Scott Baxter
Senior Associate Litigation, Arbitration, and Employment
Languages
English
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Overview
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Experience
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Credentials
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Insights and events
As part of the firm’s Financial Services Litigation team, Scott Baxter's practice focuses on financial services disputes, investigations and contentious regulatory matters. Scott acts for domestic and international banks, as well as other financial services institutions, and his work regularly involves cross-border issues.
Scott’s experience includes advising clients on a wide range of disputes, including High Court litigation, arbitration, warranty claims, and other commercial disputes. He has also undertaken a nine-month secondment to the litigation team of a leading bank client.
Technology is influencing all areas of law, including litigation and investigations. Scott works with clients to help them understand their shifting risk landscape, as technology disrupts their industries, and helps them to ensure they're maximising the use of technology to mitigate those risks, eg. whether in compliance programmes or through the use of AI in litigation.
Representative experience
Acting for a major bank in multiple sets of High Court proceedings involving interest rate hedging products.
Advising a Regulated Investment Exchange in relation to its internal procedures surrounding enforcement of potential systems and controls breaches.
Acting for an international insurance company in connection with potential warranty claims brought pursuant to a historic transaction.
Credentials
Education
- LPC, BPP University Law School, London, 2011
- LL.B., University of Southampton, 2010
Bar admissions and qualifications
- Solicitor, England and Wales
Publications
Insights and Analysis
07 August 2019
Insights and Analysis
06 August 2019
News
Press releases
02 March 2023