Katie Saunders > Trowers & Hamlins LLP > Manchester, England > Lawyer Profile
Trowers & Hamlins LLP Offices
55 PRINCESS STREET
MANCHESTER
M2 4EW
England
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Katie Saunders
Work Department
Projects and Construction
Career
Katie has over 25 years of experience advising on construction contracts in the real estate sector. Katie is particularly known for her work with housing providers in the UK in procuring regeneration, investment and asset management projects.
Katie specialises in supporting her clients through the procurement process to select providers and drafting suitable framework agreements and delivery contracts. Katie is often called upon for her understanding of alliancing and partnering forms of contract.
She is committed to encouraging diversity within the construction sector , Katie and her team have written a construction law course being taught in schools as part of the Design Engineer Construct course which is sponsored by the construction industry and equips school leavers for careers in the sector and she supports the Save Construction Initiative set up to improve procurement practices for SMEs.
In March 2023 she was named Real Estate Lawyer of the Year at the inaugural Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards – an achievement determined on The Legal 500’s market-leading independent research for the annual UK Solicitors guide.
Memberships
Katie is a Board Member of The Housing Forum and Chair of the Manchester Constructing Excellence Best Practice Club and regularly speaks at construction and housing conferences on procurement and construction best practice including MMC. She was part of The Housing Forum working group reporting on Stopping Building Failures as a response to the Dame Judith Hackitt review in 2018 and led the procurement working group on MMC for affordable housing developers in 2019. She contributed to the 2020 Mark Farmer and HTA report on Build Homes Build Jobs Build Innovation on the importance of structuring procurements and contracts carefully to deliver MMC projects.
Lawyer Rankings
West Midlands > Real estate > Construction
Trowers & Hamlins LLP has a multidisciplinary practice, with expertise across development, procurement, asset management, adjudication and fire safety, acting for public sector clients as well as contractors, developers and housing associations. The practice is led by Paul Scott, advising on the contentious side, and Katie Saunders, based in Manchester, concentrating on the firm’s non-contentious offering. Former practice head Mark Robinson has departed the firm.
North West > Real estate > Construction
(Leading individuals)Stephanie Canham and the experienced Katie Saunders, who heads the firm’s national team advising housing providers and local authorities on housing stock, co-lead the practice at Trowers & Hamlins LLP. The team is notably on the Places For People Group panel and advises on the full scope of related work. It offers the full-service to its clients, with expertise extending to construction-related insolvency, and regularly acts on significant multi-use regeneration projects. An expert in waste-related matters, Tom Holroyd is the team’s lead on contentious construction matters, and also has a niche specialism in cladding work.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction
- Public sector > Local government
- Finance > Banking and finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: Manchester
- Real estate > Commercial property: Manchester
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: Manchester
- Employment > Employment
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Real estate > Property litigation