Assets and Structured Finance

She specialises in asset finance with a focus on shipping. She has experience on a variety of transactions including ECA-backed products, offshore and FSRU financings, container and cruise ship financings and has advised on loan facilities, leasing arrangements and leasetails, portfolio transfers, complex restructurings and intercreditor agreements.

Kate has acted for owners, lenders and charterers and is listed as a Key Lawyer at the firm in the Transport Finance and Leasing category by Legal 500. She has also advised on a number of award-winning deals including ‘Marine Money’s Structured Finance Deal of the Year Award 2023’.

She joined Watson Farley & Williams in 2007 as a trainee solicitor and qualified into the Asset Finance group of the Paris office in 2009 before returning to the London office in January 2012.