Katie is a Principal Associate on the Financial Services team in our London office.
She advises clients on a wide range of regulatory and compliance issues relating to authorised funds under the FCA rules. Recent experience includes advising clients on how to comply with UCITS V, MiFID II and the outcomes of the FCA’s Asset Management Market Study. She also advises on the authorisation of new funds (including the ACS and PAIF structures), variations to existing fund specifications, mergers, reconstructions and fund terminations. She also has experience in corporate transactions in the financial services sector.
Katie has been on secondment to a global asset manager. There she assisted with their application to the FCA for authorisation under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and a subsequent business reorganisation in order to comply with the requirements of the AIFMD. Katie has also been on client secondment to the retail arm of a large multinational bank, where she undertook contentious work.
Katie regularly presents at public and client conferences and events, including recently on the impact of the COVID 19 pandemic in the context of authorised funds issues, ESG and Sustainability and the proposed new LTAF regime.
She is involved with industry developments and has inputted into various government and regulator consultations. She has sat on working groups with the Investment Association (including recently in relation to the new LTAF regime).
- Qualified in September 2012
- Trained with Eversheds Sutherland (then Eversheds)
- Completed the Legal Practice Course at the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice
- LLB in Law from the University of Warwick 2009