Katy Kirk

Partner - Dispute Resolution

Practice Areas

Real Estate Litigation

Profile

Katy qualified as a solicitor in 2002 specialising in real estate litigation. She joined BrookStreet des Roches in 2005 and became a partner in April 2010. Katy has experience in all areas of real estate litigation with particular expertise in complex landlord and tenant matters. She acts for an impressive range of landlords and tenants with a particular emphasis on the retail sector. She provides strategic commercial advice to internal estate teams and their professional advisors on all contentious property issues, portfolio management and enforcement of lease covenants generally.

Katy is a member of the Property Litigation Association.

Professional Experience

Notable Projects

• Advising two major retailers upon strategy when restructuring their property portfolios including actions against landlords for unreasonably withholding consent to assign
• Successfully advising an institutional landlord relating to a claim for failure to exercise a break option correctly