Avocats – England

Kathryn Johns

Senior Associate Kathryn specialises in commercial landlord and tenant law and the sale and acquisition of commercial properties, both as portfolios and as individual transactions. She is experienced in dealing with commercial property transactions for pharmacies, doctors' and dentists' surgeries, care homes and children's day nurseries.

Gordons Partnership 2020 Limited

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 Lawrance

Bevan Brittan LLP

Kathryn Layzell

Kathryn deals with all aspects of trust and estate administration including wills and tax planning matters. She is a member of the firm’s Elderly Client Services Team and has a particular interest in dealing with issues affecting older clients such as the preparation of lasting powers of attorney, applications to the Court of Protection, and funding long term care. She has regularly given seminars about local authority care funding and making applications for NHS Continuing Care funding. She is also a member of the firm’s Legacy Team providing support to charities dealing with issues arising from the administration of estates. She regularly delivers seminars and workshops to charities and individuals about planning for later life, local authority care funding and making applications for NHS Continuing Care funding.

Stone King LLP

Kathryn Lloyd

Senior Associate

Olliers

Kathryn Moorhouse

Senior Solicitor

Mills & Reeve LLP

Kathryn Peat

Partner, Family Kathryn has specialised in family law for over 30 years. Her practice encompasses substantial financial remedy cases often involving complicated company/family business structures. She is widely experienced in the involvement of trusts, particularly offshore. Leave to remove from the jurisdiction/ internal relocation cases for international and domestic clients and nuptial settlements and multi-jurisdictional issues form an important part of her practice. Kathryn’s 20 years of experience sitting in a part-time judicial capacity, most recently in the Financial Remedies Unit in the Central Family Court in London, give her a particular insight into any case from all perspectives. The Legal 500 directory notes that Kathryn is ‘highly recommended’ and very active in children matters including Schedule 1 financial applications. She is a notable practitioner in Chambers & Partners which has previously commented on her being “extremely astute and gifted at analysing the situation and individuals, recommending the best course of action at every turn, and executing it in such a succinct and powerful way” and notes that clients describe her as “extremely plugged-in and immensely effective”.

Sinclair Gibson LLP

Kathryn Roberts

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Kathryn Rogers

Kathryn is a partner in the corporate division specialising in non-contentious commercial law, with a particular focus on technology and IP related matters. The clients she works with include investment managers, hosted service providers, data management companies and digital media agencies as well as a wide range of corporate clients in other sectors with commercial contract requirements. Kathryn's specialties include: - Commercial contracts - E-commerce - Data protection - Agency and distribution - IP assignments and licences - Technology contracts

Cripps

Kathryn Rosen

Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Kathryn Tarry

Kathryn joined Gardner Leader in December 2013 as a Consultant. She began her career in industry and then had a career break to bring up her children during which time she went back to university to study law and qualified as a solicitor. She then spent many years heading a private client department in private practice. Kathryn spends most of her time dealing with the administration of estates, wills, inheritance tax planning and Court of Protection work. She deals with complex estates including those with assets in other jurisdictions throughout the world. Administering large and complex estates Negotiating with HM Revenue and Customs on issues of non UK domicile Obtaining a Court Order to allow Probate to be granted following a loss at sea where no body was recovered and no death certificate issued Drafting wills for couples with complex families Drafting trusts and advising on inheritance tax

Gardner Leader LLP

Kathryn Walters

Partner

Squire Patton Boggs

Kathryn Wood

Legal Director

Gowling WLG

Kathryn Woodward

Kathryn is a Senior Associate solicitor and Notary Public, who specialises in Wills, inheritance tax planning and high net worth estates. Kathryn advises and prepares Deeds of Variation. Inheritance tax planning post death. She is a member of the Solicitors for the Elderly and specialising in elderly client matters, to include preparation of lasting powers of attorney and applications to the Court of Protection. She is the Secretary for the Thames Valley Branch of STEP and also acts for the trustees of a local Charity on a pro-bono basis.

Blake Morgan LLP

Kathy Holuba

Kathy is a professional support lawyer in the corporate team, providing technical legal support to the team and its clients. Kathy advises on the technical aspects of corporate law, such as share and business sales, M&A transactions, shareholder agreements and articles of association, director issues and partnership and limited liability partnerships, including the relevant documents and procedures .

Hill Dickinson LLP

Kathy Potter

Partner in the Oxford office and head of the corporate tax team. Advises on the tax position for corporate acquisitions and disposals, reorganisations and restructurings, and corporate finance. This includes advising individuals on tax efficient investments, such as EIS and SEIS, and providing tax structuring advice for a planned exit including advising on the availability of Business Asset Disposal Relief. She also advises clients on VAT and SDLT implications of property transactions, including advising on the Construction Industry Scheme (CIS). She is experienced in advising on the taxation of remuneration and termination packages including IR35 issues, employee incentives, including both approved and unapproved share schemes, and advising on the tax issues surrounding issuing shares to employees and directors.

Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP

Kathy Walker

Family and child care director, Kathy Walker, has extensive knowledge of all family and child care matters. Kathy has been involved in many complex care proceedings, which have included non-accidental injury, high profile ‘honour killing’, somatic symptom disorder, fictitious illness, rare genetic conditions, death of a child mid-proceedings, parents with a mental health condition lacking litigation capacity who have then had to be appointed an official solicitor to represent them within care proceedings, along with all the other factors that normally cause the local authority to issue proceedings such as sexual abuse, neglect, drug and alcohol misuse, emotional and physical harm. Kathy represents children of all ages, she believes it is important that the court knows what the child has to say and often arranges for the child or children to see the judge themselves so that they can tell them exactly how they feel. Kathy has significant experience and knowledge of domestic violence cases and is passionate about helping the most vulnerable to escape their perpetrators. She has represented victims of domestic violence throughout her career and now ensures that all her team members are trained to be able to recognise the signs of domestic abuse. Kathy undertakes the majority of her own advocacy and often appears before District, Circuit, High Court judges and magistrates.

Duncan Lewis Solicitors

Katia Finkel

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Katie Allen

Partner in the Banking and Finance group and head of hotel finance. Katie acts for a range of clients including banks, funds and corporates on finance transactions within the real estate and hotels sectors. Clients include Lloyds Bank, HSBC, ICG, DRC Capital, MetLife and Coutts.

Burges Salmon LLP

Katie Austin

Partner.

Hill Dickinson LLP

Katie Beaven

Partner, Head of Family

Birketts LLP

Katie Bentley

Katie is an Associate in our Corporate team. Katie regularly advises SMEs, large corporate entities and individuals both in the UK and overseas on corporate, contractual, intellectual property and data protection matters with a strong focus on mergers and acquisitions (M&A). Katie has worked with, and advised, a wide range of clients within different industry sectors including finance, sports, technology, retail, hospitality, and real estate. Day to day, Katie advises on acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, and corporate reorganisations, as well as advising clients on corporate governance matters relating to directors and shareholders. Katie also assists with drafting and advising on complex commercial contracts, including management agreements, media rights agreements, talent agreements, supply of goods and services agreements, manufacturing agreements, terms and conditions, data protection policies, and website policies. Katie’s experience extends to acting for borrowers and banks in secured lending transactions. Katie joined Hamlins in September 2023 from a West End law firm. She is qualified to practise in England and Wales. Katie graduated from Keele University with an LLB in Law in 2014 before completing her Legal Practice Course at Nottingham Law School in 2017.

Hamlins LLP

Katie Briggs

Browne Jacobson LLP

Katie Brown

Partner and Head of Social Welfare

TV Edwards Solicitors LLP