Katherine is a Partner in the Banking and Financial Services group.
Katherine has extensive experience structuring, documenting and negotiating bilateral, complex club and syndicated financing arrangements on secured and unsecured bases. She specialises in corporate and acquisition finance, property and construction finance, agribusiness and mezzanine finance. Katherine also advises in connection with the application of the Personal Property Securities Act.
Acting for financiers (including domestic and offshore banks and non-bank lenders) and borrowers (including listed and other institutional borrowers), Katherine provides nuanced, practical advice to assist clients to achieve commercial outcomes. Katherine has spent time seconded to clients, including Westpac and Citibank, and has been named in Best Lawyers AustraliaTM as one of Australia’s best lawyers in the Banking and Finance Law category since 2014.
Expertise
Experience
- ASX listed retailer documenting and negotiating the refinance of its $750m syndicated debt facilities.
- ASX listed veterinary group in connection with its secured corporate debt facilities.
- Australian unconventional oil company and its subsidiaries in relation to their project finance, acquisition finance, and working capital requirements, including by way of Federal and State government grants and R&D funding.
- Joint venture partners in connection with the funding to acquire the Sheraton Mirage Gold Coast.
- Property developer in connection with senior and mezzanine finance facilities to assist with the construction of various large high rise residential and mixed use development projects.
- Container Exchange (Qld) Pty Ltd the product responsibility organisation appointed under the Waste Reduction and Recycling Act 2011(Qld) in relation to its funding requirements, including by way of grant from the Queensland government.
- Major Australian bank in connection with secured debt facilities to assist with the acquisition of one of Australia’s leading IVF and fertility providers.
- Major Australian bank in connection with the partner capital facilities provided to a top tier Australian law firm.
- Global investment bank in connection with an unsecured USD facility to be provided to an Australian oil company to assist with the acquisition of two offshore target entities.
- Major Australian bank in connection with a construction facility to assist to fund a development comprising luxury town homes and units.
- Joint venture partners in connection with a fund through structure to assist with the development and construction of a workers accommodation village in remote Western Australia.
- Maxcap Group in connection with the provision of various senior debt and mezzanine debt facilities to assist with development and construction activities.