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.