About Kate
Kate Reese is the Founder and Legal Practitioner Director at Finance Law, where she leads lender-side legal services throughout the lending lifecycle. Her expertise encompasses loan documentation, transaction execution, risk management, and settlement. She specialises in advising private lenders, non-bank lenders, credit managers, and investor groups on lending transactions, mortgage documentation, and security arrangements across diverse asset classes and transaction structures. With over 12 years of experience in mortgage and lending law, Kate is adept at managing lending transactions from instruction through to settlement. Her work covers front-end lending and dispute resolution, providing key insights into how transactions perform under scrutiny and how to manage risks efficiently from the outset.
Kate plays a pivotal role in legal operations, overseeing transaction execution, precedent development, and maintaining high standards of quality and consistency in the firm's legal services. She collaborates closely with lenders, brokers, and counterparties to ensure smooth transaction progression, alignment of documentation with commercial aims, and completion of settlements with certainty. Her disciplined and pragmatic approach is well-regarded, focusing on delivering clear, enforceable documentation to achieve efficient and reliable transaction outcomes for clients.
Kate's professional journey includes her tenure at Summer Lawyers, where she advanced from Associate to Partner, further enriching her legal acumen. She also served as a Solicitor at Bransgroves, gaining hands-on experience in the Sydney legal scene. Her academic credentials include a Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice from The Australian National University and dual degrees in Laws and Psychological Science from Griffith University.
