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Commercial Litigation
Insolvency Law & Disputes
Catherine qualified as a Solicitor in September 2019 and has worked in our Commercial Litigation and Insolvency team ever since. She advises both businesses and individuals on a broad range of commercial disputes, with particular experience in insolvency and debt recovery.
Catherine regularly acts for companies and directors facing, or seeking to bring, insolvency proceedings, including applications to restrain the presentation of winding-up petitions where the underlying debt is genuinely disputed or subject to a substantial cross-claim. She has obtained injunctions in urgent, time-critical circumstances, ranging from restraining the presentation of winding-up petitions to prohibiting a defendant from taking steps in breach of a contractual agreement.
Her insolvency practice also extends to post-judgment enforcement, including charging orders, third party debt orders and statutory demands, and to applications to restore dissolved companies to the Register of Companies. Catherine has experience of substantial and complex litigation, including a long-running High Court enforcement action to recover on a foreign judgment worth several hundred million dollars.
Representative work includes:
Acting for a company to successfully restrain a supplier from presenting a winding-up petition in the High Court, where the underlying invoice was genuinely disputed and exceeded by a substantial cross-claim for defective and incomplete works.
Acting for a company to obtain an interim injunction restraining a former landlord from presenting a winding-up petition, where the underlying claim was said to comprise largely unliquidated damages and was genuinely disputed.
Conducting post-judgment enforcement following a successful breach of fiduciary duty claim brought by a company liquidator to recover a judgment debt exceeding £750,000, including obtaining a charging order, issuing a statutory demand, and pursuing a third party debt order against a judgment debtor's bank.
Acting for claimants in a long-running High Court enforcement action under the Administration of Justice Act 1920, seeking to enforce a substantial foreign judgment (running into hundreds of millions of dollars) against an overseas corporate group and its principals, including successfully striking out the defendants' long-dormant application to set aside registration of the judgment.
Acting for a leaseholder-director in a successful application to restore a dissolved freehold management company to the Register of Companies, where the company's earlier strike-off had left a residential freehold registered to a non-existent entity and was blocking a planned sale.
Qualifications
LLB Law, University of Hertfordshire
Legal Practice Course, Kaplan
Solicitor of England and Wales (qualified September 2019)
Catherine has over 7 years of qualified experience.
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