Avocats – England

Kash Balogun

Kash is an experienced commercial litigator with a particular focus in the construction, oil & gas, and finance sectors. He specialises in the resolution of complex, high-value disputes, usually with an international element, and has successfully advised clients in all forms of dispute resolution including adjudications, international arbitrations, mediations and high court litigation. In addition to advising clients in the UK, over the course of his career, Kash has acquired extensive experience in dealing with disputes relating to or originating from sub-Saharan Africa. He has also built a broad network of contacts within the region. In the construction sector, he has significant experience in negotiating amendments to standard-form construction contracts including ancillary construction documents such as collateral warranties, parent company guarantees, and other related agreements.

Keystone Law

Kasra Nouroozi

Kas led the firm's Dispute Resolution department for twenty years, during which time Mishcon de Reya was recognised as Law Firm and Litigation Team of the Year by The Lawyer. In 2023 he stepped back from his departmental role to devote more focus to the Firm’s international strategic development and the demands of his clients and caseload. Kas regularly represents clients with complex and unconventional problems and has deep experience of both crisis management and overseeing large multi-jurisdictional disputes. He often leads large teams conducting legal, investigative and forensic work and operating across various jurisdictions. He has been involved in and overseen litigation and investigations in more than 60 jurisdictions. His experience helps him in creating and implementing inventive solutions for his clients. Many of his cases involve urgent injunctions including search orders, freezing orders and various types of third-party disclosures. Kas has been frequently recognised in the directories for his experience in fraud-related investigations and his instincts as a strategist in difficult cases. Kas' clients include global institutions, brand owners and high-net-worth individuals who are often victims of dishonesty. A significant proportion of the work concerns very high value litigation conducted, or partly conducted, outside the UK; mostly in offshore financial centres, the Middle East, India, Eastern Europe and the USA. Kas is a co-founder of The International Fraud Group (IFG). The IFG is a handpicked group of specialist fraud lawyers located across more than 60 jurisdictions which focuses on securing injunctions, asset recovery and trust-busting remedies in key offshore territories. He is also part of the MDR Solutions I team, the Firm's litigation finance venture which offers greater access to funding for claimants. Kas contributed to "Information, Risk and Securities", the standard book on computer crime at work. He brought the first known set of proceedings against spammers in the UK. Kas has been listed as a Fraud Law Expert in the Super Lawyers directory, and in the words of Chambers, is a recommended leader in the field of civil fraud "a gifted negotiator who is firm but fair" and is admired for his "encyclopaedic knowledge of the area."

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Kassim Meghjee

Kassim is a Partner in Mishcon Private. He advises UK and international clients on all aspects of personal as well as business taxation. Kassim is a specialist in both personal and corporate tax. As a result, he is regularly sought out by clients for advice on all of their assets including those owned directly, through trusts or other similar structures. Kassim has extensive experience with structuring the tax efficient acquisition, ownership and disposal of shares, securities and real estate, the interpretation of double taxation treaties, all taxation aspects relating to M&A transactions, and the application of transfer pricing rules. His client base is predominantly high and ultra-high net worth individuals with assets in multiple jurisdictions but he also advises a number of international, UK, European and Asian based businesses as well as US based multinationals. A member of the firm's multi-disciplinary Luxury Assets Group, Kassim also advises individuals and businesses on the buying, selling, structuring and protection of luxury assets across the globe. He is a member of the International Fiscal Association, the International Bar Association, and the International Employee Benefits Association. Kassim is recognised by The Legal 500 where clients describe him as "knowledgeable and commercial".

Mishcon de Reya LLP

Kassra Powles

Kassra specialises in development and strategic land transactions, acting for landowners on option and promotion agreements for housing led developments as well as acting for private developers and local authorities on mixed use and commercial developments. His experience of acting for a wide range of clients – landowners, developers, local authorities, promoters – gives Kassra an understanding of all the players in a property development and can guide clients through the competing demands and conflicts that will arise along the way.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Kat Hornsby

Kat is a principal associate in the corporate team based in the London office. Kat advises on a wide range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, investments, venture capital, corporate governance and shareholder arrangements. Kat acts regularly for investors, entrepreneurs and management teams in a wide range of sectors.

Shoosmiths LLP

Kat Quinton

Kat Quinton is a partner in Clarke Willmott solicitors' Taunton Debt Recovery team specialising in local authorities, government bodies & utility companies.

Clarke Willmott LLP

Kat Raanan

Kat is a Banking and Finance Senior Associate based in the Leeds office, with a range of debt finance experience including leveraged finance, acquisition and real estate finance, venture debt and general corporate lending. She acts for banks and private equity and debt funds as well as borrowers and sponsors on a variety of transactions. Recent transactions include: advising a bank client on their corporate lending to an established European PE house to support the MBO of a Hull-based timber processor and distributor; advising on the finance aspects of a major investment from a private equity investor to leading video game industry company; advising UK Real Estate Fund manager on its £600m partnership with a renowned proptech residential investment platform; advising large investment bank on EUR400m financing of acquisition of pan-European logistics portfolio; and assisting with advice to corporate entities on the effect of Covid-19, particularly in the context of access to the Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF) supported by the Bank of England.

Shoosmiths LLP

Kat Ranaan

Kat is a Banking and Finance solicitor based in the Leeds office, with a range of debt finance experience including leveraged finance, acquisition and real estate finance, venture debt and general corporate lending. She acts for banks and private equity and debt funds as well as borrowers and sponsors on a variety of transactions. Recent transactions include: advising a bank client on their corporate lending to an established European PE house to support the MBO of a Hull-based timber processor and distributor; advising on the finance aspects of a major investment from a private equity investor to leading video game industry company; advising UK Real Estate Fund manager on its £600m partnership with a renowned proptech residential investment platform; advising large investment bank on EUR400m financing of acquisition of pan-European logistics portfolio; and assisting with advice to corporate entities on the effect of Covid-19, particularly in the context of access to the Covid Corporate Financing Facility (CCFF) supported by the Bank of England.

Shoosmiths LLP

Kat Wainman

Partner

Irwin Mitchell

Katarzyna Jurkun

Freemans Solicitors

Kate Allass

Kate has a varied litigation and arbitration practice, acting for corporations, institutions and individuals. Her practice encompasses: the handling of high value commercial disputes, both in the High Court and through arbitration. Often Kate becomes involved at the pre-action stage, providing strategic advice to ensure that her clients are in the best possible position in the event that they need to advance, or respond to, a claim for breach of contract or negligence. She also supports clients through informal dispute resolution processes and in the negotiation of exit strategies; civil fraud: Kate has advised in relation to claims for fraudulent misrepresentation, and breach of duty by directors and co-contractors, many of which have involved freezing injunctions, search orders, and international parties; advising on disputes in an insolvency context against former directors in relation to historic transactions, wrongful and/or fraudulent trading, and breaches of duty; dealing with significant High Court employment disputes involving claims by senior executives for compensation following alleged wrongful termination, and injunctions to prevent large scale team moves and the use of confidential information; and acting for trustees in ultra-high value contentious trust claims in various jurisdictions; and representing Higher Education institutions and schools in relation to their disputes with students; advising sports organisations on contentious issues, including selection and disciplinary matters and their disputes with commercial partners.

Farrer & Co

Kate Anderson

Associate, South Coast and Central

Stowe Family Law LLP

Kate Andrews

Kate is a Partner in the Real Estate Disputes Team. Kate is a property litigator who adopts an advisory and dispute resolution role, as well as a litigious one, on a wide variety of high profile real estate disputes. Kate deals with various breaches of leasehold covenants, including dilapidations, service charges, applications for consent to assign/underlet/alter, rent reviews and other landlord and tenant issues. She also deals with contractual and development disputes, including specific performance claims, injunctions, rights to light, restrictive covenant issues, joint venture disputes, party wall act disputes and the redevelopment of business premises. In her time, Kate has also dealt with some boundary disputes, and is now dealing with a number of cases regarding business rates and the complexities of the statutory exemptions and reliefs. Kate acts on high profile real estate disputes for clients including high net worth individuals, property funds and developers. She is a keen advocate of alternative dispute resolution and has been able to settle a number of complex legal dispute at mediation or by without prejudice discussions. Clients describe Kate as an extremely talented property litigator, who goes the extra mile for her clients, finding a solution to every problem.

Hamlins LLP

Kate Arnold

Partner and head of the private client advisory group. Kate provides bespoke succession and inheritance tax planning advice to individuals and their families, advising on wills, lasting powers of attorney, trusts, co-habitation agreements, Court of Protection matters, lifetime tax planning and estates. Acting for both domestic and international clients and working on cross-border UK/French issues. Advising family businesses on longer term succession, with a particular emphasis on agricultural businesses and properties. Kate is also part of the Cripps charities sector advising on the set up and governance of charitable companies and trusts. Interesting cases: acting for executors of multi-million pound agricultural estate advising on agricultural property relief, administration of estate dealings with difficult beneficiaries; advising trustees of trust consisting of substantial company shareholding on ongoing governance and inheritance tax issues; providing advice to trustees of a private charitable trust generally and particularly in relation to a multi-million pound project being undertaken by the trustees.

Cripps

Kate Barnett

Partner

Vaitilingam Kay

Kate Beech

TLT

Kate Bennett

Kate Bennett, a co-founder of Arbor Law, brings over two decades of expertise in corporate and securities law, regulatory compliance, and governance. Having started her career at Baker McKenzie in Chicago before moving to London, she later served as UK General Counsel for two FTSE 250 companies. Kate offers extensive experience in advising international clients on corporate transactions, capital raising, M&A, and has a keen interest in the financial services sector, providing strategic regulatory compliance and governance advice. She's noted for her unique commercial perspective, exceptional quality of pragmatic advice, and a commitment to pro bono work. Kate was recently awarded 'Law Firm Leader of the Year - Boutique or Chambers' award for building a firm with DE&I at the centre of its philosophy by The Women and Diversity in Law Awards.

Arbor Law

Kate Blackmore

Supervisor and Sexual Offences Solicitor

Stuart Miller Solicitors

Kate Brett

Partner specialising in high net worth and complex matrimonial finance work, including pre and post-nuptial agreements. Cases involving foreign jurisdictions and complex private law children and Family Law Act work.

Hughes Fowler Carruthers

Kate Brett

Kate advises on all issues relating to relationship breakdown: divorce, cohabitation and applications for financial remedy following divorce, as well as complex children related matters including domestic child arrangement disputes and international and domestic child relocation. Much of Kate’s work has an international element. Her broad practice means that she regularly acts for clients in relation to all of the issues they encounter following relationship breakdown, providing continuity as well as expertise.

Dawson Cornwell LLP

Kate Byers

Kate is our Head of Pension Documents and has been providing pensions legal advice to sponsoring employers and trustees of occupational pension schemes for 35 years. Although she advises on all aspects of pensions law, and the regulatory environment within which registered schemes operate, she specialises in drafting pension scheme documentation and providing technical support.

Irwin Mitchell

Kate Caldwell

Kate is a senior associate (New Zealand qualified) and specialises in the international elements of UK taxation, trust law and asset structuring. Kate predominantly acts for high and ultra-high net worth individuals and families with intricate multi-jurisdictional affairs. She has extensive experience in providing complex cross-border tax and succession planning advice, and has developed a particular expertise in advising international family offices.

Irwin Mitchell

Kate Chatters

Kate advises individuals and estates in relation to a wide range of urban and rural property issues, including high value residential conveyancing. In particular Kate advises both landlords and tenants in connection with their rights under the enfranchisement legislation. She also advises landed estates on various issues such as easements, restrictive covenants and first registrations.

Farrer & Co

Kate Church

Senior Solicitor

HCR Law