Katherine Reaves

Katherine Reaves (Katie) represents leading private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies, as well as other public and private companies, on capital structure strategy, financing transactions and other complex corporate finance matters. Katie represents clients across a broad spectrum of secured and unsecured financings, including acquisition financings, asset-based lending facilities, recapitalizations, refinancings, liability management transactions and other bespoke financing matters. Katie’s clients have included Warburg Pincus, Brookfield, TPG, GTCR, Carlylye, Berkshire Partners, Turn/River Capital, Altaris, Google (and its parent company Alphabet Inc.), Honeywell, McKesson and Verizon, among others.

Joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP as Partner in 2024, having previously been a Partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (joined 2010; Partner from 2019 – 2024).

University of Chicago Law School (J.D., 2010); Yale College (B.A., 2005).