Katie has over 20 years' experience in the real estate sector and has established herself as a trusted adviser to a range of registered providers, banks, institutional investors and Real Estate Investment Trusts, advising them on complex large scale residential portfolio funding and acquisition/sale projects. Katie is ranked in Chambers and is named as a Leading Individual in Legal 500 for her work in the Housing Finance sector. Katie also has been named one of the UK’s Best Lawyers in the UK Best Lawyer for 2022 and 2023.Katie specialises in project managing and leading the real estate finance security team on due diligence of large portfolios of residential property assets for a multitude of financing arrangements and mergers. Portfolio sizes can range from anything from 10 to over 40,000 units per project. Transactions and projects she has worked on include high value and complex refinancings as part of internal restructuring or for a merger or partnership, for DCM/ bond issues and private placements, normal bank funding, lease and leaseback arrangements, development finance, Islamic finance as well as due diligence for portfolio sales and acquisitions of residential assets in the UK. As a member of the CLLS training committee Katie helps shape the development of learning, training and coaching of the legal profession for firms in the City of London.Katie is also a qualified coach and is a parental support executive coach and mentor for parents going on or returning to work from maternity and paternity leave. She is a strong advocate of helping her team and others be the best they can be and is a promoter of well being, positivity and personal development in the work place.