Scott Prescott > Fasken > Ottawa, Canada > Lawyer Profile

Fasken
SUITE 1300
55 METCALFE STREET
OTTAWA, ON K1P 6L5
Canada
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Position

Partner | Co-Managing Partner, Ottawa

Career

Scott Prescott practises communications and administrative law. He has extensive knowledge of the legal, regulatory and policy frameworks governing the broadcasting and telecommunications industries in Canada.

Providing complex legal and strategic advice, clients include leading Canadian and international communications companies. He advises a number of cable, IPTV and satellite distributors, television and radio broadcasters, online content providers, foreign programming services, Internet service providers and wireline and wireless telecommunications carriers.

Scott acts for clients in a broad range of proceedings before the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC).

Scott’s communications practice includes advising on various matters relating to licensing and regulatory compliance, dispute resolution, regulatory and statutory interpretation, transfers of ownership and control, Canadian ownership and foreign investment, regulatory and policy frameworks, building access and telecommunications interconnection, licensing and tariffs.

Assisting clients operating in the communications industry on privacy and access to information matters commercial transactions and agreements and a range of competition, constitutional and administrative law issues is also a significant part of Scott’s communications practice.

Scott is the Co-Managing Partner of the firm’s Ottawa office.

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Telecoms

The practice group at Fasken is well-placed to advise on a wide range of telecoms and broadcasting matters. Particular areas of expertise include advising telecoms service providers, radio and television programming providers, satellite television distributors and satellite service providers on network deployment requirements, anti-spam legislation and specialized communications contracts. In addition, the team regularly acts for clients before the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission, the Department of Innovation and the Copyright Board. Ottawa-based Leslie Milton heads up the group and specializes in regulatory telecoms matters; she has niche expertise in assisting service providers with access to municipal rights of way. Additional key contacts at the Ottawa office include communications and administrative law specialist Scott Prescott; and TMT practice group co-lead Gerald Kerr-Wilson. In Toronto, Barbara Miller handles telecoms transactions. Paul Burbank, who provides commercial and regulatory advice, is the key associate-level contact.