Trevor Scott

Practice Areas

Trevor has extensive experience advising senior public and private companies, institutions, investment dealers, boards of directors and special committees on mergers & acquisitions (hostile and negotiated), equity and debt financings, restructurings, corporate governance and shareholder activism.

Trevor is recognized as a leading practitioner by: Best Lawyers in Canada (mergers & acquisitions, corporate, corporate governance and securities); Chambers Canada: Canada’s Leading Lawyers for Business (corporate/commercial in British Columbia); IFLR 1000: The Guide to the World’s Leading Financial Law Firms (capital markets); The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance & securities, corporate commercial and corporate mid-market lawyers); and, Acritas Stars (recognized as a Star Lawyer). For 2021 and 2017, Trevor was recognized by Best Lawyers as “Lawyer of the Year” for corporate governance. He was also recognized by Lexpert in British Columbia's Best Corporate and Commercial Lawyers in 2021.

Trevor is the former Chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s National Business Law Section and a former Chair of the Securities Law Subsection of the Canadian Bar Association (BC). He is also a past member of the Securities Law Advisory Committee, which is a committee of leading lawyers that provides advice to the British Columbia Securities Commission on legal and policy issues relating to securities regulation.

Trevor regularly lectures and authors articles on mergers & acquisitions, corporate finance and shareholder activism. He is a past director of the Pacific Salmon Foundation.

Career

University of British Columbia J.D.

Simon Fraser University B.B.A.

Bar Admission: British Columbia, 1998

Professional Memberships

Law Society of British Columbia

Canadian Bar Association, British Columbia Branch