Katie has over 25 years of experience advising on construction contracts in the real estate sector.  Katie is particularly known for her work with housing providers in the UK in procuring regeneration, investment and asset management projects.

Katie is Deputy Chair of The Housing Forum and Vice- Chair of the Manchester Constructing Excellence Best Practice Club and regularly speaks at construction and housing conferences on procurement and construction best practice including MMC. She was part of The Housing Forum working group reporting on Stopping Building Failures as a response to the Dame Judith Hackitt review in 2018 and led the procurement working group on MMC for affordable housing developers in 2019. She contributed to the 2020 Mark Farmer and HTA report on Build Homes Build Jobs Build Innovation on the importance of structuring procurements and contracts carefully to deliver MMC projects.

Katie specialises in supporting her clients through the procurement process to select providers and drafting suitable framework agreements and delivery contracts. Katie is often called upon for her understanding of alliancing and partnering forms of contract and is a Constructing Excellence Independent Verifier for Gold Standard Frameworks. In 2024 she recommended to the Task Group , two frameworks for successful Gold Standard Accreditation.

In March 2023 she was named Real Estate Lawyer of the Year at the inaugural Legal 500 Northern Powerhouse Awards – an achievement determined on The Legal 500’s market-leading independent research for the annual UK Solicitors guide.