Howard Kennedy LLP

Banking and real estate finance

Katie Turner is a partner at Howard Kennedy. She is a banking and real estate finance solicitor focussing primarily on secured lending transactions. She advises lenders on acquisition financing, refinancing and development finance.

Katie acts for a range of institutional lenders, commercial lenders, challenger banks and alternative lenders on all aspects of secured lending, with a particular focus on development finance.

Katie advises clients on pertinent matters from loan formation to completion, she acts as a trusted advisor to structure, explore and close loans in a pragmatic and efficient manner. Katie is an experienced adviser on complex and time sensitive matters, using straightforward communication.

She focuses on the real estate aspects of secured lending transactions involving complex and high value property developments, acquisitions and refinances, with a wide array of property structures and occupational interests.

Her practice includes fast paced portfolio deals, complex phased developments and high value investments, with well-established and up-and-coming lenders. Katie has a keen interest in AI, technology advancements in the property and legal sectors and is keenly involved in ESG considerations during a loan and property life cycle. Katie also sits in the internal Legaltech team at Howard Kennedy.