EDUCATION
Smith College, US (BA, Economics and Government, 2000 – 2004); University of Cambridge, UK (MPhil, Contemporary European Studies, 2004 – 2005); BPP Law School, UK (Graduate Diploma in Law, 2006 – 2007; Legal Practice Course, 2007 – 2008)
Katie Boyd
Paralegal/Office Manager
- +44 (0) 203 655 3636
- kboyd@brsllp.com
- London
Katie is a Paralegal in the London office, having joined the firm in 2019.
Katie assists with a range of tasks across the firm’s European cases.
Katie previously worked in the dispute resolution team in the London office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP where she gained experience in a range of disputes, litigation and arbitrations including in industries such as financial services and construction, engineering and procurement.
Notable representative matters include:
- Acting for MasterCard in its defence of the proposed £14bn opt-out collective action by consumers, which was among the largest claims brought in English legal history and one of the first collective actions under the UK’s collective action regime;
- Acting for ABB in co-ordinating its defence of claims in the UK and other jurisdictions arising from the gas insulated switchgear and power cables cartels;
- Acting for parties in follow-on litigation including arising from the synthetic rubber and the air cargo cartels; and
- Acting for a multinational company in the pharma sector on an internal antitrust investigation and related restructuring of internal processes.
Lauma is fluent in Latvian and has a working level knowledge of French and Russian. Other linguistics projects include Arabic, Japanese and German.
