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Catherine Williams

020 7152 6550 catherine.williams@keystonelaw.co.uk

Position

Catherine is an experienced corporate lawyer who has a particular focus on advising entrepreneurs, management teams and investors of venture backed, early-stage-growth companies. She has a broad sector focus (including technology, life sciences and clean tech) and has significant experience in venture funding, private equity, joint ventures, buying and selling private companies and corporate restructuring. Catherine has provided training in ‘Introduction to Venture Capital’ course and is a member of the European Astia Advisory Board, an incubator for women-led high-growth tech companies. Catherine lived and worked in Brussels and Moscow before qualifying as a lawyer in 1999. Catherine’s areas of expertise are early-stage financing debt and equity, joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements, partnership agreements and LLP agreements, private equity and corporate venturing investment, mergers and acquisitions, asset and share sales, company and group restructuring and MBO and MBI transactions. Catherine’s key achievements include (i) UK investments; (ii) in various funding rounds; (iii) management team in the sale of a company; (iv) institutional investors in the sale of a company; (v) listed Australian company in an acquisition; (vi) financings and acquisition; (vii) launch of advisory corporate venturing business and corporate restructuring; (viii) venture tech fund in the set-up and management of a fund; (ix) management on a pre-pack sale of a clean tech company; (x) lead investor into Skysites Americas Ltd (telecoms); (xi) global bio-tech company in its co/com activities and restructuring.

Career

Trained at Denton Hall 1997-1999; worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal, 1999-2006; Osbourne Clarke, 2006-2012; Keystone Law, 2012.