Thomson Geer

Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Partner

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.