Kate Fenwick

Overview

Her financial remedy practice covers complex and high value cases involving business assets, trust interests and corporate valuations, underpinned by formal training in financial valuation by Harvard Law School. Kate also handles fact-sensitive children disputes, including those involving domestic abuse, coercive and controlling behaviour, allegations of alienating behaviours and applications for the relocation of children, often with cross-border and offshore elements. Kate spent a year practising offshore in Bermuda, working on UHNW commercial disputes. Kate is known for meticulous preparation, robust advocacy and a calm, approachable manner with clients at the most difficult moments in their lives, and is a committed advocate of non-court dispute resolution.

Expertise

• Divorce and financial remedy, including high value cases involving business assets, trust interests and corporate valuations.
• Matrimonialisation of assets, financial misconduct and the dissipation of assets.
• Pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements.
• Advising on wealth protection and asset structuring from a family law perspective, including offshore trusts and the impact of firewall provisions.
• Complex private law children disputes involving serious allegations of physical and sexual abuse, domestic abuse and alienating behaviours.
• Internal and international relocation of children.
• Non-Court dispute resolution, including arbitration.

Key Experience

• Successfully represented the Applicant in obtaining the Court's permission to relocate the children internally. Following cross-examination at a contested hearing, Kate persuaded the Court to depart from the recommendation of Cafcass that the children should not relocate.
• Successfully represented the Respondent in resisting urgent applications preventing the international movement of the children of the family.
• Successfully represented a party seeking injunctions to restrain publicity in the High Court.
• Successfully represented a Respondent defending multiple allegations of rape and serious sexual abuse.
• Successfully represented a Local Authority in obtaining findings of serious sexual abuse of a non-verbal and profoundly disabled child.
• Successful representation of the Applicant in an application for Notice to Show Cause why the terms of a Pre-Nuptial Agreement should not be upheld.