Catriona Watt

Lawyer information

Practice Areas

Catriona Watt specialises in contentious partnership law as well as employment and discrimination law. She advises professional firms, partners, senior executives and employers across a variety of sectors.

Catriona often advises on complex team move situations in which there are usually restrictive covenant, fiduciary duties and potential forfeiture aspects, as well as senior and board level disputes and contentious exits from partnership structures in professional services, financial services, insurance and private equity. She advises on other contentious senior level employment and partnership issues and has particular experience in dealing with private equity partnership disputes and in misconduct investigations, including harassment, involving senior individuals. Where litigation cannot be avoided, Catriona draws on her experience of litigating partnership and employment disputes in the High Court, Employment Tribunal and in arbitration.

Career

Catriona Watt joined Fox in 2008, and is dual-qualified in Scotland and England and Wales.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Association of Partnership Practitioners, Employment Lawyers Association and International Bar Association (former Chair of Young Lawyers Committee).

Publications

Articles written by Catriona have appeared in the Times, The Financial Times, IBA newsletters and Personnel Today. Catriona has been interviewed on national radio and various podcasts, including the Fox's podcast, and regularly speaks on specialist panels.