Katherine Evans | Senior Partner The Middle East is a pivotal region for global commerce, offering a unique blend of cultural richness, strategic location, and economic dynamism. At Mirkwood Evans Vincent, we help businesses to capitalise on the region’s strategic advantages with specialised legal support. Our collaboration with Paoletti Law Group enhances our ability to provide seamless support for clients looking …

Katherine Evans | Senior Partner The Productivity Paradox: Does more technology mean less growth? Is there scope to use AI in commercial contracts? Will it save time, or ultimately cost more time in review and pose greater risk?Based on current AI models, the conceptual difference is marginal between using a template from an online precedent library and asking a junior associate …

Katherine Evans | Senior Partner The European Union has developed comprehensive legislation which governs the use of AI within the EU. The UK by contrast has adopted a cross-sector and outcome-based framework for regulating AI, underpinned by 5 core principles. The UK Government’s position is that the UK wants to facilitate innovation, whilst also giving the UK Government the flexibility to …

Right place, right time: Why Katherine Evans believes it’s sometimes better to be lucky than smart 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 shipbuilding practice, Mills & Co., where she remained until joining …

Katherine Evans | Senior Partner International Trade: Global and regional trade in the post pandemic The past 18 months were a huge shock to international trade as increasing protectionism and Covid-19 wrought havoc with all previous forecasts and economic roadmaps. Many business analysts predicted that the double whammy of protectionism and pandemic would spell an end to globalised trade. Indeed, …

Katherine Evans | Senior Partner May 2021. The MENA region has huge commercial opportunities for businesses wanting to bring their products and services to new markets, as well as for businesses from within the region looking outwards for investment opportunities and international markets for their own products and services. This activity is only going to increase with the opening up …

Katherine Evans | Senior Partner 8th January 2020. Brexit has given a perception to the world that the UK may no longer be open for business to the world, but the reality is that the UK remains a highly business friendly location for MENA headquartered corporations to set up their European operations. To start with, it is easy to set …

Katherine Evans | Senior Partner What is a distributed ledger? Distributed ledger technology (DLT) continues to enable the explosion of crypto-currencies, that we have seen over the last few years. As well as being the driving force behind Bitcoin, it has many other applications that make it useful and relevant to businesses in a range of industries. A distributed ledger …