Kate Binedell

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Investment Funds
Kate Binedell is always a pleasure to deal with – she is commercial, responsive and technically strong. Kate delivers complex fund transactions with energy and enthusiasm.
— LEGAL 500, UK 2022 (Investment Fund Formation and Management – Real Estate Funds)
London
About

Kate is a corporate lawyer, specialising in real estate, real estate debt and credit funds, club deals, co-investments and joint ventures.

She advises on the structuring, creation and operation of onshore and offshore funds and other structured real estate investment vehicles.

She also advises on related matters, such as fund conversions (closed- to open-ended, unauthorised to authorised), carried interest structures, secondary sales and purchases and segregated account mandates. Her clients include PERE fund managers, institutions and sovereign wealth funds. She has experience in fund formation entailing both UK and pan-European investment strategies and UK, European and global fund raisings.

"Kate's a great performer. She's pragmatic and good to deal with." Chambers, Europe 2024 (Investment Funds: Real Estate).

Areas of FocusCorporateInvestment Funds
Bar admissionsSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising US PERE fund manager, Kayne Anderson, on the creation of a joint venture with Kinetic for a new USD1bn lending platform investing in development deals focused on the student accommodation sector in the UK and Europe, structured as a Luxembourg SCSp SICAV-RAIF.
  • Advising Clients of LaSalle GPS on a co-investment structure for the purposes of acquiring designer retail outlets to the value of GBP650m. The structure involved a co-invest structure with a subsidiary joint venture opposite MacArthur Glen, and an asset holding structure that includes a REIT.
  • Advising PERE fund manager, Aegila Capital Management, on a series of programmatic joint ventures between middle eastern investors in respect of the acquisition (with Greycoat) of the Lime Street estate office complex, the acquisition of the Unilever HQ, Rotterdam and the acquisition of Rellingshaus, Essen, Germany.
  • Advising Aviva Capital Partners on its joint venture with Moda Living for the development of 1,000 build to rent units in Birmingham with a GDV of GBP400m.
  • Advising Cornerstone Investors advised by an international investment manager on their GBP100m investment into a Nordic care home fund, which converted from a closed- to an open-ended fund immediately prior to their admission.

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION

  • Ranked in Chambers for Investment Funds: Real Estate (Band 3) 2022 (one of only 16 lawyers ranked in this category across the City)
  • Noted as a key lawyer in the Legal 500, UK 2022: “Kate Binedell, described as 'commercial, responsive and technically strong' has a particular speciality advising global investors on their equity investment and joint ventures”.
Education
  • INSEAD MBA (Distinction)
  • University College London (UCL), Masters of Law (LL.M)
  • University of Cape Town, BA LLB

My latest insights

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Defence is becoming an asset class: why fund structures are playing a growing role in...

31 July 2026 .6 minute read

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Changes to UK Limited Partnership law: Economic Crime & Corporate Treasury Bill

24 January 2023 .18 minute read

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