Katt Godfray

Katt’s practice combines high-stakes litigation in the English courts with complex, cross-border arbitration. She represents investors, multinational corporates, and high-net-worth individuals in strategic, high-value, and reputation-critical disputes. 

Katt has experience advising clients in the energy and financial services sectors on contractual and regulatory disputes, interlocutory relief, and collective action proceedings.  

Before joining the firm, Katt worked at a major U.S. law firm in London, focusing on corporate M&A. Her transactional experience spans cross-border M&A and complex restructurings, as well as general corporate advisory matters. Katt’s combination of transactional and contentious experience lends itself to developing commercially focused solutions for clients.

Katt's experience includes advising:

• A solar energy company in an ICC arbitration concerning construction delays and liquidated damages valued at c. GDP 1.5 billion
• A financial services client in connection with several strategic litigation matters
• A pharmaceutical company in a series of cross-border banking disputes related to security enforcement and insolvency
• A multinational mining company in an ICC investor-state arbitration involving coal mines in Poland
• A multinational mining company in an LCIA investor-state arbitration involving gold mines in the State of Burkina Faso
• A high-net-worth individual in successfully recovering c. GDP 130 million in misappropriated funds from an insolvent wealth management company*
• A multinational bank regarding a dispute with two of its customers concerning a high-value authorized push-payment (APP) fraud*
• A high-net-worth individual in successfully discharging account freezing orders, and subsequent dismissal of the Metropolitan Police’s anti-money laundering investigation into that individual*

*Matters handled prior to joining BSF.