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Overview
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Experience
Introduction
Kirsten is a former Federal Prosecutor who leads investigations, incident response, regulatory proceedings and compliance advisory, particularly for financial services and energy and resources clients.
Kirsten Scott draws on a background of over 20 years' experience to advise clients on complex regulatory and law enforcement investigations and related regulatory proceedings.
Kirsten has significant experience in the conduct and management of investigations arising from whistleblower complaints, critical incidents and regulatory enforcement action, including cross-border matters. Kirsten also regularly advises clients on how to prevent non-financial and financial misconduct, including by developing robust compliance policies and training programs, enhancing risk management processes and assessing legal risk arising in transactional and project environments.
Kirsten's practice has a particular focus on supporting clients in the financial services and energy and resources sector.
Kirsten is Secretary for the Australian Chapter of Women’s White Collar Defense Association (WWCDA) and features in Global Investigation Review’s 2021 Women in Investigations survey of 100 exceptional practitioners.
- Australian Securities Exchange | Acting in the high-profile ASIC Inquiry into the ASX Group following a series of incidents.
- A major telecommunications provider | Acting in relation to the incident response and related regulatory investigations surrounding a network outage affecting Triple 000 emergency calls.
- Financial services company | Conducting an internal investigation concerning potential insider trading.
- A major global mining company | Acting on Australian law aspects of a cross border regulatory investigation and defence of subsequent civil proceedings brought by ASIC in relation to an asset in East Africa*.
- A major global mining company | Secondment to the Business Conduct Office to provide strategic advice across a range of APAC jurisdictions*.
- Perth based mining company | Advised on a corruption and bribery investigation by the Australian Federal Police associated with the company's acquisition of foreign resources across two countries in Central Africa, resulting in the issue of a no action letter*.
* Experience prior to joining Ashurst Perkins Coie.
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