Join Leaders & CEO’s from our B4 PLATINUM members for our May PLATINUM CEO & Leaders lunch with Special Guest, Kath Shimmin, Senior Partner, Blake Morgan LLP.

Blake Morgan is a full service law firm with offices across the UK. With over 90 partners and 600 staff, we use our unique blend of technical expertise, broader experience and commercial realism to get the best results possible for our clients – be they small businesses, corporates, individuals, families, government, or not-for-profits. We are trusted by many of the leading players within the areas in which we specialise. This includes international and national corporate organisations, 20 local authorities, central government departments as well as devolved regional government, four major high street and corporate banks, leading supermarkets, and four of the top 10 house builders. We also advise over 100 schools, academies and universities on a wide range of legal issues.

About Kath Shimmin

Kath is a Partner in the Banking & Finance Team and until recently was Chair of Blake Morgan, having been elected in 2021. She has over 35 years’ experience in the finance sector, covering a huge range of client and transaction types. Kath qualified with Slaughter and May in 1988, joined Blake Lapthorn in 1994 and became a partner in 1997. She is the founder of the Firm’s specialist Banking and Finance practice which now comprises a team of some 20 lawyers based in London, Wales, Thames Valley and the South Coast. She maintains an active practice, often advising on complex or unusual transactions, including overseas or multiple jurisdictions, unusual security assets and bespoke financing or security instruments. She was named in the 2021 Legal 500 Hall of Fame.

Kath’s expertise covers most aspects of corporate and commercial finance. A substantial proportion of her work focuses on secured lending, including structured and leveraged finance as well as construction and development lending, project finance, and Bond and other debt issues. As well as advising on lending and security, she also regularly advises on the development and documentation of financial products. Additionally, Kath has considerable specialist knowledge in relation to funds and collective investment schemes, and has advised extensively on perimeter issues relating to the regulatory treatment of investment schemes and on structuring and documentation of a range of funds.

Places limited to 12 strictly for Platinum CEO’s and Leaders, there is no charge for this event

Parking: Parking available on-site