She has significant special situations, distressed debt, workouts, and cross-border restructuring and insolvency experience. Her restructuring and insolvency practice, coupled with her deep knowledge of transactional finance, allows her to provide holistic advice, and clients appreciate her ability to provide quick, effective advice that takes account of both the legal and commercial sides of a transaction.

On corporate matters, Kathleen has worked with everything from tech start-ups to established multinationals to scale, grow, fund, and globalise their businesses. This has drawn on her ability to get a quick grasp of the issues and her collaborative work ethic to guide a path to completion. Mandates include SPACs in the U.S. and EU markets, tech and fintech fundraisings, debt and equity capital markets, monetisation events and M&A, and everything in between.

Her finance practice is centred on advising financial institutions, private equity, funds, alternative lenders, and liquidity providers on finance matters. She also has a track record advising on M&A, corporate, tech, real estate, and disputes.

Kathleen is considered a go-to adviser for credit and financial institutions, private equity funds, corporates, partnerships, and individuals, with clients in areas such as property, operating businesses, structured finance, portfolio sales, fund and tech lending, aviation, film, data centres, co-ops, and derivative and insurance products.

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