About Catherine
Catherine joined Morgan LaRoche in 2023, having previously worked for a number of national and international law firms both in the UK and abroad. She specialises in corporate law matters, including:
- Share and business sales and purchases
- Joint ventures
- Shareholder agreements
- Private equity transactions
- Reorganisations
- Corporate governance matters
Catherine advises across a wide range of business sectors and has particular experience and expertise in energy sector transactions.
Catherine speaks fluent German, and Welsh as a second language. She also speaks some Russian.
Professional Experience
- Associate Director at Morgan LaRoche Limited 2023
- Solicitor at Alun Thomas & John, Aberystwyth 2021 – 2022
- Senior Associate Solicitor at Baker Botts LLP, London office 2012-2013
- Senior Associate Solicitor at CMS, Moscow office 2008-2012
- Associate Solicitor at CMS, Stuttgart office 2006 – 2008
- Secondment to Compass Group Plc 2005
- Junior Associate Solicitor at Hammond Suddards Edge, Birmingham office 2004-2006
- Trainee Solicitor at Hammond Suddards Edge (various offices) and including a secondment to Advantica Limited (now part of DNV GL) 2002-2004
Education
- LLM in International and Comparative Petroleum Law and Policy from Dundee University (Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy) 2012
- Admittance as a German Solicitor (now relinquished) 2008
- Admittance as a Solicitor of England and Wales September 2004
- Legal Practice Course, Cardiff University 2002
- LLB in Law with German Law, University of Birmingham (with third year spent at Bayreuth University in Bavaria) 2001
