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Elaine Keats

Elaine Keats

UK 2026

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Capital Markets: Debt

UK-wide

3 years ranked

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Elaine is a partner in the firm’s Equity & Debt Markets Group in the Capital Markets department in London. She has over 25 years of experience advising on the full range of debt capital markets products, including standalone debt offerings, euro medium term note programmes, hybrid bonds and complex liability management transactions.

Elaine founded the firm’s Liability Management practice in 2005 and has spearheaded its development ever since throughout Europe and Asia and also leads the firm’s relationship with a major US investment bank.

Elaine won the Women in Business Law EMEA individual award as the Debt Capital Markets Lawyer an impressive seven times and was featured in The Lawyer’s 2015 Hot100.

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Capital Markets: Debt - UK-wide

Band 2
Individual Editorial
Elaine Keats comes highly recommended for her work advising banks on various debt transactions and is widely recognised for her superlative expertise in liability management.
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  • You can always pick up the phone to them and get strong technical legal advice, they know their stuff and are always commercial.

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