Kate is Counsel at Signature Litigation and has over ten years’ experience acting in complex, high value, cross border disputes, including civil fraud and asset tracing claims, general commercial litigation, digital asset and banking litigation.  Kate has a special interest in digital assets and tech disputes, and regularly publishes articles on and speaks about topics relating to cryptocurrencies and digital assets.

Kate has advised on all stages of litigation, from pre-action through to fully contested trials and enforcement matters.  She also has experience of a wide range of interim applications, including applications for summary judgment, specific and third-party disclosure, security for costs, worldwide freezing injunctions, orders for disclosure and delivery up, passport orders, applications for committal for contempt of court and applications for cross-examination on evidence.

Kate is ranked in the Chambers UK 2022 guide for Civil Fraud and is described as having “notable experience in civil fraud work” and commended for having “a real commercial handle on things and is completely unflappable”. In 2018, Kate co-founded ACROSS Fraud, a network for fraud lawyers in London and worldwide and in 2014 she was identified as a ‘Rising Star’ for Commercial Litigation by Thomson Reuters’ Super Lawyers.

Carmel King is a Director in Grant Thornton UK’s Insolvency and Asset Recovery team, specialising in investigations, asset tracing and recovery actions for clients who have suffered a financial loss as a result of fraud. Carmel has a particular interest in cryptoasset fraud investigation and recovery strategies, and leads this practice area for the team. The practice combines blockchain analytics with corporate intelligence and digital forensic techniques to conduct investigations, alongside insolvency proceedings, court-appointed receiverships, other civil procedures and litigation funding to formulate legal claims and enforce judgements. She regularly presents on the topic and has published numerous articles.

Carmel is the Co-Chair of INSOL Europe’s Anti-Fraud Forum and the Vice Chair of CFAAR, the Crypto Fraud and Asset Recovery network.

Mary is a dispute resolution partner at Kingsley Napley.  She is a commercial litigator with a specialism in civil fraud and asset tracing.  She acts for individuals, companies, insolvency practitioners and other law firms. Mary can supervise your search order, loves a freezing injunction and in recent years has developed expertise in cases involving bribery.  People say nice things about her in the directories including one comment which compared her to a dog.  Mary really needs a new photo as she has much more grey hair now.