Katie Connolly

Katie Connolly

Website https://www.nortonrosefulbright.com/en/people/1015491

Biography

Katie Connolly is a senior associate in the International Arbitration group in San Francisco. Her practice has focused on complex cross-border disputes, including international commercial and investor-state arbitration, enforcement of international awards and judgments, and complex commercial litigation in both state and federal courts. Having formerly resided in the firm's Washington, D.C. office, Katie maintains close ties to D.C. clients and colleagues. Katie has been recognized as a Rising Star by Legal 500 (2023), Super Lawyers (DC 2020 and Northern California 2021, 2022, 2023), and CPR (2023). Katie's representation of corporate and individual clients has spanned a diverse range of business sectors, including energy, infrastructure, mining, aerospace, banking and finance, manufacturing, securities and technology. Her extensive experience in arbitration and litigation encompasses disputes arising from purchase and sale agreements, energy contracts, joint operating agreements, sales of goods, and investment agreements.

Katie serves as assistant editor for ITA in Review, which is the flagship publication of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA), and well as serving as an ITA Advisory Board Member. She teaches as an adjunct professor of Global Lawyering Skills at McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento, California. Katie actively contributes to the endeavors of California Arbitration through her dedicated service on multiple committees.

Katie is admitted to practice in California and the District of Columbia, as well as the Southern, Northern, Central and Eastern Districts of California, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Katie currently serves as Vice-Chair of Norton Rose Fulbright's US WiN (Women's) Network, which is dedicated to building and maintaining an accessible, dynamic and inspirational environment for women within the firm, providing opportunities to make meaningful contacts globally, and accessing role models, mentors and sponsors at all levels.