Kate Luarasi

Partner Investment Funds

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Kate Luarasi

Overview

Kate Luarasi is a partner in Kirkland’s New York office and a co-head of the Structured Capital & Insurance Solutions team. Kate represents private credit investment fund sponsors and provides client advisory services relating to private credit and private credit funds. She has extensive experience advising on complex fund formation and insurance solutions leveraging structured credit product technology to establish rated funds, rated notes, collateralized fund obligations (CFOs), as well as insurance dedicated funds and other capital-efficient structures targeting insurance company capital.

Proskauer Rose LLP

Prior to joining Kirkland, Kate was a member of the Private Credit Group at Proskauer Rose LLP, where she focused her practice on representing a diverse group of lenders, including private debt funds, BDCs, hedge funds and SBIC funds in financing transactions, including unitranche, senior cash flow, second-lien, secured and unsecured mezzanine, holdco, and other forms of private credit and junior capital finance.

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Thought Leadership

Press Mentions

Quoted in “Demand for Collateralized Fund Obligations Surges Amid UK Solvency II Reforms,” Octus, September 10, 2025

Quoted in “Liquidity Transformed: How Dealer Retrenchment Reshaped Structured Products,” Octus, June 26, 2025

Quoted in “How Sponsors Can Structure and Document Captive Debt or Equity Investments to Reduce Inherent Conflicts (Part Two of Two),” Private Equity Law Report, March 9, 2021

Speaking Engagements

Speaker, “The Future of Fund Finance,” DealCatalyst, June 2025

Moderator, “Specialty Finance Fireside Chat,” Kayo Debt Finance Forum, February 2025

Publications

“Continuing Growth, Prevailing Approaches and Recent Trends in the Use of Separately Managed Accounts for Illiquid Strategies,” Private Equity Law Report, September 2020

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • Massachusetts

Languages

  • English
  • Albanian

Education

  • Suffolk UniversityJ.D. (Business and Financial Services Law Concentration)magna cum laude2011
    Certificate of Distinction
  • Boston UniversityB.A., International Relations & Hispanic Languages and Literaturemagna cum laude2005