Scott has close to 20 years of domestic and international experience of assisting clients to navigate complex commercial disputes, investigations and inquiries, which have often been high-profile and reputational. His broad and versatile practice spans large-scale and urgent litigation in all Australian jurisdictions, including class actions, multi-party, cross-border disputes and injunctions; arbitration; regulatory investigations (including white collar criminal matters) and enforcement proceedings; inquiries; and contentious insolvency.

He has acted for numerous multinational corporates; investment and retail banks; governments and sovereign wealth funds; funds, asset managers, corporate advisors and traders; professional services firms; insurers, reinsurers and brokers; leading private companies; and individual company directors and officers.

Scott's experience includes matters concerning corporations law (including directors' duties, continuous disclosure obligations, shareholder disputes); contractual disputes and warranty claims; tort; misleading and deceptive conduct; fraud and insider trading; competition and consumer law (including responding to regulatory "dawn raids", mergers, cartels, price-fixing, abuse of dominant position); AML/CTF and sanctions; international trade and aviation; insurance and reinsurance; taxation and transfer pricing; property and land; public law (judicial review and constitutional);professional negligence; and insolvency.

He trained and practised for several years in London at leading firm, Slaughter and May, before moving to Australia where he has worked at top-tier and magic circle firms prior to joining the partnership of Thomson Geer. He is admitted in the High Court of Australia, Supreme Court of New South Wales and as a Solicitor-Advocate in the Senior Courts of England & Wales. He is a member of the Commercial Law Association of Australia and TMA Australia.

A copy of Scott's full CV is available on request.

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