Avocats – England

Katie Byrne

Senior associate Katie has considerable experience in a wide range of domestic and international commercial contract, liability and professional negligence disputes specialising in complex, high-value litigation. She has been commended in Chambers as a 'practical and commercial’ lawyer with a fast response time and ability to ‘empathise with organisational values and branding when formulating a strategy’. She regularly acts for large financial institutions and insurance companies.

Irwin Mitchell

Katie Cameron

Katie is a Partner in the Trade Marks team, a Chartered Trade Mark Attorney and Higher Courts Litigator.

Maucher Jenkins

Katie Chew

Senior Associate

Vaitilingam Kay

Katie Cohen

Katie is a property lawyer who specialises in all aspects of leasehold enfranchisement, a niche area of residential property law. She acts for both landlords and tenants, advising them on a range of real-estate issues including the sale and purchase of residential property, all aspects of voluntary and statutory lease extensions, and freehold purchases and sales under the Leasehold Reform Act 1967 and Leasehold Reform, Housing and Urban Development Act 1993. Katie also assists clients with the sale and purchase of freeholds under the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987 (Right of First Refusal) as well as the acquisition of freehold ground-rent investment portfolios and statutory collective enfranchisement claims. A keen contributor to many leading specialist publications, Katie is often approached to provide comment on the topic of leasehold enfranchisement. Most recently Katie has been asked to present a webinar on ground rent for a leading legal CPD provider.

Keystone Law

Katie Dawson

Senior Solicitor

Womble Bond Dickinson (UK) LLP

Katie De Swarte

Partner

Osbornes

Katie Dilger

Katie is a Partner at Wesley Gryk. Her practice covers a full range of immigration and nationality matters. She has a particular specialisation in complex family cases under the Immigration Rules and on the basis of Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights, the right to family and private life. Named as an Associate to Watch in Chambers UK and a Rising Star in the Legal 500.

Wesley Gryk Solicitors LLP

Katie Dyer

Bevan Brittan LLP

Katie Dyson

Katie Dyson is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution Team. Commercial Disputes Katie is a commercial dispute resolution specialist with experience in banking and finance litigation. Her work includes cross border injunctions, civil fraud, commodities actions, corporate litigation and a significant amount of international arbitration, including at a sovereign/interstate level. Katie has a strong focus on the technical aspects of her cases. She was listed as a Rising Star for Commercial Litigation in the 2022 Legal 500 rankings.

Gardner Leader LLP

Katie England

Katie has experience in advising a wide variety of clients including corporate occupiers, institutional landlords, local authorities, and other public bodies. She offers legal advice on acquisitions, disposals, asset management and general property holding. Katie’s experience spans public and private sectors on assets including offices, retail, industrial and healthcare properties.

Freeths LLP

Katie Harris-Wright

Senior Associate

Mills & Reeve LLP

Katie Haylock

A Partner in the corporate transactional team, specialising in pragmatic, commercial, solution-led advice. Works closely with business owners to advise on selling and acquiring businesses, and on reorganising their companies to have the most beneficial structure.

Cripps

Katie Hill

TLT

Katie Hillier

Katie joined Freeths in March 2014. Previously Katie worked in the London office of an international law firm. Katie has a broad range of experience of finance transactions, with a particular interest in real estate investment and development finance. She also has experience of Islamic compliant financing structures and has advised strategically in relation to loan restructuring and work outs.

Freeths LLP

Katie Hughes-Beddows

Associate Solicitor

Lowry Legal

Katie James

Partner

Shakespeare Martineau LLP

Katie Kilburn

Team Leader Partner, Leeds and Manchester

Stowe Family Law LLP

Katie Longmate

Katie advises across the full breadth of family law with many of her cases involving an international element. She is a Resolution trained family mediator in financial and private law children matters. Her specialist acumen is in cases involving international child relocation and disputes involving child arrangements. She advises on divorce, relationship breakdown and managing the associated financial matters. She also assists with the drafting of nuptial agreements. Her clients range from HNW individuals, international entrepreneurs and families of inherited wealth. Katie is ranked in Chambers HNW 2023 (Band 5 for Family/Matrimonial Finance: High Net Worth - London) as well as a Recommended Lawyer in Legal 500 2024.

Russell-Cooke LLP

Katie Lowe

Partner Katie specialises in divorce and complex financial remedy work including business assets, trusts, inherited wealth and complex pension structures. She advises and drafts pre and post nuptial agreements. Katie also advises upon private Children Act work together with financial applications on behalf of children.

JMW Solicitors LLP

Katie Maguire

Katie is a partner and co-heads the Employment & Pensions Team and is based in the London office. Katie regularly advises clients on a wide range of non-contentious and contentious employment issues, including defending complex employment tribunal claims for discrimination, victimisation, harassment, unfair dismissal, breach of contract, wrongful dismissal, and whistleblowing, as well as claims brought in the county court for unlawful deduction of wages. Katie also specialises in pensions and corporate transactional and merger work and have expertise in related issues arising under the LGPS, SHPS, the NHS Pension Scheme and the Teachers’ Pension Scheme, as well as transactional experience in completing due diligence and guiding employers through TUPE related employment and pension issues in relation to outsourcing contracts, assets sales, share sales and mergers. Katie also regularly advises high net worth individuals in relation to exit strategies and negotiation on termination of employment, including shares and stock options. Katie is part of the cross-departmental Care Team.

Devonshires Solicitors LLP

Katie McCann

Katie prides herself on seeing the bigger picture for her clients. She understands that relationship breakdown is not just one distinct point in time. She believes in providing creative solutions for those she acts for, whether that be calling in an accountant, a wealth manager, a tax adviser or other professional. Getting the right answer is top of the agenda. As a barrister, she has the wealth of experience and knowledge to take a client from initial instructions in the office through to appearance at a final contested hearing if necessary. She is pragmatic and sensible in her approach and actively seeks settlements for her clients, but is a force to be reckoned with if needs be in court. Katie is the Managing Partner and Founder of Lowry Legal. She created the brand to provide freedom of choice and flexibility for clients in how they access legal services in this post pandemic era. Katie is regularly instructed by entrepreneurs, business owners, people in the public eye and professionals in the public and private sectors. Her expertise is spread across all aspects of family law but in particular she is focused on achieving financial settlements for her clients on separation and divorce. She also advises on protection of wealth through pre and post nuptial and cohabitation agreements.

Lowry Legal

Katie Mear

Katie is a Senior Associate in Druces LLP’s Real Estate team. Qualified in 2011, Katie has experience in leasehold enfranchisement, including the right of first refusal and UK commercial and residential high value property transactions. Katie advises a wide range of clients from individuals to collective groups of tenants and entrepreneurs to large multi-national companies. Katie also works closely with the Corporate and Commercial Team on transactions involving property aspects, in particular share purchase agreements and franchise agreements. In her spare time she enjoys sailing, yoga and travelling. *Sykes Anderson Perry’s merger with Druces LLP took effect on 1 October 2019.

Druces LLP

Katie Michelon

Katie joined Browne Jacobson as a trainee in 2007 and has nearly ten years of experience as an education lawyer. In her early career (2010), she completed a secondment to the in-house legal team at The Girls’ Day School Trust. She now advises maintained schools and academy trusts on a range of education law issues including governance, admissions, safeguarding, school intervention and parental complaints. Katie has been heavily involved in the academy conversion programme following the implementation of the Academies Act 2010. She has advised on the corporate and commercial aspects of hundreds of academy projects including the creation and expansion of multi-academy trusts and the conversion of church schools, special schools and pupil referral units. She was the lead lawyer on the first hospital school conversion in the country. She now focuses largely on group projects, working closely with a number of multi-academy trusts on their expansion, including academy merger and re-brokerage projects. Katie has also developed a particular area of expertise in school intervention and Ofsted advice and leads on this part of the firm’s practice. She provides advice to schools and academies who may be vulnerable to formal intervention measures from their local authority or the Secretary of State, including launching judicial review proceedings. She also supports schools with challenging Ofsted inspections and seeking delay to publication. As part of her work in the area of school intervention, Katie contributed to representations made to Parliament on the Education and Adoption Bill. Katie regularly speaks at seminars and national conferences including, for example, the Optimus Child Protection conference and National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) Annual Conference, as well as delivering bespoke training to governing bodies and senior leadership teams on topics such as exclusions, governance and safeguarding. She has also featured in the education press having written articles for publications such as Schools Week, The Voice (an Institute of Schools Business Leadership publication) and Attendance Matters and has been interviewed for education pieces in The Guardian and LexisPSL. She also regularly contributes to the Association of School and College Leader’s (ASCL) Leader magazine and has written briefing notes for the NAHT and Optimus as well as Browne Jacobson’s own newsletters and website. She has also delivered webinars on topics such as digital safeguarding, parental access to information and re-brokerage. Katie leads a mentoring scheme with Greenwood Academies Trust which offers career and pastoral support to students at local academies, including one-to-one mentoring and work experience.

Browne Jacobson LLP

Katie Moffatt

Senior Associate

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP