Katherine heads up our Telecommunications and Business Technology Law Group and is the Mirkwood Evans Vincent Senior Partner.
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 shipping and international trade practice, Mills & Co. where she remained until joining the international law group of the US telecommunications giant, AT&T in 1997.
Katherine held a number of positions within the AT&T international legal group, including as lead lawyer for AT&T’s international outsourcing business, before leaving to form Legal Hobbit at the end of 2006, the predecessor practice to Mirkwood Evans Vincent.
Katherine’s expertise:
- Complex multi-jurisdictional business-to-business telecommunications and technology agreements
- Legal and regulatory compliance issues in the international telecommunications and technology sectors
- Distribution, agency and reseller/business partner agreements
- Standard terms of business for standard and innovative telecommunications and technology products and services
- Software licenses and IP rights agreements
- Virtual in-house legal services to the telecommunications and business technology industries
- Shareholder, investment, securitization and related financing agreements
- Executive service agreements and remuneration
- Domestic and cross border transfer of undertakings regulations
