Katharine Ward is an associate in the Project Development & Finance practice. Katharine is experienced assisting both financiers and corporate clients in relation to a broad range of debt financing transactions. Katharine recently completed an in-house secondment with the legal team at Brookfield in Sydney.

• Brookfield in relation to its debt financing for its acquisition of Aveo Group by way of schemes of arrangement
• Foxtel in relation to various corporate term and revolving syndicated debt facilities
• News in relation to its revolving credit facilities
• Pacific Equity Partners in relation to various capital call facilities
• The lenders in relation to Woolworths A$2 billion term and revolving syndicated debt facilities
• Australian counsel to the lenders in relation to PayPal's US$500m revolving credit facility
• The unitranche lenders on the TEEG's dividend recapitalisation refinance
• The lenders in relation to ESR's acquisition by way of an off-market takeover of
• Propertylink Group
• NAIF in relation to various financings, including of a Solar Gas Hybrid Project (60MW Solar PV power station with interconnecting infrastructure and gas fired generation in Western Australia), the Onslow Marine Support Base (a marine supply base facility in Onslow, Western Australia) and the expansion of Metro Mining Limited's Bauxite Hills Mine (ongoing)
• OCP Asia in relation to various financings
• The lenders on the debt facilities for Domain following the separation of Fairfax and Domain and the refinancing of the same and the lenders on the refinancing of Fairfax's debt facilities
• AACo on the refinancing of its financing platform
• Australian counsel to Culligan International Group on the acquisition financing of Zip Industries
• Australian counsel to the lenders in relation to Multi-Colour's acquisition of Constantia Flexibles Labels division
• The financiers on the refurbishment and restart Capricorn Copper mine project in Northwest Queensland
• Energy Developments Limited on its A$850 million refinancing
• Various financiers on commercial and residential property acquisition, construction and development financings, including the development financing of a residential apartment complex at Waterloo Road, Macquarie Park, New South Wales and the development financing of the Newstead Series, Brisbane, Queensland