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Provided by Kate Downey
An asset management partner and head of Fried Frank’s European Private Equity Funds Practice. Specialises in fund formation, representing fund sponsors and financial institutions across a broad range of asset classes, including private equity, venture and growth, infrastructure, credit and real estate. Experience in advising fund managers on carried interest, co-investment and other incentive arrangements, including leveraged co-investment arrangements. Additional experience in a broad range of international private equity transactions, including secondary portfolio acquisitions and synthetic secondaries, fund and management company restructurings and other general corporate matters.
Joined Fried Frank in 2015.
Co-chair – European Committee of Women in Fund Finance, a group focused on recognition and promotion of female leaders within the alternative investment fund finance industry.
LPC, The College of Law (2000); LL.B, The College of Law (1999); BA, Merton College, University of Oxford (1998).
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Kate has exceptional technical ability and knowledge of the market.
Kate's ability to provide commercial advice to very senior legal and business people is unsurpassed by anyone else.
Kate is amazing. She is a real market leader. She has a real breadth of commercial and technical knowledge and is very easy to work with.
Kate is hugely knowledgeable, creative and understands the commercial goals that we are looking to accomplish. Kate is Europe’s leading fund formation lawyer.
Kate possesses a high level of expertise in bridging the gap between investor expectations and fund managers' requirements.
Kate has exceptional technical ability and knowledge of the market.
Kate's ability to provide commercial advice to very senior legal and business people is unsurpassed by anyone else.
Kate is amazing. She is a real market leader. She has a real breadth of commercial and technical knowledge and is very easy to work with.
Kate is hugely knowledgeable, creative and understands the commercial goals that we are looking to accomplish. Kate is Europe’s leading fund formation lawyer.
Kate possesses a high level of expertise in bridging the gap between investor expectations and fund managers' requirements.