Kate Stephenson

Kate Stephenson is a partner in Kirkland & Ellis’s European Restructuring Group in London. She has extensive restructuring and insolvency experience, including advising strategic investors, insolvency practitioners, turnaround managers, directors, debtors and creditors in all forms of national and inter- national financial restructurings and insolvencies. Ms. Stephenson leads the European Restructuring Group’s technical business-development initiatives and supports the team in problem-solving on their market-leading deals. This includes advising on a variety of restructuring plans, schemes of arrange- ment, company voluntary arrangements, administrations, enforcements (including by way of appropria- tion) and cross-border recognition. Ms. Stephenson previously was a consultant with Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP and an associate at Allen & Overy. She received her M.A. in 2005 from the University of Cambridge and her Legal Practice Course with distinction from Nottingham Law School.