoing basis.

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Canada > Banking and finance

Fasken’s banking and finance offering is well distributed across its national offices, which is reflected in a broad practice that shines in mining finance, corporate finance and regulatory matters, among other spheres. Key names for transactional work in Toronto include department co-head David Johnson who recently advised a syndicate of banks, agented by Bank of Montreal, on the $1.3m financing of the acquisition and take private of Lookers Group. The Toronto team also includes Thomas Meagher, who is highly regarded for mine finance; national department co-head Dev Singh, who is highlighted as a ‘rising star on Bay Street’; and Daniel Conrad, who is ‘one of the hardest-working lawyers in Canada’. The group additionally draws on fellow national co-heads Angela Onesi (Montreal) and Andrew Jackson (Vancouver) as well as Scott Sangster, who leads the area in Calgary. On the regulatory front, Toronto-based Koker Christensen is widely recognized as a market leader; he co-heads the financial services practice together with Montreal-based Nicolas Faucher.

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