Cate Barbour
Senior Counsel
Dubai
Cate Barbour joined Walkers in 2015 and is Senior Counsel in the Insolvency & Dispute Resolution Group, Dubai.
Cate Barbour joined Walkers in 2015 and is Senior Counsel in the Insolvency & Dispute Resolution Group, Dubai.
Cate has broad commercial litigation experience, including company and shareholder disputes, disputes involving ultra-high-value assets, trust disputes, and fraud claims. She regularly acts for clients based in the Middle East, and has particular experience in fraud-related litigation and in relation to freezing orders and other urgent injunctive relief, often in support of foreign Court and arbitration proceedings.
Cate has also spent time in the Walkers' BVI, Cayman Islands and London offices.
She has been named as a Future Leader in the WWL guide and is regularly recognised in Legal 500. Cate was featured as one of Global Restructuring Review's 40 women in restructuring in 2023.
Cate has broad commercial litigation experience, including company and shareholder disputes, disputes involving ultra-high-value assets, trust disputes, and fraud claims. She regularly acts for clients based in the Middle East, and has particular experience in fraud-related litigation and in relation to freezing orders and other urgent injunctive relief, often in support of foreign Court and arbitration proceedings.
Cate has also spent time in the Walkers' BVI, Cayman Islands and London offices.
She has been named as a Future Leader in the WWL guide and is regularly recognised in Legal 500. Cate was featured as one of Global Restructuring Review's 40 women in restructuring in 2023.
"A great lawyer and an expert in the procedural law of the BVI."
Experience and recent work
Prior to joining Walkers, Cate worked in the Commercial Litigation group of Trowers & Hamlins LLP in London and the Middle East.
Qualifications
Admitted in:
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- England and Wales (not practising)
Education:
- MA (Hons) Social and Political Science, Cambridge University, UK
- LLB (Hons) College of Law, London, UK
Co-chair of IWIRC (Dubai) ICC Fraudnet - Cayman Islands Future Member. Cate is a member of the BVI Bar Association.
2024 Legal 500 – Rising Star (EMEA) – "Cate Barbour is an excellent strategist and super responsive. She has stellar knowledge of cross-border litigation and "an exceptional lawyer with an incredible work ethic."
2024 WWL – Future Leader (EMEA)
2023 WWL – Future Leader
2023 Legal 500 - Rising Star (EMEA) - "Cate Barbour is absolutely exceptional. She works extremely hard in challenging circumstances to help her client achieve a great result in both the Cayman and BVI Courts. She is extremely knowledgeable and user-friendly and acted as a great interface to her Cayman and BVI colleagues"
2023 Legal 500 - Rising Star (British Virgin Islands) - "a great lawyer and an expert in the procedural law of the BVI"
2022 Legal 500 - Rising Star (British Virgin Islands)
2022 WWL - Future Leader
2021 Legal 500 - Rising Star (British Virgin Islands)
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