Kate is a shareholder in Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney’s Financial Services and Real Estate Sections. Kate focuses her practice on commercial financing and commercial real estate financing transactions and bank regulatory matters.
She has experience representing lenders and borrowers in the documentation, negotiation and closing of single lender, single borrower and multilender, multiborrower loan facilities (including term, revolving, swing line and letter of credit facilities), agent bank, syndicated and participation loan transactions, secured and unsecured transactions, acquisition financing, mezzanine, subordinated and second lien financings, intercreditor agreements, forbearance, work out and foreclosure transactions.

Kate also represents lenders and borrowers in the documentation, negotiation and closing of real estate financing transactions, including acquisitions and refinancings and modifications of such facilities.

Having previously served as general counsel of a federal savings bank, she has experience with assisting financial institutions in operational and regulatory matters, including charter conversion, branch development, mortgage loan servicing, subsidiary formation, RESPA and TILA compliance issues and general operational issues.

She has been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® consecutively since 2014 in the Banking and Finance Law category.