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Biography

Kirstie acts for private equity sponsors and portfolio companies, corporate borrowers and issuers, credit fund and bank lenders, special situations investors and speciality finance providers on a range of financing transactions including investment grade, hybrid and leveraged financings and acquisition financings, dividend recapitalisations and capital restructurings. She has extensive domestic, European and global cross-border experience. Kirstie is partner champion of our “Pride” network, a forum for networking and peer support between LGBTQ+ staff and allies. Kirstie is a member of the Banking Law Committee and chair of the Derivatives Sub-committee of the International Bar Association and a member of the British-German Jurists Association. She is ranked by Chambers & Partners and by Legal 500 as a “Leading Individual” for both “Acquisition Finance” and “Bank Lending: Investment Grade Debt and Syndicated Loans”; and was named in “The Lawyer” magazine’s “Hot 100 2021” as “one of the City’s go-to banking and finance lawyers for private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers and credit funds”.