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R. Scott Whitley

Partner

Scott has 35 years of experience in the legal profession. He began practice as a corporate-commercial lawyer and spent a good part of his career in the management of two large Bay Street firms. His practice is now mainly in not-for-profit matters and in the governance and commercial affairs of small and mid-sized businesses.

He is associate editor of Ontario Corporate Law & Practice and of Gray's Commentaries on Ontario and federal corporate law. He was co-ordinating editor of O'Brien's Encyclopedia of Forms (2002) and, from 1988 to 1996, of Canadian Securities Law Precedents and Canadian Corporation Precedents (Carswell), and contributed to a guide to title insurance (CCH Canada, 1999).

He was a mentor in the Law Practice Program at Ryerson University from 2015 to 2021 and a sessional lecturer in Canadian business law at Humber College from 2004 to 2006.

Queen's University (B.A. Hons., 1980; LL.B., 1983). Called to the Ontario bar, 1985.