Kristine Kozicki

Associate

kristine.kozicki@lw.com

    Kristine Kozicki

    Associate

    kristine.kozicki@lw.com

    Profile

    Kristine is an associate in the Finance Department of the London office of Latham & Watkins, and is a member of the Structured Finance & Securitization Practice.

    Ms. Kozicki represents a wide range of financial institutions on structured finance transactions, with a particular focus on collateralised loan obligation transactions (CLOs). She has experience advising a number of leading global CLO managers and bank arrangers on various warehouse financings, new issuances, resets, and refinancings, and has acted on a range of risk retention structures and the related financing arrangements.

    Experience

    Ms. Kozicki’s transactional experience includes advising:

    • Blackstone Ireland on all of its European CLO transactions since 2014, together with its related resets, refinancings, and liquidations*
    • Blackstone Credit on the ongoing operation of its debt investment business, the related financing arrangements, and its more than US$1 billion London Stock Exchange listed fund, BGLF*
    • Blackstone Credit on the asset-backed leveraged facilities financing its debt investment business*
    • BlackRock on all of its European CLO transactions and related warehouses, resets, refinancings, and liquidations since 2015*
    • The Carlyle Group investment manager CELF Advisors on a number of its European CLO transactions and related resets and refinancings*
    • Oaktree Capital Management on a number of its European CLO transactions and related warehouses, resets, and refinancings*
    • Goldentree Asset Management on a number of its European CLO transactions*
    • Brigade on a US CLO transaction*
    • Guggenheim on a European CLO refinancing*
    • Investcorp on the reset of its Harvest XVI transaction*
    • Spire on its inaugural European CLO 2.0 transaction and second European CLO 2.0 transaction*

    *Matter handled prior to joining Latham

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • England and Wales (Solicitor)

    Education

    • Legal Practice Course, College of Law, 2011
      Commendation
    • Graduate Diploma in Law (Commendation), BPP Law School, 2010
    • M.A., University College London, 2009
      with distinction
    • B.A., University of Oxford, 2008

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