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Kelly Heath
Of Counsel

Kelly Heath

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  • English

Kelly is Of Counsel in the Manchester office of CMS. She has significant experience in all aspects of commercial litigation, acting for both claimants and defendants in high value and complex matters.  Kelly is recognised as a key lawyer by Legal 500 and is ranked as an Associate to Watch by Chambers and Partners.

Kelly regularly acts for large corporations, shareholders and directors advising on a broad range of legal issues, including contractual and tortious claims, shareholder/director disputes, claims for misrepresentation, and breach of warranty matters.

Kelly has conducted major cases in the various divisions of the High Court and the Court of Appeal. She also has extensive experience of assisting clients with resolving disputes and negotiating settlements using various alternative dispute resolution methods, including mediation and always seeks to achieve pragmatic and commercial results for clients.  

From an advisory perspective, Kelly regularly supports client with crisis management issues including, investigations and Dawn Raids. 

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    "Kelly Heath demonstrated extensive knowledge of the subject matter, and communicated in a relevant and clear-to-understand way. She is friendly and approachable."
    Chambers UK, 2025
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    "Kelly Heath is very tenacious and strong on the detail. She is very hard-working."
    Chambers UK, 2025
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    "Kelly Heath is very bright, knows what's going on and is unflappable."
    Chambers UK, 2025
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    "Kelly Heath is very competent and tenacious in her forensic examination of documents and has the skills in understanding the issues and how to advance the arguments."
    Chambers UK, 2025
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    "Kelly Heath is very straightforward, knowledgeable and bright. She is good at distilling quite complex and intellectual issues in a commercially digestible manner."
    Chambers UK, 2025
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    "Intelligent, diligent and meticulous"
    Legal 500, 2022

Relevant experience

  • Advising an airport in relation to a multi-million-pound breach of contract claim against an international airline.
  • Advising the International Tin Association as the Defendant to an abuse of dominance competition claim in the Competition Appeal Tribunal where the Claimant is seeking damages of USD$25 million.
  • Advising an international investment fund on the settlement of a deferred consideration dispute where the sums being claimed were in excess of €6 million.
  • Advising a large private pension scheme in relation to Part 8 construction and rectification claims, as well as a potential negligence claim against its former legal advisers.
  • Advising a municipal utilities company in relation to a complex joint venture/shareholder dispute which was ultimately resolved by way of an asset sale with a value in excess of USD$1billion.

Education

  • 2003 – Legal Practice Course, College of Law, Chester.
  • 2002 – LL.B (Hons) Law, University of Manchester, Manchester.