Professional Bio:

Kate is a Partner in Kirkland's European Restructuring Group. She has extensive restructuring and insolvency experience, including advising strategic investors, insolvency practitioners, turnaround managers, directors, debtors and creditors in all forms of national and international financial restructurings and insolvencies.

Kate leads the European Restructuring Group’s technical business development initiatives and support the team in problem-solving on their market-leading deals. This includes advising on a variety of restructuring plans, schemes of arrangement, company voluntary arrangements, administrations, enforcements (including by way of appropriation) and cross-border recognition.

In addition to her membership of IWIRC, Kate is on the board of the Insolvency Lawyers’ Association and a long-standing member of its Technical Committee. She is also a member of INSOL International, INSOL's G36 Committee and INSOL's Technical Research Committee. Kate is also a conferee to the Conference on European Restructuring and Insolvency Law (CERIL).

Kate was awarded the “Excellence Award” by the IWIRC London Network in July 2022. She also acts as a mentor in IWIRC London's mentoring scheme.