Scott Allen
Scott is a business lawyer focused on solving the varied legal needs of clients with a personal and practical approach. His experience includes advising clients on buying and selling a business, corporate reorganizations, business structuring, debt and equity financing, strategic business arrangements, commercial agreements ranging from leases to software licenses, and intellectual property matters.
A keen participant in and advocate of cycling and bike racing, he has advised across a broad range of industries, including technology, construction, manufacturing, transportation, financial services, apparel, logistics, agriculture, insurance, and healthcare. His clients, past and present, include entrepreneurs, private and public companies, family offices, investors, institutional bodies, and governments and government agencies.
Scott started his business law career at a leading large regional law firm in Vancouver. Prior to law, he consulted for 15+ years on local, regional, provincial, national and international projects, mainly in connection with high performance sport. Scott was focused on project management, games/event operations, corporate communications, logistics, and community engagement for both non-profit and private organizations.
education & accreditation
Law Society of British Columbia (2017)
University of Calgary (J.D., 2016)
University of Victoria (B.A. with Distinction, 2000)
areas of expertise
Business Law
Mergers & Acquisitions
Technology Law
Intellectual Property
experience
- Advised private clients and institutional bodies with respect to various technology matters, including service and licensing agreements.
- Advised clients on initial structuring and incorporation of their company and related key documents including shareholders’ agreements.
- Drafted custom and bespoke commercial agreements to meet clients’ unique needs, including distribution, licensing, and manufacturing.
- Managed debt financing processes for clients, acting for borrowers and private lenders and acting opposite institutional and private lenders.
- Aided clients to settle commercial and shareholder disputes, plus litigation of varying complexity.
- Advised investors and private businesses on equity investments and financings, including both private and strategic investments.
- Advised local and foreign companies on trademark development, trademark availability, searching, trademark prosecution and opposition matters.
- Advised clients on tailored approaches to address the administration, proper use, licensing of and enforcing intellectual property rights including copyright, trademarks, industrial design and trade secrets.
- Advised on strategies to develop and evolve manages client’s domestic and international trademark and intellectual property portfolios.
- Advised on and drafted terms of use and privacy policies for the websites and mobile applications of local companies and institutional bodies.
- Advised private company and public body clients on data protection and privacy compliance, risk management strategies, and privacy breach response.
- Assisted public-traded companies and agents of public-traded companies with various offerings, including prospectus filings, granting of warrants and options and more on the TSX, TSX-V and CSE.
- Sale of a BC building and civil construction company to a publicly-traded Canadian-national strategic buyer.
- Sale of a BC leader in business of benefits and group retirement brokerage, personal and corporate insurance and wealth management, and financial planning to national Canadian brokerage buyer.
- Sale of a Ontario-based software and hardware company (with North American reach) to a US strategic buyer.
- Purchase of a Western Canadian business focused on electrical engineering and related technical services for a US-based, North American leader in the industry.
- Purchase of a large-scale, BC-focused engineering and architectural firm for a BC buyer with North American wide operations.
- Purchase of Alberta-based pipe-bending and manufacturing businesses and related commercial real estate for a strategic BC buyer.
- Sale of a BC company specializing in Canadian and US air, ocean and land freight solutions plus warehousing and distribution to a US buyer.
- Sale of a BC medical equipment business to a Canadian buyer.
- Sale of a Canadian software development company to a Hong Kong buyer.
- Purchase of BC private excavating business and related industrial real estate for a BC buyer.
- Purchase of multiple transportation and equipment businesses across Western Canada for a BC buyer with North-American reach.
- Sale of a BC natural resources business to a US buyer.
- Sale of a BC film production company to a Canadian buyer.
- Purchase of franchised and stand-alone, private food and beverage business operations for BC buyers.
- Purchase of a BC design studio for BC buyers.