Katherine Rowe joins the firm for the month of January from Norton Rose LLP, an international law firm based in London. Katherine trained at Norton Rose and qualified into the Mergers and Acquisitions team two years ago. She regularly acts for both public and private companies (based both in the UK and in Europe) as well as a number of hedge funds on their domestic and cross border M&A transactions. Katherine also provides general corporate advice to various international companies on an ongoing basis, including amongst others, a leading top end European car manufacturer. In addition, she was recently on secondment to BBC Worldwide Limited, the commercial arm of the British Broadcasting Corporation (the principal public sector broadcaster in the UK) assisting with a Competition Commission enquiry. During her time with Lowis & Gellen, Katherine will be looking to further develop the relationship between Lowis & Gellen and Norton Rose to better serve our mutual clients.