Overview
A commercial finance attorney on the firm’s Capital Markets Team, Katherine specializes in representing lenders and borrowers in all their real estate finance needs.
Katherine has extensive experience steering and closing sophisticated and complex real estate finance transactions, including acquisition, bridge and construction financing, ground lease financing, mezzanine loans, revolving credit facilities, and secondary market transactions. She regularly handles transactions throughout the United States, and her experience spans a broad spectrum of property types, including undeveloped land, hotel/resort, retail, commercial, and multifamily and mixed use projects. She maintains a practical deal-making approach using her experience with asset management work (including loan modifications, assumptions, collateral substitutions, restructures and work outs) to add valuable perspective that takes into account the entire life of a loan.
Katherine received her J.D. from UCLA School of Law, where she was a founding member and Vice President of the Real Estate Law Association in connection with the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate. Katherine was awarded the 2010-11 Jerry Patch Constitutional Law Award and was designated a member of the Order of the Coif. She earned her B.A. in International Studies from Boston College.
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Honors & Recognitions
The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch, Real Estate Law, 2021
Southern California Rising Star, 2017-2021
Super Lawyers Up-and-Coming 50: Women Southern California Rising Stars List, 2019
Professional Affiliations
State Bar of California
Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA)
Reporter, Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA), Real Property Section
Attends LACBA sponsored MCLEs and writes summary articles of the programs for publication in the Real Property Section newsletter
Beverly Hills Bar Association
UCLA Real Estate Alumni Group (REAG)
Practice Areas
Bar & Court Admissions
- State Bar of California
- U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Education
J.D., University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, 2011, Order of the Coif
B.A., Boston College, 2008, magna cum laude, phi beta kappa