Katie Sheikh

Senior Associate

020 3535 1787 KSheikh@kingsleynapley.co.uk

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Katie is a Senior Associate in the Real Estate team specialising in residential property, having joined the firm in June 2020.

Katie has a wide range of residential real estate experience acting for high net worth individuals, celebrities, entrepreneurs, corporate investors and developers. Katie’s clients include those based in the UK and overseas.

Katie is also ranked as Associates to watch in Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2025 for Real Estate: High Value Residential. She is also recommended by the Legal 500 for Residential Property.

Prior to joining Kingsley Napley, Katie trained and worked at Womble Bond Dickinson, qualifying into their Residential team in September 2019. Katie’s training included a six-month secondment to a large freehold asset management company, acting in-house for professional investors in residential property.

Katie frequently collaborates with other teams within Kingsley Napley to provide holistic support to clients to achieve their goals, such as our Corporate, Private Client and Family teams. Katie also has experience acting for clients purchasing properties with the proceeds of cryptocurrencies, working with our Criminal team to facilitate these transactions.

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Katie Sheikh was brilliant – great response times and cared about the sale of the property.

Legal 500 UK, 2025

Katie is exceptional and perfect for people needing support on complex and/or high value cross border support in the UK. I would also commend how Katie worked seamlessly well with my US counsel.

A Client, 2024

Katie has been outstanding in her support to me and I couldn’t fault her. I would not hesitate to instruct her again in all my property matters.

Chambers HNW 2025 _ Real Estate: High Value Residential

Areas of expertise

Residential: acting for both individuals and corporate investors in acquiring, disposing and transferring flats and houses, both owner-occupied and tenanted
Landlord and Tenant: acting for both landlords and tenants in relation to residential property matters such as tenancy agreements, lease extensions, licences and deeds of variation
Development: acting for a range of clients in acquiring development sites, site assembly and plot sales
Property Investment: acting in the sale and purchase of portfolios of residential properties for property companies
Real Estate Finance: assisting in the re-financing of residential property, whether for individuals or corporate investors, single units or portfolios

Recent work

Acting for a celebrity client on the purchase of a well-known Grade I listed property for £15 million
Acting on the sale of a multi-million Grade II* listed country estate for an overseas family trust company
Assisting in the multi-million pound sale of a block of 26 flats with a mixed-use unit in central London
Assisting with the restructuring of a multi-million pound portfolio of c. 200 residential freehold and leasehold properties
Acting for a corporate buy-to-let investor on purchases of multiple off-plan flats in various Central London developments

Publications & Press

‘My service charge has gone up 10% – do I have to pay it?’ Times Money Mentor, April 2025
‘How to maintain privacy & confidentiality when buying, selling or improving a prime residence‘ PrimeResi, December 2023
Quoted in ‘My service charge has gone up 10% – do I have to pay it?’ The Times, February 2023

Professional Societies & Memberships

The Law Society
Women in Property

What clients and directories say

“Katie Sheikh was responsive to requests and timely in her responses. There was good co-ordination between team members, and she was able to come up with intelligent solutions to problems that emerged in the process.” (Legal 500 UK, 2026)

“This time I mainly dealt with Katie Sheikh who was fantastic. We would highly recommend [..] to anyone we know.” (A Client, 2025)

“I was impressed with the communication and your thoroughness. Definitely one the best conveyancing experiences in 15 years dealing with property.” (A client, 2020)

“Katie was fantastic throughout the whole pressure, I’ve never personally had such a proactive solicitor in my whole estate agency career. She was honest, transparent and was good to her word at every stage of the transactions. If every solicitor had an ounce of Katie’s service/ knowledge, the whole sector would see an improvement and be a much more pleasurable experience.” (An agent, 2021)