Kate Timmerman is a corporate partner in the New York office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. She is a member of the Firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group.
Kate specialises in the establishment, management and operation of private equity, real estate, natural resources and infrastructure funds, co-investment funds, credit opportunity and other debt funds, including advising managers on the structuring and marketing of these funds. She has experience with private funds, investors, and investments throughout the world, including Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Kate also regularly represents investors in relation to the terms of their investment in and transfers of interest from such funds and has experience advising fund managers on the regulatory aspects of private fund structures as well as carried interest, co-investment schemes, secondary transactions, as well as joint ventures and other strategic partnerships and transactions.
Her relevant experience includes advising:
- Leonard Green & Partners with respect to its 2022 vintage funds for which it raised $18.3 billion, as well as a number of co-investment projects and GP led secondary transactions.
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Faropoint on its flagship industrial real estate funds, as well as a number of co-investments, separate accounts and joint ventures.
- Mercer Investment Management on its fund investments in secondary transactions, co-investments and primary investments, as well as representing Mercer as a lead buyer or syndicate investor in GP-led secondary transactions.
- StepStone Group in relation to their European real estate co-investments.
- Basis Investment Group on the formation of its institutional debt funds and equity investment joint ventures.
- Greystone with respect to the conversion of its real estate debt fund to an open end vehicle, and its JV relationships.
- Madison International on real estate secondary funds and separate accounts investing in the U.S. and Western Europe.
- Regularly acting for Strategic Partners, Neuberger Berman and Landmark Partners with respect to LP stake trades.
Kate received her Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and Bachelor of Social Science (Psychology) in 2012 from Bond University. She is admitted to practice in the State of New York, the Supreme Court of Queensland and the High Court of Australia.
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Credentials
Education:
- College of Law - 2013 Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice
- Bond University - 2013 Bachelor of Social Science
- Bond University - 2012 Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) (Hons)
Admissions:
- New York Bar