Katie leads our Product Liability & Product Safety team in the UK. She is a litigator with broad experience in the technology, life sciences, automotive, consumer & retail, and food & drink sectors. Katie specialises in guiding clients through high-value contractual, shareholder/boardroom, insurance claims and technology disputes, product liability defence litigation and investigations.
As well as disputes, Katie regularly advises clients on product safety and compliance matters including labelling and authorisations, risk assessments, product recalls and regulatory investigations. She will support you if you are facing regulatory action in the UK from Trading Standards, BEIS, FSA and HSE, and in connection with Coroners' Inquests.
Katie regularly works with clients in the technology sector, with a focus on emerging technologies such as automated vehicles, 3D printing, and Internet of Things.
Katie is the editor of Product Protection, Taylor Wessing's international product safety and product liability blog.
Women in Telecoms and Technology
The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders
The Food Law Group
DRI International
The Society for Computers and Law
International Association of Defense Counsel
Next generation partner
Leading partner
"A Taylor Wessing lifer, Katie Chandler was one of the first female associates to become a partner while on maternity leave. She hit the ground running upon making partnership, creating the firm’s UK product liability and safety practice in 2018. Product liability is a tough market to break into but Chandler’s leadership has been instrumental in quickly raising the defence team’s profile and cementing it as one of the handful of key product liability players in the UK market."
Product Liability Defence
Product liability (mainly defendant) - Band 3: “She is an excellent lawyer with a great overview of all things product liability” and “Katie knows the legal circumstances and understands client needs”.
Katie Chandler leads Taylor Wessing's disputes and investigations practice. Her product liability work covers a range of sectors including technology, medical devices and consumer goods. She frequently oversees large-scale cross-border litigation and product recall matters.
‘The team around Katie Chandler is superb. They have masterfully guided our client through the vagaries of High Court litigation and were always a step ahead of the opposing side.’ ‘Katie Chandler is a stellar litigator: quick-witted, analytical and astute.’
"Product liability (defendant) - Next Generation Partner: "Partner Katie Chandler is always across the detail and gives clear, commercial advice." "Katie Chandler was able to get quickly up to speed in a complex situation and helped us to achieve the results we were looking for. This involved excellent coordination and communication throughout the process."
'Quick-witted, analytical and astute.'
Product Liability Defence in England
Product Liability
Next Generation Partner – Commercial Litigation: Premium: "Katie Chandler is on top of things, very skilled and experienced in High Court litigation. Her case approach was as efficient as tactically astute." "Katie Chandler is across all the detail and handles client expectations brilliantly."
Retail and consumer
Product liability - defendant: "Katie Chandler is across all the detail and handles client expectations brilliantly."
Market commentators for The Legal 500 UK 2021 describe Katie as "a real star" and "a very capable, experienced, reliable and patient partner – an expert in product liability". Katie was also named a Next Generation Partner in the "Commercial litigation: premium" category.
Named a Next Generation Partner in the "Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation" category.
"Associate to watch" - Litigation
Product liability - defendant: "Katie Chandler is across all the detail and handles client expectations brilliantly."
Retail and consumer
Representing 114 Nissan dealerships in the defence of diesel emission claims relating to the Pan NOx group litigation. Acting on the defence of UK diesel emission claims for dealership networks of OEMs.
Acting for UKHospitality and 200 policyholders in relation to the well-publicised UK business interruption test case brought by the FCA, which went all the way to the Supreme Court and confirmed coverage for businesses which suffered losses as a result of Government restrictions imposed during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Acted on the defence of auditor negligence claims valuing £200 million, and associated regulatory and criminal proceedings, relating to the collapse of the Patisserie Valerie chain.
We acted for UKHospitality and its 200 members in relation to the well-publicised Covid-19 business interruption insurance test case brought by the FCA who advanced the claims against insurers on behalf policyholders and which was determined by the Supreme Court in January 2021.
Advising a US manufacturer on a worldwide product recall of certain medical devices used for surgical interventions on tendons, peripheral nerves and joints to prevent the formation of post-surgical adhesions. These devices are packaged individually with a third-party manufactured cannula accessory for application/ delivery to the treated site which has been affected by potential fraudulent reporting of sterilization results. Our UK office is managing and co-ordinating a worldwide recall of the client's potentially impacted products across 26 jurisdictions with assistance from our international offices.
Advising liquidators on the successful settlement of complex and high value cross border litigation in England. The claims included numerous Insolvency Act causes of action along with fraud and unlawful means conspiracy.
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