Katie Horbury

Katie is a senior associate in the Banking and finance group. She has a broad range of experience on leveraged and acquisition financing transactions and advises clients on general corporate finance matters, structured financings and derivatives, asset and receivables based lending, as well as distressed debt and restructuring.

Katie acts for both borrowers (including start-ups, sponsor backed borrowers and public listed companies) and lenders (including non-bank lenders) with a particular focus on advising corporate borrowers on leveraged and structured financings and asset based lenders on receivables financings. Katie regularly works on multi-jurisdictional transactions across a variety of EU jurisdictions and transatlantic matters meaning she has a broad experience across a range of international loan markets.

Katie has also worked with a number of clients with regulated businesses in the context of their refinancings and corporate M&A 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 spending time in South Africa gaining an appreciation of doing business in Africa generally.

CV

Since 2021 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

2016 - 2021 Associate, Taylor Wessing

2014 - 2016 Trainee Solicitor, Taylor Wessing

Career

Since 2021 Senior Associate, Taylor Wessing

2016 - 2021 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

Awards

Legal 500 UK 2023

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Experience

Financial restructuring for UK renewables company

Advised a client on the bespoke debt restructuring of its multi-jurisdictional group including traditional secured and unsecured loans, notes issuances, convertible loan notes and receivables financings owed to 15 lender entities.

Katie Horbury

Amy Edwards-Knight

Lerika Le Grange

Advising the senior secured creditor on all aspects of the British Steel insolvency

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.

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Advising Inflexion Private Equity Partners

Advising Inflexion Private Equity Partners, a private equity sponsor on the refinancing of the Alston Elliot Group and the Virgin Experiences Days business.

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Advising Phoenix UK Fund Limited

Advising Phoenix UK Fund Limited in relation to the purchase and restructuring of distressed debt and associate equity investment in Stanley Gibbons plc and the purchase of certain assets out of administration.

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Advising Sofina Foods Inc.

Advising Sofina Foods Inc. on its transatlantic debt financing arrangements in relation to the acquisition of Eight Fifty Food Group and providing ongoing support for the debt financing arrangements within the group.

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Advising African based companies

Advising African based companies on their financing arrangements in order to fund the distribution, financing and installation of certain renewable energy devices/equipment across Africa.

Katie Horbury