Katherine Kennedy

Senior Legal Consultant – Software-as-a-Service

“Incredibly easy to deal with and straight-forward in negotiations, taking a pragmatic approach to legal points that some lawyers turn into problems.”

Ed HayesPartner at TLT LLP

About Katherine

Katherine is a highly experienced commercial lawyer. She has significant expertise supporting B2B SaaS providers to close their customer deals, taking a pragmatic approach and delivering outstanding results, at pace.

Katherine’s Expertise

Katherine’s work focuses on closing customer MSAs for our clients as well as related SoWs, DPAs and other technical elements of a transaction.

Katherine has significant experience advising technology businesses in the fintech and payments industry.

Her legal expertise includes negotiating commercial agreements, data protection issues, intellectual property matters and financial services regulation.

Katherine’s Career history

Katherine started her legal career training and practising in the Intellectual Property department at Slaughter & May.

Katherine went on to work in-house at an investment bank and then spent 8 years working with VocaLink (now part of the MasterCard group), leading on major financial services infrastructure contracts.

She went on to work with blockchain provider SETL, where she advised the Board in addition to her legal duties, which included overseeing investments, JVs and M&A as well as commercial contracts and advising on applications of distributed ledger technology.

More recently Katherine led the legal team at payments provider Pay.com and during this time she was appointed to the Board of Coinify.

Katherine also served as the Data Protection Officer for the Open Banking Implementation Entity at its initiation, as well as for a number of other Open Banking and payments firms.

Katherine’s Education

BA (Hons) Jurisprudence at Oxford (1999)

College of Law (Chester) (2000)

Katherine’s Admissions

Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England & Wales, admitted September 2003.

Authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority with SRA number 292492.

“Positive, finds sensible compromises and solutions to avoid black letter law derailing commercial intentions, and clearly understands the market inside out.”

Ed HarrisIn house lawyer, Citibank

“Katherine is so passionate and spirited in her work always coming up with solutions and negotiating positions when required. She always works with and seeks information from the team to help with her understanding and her interpretation of the contract.”

Steve WrightProduct lead, VocaLink

“Katherine has demonstrated an amazing work ethic; an ability to carefully negotiate through some difficult conversations by clearly articulating her point of view; a quite frankly amazing ability to turn round deliverables to very challenging tight time frames, whilst always maintaining a positive attitude and great (dry) sense of humour.”

David McPheeChief Policy and Engagement Officer at Pay.UK

“We found you extremely pleasant to deal with – you were professional, courteous, calm, proactive and sensible in your approach (and jolly nice too!).”

Martin CookPartner, Burges Salmon LLP

“Katherine combines a highly forensic approach to problems with an easy and popular style. She is unfailingly efficient, very hard-working and properly discreet.”

Peter RandallIndependent Non Executive Director

“I had the pleasure to work with Katherine as our external lawyer on various contracts in the financial technology industry. She has a very good understanding of the industry and her contract examinations and assessments were always extremely useful for us.”

Anja RoxinSenior Legal Counsel, BEI MSG Systems

“Her professionalism and her diligence helped us create legal frameworks across all of our customer interactions, and created a level of automation without which our business could not function.”

Nick BanerjeeCRO, Pay.com