Kat Burke

Bio:

Kat Burke is a corporate restructuring lawyer qualified to practice in England and Wales, New York and California. Ms. Burke has represented debtors, creditors and equity holders in large complex restructurings, with an emphasis on cross-border cases. She is a delegate to the U.N.’s UNCITRAL Working Group V (Insolvency) meetings, where she represents the International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC) in drafting international model laws on insolvency. Prior to her work at Skadden, Ms. Burke served as in-house counsel for a sovereign Native American nation and clerked for the Honourable Judge James M. Peck of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. Ms. Burke also is a decorated military veteran, having served overseas with the U.S. Army.