Surrey law firm boosts franchise offering with new expert at the helm

Sep 2025

Leading Surrey law firm, Downs Solicitors, has bolstered its franchise services to clients as it appoints a high profile consultant solicitor to take the lead.

Kate Matthews, Consultant Solicitor at Downs’ Reigate office, is highly acclaimed by her peers in Worldwide Who’s Who Franchising. For many years she has been ranked for franchising services in the leading Legal Directories, Legal 500 and Chambers, which analyse and rank the capabilities of Law firms around the world based on feedback and research from more than 250,000 sources.

Kate Matthews

Consultant Solicitor
Based in: Reigate Office
Tel: + (0) 1306 502224
Email: Kate Matthews

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Bringing her wealth of experience to Downs when appointed as Consultant Solicitor in 2024, Kate now chairs the firm’s Franchising service, giving it a significant boost. With Kate as the lead, Downs will continue to offer specialist cross-department services across its four offices in Dorking, Reigate, Godalming and Cobham.

With many years’ experience in the sector, Kate and the Downs team are looking forward to continuing to help businesses on the broad range of franchising services from risk management and transactions, through to mediation and litigation.

Kate commented: “Franchising covers a multitude of legal disciplines which makes it a diverse and exciting arena in which to offer legal services. With businesses recognising the value of brand protection and their business operations, it’s great that Downs is strengthening its cross-practice team to provide a comprehensive franchise service to its clients. It’s a pleasure to combine the existing franchise experience within the Downs team to be able to offer clients a “one stop shop” or enable them to cherry pick the immediate specialist service across our four offices.”

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