Katrina Edge > Ogier > St Helier, Jersey > Lawyer Profile

Ogier
44 THE ESPLANADE
ST HELIER
JE4 9WG
Jersey

Work Department

Banking and Finance, Real Estate, Corporate, Derivatives and Structured Finance.

Position

Partner

Career

Katrina is Ogier’s Global Head of Banking and Finance. “She has always been on top of her game”. Clients rate Katrina, a partner in Ogier’s Jersey banking and finance team for her expertise, responsiveness and focus on what really matters in a transaction.

Katrina has extensive experience advising on a wide range of financing and corporate transactions. Katrina advises a broad range of local and international financial institutions, investors and borrowers. She has particular expertise in real estate finance, fund finance, restructuring and insolvency, and structured finance and she also has particular experience advising clients on the establishment of real estate holding structures and the acquisition and disposal of such structures.

Notable recent work includes:

  • Advising in relation to a £114m loan facility in connection with the acquisition of a central London office property.
  • Advising in relation to a £120m loan facility in connection with a corporate reorganisation.
  • Advising the Moorfield Group in connection with the sale of a diversified real estate investment portfolio to Lone Star Real Estate Fund III for approximately £1 billion.
  • Advising Hammerson UK Properties Limited and CPP Investment Board Real Estate Holdings Inc. in relation to the acquisition of a stake in the Bullring Shopping Centre, Birmingham, worth £307m.

Hill Dickinson (1999-2000); Farrer & Co (2000-2002); Ogier (2002); partner Ogier (2013).

Memberships

Law Society of England and Wales, Law Society of Jersey.

Education

Benenden School, Kent; Bristol University (1997), University of the West of England (1998). Qualified as an English solicitor (not practicing) 2001; Advocate of the Royal Court of Jersey 2005.

Admitted in:
2017 – Cayman Islands
2005 – Jersey
2001 – England & Wales (not practising)

Lawyer Rankings

Jersey > Banking and finance

(Leading individuals)

Katrina EdgeOgier

The ‘technically very capable’ team at Ogier is sought after by banks and fund managers, whom it advises on both local and international financing transactions, with particular strengths in fund and leveraged finance deals, real estate financing and restructuring work. The firm also advises clients on ESG-linked financing, with practice co-head Katrina Edge focusing on sustainable finance structures in addition to fund and real estate financing. Fellow practice head Bruce MacNeil is noted for his cross-border banking and finance work, in addition to his advice on restructuring measures. James Lydeard assists clients with leveraged, finance and acquisition finance issues, while Kate McCaffrey is recommended for real estate financing.