Katie McDougall

Practice Areas

Katie McDougall is a lawyer based in London, advising on risk, including dispute resolution and sanctions.

Her sanctions practice involves advising clients across all sectors, but particularly in energy, natural resources, financial institutions and transport. Katie assists clients with financial and trade sanctions for all major regimes, including compliance procedures, due diligence, specific transactions and investigations.

She has extensive knowledge of advising on the sanctions aspects of various energy and natural resource projects (and related industries, including financing, transport and insurance), for joint venture partners, lenders and contractors, and has dealt with both OFSI and OFAC with such projects. Katie also advises various shipping and aviation businesses, and their banks or relevant export credit agencies, on trade and financing for sanctioned jurisdictions and/or sanctioned parties. She has specific experience of drafting and advising on sanctions provisions, as well as providing advice in relation to risk, compliance and strategy.

Katie's disputes practice covers domestic and international disputes across the energy sector, and in particular oil and gas, power and renewables. She has handled energy disputes across the supply chain, including upstream, downstream, wholesale, retail and services, and power and renewables projects.

Katie's experience covers both court litigation and international arbitration. She advises mainly on complex, high-value disputes in international arbitrations conducted under institutional bodies such as the ICC, LCIA and SCC. Katie was part of the team that successfully advised Israel Electric Corporation in obtaining an ICC award of over US$2bn in damages following the lack of gas supply from Egypt in the aftermath of the Arab Spring (including defending the Swiss appeal).

She is qualified to practice in the UK, and is also admitted to practice in the courts of Western Australia and the High Court of Australia.