Katharine Collard

Katharine specialises in domestic and international joint ventures, equity capital markets transactions, mergers and acquisitions, as well as corporate governance matters.

Katharine has over a decade of experience advising prominent clients on some of their most complex transactions across a diverse range of industries, including the mining, retail and consumer, financial services and technology sectors. A noteworthy chapter in her career was the time she spent on secondment to HSBC, where she advised on numerous investments in financial and enterprise technology companies.

Work highlights

• HSBC: advising HSBC on the sale of its Canadian banking business (HSBC Canada) to the Royal Bank of Canada for $13.5 billion.
• Investec: advising the dual-listed company on the distribution of a further 15% of Ninety One, the global investment manager, to Investec shareholders.
• Dr. Martens plc: advising the underwriters on the £3.7 billion IPO of Dr. Martens plc.
• Anglo American plc: advising the multinational mining company on its £405 million recommended cash acquisition of Sirius Minerals Plc. 
• A global consortium of banks and other financial market participants: advising the consortium on the establishment of a joint venture company, Fnality International, as part of the wider Fnality payment systems project.
• De Beers: advising on the acquisition of the remaining 50% stake in De Beers Jewellers from its joint venture partner, LVMH-Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton S.E.
• ORIX Corporation and ORIX Aviation System Limited: advising ORIX on its US$2.2bn acquisition of a 30% interest in Avolon Holdings Limited, a leading global aircraft leasing company.

• Nestlé S.A.: advising on its acquisition of a majority stake in Tails.com, an online direct-to-consumer business in the pet food industry.

• EOS Precious Metals: advising a consortium of global banks and the World Gold Council on the establishment of a joint venture company to operate a precious metals trading platform.
• Argus Media Limited: advising the global energy and commodity price reporting business on the US$1.5bn sale of a majority stake in Argus Media to General Atlantic LLC.