Kate Scott

Kate Scott specialises in financial services and technology litigation, with particular expertise in follow-on litigation from regulatory investigations and cross-border matters.

Kate's focus is advising clients (particularly Financial Services and Fintech clients) on managing their portfolio of contentious matters. She is recognised in Legal 500 as both a Next Generation Litigation Partner, and for her Fintech and Data, Privacy and Cybersecurity work. Her practice and experience spans litigation (typically defending complex claims), alongside risk management and governance advice, to help her clients prevent disputes arising in the first place.

Kate's banking disputes experience encompasses a wide variety of investment banking products: credit linked notes, credit default swaps, FX derivatives, structured notes and interest rate hedging products, to name a few. Recent work includes acting on alleged LIBOR misrepresentation claims, advising several banks on coronavirus-related financing disputes and defending Quincecare claims.

Kate is also a specialist in Fintech litigation, advising both financial institutions and disruptors in the financial services industry on the civil risks arising from their use of data, new payments platforms, outsourcing, cryptocurrencies, cyber and their use of artificial intelligence (as well as being published in a number of external publications on such topics). Her speciality is defending collective data actions, where she is actively working with data and privacy experts to ensure that the question of "what is personal data worth" is properly addressed by the English courts in this emerging area of law.

Having previously been seconded as the EMEA Head of Litigation for a global bank, Kate also has a deep understanding of the challenges our clients' face.

Kate is active in using new techniques and technology to manage large scale litigation more efficiently for her clients, such as KIRA and Technology Assisted Review, and recently developed a platform to enable a bank to manage and monitor a portfolio of litigation spanning 5 jurisdictions.

St John's College, Cambridge (MA, Law) 2003

Legal Assistant to Diana Wallis MEP at the European Parliament (particularly with respect to the Rome II Regulation) 2004

Joined Clifford Chance 2005

Admitted as solicitor in England and Wales 2007

Seconded to a leading global financial services firm 2010

Seconded to a global bank as Acting Head of EME Litigation 2015

Partner since 2019