Scott Cochlan > Torys > Calgary, Canada > Lawyer Profile

Torys
525 – 8th Avenue S.W., 46th Floor
Eighth Avenue Place East
Calgary, AB T2P 1G1
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 individuals)

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Split between Toronto and Calgary, Torys’ capital markets group leverages the wider firm’s robust financial services expertise to excel in complex debt offerings and structured finance matters. It is also well positioned to handle equity deals. In a highlight example of its practice sweet spot, Toronto-based David Seville recently advised Scotia Capital, and the syndicate of agents, on Scotiabank’s C$1.5bn public offering of limited recourse capital notes (LRCNS). On the equity side, Toronto’s Rima Ramchandani acted for Home Capital on its issuer bid for up to C$115m of its common shares. Calgary-based Scott Cochlan co-heads the department, together with Seville and Ramchandani, and handles a range of corporate and securities work. Other key contacts in Toronto include capital markets chair Kevin Morris; corporate finance partner Glen Johnson; securitization specialist Jim Hong; and talented senior associate Michael Murphy. Up-and-coming partner Michael Pedlow is noted in Calgary. Michael Feldman retired in December 2022, while associate Brett Saulnier left to join OPTrust.