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Akin Offices

Robert S. Strauss Tower
2001 K Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20006-1037
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
United States
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Kate Doorley

Work Department
Partner; Financial Restructuring
Position
Kate Doorley advises clients on a broad spectrum of financial restructuring matters. Kate represents debtors, creditors, official and unofficial committees, secured lender groups, debtor in possession (DIP) lenders, institutional investors, alternative investment management firms, and other parties on a wide range of complex financial restructuring matters.
Kate has extensive experience in both in-court and out-of-court restructurings, as well as strict foreclosures, across various industries. Significant matters include Rite Aid, Wellpath, Endo International, Yak Access, HONX, Intelsat, FirstEnergy Solutions, Talen Energy, and Brooks Brothers, among others.
To learn more about Kate, please visit her profile here: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/kate-doorley
Career
Kate served from 2011 to 2012 as a law clerk to the Honorable Barbara J. Houser, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas. In addition, she has been named an “Outstanding Young Restructuring Lawyer” by Turnarounds and Workouts.
Memberships
Member, District of Columbia and New York Bars.
Education
B.A., Middlebury College, magna cum laude, 2006; J.D., University of Texas School of Law, with honors, 2011
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Government > Government relations
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- International trade and national security > Trade remedies and trade policy
Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Industry focus > Education
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Industry focus > Native American law
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Government > Government contracts
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: middle-market (Up to $500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Media, technology and telecoms > Telecoms and broadcast: regulatory
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Finance > Project finance
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Industry focus > Sport
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)