Katie Parkes

Katie Parkes is a Legal Director in PHB’s Family Department, advising on all aspects of private family law. She specialises in resolving financial matters between High Net Worth and Ultra High Net Worth (UHNW) divorcing and divorced couples, unmarried parents, and clients seeking pre- or post-nuptial agreements. Her cases frequently involve substantial assets and an international dimension and she is equally at home acting for the financially weaker party as for the financially stronger one.

Katie is consistently ranked in the leading independent directories including: Chambers HNW, Chambers UK, Legal 500 UK, the Spear's Family Law Index, Private Client Global Elite and Doyle’s guide.

Katie is noted as being “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 recognised for her “incredible eye for detail and always has an encyclopaedic knowledge of her cases”.

She is referred to as being “extraordinarily bright and insightful” and has “superb judgment”. She is “a wonderful person to have on your team,” dedicated to “achieving the best for her clients”, “a sunny character, belying a fierce determination for and loyalty to her clients”.

Katie “knows the law and procedure backwards” and can manage “massive legal teams in multiple jurisdictions… all with humour and good grace”. To clients, Katie brings a combination of steely resolve and warmth to every case and has “formidable negotiation skills and tactical acumen” whilst remaining “a source of support and reassurance and indeed good humour”.

Katie has worked on some of the firm’s most notable family law cases with Baroness Shackleton, Nick Manners, Ben Parry-Smith and Harriet Errington, including representing HRH Princess Haya of Jordan in the litigation against the Ruler of Dubai, Loh v Loh-Gronager, Kroupeeva vs Kroupeev, KV vs KV and Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs.

Katie read Chemistry & Law at the University of Bristol and qualified as a solicitor in 2013. She joined PHB in 2019 and was promoted to Legal Director in 2024.