Hugh Scales

Hugh works in our corporate and commercial team, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, capital raisings, managed investment schemes and financial services. Hugh advises on complex transactions and strategic change with a clear, commercial and outcome-focused approach, across financial services, infrastructure, private equity and growth sectors, mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings, corporate restructures, managed investment schemes and governance matters, as well as advising clients with a mutual structure.

Clients value Hugh for his clarity, pragmatism and responsiveness, especially when managing high value transactions, regulatory complexity and tight timeframes.

Hugh brings deep experience across public and private market deals, offering practical insight into structuring, execution and risk management. He is a trusted advisor on transactional and regulatory matters, particularly where there is complexity, competing stakeholders or evolving market conditions.