Kate Jeffery > Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner Offices
Governor’s House
5 Laurence Pountney Hill
EC4R 0BR
England
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Kate Jeffery
Work Department
Commercial Contracts
Position
Senior Associate
Career
Kate trained at BCLP and joined our Technology & Commercial team in 2014, being promoted to Senior Associate in 2019. She is experienced in advising on a wide range of complex commercial arrangements, including business process and IT outsourcing agreements, bespoke commercial arrangements, partnership and collaboration agreements and strategic divestments.
Kate works with clients across multiple sectors, including telecommunications, retail, sport, financial services, transportation, and real estate.
Kate has experience advising a variety of clients, from fast growth start-ups to FTSE 100 organisations, including Tesco, where she spent 3 months on secondment as a legal advisor in the commercial contracts team, and BT. She has been recognized by Best Lawyers (UK) 2024 as “One to Watch” in the area of Information Technology Law.
Lawyer Rankings
London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner covers a variety of workstreams in the technology and commercial arena, including sourcing, supplier arrangements, data privacy and acquisitions. The team is led by Marcus Pearl, who is noted for his expertise in handling M&A transactions arising out of the financial services, fintech and insurtech sectors. Kate Jeffery advises on commercial agreements concerning IT and outsourcing, while Ben Wheeler has experience in the financial services industry, particularly in relation to payments.
London > Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
(Rising stars)With ever-expanding global capabilities, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner acts on a range of commercial issues, with continued excellence in the retail, tech, and fintech sphere. A key feature of the practice’s offering is helping big businesses’ strategic goal of improving customer reach, exemplified by Farfetch and Outlier Venture’s collaboration to launch a Web3 programme, and developing Estee Lauder’s loyalty programme in Israel. Richard Shaw and Marcus Pearl co-head the department, with the former primarily active on a litany of commercial agreements in the retail sector, and the latter concentrating on big-ticket telecommunications, tech and media matters, working with clients such as BT Group and Lumen. Carol Osborne‘s wide-ranging expertise has seen her advise on distribution agreements in the agricultural industry, global licence arrangements for retail giants, as well as transitional services agreements, while senior associate Kate Jeffery continues to provide valuable insight to a wide breadth of practice mandates.
Lawyer Rankings
- Rising stars London > Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Commercial contracts London > Corporate and commercial
- IT and telecoms London > TMT (technology, media and telecoms)
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Licensing
- Real estate > Planning
- Real estate > Property finance
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Water
Firm Rankings
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Competition litigation
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Lower Mid-Market Deals, £100m-£750m
- Transport > Rail
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Gaming and betting
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: M&A and acquisition financing
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Investment fund formation and management > Real estate funds
- Finance > Transport finance and leasing
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Transport > Aviation
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Employment > Health and safety
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Finance > Securitisation
- Real estate > Social housing: finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)