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.