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Katharina is a partner in Freshfields’ dispute resolution practice in Frankfurt. She helps navigate complex disputes, from individual litigation and arbitration to mass claims and collective redress.
Katharina advises on contentious proceedings and dispute prevention. Steering multi-layered matters with structure and clear assessments of the legal and financial risks, she provides a comprehensive overview and helps clients make informed decisions in high-stakes contentious situations. She works hand-in-hand with in-house lawyers, forming an integrated team to resolve disputes effectively. The German legal directory JUVE Handbook quotes market feedback describing her as “an ace at team leadership and steering major mandates”.
A particular focus of her work is navigating the crossroads between civil litigation, regulatory requirements and internal investigations. Where commercial disputes and civil liability claims run alongside regulatory scrutiny, she helps clients develop a coherent approach that accounts for parallel risks, ensuring that internal findings and external defence strategies are seamlessly aligned.
Anticipating and managing litigation risk early is central to Katharina’s practice. She helps clients identify emerging exposure before disputes escalate, stress-test scenarios and shape forward-looking defence strategies. In cross-border mandates involving multiple jurisdictions, she ensures that proceedings in different countries follow one consistent strategy and addresses the parallel risks that arise when disputes unfold in both civil law and common law systems.
Katharina advises clients across industries, with a particular focus on industrials, financial services and life sciences. Her...
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- Advising a global client on a crisis matter, involving regulatory, litigation and reputational risk across multiple jurisdictions.
- Acting for a global automotive manufacturer on the coordinated defence of large‑scale customer claims in multiple jurisdictions.
- Advising a global industrial client on a complex international dispute concerning a profit-sharing agreement with a supplier.
- Advising a private equity investor in a post-M&A arbitration in connection with potential antitrust violations.
- Advising an industrial client on a corporate dispute within an international group of companies regarding breaches of directors’ duties.
- Representing a company in arbitration proceedings relating to industrial plant construction.
- Advising various major national and international banks on investor disputes.
- Advising the founder of a group of companies and the family office of a family foundation on the cross-border enforcement of claims.
- Conducting a complex cross-border investigation into allegations of potential non-compliance with regulatory requirements.
- Advising various banks and financial institutions during investigations into alleged misconduct and systems and controls issues.
Dr. Katharina Shingler
Große Gallusstraße 14
Frankfurt am Main 60315