Scott Bouvier

Partner, King & Wood Mallesons

Scott is recognised as one of Australia’s pre-eminent IP commercialisation and research sector lawyers. Scott has been a technology lawyer since 1992 and his experience includes working on tech deals in New York, the rise fall and recovery from dot com times, the energy technology funding boom in 2008 to 2011, the rise of agrifood tech through the 2010s and acting for the Commonwealth Government on the establishment of Silicon Quantum Computing (and then ever since for SQC).

Scott advises many universities and research institutions as well as start-ups, governments, large corporations and private equity. He is widely known for developing close relationships with his clients and spending time understanding their strategies, opportunities and challenges, and is recognised as a trusted adviser. Scott’s ability to provide strategic, client-centric advice relating to complex IP matters, in addition to his innovative and practical approach, has earnt him the reputation as the “go-to” lawyer for IP commercialisation and research in Australia.

His key clients include CSIRO, University of Sydney, Monash University, SQC, Meat & Livestock Australia and AgriFutures. Recent public deals including acting for STT on their partnership with Firmus to build a global network of sustainable AI factories, acting for Monash on the establishment of the $52M artificial heart frontiers program and SQC on its $50.4m Series A capital raising and the spin off of the Diraq quantum computing technology.

Scott presents regularly on IP commercialisation, including the annual IP Licensing Lessons seminar to IPSANZ and LESANZ members over the last 13 years and is co-author of the Australian chapter of the recent Les Nouvelles special edition on global IP Licensing regulations. He has recently joined the Business Council of Australia’s Research Commercialisation Working Group to look at ways to increase the level of industry commercialisation of research in Australia.