Kate Luarasi

Partner Investment Funds

Boston +1 617 385 7422

Kate Luarasi

Practices

Overview

Kate Luarasi is a corporate partner in Kirkland’s Boston office and a member of the Investment Funds and Debt Finance Practice Groups, representing private credit investment fund sponsors and providing market intelligence and strategic client advisory services relating to private credit and private credit funds. Kate frequently advises on rated note funds, collateralized fund obligations and other insurance capital-efficient structures.

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

Speaking Engagements

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