Katherine Neal

Katherine advises professional trustees, settlors and beneficiaries on matters relevant to trusts and foundations, including drafting trust deeds and advising on complex structures including employee reward schemes, JPUTs and pensions.

Background and experience

Katherine advises professional trustees, settlors and beneficiaries on matters relevant to trusts and foundations, including drafting trust deeds and advising on complex structures including employee reward schemes, JPUTs and pensions.

Katherine joined Ogier in 2012 having previously been a Partner at Harvey Ingram Shakespeare; working in their Leicester and Birmingham offices advising a variety of high net worth private, charitable and commercial clients on contentious and non-contentious issues.

Katherine graduated from the University of Lincoln with a BA Hons in Law and French and completed her academic training at College of Law, York.

Katherine is a member of the International Pension and Employee Benefit Association Lawyers (IPEBLA), the  Association of Contentious Trusts and Probate Specialists (ACTAPS), the working party for charities legislation in Jersey and until leaving the UK in 2012 was the Vice Chair of the Law Society of England and Wales Private Client Section.

Katherine has been recognised in the Citywealth IFC Power Women Top 200 list for 2018.

Admitted in:
2000 - England and Wales

Recent deals include acting for the employee benefit trustees on:

Boohoo.com successful AIM listing

Cinven & Partnership Listing on the London Stock Exchange

Advent International sale of Domestic & General.

The sale of Deutsche Bank’s Global Transaction Banking division to Vistra