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).