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Katherine Neal

Head of Employee Incentives, Private Wealth Jersey

Jersey

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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 & 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

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"Katherine Neal is my go to. She is bright, approachable, knowledgeable and un-phased, with a manner which is supportive to Trustees. She has guided us through complex matters"

Legal 500 UK, 2023

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"Next Generation Partner"

Legal 500 UK, 2023

"Katherine Neal stands out. She is very driven, very friendly and very passionate about what she does. She fully invests herself in client matters"

Chambers UK, 2022

"Excellent - very pragmatic, responsive and a problem solver."

Chambers UK, 2022

"She is able to marry the practical requirements with the legal subtleties"

Chambers High Net Worth Guide, 2022

"The stand-out lawyer for me in Ogier’s Jersey team. She has a great deal of experience as both a Jersey and an English private client lawyer"

Legal 500 UK, 2022

"very astute and has the ability to see the big picture and then very quickly delve into very technical issues to deliver very practical solutions"

Legal 500 UK, 2022

"Recommended"

Who's Who Legal, Private Client, 2021

"Very driven, very friendly and very passionate about what she does. She fully invests herself in client matters"

Chambers High Net Worth Guide, 2021

"She was exceptional at issue-spotting outside of the immediate concerns raised by my client"

Chambers High Net Worth Guide, 2021

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