Ms Kate Ball-Dodd > Mayer Brown International LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
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Ms Kate Ball-Dodd
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Kate Ball-Dodd has a wide-ranging corporate practice that encompasses corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions (including public takeovers), equity fund raisings, joint ventures, and corporate governance. She advises a number of quoted companies and financial intermediaries on the UKLA Listing Rules and Disclosure and Transparency Rules, the Prospectus Rules, the AIM Rules, the Takeover Code and general company law. Kate speaks regularly at external conferences on corporate governance and takeovers.
Education
Nottingham Trent University 1993; LLB (Hons) The College of Law, Guildford 1994; LPC (with distinction)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
(Hall of Fame)With a reputation for being ‘tenacious, deal driven and understanding the client’s commercial imperatives’, Mayer Brown International LLP represents a host of issuers, investment banks, sponsors, placement agents and selling shareholders on the full-suite of ECM transactions. The group’s regular workload includes public offerings and private placements, stock exchange listings, capital reorganisations, share buy-backs, and demergers, to name a selection. Practice head Kate Ball-Dodd is an expert on corporate finance, M&A, equity fund raisings and joint ventures, among others.
London > Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
Mayer Brown International LLP represents both issuers and underwriters on a wide array of ECM work, from public offerings and private placements, to stock exchange listings, rights offerings, and share buy-backs – among other matters. Practice leader Kate Ball-Dodd is noted for being ‘technically able, hands-on and (ensuring) that the team delivers a quality work product’. She has extensive experience in corporate finance work, M&A, equity fund raisings, joint ventures and corporate governance matters. Rob Flanigan is praised by clients for his experience in EMEA ECM, and Iberian ECM in particular.
London > Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
(Leading partners)Operating across various sectors, the ‘super-efficient, unflappable’ and ‘great’ lawyers at Mayer Brown International LLP have experience handling a range of M&A transactions including asset and share sales and purchases, joint ventures and leveraged buyouts. Heading up the practice is the ‘responsive, creative, solution focused and very commercial,’ Kate Ball-Dodd, who is regularly engaged by public companies and financial intermediaries for corporate governance, transactional, listing rules and Takeover Code expertise, and Perry Yam, who works with investors, management teams and investee companies. Corporate finance and transactional lawyer Richard Page and Rebecca Bothamley, who focuses on cross-border M&A and equity capital market transactions, are also recommended.
Lawyer Rankings
- Hall of Fame London > Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Leading partners London > Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+
- Equity capital markets – small-mid cap London > Corporate and commercial
- Equity capital markets – mid-large cap London > Corporate and commercial
- M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+ London > Corporate and commercial
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Asset based lending
- Real estate > Commercial property: corporate occupiers
- Real estate > Construction: contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
- Dispute resolution > Banking litigation: investment and retail
- Real estate > Commercial property: investment
- Finance > Debt capital markets
- Finance > Derivatives and structured products
- Industry focus > Emerging markets
- Investment fund formation and management > Fund finance
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Infrastructure: Project finance and development
- Finance > Islamic finance
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Mining and minerals
- Employment > Pensions (non-contentious)
- Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions - mid-market deals (up to £250m)
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property finance
- Finance > Securitisation
- Finance > Trade finance
- Real estate > Commercial property: development
- Real estate > Construction: non-contentious
- Finance > Corporate restructuring & insolvency
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – small-mid cap
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition: trade, WTO anti-dumping and customs
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Fintech
- Finance > High yield
- Industry focus > Hospitality and leisure
- Insurance > Insurance and reinsurance litigation
- Insurance > Insurance: corporate and regulatory
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Media: Film & TV
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Employment > Pensions: dispute resolution
- Insurance > Product liability: defendant
- Corporate and commercial > VAT and indirect tax
- Finance > Acquisition finance
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: premium
- Risk advisory > Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Real estate > Environment
- Corporate and commercial > Equity capital markets – mid-large cap
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: contentious
- Corporate and commercial > Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory
- Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables)
- Risk advisory > Regulatory investigations and corporate crime (advice to corporates)
- Industry focus > TMT
- Employment > Employee share schemes
- Employment > Employers
- Crime, fraud and licensing > Fraud: civil
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate tax
- Corporate and commercial > EU and competition
- Corporate and commercial > M&A: Upper Mid-Market And Premium Deals, £750m+