LAWYER PROFILE

Kirstie Hutchinson

UK 2026

Macfarlanes LLP

Ranked in 2 practice areas

Leveraged Finance: Mid-Market

London (Firms)

1 year ranked

Corporate Finance: Mid-Market

London (Firms)

1 year ranked

About

Provided by Macfarlanes LLP

Practice Areas

Banking & Finance

Career

Kirstie acts for private equity sponsors and portfolio companies, corporate borrowers and issuers, credit fund and bank lenders, special situations investors and speciality finance providers on a range of financing transactions including investment grade, hybrid and leveraged financings and acquisition financings, dividend recapitalisations and capital restructurings. She has extensive domestic, European and global cross-border experience.

Kirstie is a member of the Banking Law Committee of the International Bar Association and of the British-German Jurists Association.

She is ranked by Chambers & Partners and by Legal 500 2021 as a “Leading Individual” for both “Acquisition Finance” and “Bank Lending: Investment Grade Debt and Syndicated Loans”; and was named in “The Lawyer” magazine’s “Hot 100 2021” as “one of the City’s go-to banking and finance lawyers for private equity sponsors, corporate borrowers and credit funds”.

Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession

Leveraged Finance: Mid-Market - London (Firms)

Band 1

Individual Editorial

Kirstie Hutchinson advises on a broad range of leveraged acquisition finance matters. Her client base includes sponsors and their portfolio companies, whom she assists with UK and cross-border financings. She has additional experience assisting direct lenders.

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Corporate Finance: Mid-Market - London (Firms)

Band 1

Individual Editorial

Kirstie Hutchinson advises clients that range of large PLCs to smaller closely held companies on the full spectrum of financings. She routinely advises on high profile, complex acquisition financings.

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Strengths

Provided by Chambers

Kirstie is the lawyer you want on your side in a financing negotiation. The best we have worked with.
Leveraged Finance: Mid-MarketChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
Kirstie is a highly proactive and effective lawyer.
Leveraged Finance: Mid-MarketChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
Kirstie is a class act. She's unflappable, highly experienced and rigorously efficient.
Leveraged Finance: Mid-MarketChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
Kirstie is, quite simply, exceptional.
Leveraged Finance: Mid-MarketChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
Kirstie is extremely knowledgeable in her field and provides clear, practical advice. She is commercial and straightforward in negotiations.
Leveraged Finance: Mid-MarketChambers Guide to the Legal Profession
Kirstie is the lawyer you want on your side in a financing negotiation. She's the best we have worked with.
Corporate Finance: Mid-MarketChambers Guide to the Legal Profession