Katherine Ashton > Debevoise & Plimpton LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Katherine Ashton
Work Department
Private equity, capital markets, insolvency and restructuring.
Position
Dual-qualified in England and the U.S., Kate Ashton is a corporate partner with a broad international practice, including extensive experience in Europe and the U.S. in private equity transactions, corporate finance, debt and equity offerings and financial restructurings.
She regularly counsels private equity and other investment funds on corporate and securities matters including secondary acquisitions, fund recapitalisations, and European listings. She also has significant experience in European financial restructurings.
Career
Qualified New York 1986; England & Wales 1997; associate Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, New York 1985-90; associate Budapest, Hungary 1991-93; head of office 1992-93; associate London 1993-96; partner 1996.
Ms. Ashton recently served as the Co-Chair of the Capital Markets Forum of the International Bar Association and is a former trustee of the American College of Investment Counsel. She is a frequent author and speaker on English and U.S. legal developments.
Languages
French, German, Hungarian, Italian.
Memberships
International Bar Association; fellow American College of Investment Counsel.
Education
Harvard College (1981 AB magna cum laude); Harvard Law School (1985 JD).
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
Sitting within the firm’s wider European platform, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP‘s London team handles multijurisdictional M&A for a range of financial sponsors and investors, with a particular focus on emerging markets. Katherine Ashton, who leads the private fund transactions group, is well-equipped to advise on M&A, secondaries, fund restructurings and recapitalisations. The US-qualified (New York) E Raman Bet-Mansour co-leads the team, supporting private equity groups and their portfolio companies across a range of domestic and cross-border transactions – particularly those involving European markets. Co-head Dominic Blaxill oversees public and private M&A, capital raises, and corporate advisory instructions, while co-head Geoffrey Burgess brings financing and venture capital capabilities to the fore on a series of mandates.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Dispute resolution > Public international law
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Investment fund formation and management > Private funds
- Risk advisory > ESG
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory