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Catherine Stockler

SENIOR ASSOCIATE
catherine@ghaffarifussell.com
+44 (0)20 7839 9718
+44 (0)7778 902 164 

Following her qualification as a Solicitor in September 2017, Catherine worked for five years at Ghaffari Fussell LLP in the role of Associate Solicitor. Catherine then spent two years at Winckworth Sherwood LLP from September 2022 as a Senior Associate before returning to Ghaffari Fussell LLP in September 2024.

Catherine undertook her training contract at Lester Aldridge LLP where she focussed on dispute resolution, insolvency and finance litigation, and prior to her transition to law, Catherine worked for McKinsey & Company.

Catherine has worked on a wide variety of claims in the County Courts and High Court and Competition Appeal Tribunal in the areas of finance, technology and commercial law.

Catherine has experience of advising a mixture of high-net-worth individuals, businesses, and corporations (including SMEs and international organisations.) She has worked across a broad range of areas of litigation, including fraud claims and shareholder disputes as well as contract disputes in the media, finance, education, leisure, mining and technology fields.

Catherine is experienced in advising clients on professional negligence disputes and has litigated in claims of anti-competitive behaviour, defamation, fraud, contract disputes and intellectual property infringement. Catherine regularly works with lawyers in other jurisdictions and has been involved in cases with cross-jurisdictional elements involving the Cayman Islands, USA, Isle of Man, Brazil, UAE and the DRC amongst others. She also has experience of international arbitration. 

    • Acting as part of the team on a highly complex multi-million dollar competition case against Microsoft for abuse of a dominant position and anti-competitive behaviour to restrict, prevent or distort trade, which is currently progressing in the Competition Appeal Tribunal

    • Acting for a cryptocurrency mining company in dispute with its former IT supplier over the alleged failure to provide a system which would permit the owners of cryptocurrencies holders to spend their cryptocurrency in real world transactions using a debit card: Digital Capital Limited v Genesis Mining Iceland EHF [2021] EWHC 2462 (Comm)

    • Acting successfully for the promoter of a company sued for fraudulent misrepresentation while a parallel criminal investigation was ongoing: Barley v. Muir [2018] EWHC 619 (QB)

    • Acting for clients in a dispute relating to the leadership of the Libyan Investment Authority and its associated assets in a fast-moving claim involving multiple jurisdictions, financial sanctions amid political upheaval

    • Working on a shareholder dispute in a Brazilian gold-mining claim, involving UK liquidation proceedings and two  concurrent arbitrations in the Brazilian courts

    • Acting for a leisure group in a multi-million pound breach of contract dispute

    • Advising a high-net worth individual on matters involving potential defamation and protection of privacy

    • Advising clients in the financial sector on £6M claim pertaining to breach of an employment contract and on claims involving an employee’s breach of restrictive covenants

    • Acting for an individual in disputes with various gambling operators in several jurisdictions regarding breaches of terms and conditions and associated claims

    • Advising clients on a dispute between joint venture partners pertaining to a property development valued at £100M

    • Acting on a £1M breach of contract claim within the energy sector.

    • MA Cantab -   New Hall, University of Cambridge 2005-2008

    • Graduate Diploma in Law, BPP Law School 2012-2014

    • Legal Practice Course, BPP Law School 2013-2014

“Catherine Stockler… acts in civil fraud claims, and contract, shareholder and breach of directors’ duty disputes.”

— Legal 500 rankings 2025