Expertise
Katherine acts for UK and international clients on a wide range of cross-border transactional real estate matters, with a particular focus on leasing, acquisitions, real estate financing and asset management work.
Dual-qualified in England & Wales and in Scotland, she spent 9 years in the firm's Edinburgh office before joining our Paris office. She also has experience working in-house in the real estate legal team of a FTSE 100 listed company in London.
- Experience
Katherine’s recent experience includes:
- advising a national high-street retailer on acquisitions, lease renewals and asset management for its growing operational property portfolio
- acting for a private equity firm in the acquisition of four holiday parks in Scotland
- advising an industrial manufacturer on the sale and leaseback of a historic building in Glasgow to allow for its restoration and preservation
- acting for a number of industrial occupiers on the leasehold acquisition of operational properties
- advising a FTSE 100 company on the asset management of its UK-wide portfolio of office and industrial properties, including the voluntary registration of its unregistered land in Scotland
- acting for operators and landlords in the telecommunications infrastructure sector
- acting in the acquisition and asset management of various UK shopping centres
- acting for a government agency in relation to the asset management of its properties, ports, harbours and slipways throughout Scotland
- acquiring, managing and disposing of surplus leasehold and freehold property portfolios for a number of large corporate occupiers
- Education
- University of Edinburgh (2004-2008) - Bachelor of Law (Hons)
- University of Hamburg, Germany (2006-2007) – Erasmus study abroad programme – German and International Law
- University of Edinburgh (2009) – Diploma in Legal Practice
- Year qualified:
- Scotland - 2011
- England and Wales - 2016
- Languages
- English (native)
- French
- German
- Publications
- Covid-19 : La High Court britannique favorable aux bailleurs sur les arriérés de loyers – Business Immo 2022
