Kate Lane > MinterEllisonRuddWatts > Auckland, New Zealand > Lawyer Profile
MinterEllisonRuddWatts Offices
PWC TOWER, 15 CUSTOMS STREET WEST
PO BOX 105 249
AUCKLAND 1143
New Zealand
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Kate Lane
Work Department
Banking and Finance
Position
Partner
Career
Kate is a highly experienced banking and finance lawyer who provides specialist advice to financiers, borrowers, and other market participants. Kate advises across a broad range of areas, from institutional finance to consumer finance.
Her clients include all of New Zealand’s major banks, a variety of listed and other major companies, investment banks, and other financial institutions. Clients value Kate’s combination of legal technical excellence and commercial understanding of their complex financing needs. This includes expertise in asset, corporate and acquisition finance, securitisation and receivables finance, derivatives, syndicated lending, and debt capital markets transactions.
Languages
English
Memberships
Advisory Board Member, ArcAngels
Member, Institute of Finance Professionals New Zealand Inc (INFINZ)
Education
LLB (Hons), University of Otago (1993)
Lawyer Rankings
New Zealand > Banking and finance
(Leading individuals)Well-regarded for its ‘pragmatic and commercial’ approach, MinterEllisonRuddWatts is trusted by investment banks, financial institutions, sponsors, issuers, trustees, corporates, and government departments on the full gamut of banking and finance mandates. The ‘top-notch’ team is highly capable of handling regulation and compliance matters, financial restructuring, sustainable finance and leverage, and private capital finance. The practice is jointly led by the ‘diligent’ Steve Gallaugher and Jeremy Muir. Gallaugher is an expert in unitranche, syndicated, and bilateral finance transactions, while Muir is recommended for his expertise in cryptocurrencies, digital tokens and coins, non-fungible tokens, and other blockchain projects. The ‘very experienced’ Kate Lane is a key port of call for New Zealand’s major banks and major corporates. Chris O’Brien has significant public law experience, regularly handling large-scale, multi-disciplinary projects. Other key individuals include Simon Gray, who is noted for his interest in the energy and infrastructure sectors, and associate Allison Hancock, who advises both financiers and borrowers on all types of financing transactions and banking matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance
- Competition law
- Corporate and M&A
- Dispute resolution
- Investment funds
- Labour and employment
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Transport (rail, road, air and sea)
- Projects and resources management (including environment)
- Real estate and construction
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
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