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Catriona Watt

Tel:: Work 020 7618 2400
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Web:: www.foxlawyers.com

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Work Department

Employment and partnership

Position

Partner

Career

Training contract at Burness LLP (now Burness Paul LLP) - September 2006 - September 2008; qualified September 2008; Fox & Partners (formerly Fox) - September 2008 - present.

Member

Employment Law Association, Association of Partnership Practitioners and past Co-Chair of the Young Lawyers’ Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA).

Education

University of Aberdeen 1999 - 2003 - LLB (hons) 2:1; Glasgow Graduate School of Law - 2004-2005 - Diploma in Legal Practice; BPP Law School - 2008 - Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test.

London: Corporate and commercial

Partnership

Within: Next Generation Partners

Catriona Watt - Fox & Partners

Within: Partnership

Fox & Partners is a go-to firm for partnership expertise in the professional and financial services sectors, with a varied client roster of partners, partnerships and LLPs. The group has developed a niche in partnership disputes relating to partner exits and the enforceability of restrictive covenants and team move clauses. The department is jointly led by Catriona Watt (who focuses on partner moves) and commercial litigator and partnership disputes expert Caroline Field. The group also includes founding partner Ronnie Fox, who provides strategic advice to a variety of lawyer and firm clients. Senior associate Shoshana Bacall has experience in assisting departing individuals and firms on exit arrangements and negotiations to join other firms.

London: Human resources

Employment: senior executives

Within: Employment: senior executives

Fox & Partners' employment team is made up of 'highly skilled negotiators who have great attention to detail', advising on high-value, complex and sensitive disputes in the financial, professional and insurance sectors. Dean Fuller and Catriona Watt co-head the team, with clients ranging from high ranking senior executives and partners, to firms and employers.

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