Kate Jackson

Biography

Qualified as a lawyer both in England & Wales and also in New York, Kate has been a CEDR accredited mediator since 2005 and has successfully mediated disputes in a variety of commercial sectors including banking, general commercial, insurance, intellectual property, employment, private client, public sector, real estate and professional negligence.

Kate has over 20 years of dispute resolution experience, previously practising as a litigation and dispute resolution lawyer in both London (with Allen & Overy LLP) and in New York (with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP). She has also spent two periods working as a lawyer in investment banks, a six month secondment to Morgan Stanley’s New York in-house Institutional Securities litigation team in 2000 and two months with Barclays’ Corporate and Investment Banking litigation team in 2012.

Kate is experienced in handling high value, high profile disputes and is able to understand new and complex cases quickly. Her clients have ranged from large public and international companies, where Kate is used to dealing at CEO and board level, to individuals with personal grievances. Kate is commercial, innovative and numerate.

Kate is listed as a leading mediator in the current editions of The Legal 500 (Band 1), Chambers & Partners (Band 1) and in the International Directory Who’s Who Legal: Mediation

Please visit Independent Mediators website (address above) for full CV.