Kate Steele

Kate is a partner in the award-winning Commercial Dispute Resolution team with over 15 years’ experience of assisting clients with contentious commercial and corporate matters. Her practice is varied and includes contract and tort disputes, company and shareholder disputes (including unfair prejudice petitions, warranty and completion account claims), the protection of confidential information and commercial fraud. In addition, Kate is experienced in reputation protection and contentious data protection (and is also a Certified Data Protection Practitioner) including cybersecurity incidents.

Praised for understanding the business needs of her clients and her straightforward and commercially focussed advice, Kate is experienced in all aspects of litigation, as well as assisting clients to resolve disputes through alternative means such as mediation. Kate has proven track record of obtaining and defending urgent injunctions including freezing orders, restrictive covenant/confidential information injunctions and wrongful interference injunctions. She has acted on a number of reported cases and represented clients in the Court of Appeal.

Kate trained at Halliwells LLP before qualifying at Hill Dickinson LLP in 2010. Kate became a partner in the Commercial Dispute Resolution team in 2022.