محامون متخصصون في Alternative Dispute Resolution

Kate Garcia

Kate is a Partner in the Tax team, based in the Solent Office. She advises on all aspects of corporate and business taxation, with a particular focus on real estate transactions and property taxes. Kate also enjoys handling contentious tax matters, including disputes with HMRC and tax appeals. She obtained Higher Rights of Audience (All Higher Courts) in 2007 and became the youngest solicitor advocate to appear in the Court of Appeal in the successful case of Revenue and Customs Commissioners v Smallwood [2007] BTC 347. She is also a proponent of alternative dispute resolution and is a CEDR Accredited Mediator. Kate is a Chartered Tax Adviser and member of the Stamp Taxes Practitioners Group.

Shoosmiths LLP

Kate Hencken

Principal Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Kate Keenan

Kate is an experienced Family solicitor advising on all aspects of financial matters arising from the breakdown of a relationship; whether married, cohabiting, or same sex couples. Cases often involve complex issues such as significant business interests, pensions and third-party involvement. Kate assists clients looking to protect their interests and assets, whether at the outset or in the early or later stages in a relationship, advising on Pre- and Post-Nuptial Agreements and Cohabitation Agreements (‘Living Together Agreements’). She also represents and advises on the arrangements for children following a relationship breakdown. Kate regularly deals with financial matters arising through divorce, helping clients reach agreement, whether in or out of the Court process. She is well-versed in considering alternative ways of resolving disputes, without resorting to Court proceedings. She has advised on two reported cases, involving business worth £50m+. She advises cohabitees, drafting Living Together Agreements or assisting them in reaching an agreement on separation. Kate helps clients resolve the arrangements for children, dealing specifically with who they are to live with and/or spend time with as well as advising on specific issues, such as a change of school or surname.

Geldards LLP

Kate New

Kate is a Partner and Head of the Property Litigation team at Foot Anstey. She has extensive experience across various sectors including retail, telecoms and developers. Kate finds commercial solutions to all manner of disputes concerning clients real estate. She has expertise in telecoms litigation having worked on the key leading test cases. Kate also has considerable experience working on a broad variety of disputes where clients need solutions that will often involve the use of alternative dispute resolution (ADR). Kate also has extensive experience in a range of courts including the Supreme Court. Kate has a broad range of experience in both private practice and the corporate world following two years in-house at a leading telecoms operator. Kate is dedicated to mitigating the challenges and securing opportunities for businesses within the telecoms space through strategic solutions. She has a particular interest in portfolio work for real estate clients, where solutions need to be tailored to consider not just the subject property but also how it impacts their broader real estate needs.

Foot Anstey

Kate O\'Callaghan

Kate is an Associate in the Family department. Kate advises clients in relation to a wide range of family law matters arising in contemplation of marriage, on divorce or dissolution, and in relation to cohabitation. This includes complex financial remedy proceedings, children matters, and pre- and post-nuptial agreements. As well as advising clients in contested proceedings, Kate also advises clients in more consensual cases which merit non-court dispute resolution. Her cases often involve complex asset structures and have multi-jurisdictional elements.

Payne Hicks Beach LLP

Kate Ward

TLT

Katharine Kelleher

Partner in the Healthcare, Childcare and Mental Health Departments

Comyn Kelleher Tobin LLP

Katherine Bell

Katherine Bell is a Partner in our Dispute Resolution Group and heads the Construction Practice Group in Zurich. Her main areas of practice are domestic and international litigation and arbitration. She advises clients front-end to back-end on complex construction and infrastructure projects and specializes in the resolution of disputes arising out of complex construction, engineering and infrastructure projects as well as commercial tenancy and lease agreements across a variety of industries. She acts as counsel and arbitrator in arbitral proceedings and represents parties in litigation proceedings before Swiss courts as well as before dispute boards and in other types of alternative dispute resolution procedures. In addition to her disputes practice, Katherine regularly advises clients on public procurement matters, contract drafting and negotiation, contract and claims administration and dispute avoidance. Experience Has acted as counsel and arbitrator in arbitrations under the ICC, DIS, CEPANI, VIAC, CAS and Swiss Rules Has represented clients in litigation proceedings before Swiss courts including before the Swiss Supreme Court Main areas of specialization include construction and engineering as well as sales and commercial tenancy and lease agreements

Schellenberg Wittmer Ltd

Kathleen Heycock

Kathleen is a Partner in the Employment Team who is recognised for her pragmatic and commercial advice. Her national and international practice focusses on resolving high level complex employment law issues for senior executives, individual partners, employers and partnerships. She is experienced in advising and negotiating on contractual issues, employee relations, employee regulatory issues, mediation and litigation. Kathleen has particular experience in advising senior partners and partnerships and is a member of the firm’s Professional Practices Group. She has hands on experience of working in a large international professional services firm during a year-long secondment. She advises senior executives across the City negotiating their entrance and exit, including issues relating to post-termination restrictions. She regularly advises partnerships and employers across sectors on issues such as discrimination, mediation, employee relations, contracts, TUPE transfers and large scale redundancies. Kathleen also focuses on the education sector and is a member of the firm’s Higher Education Group and Child Protection Unit. She is a regular speaker at external national and international conferences and is a member of the Union Internationale des Avocats.

Farrer & Co

Kathleen McDormand

Partner and Lead, Team North

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

Kathryn Cook

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Kathryn Howard

Kathryn leads the Public Sector industry group at Hall & Wilcox, and is a partner in our Commercial Dispute Resolution. Kathryn is a senior commercial disputes specialist, having practised in Melbourne, Tokyo and London. Her areas of expertise include commercial disputes, alternative dispute resolution, administrative law and public law.

Hall & Wilcox

Kathryn Kligerman

Kathryn is a partner in the construction department and advises on all aspects of construction disputes. She has experience acting for Registered Providers, private contractors, private employers and construction professionals throughout the United Kingdom. Kathryn has experience advising on both contentious and non-contentious matters. She advises across a full range of construction issues and regularly represents clients at adjudication, mediation and litigation in the Technology and Construction Court and the High Court. Kathryn is also experienced in drafting the full range of construction documentation, including building contracts, development agreements, collateral warranties and bonds. Kathryn also regularly acts for clients against their professional advisors, including architects and employer’s agents, in professional negligence. Kathryn is also heavily involved in organising and speaking at seminars and client training sessions which typically cover important areas of law in the construction industry, such as defects and delay claims, along with other areas such as the CDM Regulations and the Party Wall Act 1996.

Devonshires Solicitors LLP

Kathryn McCulloch

Partner

Dentons

Katrīna Salmgrieze

Senior associate

TEGOS (Formerly TGS Baltic)

Katy Lund

Legal Director - Healthcare Newcastle & Leeds

Weightmans LLP

Keith Brandt

Keith is Managing Partner of Dentons Hong Kong. He is also Global Vice Chair and a member of the Dentons Global Board and serving on a number of the Global Boards’ subcommittees. He has more than 40 years’ experience in heavyweight dispute resolution, including high court/commercial court litigation, domestic and international arbitration, expert determinations, alternative dispute resolution, and mediations with particular focus on the energy, construction and financial services sectors. Keith has been widely recognised by various legal publications. He was named “Managing Partner of the Year” at the Asian Legal Business Hong Kong Law Awards 2024 and was selected as one of the Top 15 Litigators in Asia by Asian Legal Business in 2021. Chambers Greater China 2025 ranked Keith as a leading lawyer in Dispute Resolution: Litigation for China. A client commented that “I find Keith to be a most astute and commercial-minded lawyer. He is extremely insightful.” Another client described Keith as “an outstanding lawyer, organiser and person to have on your side. He's great when it comes to client care." Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2025 ranked Keith as a leading partner in Dispute Resolution: Litigation for Hong Kong. He is praised by a client as a lawyer who is “top quality legal brain, highly organised, proactive and very well-liked by clients.” Keith was named a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific 2025 and was also ranked as a recommended lawyer for Arbitration and Asset Recovery in Lexology Index: Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR 2024 report. He was recognised as a highly regarded lawyer for Restructuring and insolvency in Hong Kong by IFLR1000 2025 and an elite practitioner in The Legal 500 Arbitration Powerlist: Hong Kong 2023. The firm which Keith managed was named as “Civil Litigation Law Firm of the Year” by Asian Legal Business Hong Kong Law Awards 2019. Global Law Experts 2020 awarded Keith, and the team he led, as “Financial Services Sector Disputes Law Firm of the Year” in Hong Kong. Keith was also named to the Asian Legal Business' lawyers "Hot 100" list which recognised Asia's leaders, movers & shakers. Keith has a varied client base with an international background operating in a diversified number of jurisdictions, with particular experience in Asia Pacific including Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Middle East, including the Indian sub-continent.

Dentons Hong Kong

Kelli Stallard

Kelli has extensive experience in insurance, product liability, public liability and workers’ compensation having acted for more than 30 years on behalf of insurers (both domestic and international), corporations, government bodies and instrumentalities. In the insurance area she has vast experience in acting on liability claims, particularly product liability, public liability and workers’ compensation. She has appeared before courts, regulatory bodies, inquiries and coronial inquests throughout Australia. Kelli is well placed to advise on issues of insurance through her high profile in the national insurance industry with experience in serving on the board of the Australian Insurance Law Association Ltd (AILA) as past President, past Vice President and past National Secretary. She has also served as past Chairman of the Queensland branch. This has provided her with insight into the wider issues that impact on the insurance industry generally. Her contribution was acknowledged when she was awarded life membership. Kelli was a member of the Queensland Workplace Health and Safety Board for 15 years, the peak advisory board on occupational health and safety issues to the Minister for Employment, Training and Industrial Relations. Kelli is the only Australian member of the Product Liability Advisory Council (PLAC) in the US. Kelli has a long record of providing resources for training both in-house and on site for many key clients, industry groups and legal groups having presented and chaired over 250 seminars including to the Queensland Law Society, AILA, PLAC, the Claims Discussion Group. Kelli is a trained mediator and has represented clients in hundreds of formal settlements conferences and mediations. Kelli is also an immediate past member of the Executive International Law Section of the Law Council of Australia.

Hall & Wilcox

Kevin Kelly

Consultant

McCann FitzGerald LLP

Kimberley Eyssell

Partner and Head of Construction and Engineering, specialising in contentious matters including TCC litigation, arbitration, adjudication, ADR and dispute resolution.

Stevens & Bolton LLP

Kirsi Kannaste

Partner

Krogerus

Kirsten Gilbert

Kirsten is a Partner and an intellectual property lawyer at Marks & Clerk Law who specialises in litigation, alternative dispute resolution and brand strategy. Kirsten advises in a broad range of sectors including food & drink, financial services, pharmaceuticals, fashion and creative industries. Kirsten “Gilbert creatively uses all available tools to score client-defined wins and is a master pragmatist who helps brand owners to avoid costly litigation.”(World Trademark Review) With over 20 years’ experience, Kirsten “brilliantly” leads the legal Brand Protection and Trade Mark team, finding efficient and pragmatic ways to overcome her clients’ challenges. Kirsten is drawn to the forever-evolving nature of both trade mark law and her (sometimes off form but always classy) team, Liverpool Football Club. Whilst Kirsten has been recognised for her sound approach to pre-litigation strategies, trade mark litigation and brand portfolio management, she also has significant experience in advising clients on registration strategies, and licensing of all types of IP rights. Kirsten is an active member of the Marks & Clerk Food & Drink Team Key cases Budejovicky Budvar v Anheuser-Busch (Court of Appeal, ECJ, High Court) GO Outdoors Limited v Design Go Limited (High Court Trade Mark) DNOW UK Limited v Distribution NOW UK Limited (High Court Chancery Interim Injunction) BlackRock Inc v Blackrock International Land (High Court Trade Mark) Silver Cross v Mamas & Papas (High Court Designs) SA Spadel v Harrogate Spa Water (High Court Trade Mark) Experience Represents clients in disputes in the High Court, Intellectual Property Enterprise Court and Court of Appeal. Represents trade mark clients in proceedings before the Court of Justice and the General Court of the European Union and has assisted in trade mark oppositions and invalidity actions in the EU IPO and the UK IPO. Represented clients in many domain name disputes. Advises clients on licencing agreements for wide ranging licensing activities in various sectors. Dealt with the Treasury Solicitors Office regarding the acquisition of bona vacantia IPRs and obtaining vesting orders for intellectual property rights held by the Attorney General on trust. Acted for clients in relation to applications for preliminary injunctions and full-scale trials. Professional Highlights Kirsten is named an ‘IP Trade Mark Star’ by Managing Intellectual Property and has also been recommended by Legal 500 and World Trademark Review. Kirsten co-authored the UK Chapter of Pharmaceutical Trademarks: A Global Guide 2020/2021.

Marks & Clerk

Kirsty Sutherland

Partner.

Corrs Chambers Westgarth

Koen T'Syen

Counsel Koen T'Syen specialises in commercial litigation and competition law. Koen has successfully represented clients before civil and administrative courts as well as in alternative dispute resolution procedures such as mediation. He also advises clients on a wide range of commercial matters including contract law, distribution law and unfair market practices. Koen has extensive experience in and knowledge of the life sciences and energy sectors, both at the Belgian and EU levels. In the field of competition law, Koen focuses on abuses of dominance and cartels. Koen was appointed as the National Reporter for Belgium at the 2016 Congress of the International League of Competition Law (LIDC) in Geneva in view of his expertise in life sciences and competition law. He regularly writes articles on Belgian business law and competition law issues.

Van Bael & Bellis