Over her thirty-plus year career, Garrett has built a highly successful practice focusing on cross border finance and corporate transactions, formal and informal insolvency procedures, restructuring and workouts. She is considered a go-to adviser for credit and financial institutions, private equity funds, corporates, partnerships and individuals, with clients in industries such as property, operating businesses, structured finance, portfolio sales, fund and tech lending, aviation, film, data centres, co-ops, derivative and insurance products.
During her tenure at Arthur Cox, Garrett held several leadership positions, serving as head of the firm’s London office and as a member of the Management Committee of the firm.
“Kathleen is an outstanding and well-connected lawyer with a practice that spans several areas of strategic importance to our practice and firm, across the United States, United Kingdom and European Union,” said Panos Katsambas, global co-chair of Reed Smith’s Financial Industry Group. “She has a very impressive track record of delivering for her clients and quickly and intimately distilling the complex issues they face, which aligns with our practice and firm wide approach to client service and development. We are thrilled to welcome her to the firm.”
Admitted to practice in England, Wales, and Ireland, Garrett’s arrival to the firm also adds greater international heft to Reed Smith’s special situations offering. This team brings to bear cross-border and industry expertise to meet the needs of investment funds, asset managers, trading desks, and other clients in all phases of distressed and special situations investing.
Garrett commented, “With more than 30 years’ experience as a leading financial services, corporate and restructuring lawyer and track record working with clients in finding the path through challenging environments and opportunities, I look forward to working with our current and prospective clients and playing my part in contributing to the ongoing success of the RS platform across distressed debt, funding and finance structures, real estate, private equity, M&A, IPOs & listings as well as disputes.”
“My recent expertise in cross border aviation leasing and transportation related restructures and transactions such as Nordic Aviation Capital, Norwegian and Waypoint gives me the edge in guiding clients in restructuring mandates and has a relevance to sectors such as real estate and digitisation affected retail and financial services, Garrett added. “I am also looking forward to playing my part in finance and capital market matters, private equity real estate and other sectoral activity as well as M&A the buoyant money supply is fueling.”
