Kate Sinclair
UK Guide 2025
Band 2 : Banking & Finance: Fund Finance
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+44-(0)20-7275-6535Share profile
Band 2
About
Provided by Kate Sinclair
Practice Areas
Kate Sinclair is a Partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where she is co-head of the London Fund Finance Practice and a member of the Banking and Credit Practice. Kate has extensive experience in advising private equity and other investment funds on complex financings designed to provide fund-level leverage to facilitate and support investment activities. She regularly advises leading sponsors on a broad range of financings including capital call facilities, NAV facilities, GP facilities and co-investment facilities as well as other bespoke financing solutions.
Career
Joined Firm in 2006; became Partner in 2021.
Personal
Nottingham Law School, 2001 Legal Practice Course; University College Dublin, 1999 B.C.L.
Chambers Review
UK
Kate Sinclair is co-head of fund finance at Simpson Thacher. She is highly experienced in the fund finance space and works on all types of deals, indluding NAV facilities and capital call facilities.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"She is very financed focus and she is very good at knowing what you can and can't do on pure finance stuff."
"Kate is the best lawyer I have ever worked with. She is very knowledgeable and has worked across a number of deals with me where she has consistently been excellent at her job"
"She is very financed focus and she is very good at knowing what you can and can't do on pure finance stuff."
"Kate is the best lawyer I have ever worked with. She is very knowledgeable and has worked across a number of deals with me where she has consistently been excellent at her job"