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Catriona Watt

Catriona Watt specialises in contentious partnership, employment and discrimination law. Catriona advises employers, professional partnerships and LLPs, senior executives and partners across a variety of sectors.

cwatt@foxlawyers.com DDI: +44 20 7618 2887

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Catriona Watt

Her experience includes advising both institutions and individuals on sensitive and confidential senior level appointments and departures. Catriona often advises on complex team move situations in which there are usually restrictive covenant, fiduciary duties and potential forfeiture aspects as well as contentious exits from partnership structures particularly in professional services, financial services and private equity. She regularly drafts, and advises both employers and individual executives and partners on the terms of service agreements, staff policies and procedures, settlement agreements, LLP agreements, and retirement deeds.

Catriona has particular experience in dealing with individuals leaving and joining hedge fund and private equity structures, frequently with a complex bonus and incentive element.
Catriona works with clients to avoid litigation but where that is not possible, Catriona draws on her experience of involvement in Employment Tribunal and High Court litigation including high-value discrimination, whistleblowing claims and breach of contract claims. She gives clear and pragmatic advice tailored to the client’s objectives in situations which are usually time-critical, high-profile and often with a regulatory aspect. Where there is a market-sensitive or public interest angle, Catriona works with PR advisers.

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Catriona Watt routinely handles some of the most high value senior executive exits in the country. She combines very experienced intuition with rock solid judgment to negotiate the very best positions for her clients.

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…a huge thank you for all your support through this difficult period.  Your suggestions, guidance and pragmatic approach made a real difference.

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Fox ranked in Doyle’s Guide

We’re delighted to have been ranked by Doyle’s Guide in three categories this year: for our work as a firm for Employers and Employees, and our partner Catriona Watt is ranked as a leading lawyer representing employers. Doyle’s Guide recognises those lawyers who have been identified by their peers for their expertise and abilities, and is one of the legal industry’s most prestigious rankings guides. Based in Australia, it ranks law firms, lawyers and barristers across Asia-Pacific, UAE, USA and the UK.

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