Lucy Scott
Senior Lawyer
Special Counsel
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Auckland
Bio
Lucy Scott is commercial litigator and regulatory lawyer with a particular interest in contractual, shareholder, and property disputes. Her extensive knowledge in regulatory investigations and prosecutions positions her as a key advisor to her clients. She is an experienced adviser on regulatory issues across a wide range of sectors, including financial services, health and safety and consumer and competition.
Lucy’s in-house experience has honed her ability to offer balanced, pragmatic advice, making her a trusted figure in managing complex commercial and regulatory challenges.
Lucy regularly represents clients in investigations involving the Commerce Commission, WorkSafe New Zealand, the Financial Markets Authority and other regulators. She also represents clients in the High Court, and at mediation and arbitration.
Lucy has gained strong experience since she graduated in 2010, starting her career at a large Auckland law firm before taking on an in-house role at the Royal Bank of Scotland in London. There, she was the head of the legal division advising on a large regulatory investigation and customer remediation scheme. She has been with Anthony Harper since 2017.
Clients describe Lucy’s working style as proactive, detailed and targeted.
Recognition
Qualifications
- LLB First Class Hons – University of Canterbury
- Admitted in New Zealand – 2011
Work highlights
- Acted for a finance company on a Commerce Commission investigation into compliance with the Credit Contracts and Consumer Finance Act 2003.
- Acted for a derivatives issuer on an investigation by the Financial Markets Authority into an alleged breach of its standard licence conditions.
- Acted for a FMCG client on the competition law aspects of a potential merger.
- Represented a shareholder opposing a company scheme of arrangement under Part 15 of the Companies Act 1993 in the High Court.
- Represented a Super Rugby franchise in the High Court and at mediation in relation to a contractual dispute.
- Represented an individual in relation to a Financial Markets Authority investigation into accounting records and other matters.
- Acted for a number of insured clients on investigations and prosecutions under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015.
- Acted for a beneficiary of a trust in a long-running dispute regarding trustee decisions and trust property.
- Acted for a NZX listed commercial landlord on several property disputes, including disputes resolved by mediation.
- Acted for a trust to obtain a High Court sale order for a property in novel circumstances. The trust's debtor owned a share of the property, but the trust claimed that it was the beneficial owner of the other registered proprietors' shares. The court ordered a sale of the property with proceeds to be distributed to the trust.
- Acted for a tourism industry client on a successful High Court application for judicial review against Tourism New Zealand regarding a licence dispute.
