Catherine McCarthy

Practice Areas

Catherine McCarthy is a counsel in the Americas Energy & Infrastructure Group. She has extensive experience in power, mining, energy, telecoms, transportation and other infrastructure projects acting for clients including IFC, IDB, Citibank, Natixis, HSBC SMBC, Credit Agricole, CAF, FMO, Proparco, DEG, BNP Paribas.

Kate is one of the firm's main relationship partners in the US for both agency lenders such as IFC, IDB and IIC and commercial banks such as Citibank, HSBC and SMBC. She has significant expertise in ECA financing, having acted for lenders in deals backed by COFACE, SACE, Hermes, US Exim, K-Sure, EKF, EKN, GIEK and CESCE. She also has expertise in multilateral guarantee and insurance products including the World Bank partial risk guarantee and the MIGA sovereign non-honoring and PRI policies.

Career

Oxford University (BA Jurisprudence, JD equivalent) 1992

Admitted as an Attorney in New York 1994

Joined Clifford Chance 1996

Admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales 1997

Admitted as an Attorney in the District of Columbia 2001

Partner 2004-2022