Katie “is in high demand for complex ancillary relief matters involving international assets. As one source noted, "solicitors fight to instruct her because she is so thorough and so financially astute."” (Chambers UK 2011)
“charming, intelligent and numerate” (Legal 500 2011)
Katie’s practice includes:
i. Matrimonial finance with an emphasis on complex financial cases involving substantial assets, trust structures, tax and valuation issues;
ii. International jurisdictional disputes;
iii. Drafting pre-nuptial agreements;
iv. Private law children applications.
Katie has worked as junior counsel with most of the leading QC's at the Family Bar on financial and children cases. She is often instructed in cases with an international dimension and those involving complex asset structures
Appointments and Memberships Family Law Bar AssociationEducationRead Law at
Magdalene College, Cambridge (1991-94; MA(Hons))
Queen Mother's Scholar, Middle Temple (1994-95)
Called 1995; pupillage at QEB (1995-96); tenant at QEB since 1996
PersonalMarried with two children
Catherine Cowton
CALL: 1995
CASES AND PUBLICATIONS
Email address:
c.cowton@qeb.co.uk
Katie's "outstanding reputation for ancillary relief means she regularly works alongside the country's top silks in some of the most complex cases around. Her cases are often international in scope and concern parties with substantial assets.”
Chambers & Partners 2012
