Alix acts for clients facing complex contentious disputes and regulatory investigations, with particular expertise in corporate crime, fraud and financial regulation.
Alix has extensive experience in the management of regulatory risks and the defence of regulatory investigations and proceedings across a wide range of sectors. Her advice to clients is both proactive, including internal investigations and compliance reform, and reactive, when responding to regulatory enquiries or litigation.
Alix has worked both as a prosecutor and defence counsel, in New Zealand and internationally, and joined Bell Gully in 2020. Alix's international experience includes working at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP in New York and Simmons & Simmons LLP in London, where she advised clients under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, U.K. Serious Fraud Office and Financial Conduct Authority.
Alix holds a Master of Laws from Harvard Law School and was recognised as one of 100 Women in Investigations by the Global Investigations Review in 2018.
Before working overseas, Alix was a criminal prosecutor in Auckland, acting as Crown counsel in jury trials, and completed a secondment at the Commerce Commission. She began her career as judge's clerk for the then Chief Justice, Dame Sian Elias.