Katie Brown

Associate

 

profile

Katie Brown is an associate in the Litigation & Insolvency department at Appleby.  Katie joined Appleby in September 2009 from niche fraud litigation firm Peters & Peters in London. Prior to joining Peters & Peters, Katie trained at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London and Vienna.

Katie specialises in international commercial litigation and insolvency with a particular emphasis on shareholders’ disputes, hedge fund disputes, company winding-up, fraud and asset recovery and trust litigation. Katie has experience of obtaining and defending emergency injunctive relief aimed at the preservation of assets, including freezing injunctions and receiver appointments.

Katie has recently published articles in The Hedge Fund Journal (‘Minority shareholders’ litigation remedies under Cayman law’ 14 January 2011), Hedge Funds Review (‘Camulos decision confirms existing winding up process for Cayman hedge funds’ 15 June 2010) and International Law Office (‘Grand Court Rules on Loss of Substratum’ 19 July 2010).

Katie has a working knowledge of German and Spanish.

expertise

Katie’s recent experience includes advising:

  • The Dutch inventor of a self-propelling wheel in relation to a dispute with his former business partner, including successfully applying for the winding-up of their jointly owned Cayman company and advising in relation to issues arising in the liquidation
  •  A Middle Eastern businessman regarding a dispute with his co-director and shareholder in a group of energy investment companies, involving parallel derivative action and breach of fiduciary duty claims in Cayman and Massachusetts, including providing expert evidence on minority shareholders’ rights under Cayman law
  • Russian investors in a Cayman hedge fund in relation to possible remedies and injunctive relief against the management of the fund

teams

  • Asset Tracing
  • Banking Litigation
  • Commercial Dispute Resolution
  • Fraud Litigation
  • Fund Disputes

education

Oxford University (England)
City University, London (England)