Katie Gibb > Chambers of Anna Vigars KC > Bristol, England > Barrister Profile
Guildhall Chambers Offices
Guildhall Chambers
23 BROAD STREET
BRISTOL
BS1 2HG
England
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Katie Gibb
Work Department
Insolvency; commercial; professional negligence; banking and finance.
Position
Katie specialises in commercial law, company and insolvency matters. Her commercial law practice covers commercial agreements; sale of goods; banking, including surety and bank guarantees and mortgage disputes (for both commercial lenders and borrowers); breach of warranties in business sales and applications for, and resisting, freezing and search orders. Katie also specialises in company law, insolvency (personal and corporate), partnership and shareholder disputes. Katie is instructed in advocacy, advisory work and mediation, and regularly appears in the High Court. In 2007, Katie was appointed to the Attorney General’s panel of Junior Counsel to the Crown.
Career
Katie has been consistently recommended under Insolvency and Restructuring in the leading directories. Her practise covers all areas of insolvency law: on the personal insolvency side, she represents both trustees and debtors on a wide range of applications including contested statutory demand & bankruptcy petitions, transaction avoidance claims, annulments and IVAs. On the corporate insolvency side, she deals with all aspects of administrations, liquidations and transaction avoidance claims. Katie has specific experience in employment related insolvency matters and advises in relation to TUPE.
Katie acts for a wide range of businesses and individuals covering all aspects of commercial litigation. Katie regularly advises clients pre action and is an experienced high court advocate in interim applications and injunctive relief. Her practice area covers a wide range of sale of goods, complex contractual disputes and breach of warranty / misrepresentation claims.
Katie also has expertise in employment related matters and regularly advises in relation to breach of covenant matters and restraint of trade, particularly in the context of industrial relations.
PARTNERSHIP DISPUTES
Katie has a particular specialisation in partnership disputes and has acted for a wide range of clients and business, including professional partnerships such as doctors and dentists. She advises both pre and post issue and covers such issues as identification of partnership property, treatment of post dissolution profits and all aspects of taking partnership accounts.
Memberships
- Chancery Bar Association
Education
- MA, Brasenose College, Oxford