Kath Shimmin
Partner
Contact details
023 8085 7081
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Kath is a Partner in the Banking & Finance Team. She has over 25 years’ experience in the finance sector, covering a huge range of client and transaction types.
Main areas of practice
Kath’s expertise covers most aspects of corporate and commercial finance. A substantial proportion of her work focuses on secured lending, including structured and leverage finance as well as construction and development lending, project finance, and Bond and other debt issues.
As well as advising on lending and security, she also regularly advises on the development and documentation of financial products.
Additionally, Kath has considerable specialist knowledge in relation to funds and collective investment schemes, and has advised extensively on perimeter issues relating to the regulatory treatment of investment schemes and on structuring and documentation of a range of funds.
Clients
Kath acts for a broad range of clients, a significant proportion of which are Clearing Banks and institutional lenders. Other clients include corporate borrowers and lenders, non institutional lenders, individuals, not for profit entities and NGOs.
Expertise
Kathryn Shimmin provided brilliant support and advice in all the areas that we have worked on together.
Career
Kath qualified with Slaughter and May in 1988 and practised there in Banking and Capital Markets for six years before joining Blake Lapthorn in 1994.
She became a partner in 1997 and since then has focused much of her energy on building a specialist Banking and Finance practice within the firm.
Kath was Chair of Blake Morgan between 2021 and 2024 and has also been head of the Banking & Finance department, where she has led a team of 25 lawyers based in London, Wales, Thames Valley and the South Coast. She maintains an active practice, often advising on complex or unusual transactions, including overseas or multiple jurisdictions, unusual security assets and bespoke financing or security instruments.
Kath has been named in the Legal 500 Hall of Fame on multiple occasions.
Contact details
023 8085 7081
Email Kath
Accreditations
Memberships
- Loan Market Association
Significant Experience
- advice to non institutional lender on refinancing of portfolio of care homes, including preparation of financing documentation, and advice on unwinding existing financing and related swap transactions
- advice to Borrower on refinancing and group restructuring in the education sector, including a £70 million club senior financing and mezzanine finance from equity provider
- advice to Clearing Bank Lender on £20 million structured finance loan to property investment client
- advice to clearing bank lender on £15,000,000 revolving credit facility to plc customer
- advice to authorised fund manager on structuring and documentation of investment and loan funds, including preparation of fund documentation and preparation of template lending and security documentation.
Additional Expertise
- Capital Markets/Bonds and other instruments
- Swaps
- Financial Services and Markets (particularly Collective Investment Schemes and close substitutes)
- Consumer Credit
- Asset Finance
- Asset backed lending/invoice finance
- Restructuring and turnaround
Insights by Kath
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