Based in our London office, Katie advises both users and providers of fund finance products across numerous investment strategies, implementing some of the most highly structured and complex facilities across the spectrum of fund finance products available in the market. Katie’s multifaceted practice—which includes advising on subscription financings, NAV and hybrid financings, secondaries financing structures, GP-support and co-invest facilities and back-leverage and preferred equity products—uniquely positions her to help clients achieve their specific commercial goals.
Widely recognized for her business acumen, Katie is consistently ranked by Chambers as one of the leading lawyers in banking and finance and fund finance, with clients describing her as “a sharp technical mind with a strong commercial awareness.” She was also recently recognized among Business Today’s “Top 10 Influential Mid-Market Banking and Finance Lawyers in London,” and has previously been named a “Hot 100: Dealmaker” by The Lawyer and a “Rising Star” in Private Equity by Law.com International.
Katie has spoken at various Fund Finance Association conferences, most recently presenting at the FFA European Symposium 2024 on “Hot Topics in Fund Finance”. She also co-authored the chapter “Rated Subscription Lines: An emerging solution for the liquidity crunch?” for the Global Legal Insights’ Fund Finance 2024.
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Work Highlights
- Private equity, credit, infra, private equity real estate and secondaries managers including Blackstone, Hg, Pantheon, Partners Group, AlpInvest, Pemberton, Norvestor, TPG, Clipway and Hermes GPE on subscription, NAV, hybrid and co-invest facilities for various fund vehicles, including emerging open-ended, evergreen and retail structures
- A number of large cap European private equity and credit sponsors on NAV, preferred equity and back-leverage facilities
- A range of large investment banks and credit funds including Deutsche Bank, AlpInvest, Oaktree and Crestline on NAV lending and preferred equity products made available to private equity buyout, secondaries and credit funds
- Investec Bank plc on subscription, hybrid, NAV, secondaries, GP support and management fee facilities in excess of £50 billion made available to funds and general partners across multiple asset classes and strategies
Accolades
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Chambers U.K. Banking & Finance: Fund Finance
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Business Today “Top 10 Influential Mid-Market Banking and Finance Lawyers in London” (2023)
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The Lawyer “Hot 100” (2022)
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Law.com International “Rising Star” in Private Equity (2020)
Education
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BPP Law School London, 2010 LPC
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University of Oxford, 2008 LL.B.
Katie McMenamin is a Partner in the Firm’s Fund Finance Practice. Based in London, she advises borrowers across numerous fund strategies, as well as private credit lenders and a range of capital providers, on some of the most highly structured and complex facilities across the spectrum of fund finance products available in the market. Katie’s multifaceted practice—which includes advising on subscription financings, NAV and hybrid financings, leverage solutions in the secondaries context, GP-support debt facilities, back-leverage and preferred equity products—uniquely positions her to help clients achieve their own complex commercial goals.
Widely recognized for her business acumen, Katie is consistently ranked by Chambers as one of the leading lawyers in banking and finance, with clients describing her as “a sharp technical mind with a strong commercial awareness.” She was also recently recognized among Business Today’s “Top 10 Influential Mid-Market Banking and Finance Lawyers in London,” and has previously been named a “Hot 100: Dealmaker” by The Lawyer and a “Rising Star” in Private Equity by Law.com International.
Notable experience includes:
- Private equity, credit, infra, private equity real estate and secondaries managers including Blackstone, Hg, Pantheon, Partners Group, AlpInvest, Pemberton, Norvestor, TPG, Clipway and Hermes GPE on subscription, NAV, hybrid and co-invest facilities for various fund vehicles, including emerging open-ended, evergreen and retail structures
- A number of large cap European private equity and credit sponsors on NAV, preferred equity and back-leverage facilities
- A range of large investment banks and credit funds including Deutsche Bank, AlpInvest, Oaktree and Crestline on NAV lending and preferred equity products made available to private equity buyout, secondaries and credit funds
- Investec Bank plc on subscription, hybrid, NAV, secondaries, GP support and management fee facilities in excess of £50 billion made available to funds and general partners across multiple asset classes and strategies
Katie received her LPC from BPP University Law School, London in 2010. She received her LL.B. in 2008 from the University of Oxford, where she was awarded the Slaughter & May Prize for performance in Moderations, the Hertford College Scholarship and the Hertford College Book Prize for Jurisprudence. She is admitted to practice in England and Wales.