Scott Cochlan > Torys > Toronto, Canada > Lawyer Profile

Torys
79 WELLINGTON STREET WEST, SUITE 3000
BOX 270, TD CENTRE
TORONTO, ONTARIO
Canada
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Work Department

Capital Markets

Position

Scott Cochlan is a leading capital markets lawyer with experience across industries, including oil and gas, industrials and manufacturing, and life sciences.

Scott is co-head of Torys’ Capital Markets Practice. His practice includes securities and corporate law, with an emphasis on corporate finance and M&A.

Scott’s pragmatic approach and extensive experience help issuers and underwriters in various complex matters, including domestic and cross-border public/private equity and debt financings, M&A, and other business reorganizations and restructurings.

Scott also represents senior and junior public issuers in numerous aspects of general corporate law and securities regulatory matters, including corporate governance, continuous disclosure, regulatory compliance and transaction implementation.

Career

Alberta, 1992

Memberships

Scott is a past chairman of the Canadian Bar Association’s Securities Law Section (Alberta Branch – South). He is a former member of the Alberta Securities Commission’s Securities Advisory Committee. He also serves as a director and corporate secretary of a number of public and private corporations.

Lawyer Rankings

Canada > Capital markets

(Leading partners)

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The capital markets group at Torys is composed of ‘practical business advisers with a great view of precedents and trends’. Striking a balance between transactional and regulatory expertise, the team leverages the wider firm’s preeminent financial institutions offering to excel in representing financial services clients as both issuers and underwriters — it also routinely represents corporate issuers. The national department is co-led by Toronto-based David Seville (‘one of the best in Canada’), Toronto-based Rima Ramchandani and Calgary’s Scott Cochlan — all of whom contribute broad corporate finance experience. Also highly regarded in Toronto are capital markets specialists Glen Johnson and Kevin Morris, as well as securitization partner Jim Hong and senior associate Michael Murphy. In Calgary, Michael Pedlow is noted.