Katharine S. Mascarenhas

Kate focuses her practice on debt financing transactions. She represents private equity groups, commercial lending institutions and other private and public companies in connection with the negotiation, structuring and documentation of secured and unsecured financing transactions for both borrowers and lenders, including senior, mezzanine and subordinated debt transactions, acquisition financings, and loan workouts and restructurings, including debtor-in-possession financings, and general corporate matters. She also has significant experience negotiating capital call lines for private equity groups ranging from $10 million to $150 million.

Prior to joining Taft, Kate was a partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where she had practiced since graduating from law school. During her tenure at Kirkland, Kate acted for some of the country’s leading private equity funds, as well as a wide range of private and public companies, in connection with their domestic and cross-border debt financing transactions.

• Counsel to a renewable energy company in raising $500 million of private structured capital.
• Counsel to private equity fund in connection with platform acquisition of cloud-based analytics and compliance software company.
• Lead counsel to premier private equity fund’s up to $75M capital call facility.
• Lead counsel to manager of nursing home facilities in connection with $29M tax-exempt municipal bond financing.
• Lead counsel to top manufacturer and distributor of retail air filters in connection with private equity fund acquisition financing consisting of $50M senior secured revolving credit and term loan facilities and $11.5M senior subordinated notes.
• Lead counsel to regional autism therapy center for a $5M senior secured revolving credit facility.
• Lead counsel to leading HR & Payroll technology company for a $75M senior secured revolving credit facility.