Kate Fisher

Since joining Kirkland, Kate’s experience includes the following:

• Acting for auditors in claims arising out of an alleged fraud perpetrated against a Nasdaq listed company, including coordinating discovery and document review strategy
• Advising a major private equity fund in relation to multiple investor disputes, including contested bankruptcy proceedings in London
• Advising a property investment group on breach of warranty and indemnity claims under an sale purchase agreement
• Advising a large private equity group on enforcement of restrictive covenants in certain financing agreements with a portfolio company
• Advising a large cryptocurrency trader and financier in relation to a potential restructuring
• Advising the ad hoc committee of bondholders of Fantasia Holdings Group Co., Limited (HKSE: 1777)
• Advising a US bank in a case arising out of cross border email fraud, including in a successful application for Mareva and proprietary injunctions before the Hong Kong Court, and subsequent enforcement proceedings in Hong Kong
• Advising a subsidiary of a leading investment bank in HKIAC arbitration following a note default, including a successful Emergency Arbitration application against the issuer for Mareva-style relief
• Advising an international oil and gas conglomerate in global protective litigation to prevent creditor enforcement action in South Africa and Trinidad & Tobago
• Acting for a large fund in enforcement and insolvency proceedings following a note default
• Advising on a restructuring and release for a large private equity investor following a dispute with financiers of its portfolio company

Prior to joining Kirkland, Kate’s experience included the following:

• Acting for liquidators in an English Court action against a large PRC conglomerate, including a successful two week trial in London; interlocutory anti-suit proceedings; enforcement proceedings in Hong Kong; an appeal before the Court of Appeal; and a successful application for permission to appeal to the UK Supreme Court
• Acting for a large PRC steel producer in two London arbitrations and subsequent London High Court arbitration appeals
• Defending IDC investors in Hong Kong proceedings involving allegations of inducing/procuring breach of contract and conspiracy following a bond default by co-investors
• Acting for shipowners in a complex fraud that involved bringing Court proceedings in India and Singapore and arbitration proceedings in Hong Kong
• Acting on a variety of charterparty disputes for charterers, owners and financing banks
• Acting for a number of international parties to recover the proceeds of email fraud where funds were remitted to Hong Kong

Associate / Registered Foreign Lawyer, Holman Fenwick Willan (Hong Kong and Shanghai)

Trainee Solicitor, Holman Fenwick Willan (London)