After graduating from the University of Cambridge, Katherine initially pursued a career in marketing and business development, before re-training to become a lawyer in her mid-twenties. After completing articles with Eversheds, she joined specialist shipping and international trade practice, Mills & Co. where she remained until joining the international law group of the US telecommunications giant, AT&T in 1997.
Katherine held a number of positions within the AT&T international legal group, including as lead lawyer for AT&T’s international outsourcing business, before leaving to form Legal Hobbit at the end of 2006, the predecessor practice to Mirkwood Evans Vincent.
Katherine’s practice includes a focus on:
- Complex multi-jurisdictional business to business sales and supply agreement
- Shareholder, investment, securitisation and related financing agreements
- UK and cross border M&A deals
- UK and international B2B sales and supply agreements
- Terms of business for standard and novel technology service offerings
- IP licensing agreements
- Distribution, agency and reseller/business partner agreements
- UK and international legal and regulatory compliance issues
- Virtual in-house legal support for businesses of all sizes
- UK and European employment law support
Recent transactions
Advised the seller of a UK recruitment business in connection with set up of an employee ownership trust (EOT) and the transfer of their ownership rights into the resulting EOT for a consideration of £7M
Advised the sellers of a UK and Australian healthcare business on the sale of their interests by way of a complex asset purchase and share purchase structure
Advised on the UK restructuring of an international technology business with a focus on limiting the administrative and legal costs of re-organising the wider business’ intellectual property holdings.
Drafting and negotiating the agreements in connection with the roll out of wireless broadband sites to multiple UK Ministry of Defence sites across the UK.
