Duncan Campbell

Duncan is a Senior Associate and Knowledge Lawyer within Linklaters’ financial services contentious regulatory practice.  He has over 15 years’ experience in large law firms in both matter-facing and knowledge roles, in disputes and financial regulation teams, and in both London and Sydney.  

His focus is the management and resolution of UK financial services regulators’ actions – both formal enforcement investigations and actions, and the regulators’ increasingly assertive and high-stakes use of their sweeping supervisory powers.

Duncan provides extensive internal training, best practice sharing and support to Linklaters’ leading contentious regulatory team so that our clients receive best-in-class service and optimal contentious regulatory outcomes.

Duncan also develops and delivers forward-looking thought leadership and expert training to clients.  He identifies trends in regulators’ areas of focus and contentious regulatory strategies and equips clients with the insights they need to prepare for and navigate intensifying regulatory scrutiny.

In Sydney, Duncan worked in public law at a government solicitor then as a research associate to a NSW Supreme Court judge before spending five years doing disputes work at a leading corporate law firm including in IP and technology, class actions and insurance.

Duncan then joined Linklaters’ London Dispute Resolution team and spent several years on high-profile regulatory investigations and redress exercises and public inquiries before joining Linklaters’ contentious regulatory practice as a Knowledge Lawyer.

Duncan writes extensively for clients. For examples, visit his profile on Linklaters’ Financial Regulation Insights site.

Duncan holds a Bachelor of Arts (History) and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Sydney. He is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and in New South Wales, and is on the solicitors’ roll of the High Court of Australia.