Catherine Addy KC

Practice Areas

Catherine has a busy and varied commercial and chancery litigation practice. She has long been highly recommended by the various legal directories in a number of different fields, regularly receiving and being shortlisted for various awards. She serves as a member of the Insolvency Rules Committee (having been appointed in 2013) and was appointed a Deputy Insolvency and Companies Court Judge in 2016.

Prior to taking silk Catherine was a member of the Attorney General’s 'A' Panel, having first been appointed as Junior Counsel to the Crown in 2003, and has regularly advised and acted for a number of government departments and public bodies as well as for a wide variety of private and commercial interests (including banks, retailers, service providers, shareholders, directors and other office-holders). She has been instructed in relation to numerous high profile insolvencies and is an experienced advocate in a number of different courts and tribunals as well as being willing to accept instructions in relation to offshore litigation and arbitration.