Kitty St Aubyn is a Senior Associate (Barrister) practising primarily in the CMS Corporate Crime group. 

Kitty specialises in advising clients on solutions to novel, complex issues, with particular expertise in financial crime, fraud, civil recovery and the proceeds of crime. 

Kitty’s financial-crime experience includes acting as counsel for a senior trader accused of manipulating interest rates and representing a key defendant in the News International phone hacking trial. She regularly advises clients in relation to money-laundering matters and asset-forfeitures. Kitty has worked extensively in professional discipline proceedings, inquests and public inquiries, and has considerable experience in resolving issues with government bodies and conducting fact-finding investigations.

Kitty regularly delivers seminars to a range of stakeholders on emerging areas of law from Unexplained Wealth Orders to training regulatory prosecutors in the conduct of investigations. Kitty is interested in the intersection between criminal and public law and is experienced in litigating sensitive issues relating to mental ill health and fitness to plead in both criminal and disciplinary proceedings.

Prior to practising in law, Kitty worked as a Parliamentary speech writer, went on to act as a representative of advertising stakeholders to UK and EU government, before being employed by the UK Government on an bribery and corruption investigation in a British Overseas Territory.