Lawyers in England

Kate Hammond

Joint Managing Partner and Joint Head of Family

Miles & Partners LLP

Kate Hathaway

Kate is a residential property solicitor experienced in advising on the purchase and sale of property, remortgages and small-scale developments. Her experience includes dealing with prime and super-prime properties, as well as high-value financing. She is also an expert in advising on lease extensions and collective enfranchisement. A range of clients turn to Kate for advice including first-time buyers, overseas investors and high-net-worth individuals. Most of the property transactions she works on are for properties based in Oxfordshire, London and the South East.

Keystone Law

Kate Heard

Kate is a Managing Associate in our Islamic finance practice and has experience in working on a wide variety of real estate-driven banking and finance transactions and multi-tranche development transactions encompassing a wide range of Islamic financing arrangements. Kate advises shariah compliant banks in single property and portfolio acquisitions and refinancing transactions involving commercial and residential assets, often with an offshore element. An example of Kate’s work includes advising Riyad Bank (London Branch) on their single largest real estate financing transaction to date: a £64m shariah-compatible facility used to refinance the UK HQ of an international law firm in Moorgate.

Foot Anstey

Kate Hencken

Principal Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Kate Hicks

Bevan Brittan LLP

Kate Higgins

Kate is Head Professional Support Lawyer leading a team of lawyers focussed on non-contentious work, spanning the Corporate, Innovation, Real Estate and Private Departments. She is a legal director, lawyer and skilled knowledge manager with over 25 years’ experience of advising on Corporate law and practice. The team drives delivery of client focussed, modern and tech enabled knowledge solutions to the Firm's lawyers and clients. The role encompasses legal education (through our Academy); legal services innovation; resource creation and management; thought leadership; and project and people management. An expert in Corporate Governance, Kate also leads Corporate Governance initiatives for Mishcon, working alongside the Firm’s Purpose and Regulatory practices to help clients meet the triple challenges of increasing regulation, risk and the need to demonstrate best practice in sustainability. She is a keen advocate for Purposeful business and the B Corporation movement in the UK.Kate is also a published author on Corporate Governance (the Jordan Publishing Company Administration and Governance set, available through Lexis Library); and a member of the Corporate Governance committee for the Quoted Companies Alliance, which represents small and mid-cap quoted companies.Kate has also been a judge for MDR LAB, Mishcon de Reya's programme for tech start-ups in the legal space.

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Kate Hill

Kate is a highly experienced insurance and reinsurance litigator. She is a specialist in brokers’ errors and omissions claims and has extensive experience in defending professional negligence claims against various leading international insurance brokers, including claims involving multi-million-pound property damage and business interruption losses. Kate has acted for brokers, insurers and reinsurers in high value and high profile coverage and commercial disputes across a range of complex product lines, including aviation and D&O liability.

RPC

Kate Hill

Senior Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Kate Hughes

KAte is a partner in the real estate team advising real estate investors, developers, occupiers, and public sector clients on a wide range of real estate matters. She advises on redevelopment title and possession issues, as well as site assembly, and repurposing. Kate's clients include charities and other voluntary organisations as well as trustee clients, with a particular expertise in ecclesiastical property.

Cripps

Kate Ison

Kate advises corporates and their boards across the full lifecycle of complex, sensitive and high-value tax disputes. She acts across a wide range of industries, covering both direct and indirect taxes. Her expertise spans corporate tax risk management and compliance, she leads internal investigations, and she manages HMRC civil enquiries and criminal investigations, including responses to information requests and dispute resolution by negotiation or litigation. Kate has substantial experience representing clients before the UK Courts. She also acts on non-tax investigations where HMRC is the investigative or supervisory authority, including export controls.

Macfarlanes LLP

Kate Johnson

Kate advises domestic and international clients on personal tax, trust, estate planning and succession issues. Her clients include individuals, trustees and charities often with multi-jurisdictional assets owned via complex offshore trust and corporate structures. Kate works closely with her clients and their advisors to mitigate tax and plan for the future. Kate advises clients on the use of lifetime gifts, tax-efficient Wills, trusts and charitable foundations. Kate has particular experience advising on exiting family businesses, charity formation, onshore and offshore tax planning and trust structuring, and planning for moving to or returning to the UK. Kate frequently advises clients with charitable interests or valuable art collections.

Wedlake Bell LLP

Kate Johnston

Principal Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Kate Kapp

Kate is an employment law partner and is head of the Thames Valley office and the firm’s Thames Valley litigation, and franchise client teams.

Doyle Clayton

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 Kempster

Kate Kempster, Senior Associate, is widely recognised for her meticulous preparation, strategic insight, and compassionate client care. Kate has built a strong reputation for handling complex financial and children matters, particularly those involving vulnerable parties and high-profile individuals. She is praised as “a tenacious champion for her clients” and described as “a star” who possess “an uncanny ability to predict to the last pound the outcome”. Kate’s practice includes high value financial remedy cases involving substantial property and business assets, asset tracing and forensic financial analysis, interim maintenance and legal services orders, and sensitive children matters, including cases involving domestic abuse and relocation. She works closely with Vardags’ in-house financial forensics and reputation teams to deliver a multi-disciplinary approach tailored to each client’s needs.

Vardags

Kate Lomas

Senior Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Kate Lucas

Kate is a Senior Associate in the Farms, Estates and Rural Land team. She acts for clients on a wide range of rural land transactions, including farm and land sales and purchases, refinances, landed estate management, first registrations, farm business tenancies and Agricultural Holding Act tenancies, sporting rights and high-value rural residential property transactions. Kate has been with the firm since she was a trainee solicitor and regularly works for high net worth individuals, landowners and landed estates. Kate’s farming background means she has an understanding, from her personal experience, of how rural clients’ businesses work and the matters important to them in transactions.

Foot Anstey

Kate Major

Associate Solicitor Rebecca has a specialist interest in wrongful birth and obstetric injury cases. Kate has handled numerous high value complex claims including an obstetric negligence case for a 15 year old boy who was brain injured when there was a delay in delivering him and he was starved of oxygen. The structured settlement capitalised at £24.3m.

Irwin Mitchell

Kate Matthews

Partner in Risk Management, Franchising and Dispute Resolution. Conducts major commercial disputes frequently with EU or international implications in particular in the aviation, construction and franchising sectors. Specialises in contractual commercial claims, business disagreements, warranty claims, shareholder and partnership disputes, injunctive/ interlocutory relief, professional negligence, debts and enforcement, insolvency. Has wide experience of all levels of courts and ADR techniques particularly Mediation and Arbitration.

Downs Solicitors LLP

Kate Maynard

Kate specialises in private and public law claims arising from the criminal justice system. Her clients include bereaved families at inquests into deaths in custody, and individuals who have been failed by the police and criminal justice system. She acts for professionals, protesters, businesses and other individuals caught up in incidents involving the police, seeking redress, and for prisoners in complex and serious injury claims against the Ministry of Justice. Her international work includes assisting victims of torture and war crimes to pursue the arrest and prosecution of perpetrators both in the UK and elsewhere. She is experienced in claims involving multi-party litigation.

Hickman & Rose

Kate McCall

Kate is a partner in our real estate disputes team. She deals with all types of property litigation work from the provision of pre-emptive advice and risk analysis through to complex proceedings in the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court. Kate acts for institutional landlords, developers, investors and corporate occupiers across the entire property sector. Kate has been practising for over 16 years. She is recognized for her reasoned and proactive approach to dispute resolution. Her core areas of expertise include lease renewals (contested and uncontested), rent and service charge disputes, rent reviews, dilapidations, contested break options and property insolvency, as well as the provision of strategic land assembly and tenant re-engineering advice. Recent projects include: advising an AIM listed retailer on the contentious elements of the £250m acquisition of a competitor's leasehold portfolio; dealing with the restructure of a property portfolio on behalf of a FTSE listed retailer. Advising on all aspects of the transition of 600 properties from the old franchise business model to a new bespoke model; acting for a plc investor/developer on all elements of site assembly and clearance, including the release of rights to light and other easements in the context of a £4.3bn extension and redevelopment project.

Shoosmiths LLP

Kate McCarthy

Team Leader Partner

Stowe Family Law LLP

Kate McGoverne

Kate is a Principal Associate and joined Shoosmiths’ real estate team in April 2018. Prior to that Kate worked at Irwin Mitchell and Nabarro since qualification in 2008. Kate’s experience includes all areas of landlord and tenant work with a particular emphasis in retail and industrial estates, acquisitions and disposals and asset management. Kate also advises on strategic land transactions, site assembly and disposal, together with corporate real estate and secured lending transactions. Kate has considerable experience of working for both public and private sector clients including Hallam Land Management Limited, Thorntons Limited, TRG and The Gym Limited. Kate is recognised as an excellent technical lawyer with the ability to deliver client-led results in a “no-nonsense” manner. Kate is based primarily in Sheffield

Shoosmiths LLP

Kate McMahon

Kate is a specialist, dual-qualified prosecutor. Prior to co-founding Edmonds Marshall McMahon, Kate prosecuted for the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) where she worked as a senior lawyer on some of the UK’s largest criminal prosecutions, including the “Innospec” case. This was the first global settlement in the UK and involved systemic corruption by a UK/USA company in Iraq and Indonesia. The case resulted in a US$12.7 million fine in the UK and a US$14.1 million fine in the USA and successful prosecutions of the Company Directors and employees. Kate now specialises in cases involving serious fraud, serious and violent crime, international crime and perverting the course of justice. Kate is known for her incisive analysis and strategic vision, having had conduct of large fraud, corruption and trademark cases. She is highly regarded by her clients and has a reputation for being extremely determined and driven in all her cases. She has been described as an “outstanding prosecutor” who provides “intellectual leadership”. She is praised for her “high intelligence, tactical acumen and great client care skills.”

Edmonds Marshall McMahon