Maria Scott is a senior associate in our dispute resolution practice
Maria Scott is a Senior Associate at Ashurst in London. She has substantial experience in international arbitration, having worked on a series of significant and complex cases throughout her career.
Maria’s experience focuses on disputes related to gas pricing, joint venture agreements concerning the production of commodities, and other commercial contracts, with a particular emphasis on disputes in the energy sector, as well as matters of contractual interpretation and claims of fraud or misrepresentation.
Maria has represented clients before leading arbitration institutions such as the LCIA, ICC, SCC, and ICSID Centre, as well as in court proceedings relating to the enforcement of arbitration awards before the High Court of England and Wales, including acting in respect of the successful deference of a freezing injunction. Maria has significant hearing experience, having been involved in several arbitration hearings worldwide, both procedural and substantive, under a variety of institutional rules.
Legal 500 have described Maria as a “leader in the making” (2022) and as “very clever and tenacious; master of the detail; quick and deft of mind; a rising star” (2020).