About James Campbell
James is a versatile dispute resolution lawyer working across significant regulatory investigations, class actions and complex commercial disputes.
He is co-lead of Allens' Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime streams. His regulatory investigations experience includes responding to significant investigations and civil penalty proceedings involving ASIC, AUSTRAC, APRA, the Australian Federal Police, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, Parliamentary Inquiries and the Financial Services Royal Commission.
As a litigator, James has defended multiple shareholder class actions and consumer class actions against ASX100 companies, including the major banks and large corporates. James has also defended complex multi-jurisdictional commercial disputes.
James' recent experience includes:
- Macquarie Bank: assisting Macquarie Bank to respond to an ASIC investigation and civil penalty proceedings concerning fraud management controls
- CBA: defending a class action relating to financial advice to acquire life insurance products
- CIMIC Group (formerly Leighton Holdings):
- defending allegations of foreign bribery, including responding to investigations by ASIC and the Australian Federal Police, a Senate Inquiry, three class actions and an investigation by the US Department of Justice
- defending the Group in connection with its exit from a business in the Middle East, including a shareholder class action and various multi-jurisdictional disputes
- Entain (Ladbrokes / Neds): defending AUSTRAC civil penalty proceedings
- IAG: successfully applying to declass a class action against IAG in relation to business interruption insurance cover arising from the COVID-19 pandemic
- Macquarie Group: leading Macquarie Group's response to the Financial Services Royal Commission