Kate is an experienced financial services and banking and finance professional. She heads both the investment funds and the banking and finance practices of Voisin Law and in recent years she has sat on a number of working groups related to these areas.
Her regulatory and funds practice specialises in the legal, regulatory and corporate governance aspects of investment funds, and holding companies and managers. She particularly enjoys dealing with complex legal and regulatory issues. Her experience includes the formation and maintenance of regulated, private and unregulated investment funds (including Sharia’h compliant vehicles) as well as restructuring distressed funds. She has successfully made first of their kind regulatory applications with respect to the funds she advises.
Her banking and finance practice focusses on advising on large corporate borrowing transactions, predominantly relating to commercial real estate groups borrowing from conventional lenders and debt funds. The debt is regularly £100m +, often involves 30+ corporate entities and multiple lenders providing senior and mezzanine debt at various points across the group.
Her practice includes structured finance transactions. She has advised upon the establishment of a number of CLOs during the last 5 years and continues to advise these clients upon their regulated structures as well as overseeing the team in relation to the establishment of new CLOs. She has experience advising upon medium term note programmes for a number of large international financial institutions.
In addition, she advises these clients on all aspects of group structuring, company and contract law applicable to the establishment and/or restructuring of such groups.
She is client focused forming strong client relationships based upon understanding the client’s business and its needs, placing the client central to the relationship, advising honestly and providing pragmatic solutions rather than just legal advice.
