Avocats – England

Catherine Thomas

Consultant

Bortoft Bell

Catherine Williams

Catherine is an experienced corporate lawyer who has a particular focus on advising entrepreneurs, management teams and investors of venture backed, early-stage-growth companies. She has a broad sector focus (including technology, life sciences and clean tech) and has significant experience in venture funding, private equity, joint ventures, buying and selling private companies and corporate restructuring. Catherine has provided training in ‘Introduction to Venture Capital’ course and is a member of the European Astia Advisory Board, an incubator for women-led high-growth tech companies. Catherine lived and worked in Brussels and Moscow before qualifying as a lawyer in 1999. Catherine’s areas of expertise are early-stage financing debt and equity, joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements, partnership agreements and LLP agreements, private equity and corporate venturing investment, mergers and acquisitions, asset and share sales, company and group restructuring and MBO and MBI transactions. Catherine’s key achievements include (i) UK investments; (ii) in various funding rounds; (iii) management team in the sale of a company; (iv) institutional investors in the sale of a company; (v) listed Australian company in an acquisition; (vi) financings and acquisition; (vii) launch of advisory corporate venturing business and corporate restructuring; (viii) venture tech fund in the set-up and management of a fund; (ix) management on a pre-pack sale of a clean tech company; (x) lead investor into Skysites Americas Ltd (telecoms); (xi) global bio-tech company in its co/com activities and restructuring.

Keystone Law

Catherine Wolfe

Partner

Boult Wade Tennant LLP

Cathrine McGowan

Partner, Patent Attorney

D Young & Co LLP

Cathryn Culverhouse

Partner

DMH Stallard LLP

Cathryn Vanderspar

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland (International) LLP

Cathy Bryant

I am a partner in the Corporate team at Michelmores and I head the corporate tax team. For more than 25 years, I have been advising on tax since I qualified as a lawyer in South Africa, having developed a deep interest for the subject at university. I went on to complete an LLM in tax law. It is a dynamic area of law which is constantly changing and adapting as progress and new developments take hold in the business world. I left practice for a time to run a business and I bring that experience to my practice now. Busy people need pragmatic solutions that are forward-looking and my tax advisory practice is aimed at achieving this outcome for clients. I advise a wide range of clients (start-ups to established corporates) on tax matters impacting most aspects of their business including: corporate mergers and acquisitions reorganisations business asset disposals private equity transactions management buyouts EIS and SEIS investment carbon credits I also advise, structure and assist with the implementation of share incentive arrangements for staff and senior management including EMI, CSOP, LTIPs, growth shares and employee ownership trusts Areas of Expertise Corporate Corporate Tax Cathy Bryant - Partner - Corporate | Michelmores

Michelmores LLP

Cathy Leech

Cathy Leech has been recruited to head the JMW catastrophic injury team specifically on SCI, brain and complex injury claims because of her experience, knowledge and reputation for this area of work and her proven and driven commitment to her clients and the charities supporting them. Cathy has acted personally for well over 50 successful personal injury claims for SCI claimants, and many other catastrophically injured clients and won awards for her expertise. She has been a long-standing supporter of the Spinal Injuries Association and actively fundraises and promotes the charity (and others) seeing the excellent work they do for seriously-injured people and their families. She is also experienced in claims for individuals with traumatic brain Injuries and polytraumas. Several of her cases have made new and ground-breaking law to the benefit of people generally including the case of Woodland v Essex CC [2013] in the Supreme Court identifying a non-delegable duty of care by a school to its pupils, and more recently Colley v MIB [2022] in the Court of Appeal applying EU law to ensure the MIB could not avoid compensating the injured claimant. Cathy has secured compensation for clients in excess of £100M. Awards won by Cathy include: 2013 The Law Society Awards - Solicitor of the Year in Private Practice. 2013 SIA Rebuilding Lives Awards- Excellence in Legal Care 2018 SIA Rebuilding Lives Award - Fundraiser of the Year 2019 Personal Injury Lawyer Awards - Catastrophic Injury Lawyer of the Year Cathy is identified as a highly-skilled PI lawyer in all the legal directories.

JMW Solicitors LLP

Catrin Davies

Partner Catrin is a professional negligence expert with over 20 years of experience in acting on high-value, complex claims against professionals, predominantly representing solicitors. She also has extensive experience in the regulatory/disciplinary field where she advises on regulatory investigations by the SRA and proceedings at the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal. Catrin's experience also extends to coverage disputes and advising insurers in respect of policy response.

RPC

Catrin Petty

Catrin is a European and Chartered Patent Attorney in our Chemical and Life Sciences team. Catrin specialises in drafting, filing and prosecuting patent applications in a variety of fields, including agrochemistry, drug delivery, food technology, graphene and carbon nanotube technology, nanoparticle technology, peptide and peptoid chemistry, pharmaceuticals, polymer technology, vaccine stabilisation and medical devices. In particular, she has a detailed understanding of small molecule chemistry having worked as a chemist in a multinational pharmaceutical company before training as a patent attorney. A number of small molecule patent applications draft by Catrin have subsequently been licensed by large pharmaceutical companies in multimillion-pound deals. Since becoming a patent attorney Catrin has worked with a large variety of clients including lone inventors, universities and SMEs, as well as large multinational pharmaceutical companies. In working with these clients, Catrin has frequently advised them on their overall IP strategy and worked to ensure that it matches their commercial aims. In addition to drafting, filing and prosecution, Catrin is also able to give advice on patent infringement and validity. Catrin is passionate about ensuring that lone traders and new startups have the knowledge they need to leverage their IP. Accordingly, she regularly gives talking about the basics of intellectual property and how to use it to add value to a company. This has included giving guest lectures to entrepreneurship students at the University of Surrey.

Venner Shipley LLP

Catrin Wyn Williams

Associate

Fenchurch Law

Catriona Virden

Janes Solicitors

Catriona Watt

Catriona Watt is a Partner specialising in contentious partnership law as well as employment and discrimination law. She advises professional firms, partners, senior executives and employers, focusing primarily on the financial, insurance, private equity and professional services sectors. Her unique experience of acting on both sides of disputes stands her in good stead to understand the pressures and leverage of each. Catriona has a wealth of experience in advising on complex team move situations in which there are usually allegations of breach of restrictive covenants and fiduciary duties and potential forfeiture claims. Catriona brings a strategic and commercial approach to advising on senior and board level disputes and contentious exits from partnership structures. She advises on other contentious senior level employment and partnership issues and has particular experience in dealing with private equity partnership disputes. Catriona often advises on misconduct investigations, including harassment, involving senior individuals in regulated sectors including legal and financial services, working with regulatory and PR specialists where necessary. Where litigation cannot be avoided, Catriona draws on her varied experience of litigating partnership and employment disputes in the High Court, Employment Tribunal and in arbitration. Catriona is recognised in Chambers UK and the Legal 500 for her expertise in contentious partnership and employment law: “She’s good at developing strategy for litigation and is creative about identifying legal avenues we can use in addition to being very thorough with her preparation. “Catriona is endlessly patient with clients and really takes her time to find out what they need or want to achieve in litigation, as well as being intelligent and creative in getting them to the position they need to be in.” “She is very calm, sees the bigger picture and takes strategic oversight of the matter.” (Chambers 2022)

Fox & Partners

Catriona Wolfenden

Catriona is Weightmans' Product and Innovation Director and leads innovation and product initiatives across the firm, ensuring that delivery is aligned to the firm’s overall strategy. She works closely with the innovation and product teams, our clients, suppliers and our legal teams to ensure that Weightmans continues to evolve and offers real market-leading solutions. Catriona joined Weightmans in September 2007 following completion of a PhD in medical law and the Bar Vocational Course. She was admitted as a solicitor in October 2011 and promoted to Partner in 2019. Catriona has plenty of first-hand experience of civil litigation as she was a team leader in the costs department and as a Professional Support Lawyer frequently provided strategic know how updates, training and technical support internally and externally for clients. Catriona is regularly interviewed for articles and research projects and frequently presents at legal/innovation conferences on topics related to innovation and future skills. She was shortlisted for 'rising star' at the Legal Week Innovation Awards 2019. Catriona’s team have been shortlisted finalists in over 20 National Innovation awards since 2018, winning the Modern Law Awards 2019 for the 'best use of technology' as a result of a collaborative project with Kira Systems (AI software provider) and the Computer Science Department at the University of Liverpool. They have been runners up for: British Legal Tech Awards 2022 - 'Most Innovative Firm’ Managing Partners’ Forum Awards 2022 British Legal Tech Awards 2020 - ‘Technology Venture of the Year’ Catriona has previously been a Director of UKLTA (The Legaltech Association for the UK) and in 2023 completed a 3 year term on the Liverpool Enterprise Partnership Professional and Business Services Board. Catriona is a member of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowship Panel College. Catriona is the co author of ‘Innovation in Law Firms: implementing successful projects’ which will be published in 2024 (https://www.globelawandbusiness.com/books/innovation-in-law-firms-implementing-successful-projects).

Weightmans LLP

Cavan Fabris

Cavan is a dedicated and trusted counsellor on technology issues with a particular focus on cyber and data privacy. With over 25 years of experience his multifaceted career spans client-facing roles at Am Law 100 and Big 4 firms, in-house counsel positions at tech giants Apple and HP and diplomatic service with the U.S. Department of State. Cavan advises a broad range of clients, from innovative startups to FTSE 100 multinationals, on strategic data privacy, cyber incident response, AI, and commercial and regulatory telecoms challenges.

RPC

Cecilia Everett

Cecilia Everett is a construction and coverage litigation specialist. Cecilia specialises in high-value and complex insurance litigation, including coverage disputes and the defence of negligence claims against all classes of construction professionals and surveyors. She has acted for contract administrators, engineers, architects, surveyors and LPA Receivers, and has pursued subrogated recoveries from sub-consultants and sub-contractors. She has a breadth of experience in litigation, mediation, arbitration and adjudication proceedings.

RPC

Cecily Davis

Partner

Fieldfisher

Celia McLuskie

Celia joined the firm on qualification in September 2022 having completed her training contract at a mid-sized London firm. Celia works closely with other members of the department to advise a range of clients on private client matters.

Sinclair Gibson LLP

Celine Lecomte

Celine had over 18 years’ experience advising on trust administration, taxation of trust, restructuring and winding up in the UK. Her main area of work includes advising trustees and beneficiaries, managing a variety of family, personal injury, grant making charitable and employee benefits trusts.

Foot Anstey

Ceri Barrett

Senior Associate

Burges Salmon LLP

Ceri Giordmaina

Solicitor.

Paul Robinson Solicitors LLP

Ceri Jones

Associate Partner - Property

Slater Heelis (Part of Lawfront)

Ceri Riddell

HCR Law

Ceri Stafford

Partner Solicitor specialising in Corporate, Commercial and Negligence

Wildcat Law