Karen Ireland
Senior Counsel
karen.ireland@akingump.com
Areas of Focus
- Structured Credit
- Leveraged Finance
- Capital Markets
- Investment Management & Private Equity
- Private Equity Transactions
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Seeding Transactions
- Climate Change
- Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)
Biography
- Maintains a broad international financing practice, with particular expertise in fund financing solutions.
Karen Ireland’s practice covers a wide range of domestic and international financial and corporate transactions, including:
- fund financing
- acquisition finance
- asset-backed finance
- real estate finance
- structured and tax-efficient finance
- derivatives
- securitisation and receivables financing
- finance leasing.
Karen has extensive experience in advising a diverse range of clients regarding cross-border financing solutions. She regularly counsels:
- funds and sponsors
- corporates
- banks
- government entities
- development finance institutions
- other financial institutions.
Karen has particular expertise in advising on fund financing solutions. Those include acquisition, subscription, NAV and hybrid facilities, hedging transactions and TRS structures.
Representative Work
- Advised various private equity funds in connection with finance requirements at fund and portfolio level, including subscription and NAV facilities.
- Advised various private equity funds in connection with the acquisition and related financing of investment portfolios, including TRS structures.
- Advised corporates and investment banks in connection with hedging.
- Advised a number of mezzanine and unitranche fund lenders in connection with bilateral, unitranche and syndicated facilities.
- Advised a prominent public limited company in connection with a £1.2 billion senior syndicated term and revolving facility.
EducationL.P.C., The College of Law, London, 2001
M.B.A., Ashridge Executive Education, Hult, 2017
B.A., University of Oxford, 2000
L.P.C., The College of Law, London, 2001
M.B.A., Ashridge Executive Education, Hult, 2017
B.A., University of Oxford, 2000
Bar AdmissionsSolicitor, England and Wales
Solicitor, England and Wales
Recognitions
- Rising Star for Banking: 2014, Law & Politics Media Inc., 2014
