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Kate Silbermann

Kate Silbermann

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Kate is a Senior Counsel within the Private Client group specialising in contentious trusts and estates work. Kate has extensive litigation experience in acting for trustees and beneficiaries in England, Jersey and other offshore jurisdictions including Bermuda and the Bahamas.  Kate also has considerable civil fraud, asset tracing and recovery experience and she assists clients with alternative dispute resolution strategies, including mediation.  Kate has recently developed an expertise in dealing with insolvent trust structures following her work on the precedent setting Z Trust case for which our team was awarded the Contentious Trusts and Probate Team of the year at the British Legal Awards in 2020.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Private client
Anti-bribery & corruption
Corporate crime

Sectors

Business & professional services
Financial institutions & insurance
Private wealth

CV

Since 2016 Senior Counsel, Taylor Wessing
2016 - 2021 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2014 - 2015 Senior Associate, Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co
2010 - 2014 Associate, Lawrence Graham
2008 - 2010 Trainee Solicitor, Lawrence Graham
2010 Admitted as a solicitor, England & Wales
2008 LPC, College of Law, London
2005 LLB Law, University of East Anglia

Career

Since 2016 Senior Counsel, Taylor Wessing
2016 - 2021 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing
2014 - 2015 Senior Associate, Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co
2010 - 2014 Associate, Lawrence Graham
2008 - 2010 Trainee Solicitor, Lawrence Graham

Education

2010 Admitted as a solicitor, England & Wales
2008 LPC, College of Law, London
2005 LLB Law, University of East Anglia

Memberships & Associations

Contentious Trust Associates network in London
Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP)

Awards

Chambers and Partners High Net Worth Guide 2024

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Associate to watch

Eprivateclient 2023 NextGen Leaders

Kate was one of the select practitioners included in eprivateclient's definitive annual list of leading young private client practitioners in the UK and UK Crown Dependencies.

Chambers and Partners HNW 2022

Private Wealth Disputes - Associate to Watch: Kate Silbermann is a senior counsel specialising in contentious trusts and estates matters. She has assisted on various offshore trust disputes and significant deputyship work. A barrister praises her approach, saying: "Kate was oustandingly good to deal with, extremely able and very on the ball."

Legal 500 UK 2022

Contentious trusts and probate

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The post Brexit position for trustees

17 October 2023

by Alexander Erskine and Kate Silbermann

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Privy Council clarifies the nature and ranking of a former trustee's equitable lien in insolvent trusts

13 October 2022

by Emma Jordan and Kate Silbermann

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Winners of Contentious Trust and Estates Team of the Year

20 November 2020

by Emma Jordan and Kate Silbermann

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