Katie Parkes

Katie advises in all areas of private family law, with a particular focus on resolving financial matters between UHNW divorcing/divorced couples, unmarried parents and advising on pre/post-nuptial agreements. Many of the cases in which Katie is instructed, involve complex financial assets and/or international elements.

Katie is consistently ranked in The Legal 500 UK and Private Client Global Elite, she was recently recognised in her category at the Citywealth Future Leaders Awards 2024 and is listed as a “Rising Star” in the Spear’s Family Lawyers Index 2025 with a focus on financial matters between divorcing couples.

Katie is “without any doubt one of the most charming and vivacious solicitors in the UHNW field” and is acknowledged for “handling the most complex cases with ease”. “Her client care is excellent. She is patient, and empathetic with a steely resolve to secure the best outcome for the client”. Katie is acknowledged for her “incredible eye for detail and always has an encyclopaedic knowledge of her cases”. She is “extraordinarily bright and insightful” and has “superb judgment”.

Katie read Chemistry & Law at Bristol University. She qualified as a solicitor in 2013 and joined Payne Hicks Beach in 2019, she was promoted to Senior Associate in 2019 and Legal Director in 2024.

• KV v KV (No 2) [2024] EWFC 359 (UHNW - jurisdiction trial)

• KV v KV [2024] EWFC 165 (UHNW - MPS & LSPO)

• Loh v Loh-Gronager [2024] EWFC 241 (UHNW -PNA)

• MB v CD [2024] EWHC 751 (Fam) (HNW - LSPO/legal funding)

• Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs: [2022] EWFC 135 (UNHW –PNA – Child Maintenance)

• Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs [2022] EWFC 45 (UHNW – enforcement MPS)

• Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs: MPS [2022] EWFC 6 (UHNW – MPS)

• HRH Princess Haya v Ruler of Dubai (UHNW involving 18 reported judgments:

Wardship/ Non-Molestation/ Immunity/ Foreign Act of State/ phone hacking/ Part III/LSPO/Lives With)

• Sekhri v Ray [2014] EWCA Civ 119 (jurisdiction trial - domicile)

• Chapman v Kawash [2014] EWHC 4481 (Fam) (setting aside consent orders)

• Sharbatly v Shagroon [2012] EWCA Civ 1507 (UHNW - Part III non-marriage)