Katy regularly acts for banks, financial institutions and corporate borrowers on a wide range of finance transactions and debt restructurings.
Katy specialises in commercial lending, acquisition and structured finance (including management and leveraged buy-outs), work-outs and debt restructures and receivables based finance. She has advised on syndicated and club deals (pre and post insolvency appointments), cross border transactions and domestic securitisations and general corporate lending.
Katy's recent experience includes:
- advising a syndicate of international banks in relation to the secured term and revolving facilities made available to the purchaser of a major Australian internet service provider and its domestic and foreign subsidiaries
- advising a syndicate of international banks in relation to the refinancing of a major Australian investment group and subsequently for the receivers and managers of that group
- advising a syndicate of US banks in relation to the debt restructure of a major US and Australian retail group
- acting for a market-leading Australian operating and investment group in connection with the refinancing of its syndicated domestic and off-shore debt financing
- acting for a major Australia media group in connection with its domestic and capital markets debt financing
- acting for a major Australian bank in relation to a security review of a domestic hotel/pub chain and in the subsequent restructure of the debt
Whilst at her previous firm, Katy spent three months seconded to the Loan Structuring and Execution team of ANZ.