Kathleen Garrett

She covers the full lifecycle of a business. Her time spent in court and disputes gives her a practical edge, which informs what to do when starting or scaling a business. This, combined with a cool head, competitive nature, and a good instinct, gives results that her clients come back for.

Kathleen’s practice has a global focus across the full corporate and finance lifecycle, from capital raising and M&A to distressed situations, workouts, and formal insolvency processes.

Restructuring – Kathleen combines deep restructuring and insolvency capability with a sophisticated transactional finance and corporate background. Her experience includes special situations, distressed debt, portfolio sales, asset realisations, and cross‑border restructurings, complemented by meaningful time in court that provides a practical, “when things go wrong” perspective on risk and enforcement.

Corporate – Her practice ranges from early‑stage tech to established multinationals. She advises clients on scaling, funding, partnering/JVs, monetisation, and globalisation strategies. Her mandates have included SPACs, tech and fintech fundraisings and scale-ups, debt and equity capital markets transactions, bolt‑on acquisitions, acqui-hire, and M&A.

Finance – Kathleen has deep experience across syndicated lending, fund finance, leasing, factoring, derivatives, structured finance, asset backed lending, collateral and security packages, fund set-up, debt funds, real estate, and related matters.

Strategically important matters – Kathleen also handles matters ranging from minority oppression to nuanced contractual disputes central to enterprise value, to multifaceted claims, to business scale-up strategy development and roll-out. She is an instinctive litigator with a preference for out-of-court resolution but tough when needed.

Clients consider her a go‑to adviser, valuing her ability to quickly grasp the commercial drivers of a matter and guide a pragmatic path to completion.

The Legal 500 2023 describes Kathleen as drawing on a “keen legal intellect” and “a superb understanding of commercial issues”.

“She is an expert in her field, very organised, responsive and always looking ahead to the next steps.” – Chambers 2026