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Katie Bewick
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Work Department
Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Position
Senior Associate
Career
Katie is a litigator who specialises in corporate and commercial disputes, for a range of high net worth individuals and corporate clients, often with an international element. Whilst Katie advises on a broad range of disputes, her particular areas of practice include corporate disputes (including shareholder and partnership disputes, warranty and indemnity claims, claims involving directors, breaches of fiduciary duty and misappropriation of company funds and unfair prejudice claims), professional negligence, product liability and supply chain disputes and advising on cross-jurisdictional issues, including Arbitration. Katie frequently advises clients in the healthcare, retail (including food and beverage), financial services and manufacturing and technology sectors. Katie has extensive High Court experience (including at trial and applications involving injunctive relief), as well as experience resolving disputes through alternative means such as mediation and negotiated settlement.
Katie is also a member of The Association of European Lawyers (AEL).
Katie is admitted to practise in England and Wales.
Experience
- Acted for a minority shareholder in a complex unfair prejudice petition involving a manufacturing company in the cosmetics industry, which culminated in an 8 day trial in the High Court;
- Acting for a client in the financial services sector in a dispute issued in the High Court involving breaches of trust and issues involving agency law
- Acting for a chain of public houses involving allegations of breaches of restrictive covenants
- Acted for two individuals relating to their rights as shareholders in a large telecommunications company, involving allegations of unfairly prejudicial conduct and breaches of confidentiality
- Acting for a well-known international supplier of sporting equipment involving issues of retention of title
Lawyer Rankings
South East > Dispute resolution > Debt recovery
Charles Russell Speechlys LLP‘s Guildford-based debt recovery department runs out of the firm’s commercial dispute resolution team, and handles contested, complex and international debt work for its commercial and financial clients. The department is headed up by experienced commercial litigator Jamie Cartwright, whose expertise includes debts arising out of issues relating to the supply of goods and services, as well as technology disputes. Katie Bewick advises clients from the retail, food, financial services and healthcare sectors on complex debt issues.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Private client > Family
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Smaller Deals, £10m-£100m
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Private client > Art and cultural property
- Private client > Charities and not-for-profit
- Corporate and commercial > Commercial contracts
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: mid-market
- Private client > Court of protection
- Private client > Family: mediation
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Employment > Immigration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Advertising & marketing
- Real estate > Property litigation
- Real estate > Residential property
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Sport
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: trade marks, copyright and design
- Investment fund formation and management > Listed funds
- Real estate > Planning
- Dispute resolution > Professional discipline
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Reputation management
- Industry focus > Retail and consumer
- Employment > Senior executives
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Corporate and commercial > Partnership
- Dispute resolution > Tax litigation and investigations
- Employment > Employers
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Real estate > Property finance
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property: patents (contentious and non-contentious)
- Corporate and commercial > Venture capital
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Public sector > Administrative and public law
- Employment > Employee share schemes