Kate Jackson
UK Guide 2025
Band 1 : Mediators
Band 1
About
Provided by Kate Jackson
Practice Areas
"First-rate mediator” Kate Jackson is “the ideal mediator for complex disputes, bridging unbridgeable gaps without clients feeling pressured”. Published independent legal directory comments describe Kate as “charming, hardworking, and deft at bringing parties together”. The guides add: “She also possesses the ‘appropriate emotional intelligence combined with intellectual rigour, and has a very measured style’, is ‘very calm, authoritative, confident and assertive’, an ‘extremely capable mediator’ who ‘works extremely hard to get a result’.”
Kate is experienced in handling high value, high profile disputes and is able to understand new and complex cases quickly. Her clients have ranged from large public and international companies, where Kate is used to dealing at CEO and board level, to individuals with personal grievances. Kate is commercial, innovative and numerate.
Kate is ranked in band one of legal directories Chambers UK and The Legal 500.
Career
Dual-qualified, in England and Wales, and in New York. CEDR-accredited in 2005, Kate practises solely as a commercial mediator, with a thriving practice encompassing a broad range of commercial, banking, insurance, intellectual property, IT, employment, private client, property and professional negligence disputes.
Kate has over 25 years of dispute resolution experience, previously practising as a litigation and dispute resolution lawyer in both London (with Allen & Overy LLP) and in New York (with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP). She has also spent 2 periods working as a lawyer in investment banks, a 6 month secondment to Morgan Stanley’s New York in-house Institutional Securities litigation team in 2000 and 2 months with Barclays’ Corporate and Investment Banking litigation team in 2012.
Professional Memberships
Fellow of CMC
Publications
Kate has trained lawyers, business people and other professionals in mediation skills and in the skills of using mediation effectively for their own disputes. She also conducts training in-house for law firms, insurance companies and others.
Awards
2024 Lexology Client Choice Award in Mediation
Lexology
2024
Industry Sector Expertise
A brief overview of areas of practice:
Banking / Finance
Commercial contracts
Commercial fraud / Fraud
Company shareholders
Competition
Construction and engineering
Defamation
Employment
Franchise
Group actions
Insolvency
I.T.
Insurance / reinsurance
Intellectual Property
International
Local and national government
Oil and gas
Partnerships
Pensions
Probate / Trusts / Estates
Professional negligence
Property
Regulatory
Sport
Transport / logistics
Chambers Review
UK
Kate Jackson of Independent Mediators is a pre-eminent mediator with foremost abilities in financial service sector cases, where she leverages her experience working in investment banks. She is also strong in insurance and professional negligence matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"She's a brilliant mediator who always gets good results. She is very impressive."
"She is the best mediator I’ve come across."
"Her demeanour was very calming and professional. She could adapt her tactics to push through a deal positively. She is savvy, measured and commercial."
"She's a brilliant mediator who always gets good results. She is very impressive."
"She is the best mediator I’ve come across."
"Her demeanour was very calming and professional. She could adapt her tactics to push through a deal positively. She is savvy, measured and commercial."
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