Scott Hyman is a partner practising in the areas of derivatives, secured lending, merchant banking, project finance, structured finance and asset-based lending, with a large component of his practice in these areas being transactional work, which includes the provision of advice in the structuring and completion of domestic and cross-border secured and unsecured credit facilities, acquisition finance, structured finance and project finance transactions.

Scott regularly acts for financial institutions and companies, lenders and borrowers, in the arrangement and facilitation of acquisition, project, working capital, asset-based, equipment and bridge financings.  Some of the parties that Scott has acted for include Agnico-Eagle, Biovail, Toromont, Danier, MI Developments, Magna Entertainment Corp., CIBC, Bank of Montreal, Merrill Lynch, Canadian Medical Laboratories, Alimentation Couche-Tard, Roman Corporation, BCE and OMERS.  In the last few years, Scott has played a principal role in a number of major financing transactions, including acting for BCE in connection with the financing of its repurchase of a minority stake in Bell Canada, for OMERS in connection with the financing of its acquisition of Oxford Property Group, a syndicate of banks led by Merrill Lynch and Bank of Montreal in connection with the financing of the acquisition of Bombardier's recreational products division by a group of investors and for CIBC Capital Partners in connection with the financing of a going private transaction and development.

Scott also has extensive experience acting for investors and financial intermediaries in the structuring and investment in derivatives and other structured financial products, such as CDOs and regularly acts for and advises some of Canada's leading public and private investment houses in connection with their investments in structured products, including BMO Nesbitt Burns, Brookfield Asset Management, Coventree Capital, Dundee Securities, Edenbrook Hill Capital, Metcalfe & Mansfield, Nereus Financial, Newshore Capital and Polar Capital.  In addition, Scott has extensive experience in financial regulatory matters and regularly advises Canadian and foreign financial institutions and pension funds in connection with the regulatory aspects of the structuring of funds, equity investments and the completion of transactions in Canada.

Scott has served as a director of two Canadian Schedule II banks and has been a frequent guest lecturer on topics in international finance and derivatives at LL.M. programs offered by Osgoode Hall Law School and often speaks on issues pertaining to cross-border financing and derivatives products.  Scott is recognized by the Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory for his expertise in derivative instruments and in Chambers Global's The World's Leading Lawyers for Business in the area of banking and finance. In the 2007 edition, sources were quoted as saying he "is 'tenacious, focused and takes a firm position in delivering the right results for his client'".  He is included in LEXPERT Magazine's 2004 and 2006 listings of Canada's Top 40 Lawyers Under 40.

Scott has written numerous articles on the regulation of financial institutions in Canada, with a particular emphasis on the widening regulation of the Canadian derivatives market and the opening of the Canadian banking sector to international competition.

Scott graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1991 and in 1997 completed an LL.M. in Banking and Financial Services law with an emphasis on the regulation of domestic and international financial institutions in Canada.  He became a partner in 1999.

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