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About the author![]() Catriona Watt, Fox
Catriona Watt is a Senior Associate at Fox. She advises financial institutions, professional partnerships and LLPs, senior executives and partners on employment and partnership law. Her experience includes advising both institutions and individuals on sensitive and confidential senior level appointments and departures. She regularly drafts, and advises both employers and individual executives and partners on the terms of service agreements, staff polices and procedures, compromise agreements, LLP agreements, and retirement deeds. Catriona also deals with hedge fund and private equity structures and the accompanying documentation, frequently with a complex bonus and incentive element. Catriona regularly provides tactical advice to individuals leaving one role to join a competitor. There are often associated issues regarding restrictive covenants, the law relating to team moves and the individual's overriding fiduciary obligations to their firm or employer. Catriona has been actively involved in Employment Tribunal and High Court litigation including high-value discrimination-related claims. She gives clear and pragmatic advice in situations which are usually time-critical and high-profile. Where there is a market-sensitive or public interest angle, Catriona works with PR advisers. Catriona has had experience of advising and coordinating large redundancy exercises and office closures for employers. She also regularly advises employers on defending Employment Tribunal and High Court claims by employees and executives. Catriona is a member of the Employment Law Association, Association of Partnership Practitioners and is the Communications Officer of the Young Lawyers' Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA) , for which she produces regular newsletters. Catriona regularly attends IBA conferences and events. Catriona often writes for industry press and her most recent articles have been published in Financier Worldwide and the IBA e-news publication. Fox is a specialist employment and partnership law firm based in the heart of the City of London. |
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