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Overview

Scott Martyn has 30 years of experience in commercial real estate law with a focus on construction, project finance, project development and infrastructure. He has expertise in advising builders/developers, hospitals, municipalities and governmental participants. Scott has extensive experience in mining law, and in particular, with the creation, transfer, financing and ownership of patented and unpatented claims, mining leases, mining licences of occupation, as well as ownership issues relating to aggregate and quarries.

Scott has been involved in numerous high-profile infrastructure projects, previously acting as legal counsel on the development and construction of Brighton Beach Power Station, William Osler Health Centre, Royal Ottawa Hospital, Roy McMurtry Youth Centre, Niagara Health System, Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation, London Health Sciences Centre, St. Joseph’s Health Centre, the City of Brampton Southwest Quadrant (SWQ) Renewal Plan and Barrie Transit.

Scott’s real estate practice involves the development, acquisition and disposition of retail, office, multi-residential and industrial properties and portfolios. He also advises on financings and refinancings, restructurings, land transfer tax, mortgage enforcement and commercial leasing. Scott represents developers of commercial, residential and multi-residential properties; home builders; and national and international financial institutions.

Experienced in land use planning as well as municipal, environmental and expropriation law, Scott brings transactional experience relating to mining and public-private hospital projects in addition to multi-phased, common elements and available land condominium projects involving development and operational matters.

Scott was previously with Bennett Jones from 1996 to 2011 and became a partner in 2002. During that time, he chaired the Toronto Office Student Committee from 1999 until 2005.

Client Work

Hut 8 Mining in its C$95-million sale of a 310-megawatt power portfolio to TransAlta
Parkbridge Lifestyle Communities in connection with the sale of Ponderosa RV Resort 
West Red Lake Gold in connection with its Madsen Mine and Rowan Mine located in Red Lake in connection with their reopening and title to their properties 
Zhone Technologies, a global provider of fiber optic broadband solutions and cloud software services, in its acquisition of substantially all of the worldwide assets and international subsidiaries of DZS Inc., DZS Services Inc. and DZS California Inc. by way of an Asset Purchase Agreement and an order of the United States Bankruptcy Court out of Chapter 7 bankruptcy proceedings for the Eastern District of Texas approving such sale of assets 
Zhone Technologies in itsacquisition of Net Comm Wireless Pty, pursuant to a Deed of Company Arrangement (DOCA) approved by creditors and the Federal Court of Australia  
Hut 8, one of the world's largest publicly traded cryptocurrency mining companies, in the stalking horse acquisition, in partnership with Macquarie Equipment Finance, a subsidiary of Macquarie Group Limited, of four natural-gas-fired generating facilities in Ontario from Validus Power, as part of the Validus group’s restructuring proceedings under the Companies' Creditors Arrangement Act (Canada)  

Education & Bar Admissions

Education

  • Carleton University, BA, 1984
  • Dalhousie University, LLB, 1990
  • York University, Osgoode Hall Law School, LLM, 2011

Bar Admissions

  • Ontario, 1992

Insights

Annulment Clauses and Good FaithBlog

Annulment Clauses and Good Faith

June 9, 2025
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Scott Martyn & Samuel Judson

News, Events & Speaking Engagements

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Scott Martyn Joins Bennett Jones as Partner in Toronto

October 27, 2022
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