Scott Dunlop

Scott Dunlop
Counsel

Contact Information

Vancouver

Phone 604.643.2985
Fax 604.605.3707
Email sdunlop@davis.ca

Assistants

Maria Marchioni, 604.443.2602

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Biography

A graduate of Princeton and McGill, Scott Dunlop is a business lawyer with extensive expertise in the management and operation of enterprises, including director, executive, shareholder and partnership issues. He is the past chair of the Employment and Labour Law Practice Group and an experienced counsel in the protection and optimisation of intellectual capital and venture capital. He was Founding Chair of the firm's Public Affairs Group and is the senior member of our Technology & Outsourcing Group.

Mr. Dunlop acts for emerging and established corporations and their owners and executives, particularly in technology, internet, sports and entertainment. He specializes in executive contracts and compensation, employment and securities law.

Mr. Dunlop is a skilled advocate, negotiator and practitioner of alternate dispute resolution. He has studied and taught mediation at Harvard Law School Program of Instruction for Lawyers.

Clients that Mr. Dunlop has advised include: Bell Canada, B.C. Hydro and Power Authority, British Columbia Power Exchange Corporation, Vancouver Port Corporation, Wometco (B.C.) Limited, Four Seasons Hotel, Inland Kenworth Ltd., Cummins British Columbia Ltd., Delta Airlines Inc., Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Fletcher Challenge Ltd., Vancouver General Hospital, Arrow Transport Ltd., Curtis Lumber Ltd.,Victoria Commonwealth Games, Westech Information Systems Inc., Hyatt Regency Hotel, Zenon Environmental Inc., Sun Peaks Resort Corporation, Vancouver Film School Limited, A.J. Forsyth and Company Ltd., Wajax Ltd., Proctor and Gamble, Canadian Pacific, ACTRA Fraternal Benefits Society, Pepsi Cola Canada Ltd., Columbia Basin Trust, West Bay Semiconductor Ltd., Apotex Inc., Canadian Drug Manufacturers Association, Canada Jet Charters Ltd., Deere Hitachi Inc., Harman International Inc., Wilson Banwell Human Solutions Inc., Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre, Pender Financial Group Corporation

Expertise

  • Compensation and executive contracts
  • Shareholder agreements and remedies
  • Venture capital and securities
  • Confidential information
  • Mergers and acquisitions

Publications & Seminars

  • Regular presenter at seminars and author of papers on the protection of knowledge and management of human and intellectual capital
  • Instructor, Harvard Law School Mediation Course
  • Editor, Shareholder Remedies, British Columbia Corporations Law Guide, CCH

Volunteer Work

  • President, Tennis British Columbia (2002-2005)
  • Director, Youth Tennis Foundation of British Columbia
  • Director, Tapestry Foundation for Health Care
  • Director, Vancouver International Film Festival

Other Activities

  • Advisory board and editor, CCH British Columbia Corporations Law Guide (shareholders' remedies)
  • Member, Canadian Bar Association, British Columbia and Yukon branches
  • Lecturer, Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia

Education

  • LL.B., McGill Law School
  • B.A. (Honours), Princeton University
  • American Academy of Attorney Mediators Program
  • Harvard Law School Lawyer's Negotiation Program
  • Harvard Law School Lawyer's Mediation Program

Place and Year of Call

  • British Columbia, 1980
  • Yukon, 1982

Languages Spoken

  • English
  • French

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