Kate Payne
Kate Payne is a partner in the Commercial, Regulatory and Employment group.
Kate Payne is a partner who heads the Commercial, Regulatory and Employment Group. She is an employment law specialist with a focus on employment disputes and issues in the insurance market.
Kate qualified as a solicitor in 1995 and become a partner in Elborne Mitchell in 2000. Kate naturally gravitated to a firm specialising in insurance as a number of her family have been involved in this market one way or another. Kate has experience in a variety of commercial transactions and disputes including corporate, shareholder, employment and regulatory matters.
Kate has experience in dealing with a broad range of contentious and non-contentious employment issues acting for both employers and employees. She regularly advises on team moves, bonus and share disputes together with dismissals including redundancy and unfair dismissal. She also advises on TUPE issues. Kate has particular interest in dealing with boardroom bust-ups and the enforceability of post termination restrictions in employment contracts.
Over the years, Kate has been involved in a number of high profile employment cases, many of these involving team moves. These include the widely reported landmark case before the Court of Appeal of Samengo-Turner & Others v Marsh & McLennan, in which the Court of Appeal granted injunctive relief to prevent a team of London reinsurance brokers being sued in the US. Kate has also advised on large scale international redundancy programmes and been involved in Employment Tribunal litigation including substantial unpaid bonus claims and a variety of discrimination claims.
Kate is a member of the Employment Lawyers Association and speaks on employment issues. She is also a member of The Worshipful Company of Insurers. Kate lives in Central London and has a young family.