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Kathryn Merryfield

Kathryn Merryfield

Linklaters, France

Work Department

Banking/R&I

Position

Based in Paris for more than 20 years, Kathryn has extensive experience of advising both lenders and borrowers on many different types of financing transactions, including public and private investment grade and leveraged acquisition financing. She also advises on corporate syndicated lending and restructurings.

Kathryn was seconded to HSBC in 2003, to the bank’s EMEA syndicated finance origination desk, and to BNP Paribas in 2005, in the bank’s French corporates syndicated finance team.

Career

2003 to date: Banking Department, Linklaters, Paris

1999 – 2003: Linklaters, London

Languages

French, English

Education

Kathryn studied law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge University, including a year studying at Poitiers University.

Mentions

France

Banking and finance: transactional work

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