Katie Horbury

Katie is an associate in Taylor Wessing's Banking and finance group. Although Katie specialises in leveraged and acquisition finance, she has a broad range of experience including advising clients on general corporate finance, receivables based financing and derivatives. Katie acts for both borrowers and lenders with a particular focus on advising private equity sponsor, corporate borrowers and financial institutions. Katie has also worked with a number of clients with regulated businesses in the context of their refinancings and corporate M&A transactions and has experience on a variety of both domestic and cross-border transactions. Katie is also part of the firm's Africa group and has worked on a number of transactions with an African nexus as well as recently spending time in South Africa gaining an appreciation of doing business in Africa generally.

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Career

Since 2016	Associate, Taylor Wessing
2014 - 2016	Trainee Solicitor, Taylor Wessing

Education

2016	Admitted as a lawyer, England & Wales
2014	Legal Practice Course, BLP
2013	BA Hons Law, University of Cambridge

Expertise

Sectors Financial institutions & insurance

Experience

British Steel	White Oak - Advising the senior secured creditor on all aspects of the British Steel insolvency and restructuring and on the complex GBP130m FILO (first -in-last-out) asset based finance structure; we were awarded Finance Team of the Year at the Lawyer awards 2020 for this work.
Helaba on the new 5 year GBP292.5m loan facility to fund the expansion of MediaCityUK	Helaba, an internationally active German commercial bank, acting as coordinator and agent, alongside other co-lenders on the new 5 year GBP292.5m loan facility to Peel Media in relation to the refinance and expansion of MediaCityUK over the next decade. MediaCityUK is an international destination for technology and innovation, and is home to the likes of the BBC, ITV, dock10 and Ericcson.
Affirma Capital on its MBO of Standard Chartered Bank's private equity investment business	Affirma Capital, a newly formed, independent private equity firm owned and managed by the former senior leadership of Standard Chartered Private Equity (SCPE), on its MBO of Standard Chartered Bank's (SCB) private equity investment business. The deal was complex, involving the acquisition by Affirma Capital of the general partners and investment managers of various third party funds being spun out from within SCB, as well as the establishment of a new fund backed by ICG and incorporation of investment adviser entities in Affirma Capital's key jurisdictions.

d.light on its financing agreement to fund millions of solar devices across Africa	d.light, a company developing and delivering affordable solar-powered solutions designed for the developing world, on its financing agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB) where d.light will use funds drawn under that agreement to fund the design, assembly, distribution, financing and installation of 7 to 10 million solar devices in Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda.
Phoenix UK on the purchase and restructuring of distressed debt and an equity investment	Acting for Phoenix UK Fund Limited in relation to the purchase and restructuring of distressed debt (originally provided to the Stanley Gibbons Group by a UK bank) and its associated equity investment into Stanley Gibbons plc, the specialist retailer of collectable postage stamps and similar products, and on the purchase of certain assets out of administration.
Inflexion Private Equity on the refinancing of the Alston Elliot group	Inflexion Private Equity on the refinancing of the Alston Elliot group. Alston Elliot is a leading provider of premium data-driven graphics solutions for live sports broadcasts. The refinancing completed via secured loan facilities provided by Cordet Capital.