Katrina Murphy
Katrina Murphy
Katrina Murphy
Biography
Katrina Murphy is a private equity lawyer in the Corporate Transactions practice group specializing in domestic and cross-border European and US transactions for mid-market private equity sponsors.
She is particularly experienced in executing mid‑market buyouts and growth‑stage investments and has led complex strategic transactions across a broad range of sectors including technology, software, digital infrastructure, and energy.
Katrina has spent time on secondment with Nuveen, where she served as Assistant General Counsel supporting the Glennmont funds on their energy and infrastructure investments. This experience provides her with valuable commercial insight into investor priorities, deal execution and operational drivers enabling her to deliver practice, business-focused advice to clients on both buy-side and sell-side mid‑market mandates.
Katrina is recognized by Legal 500 UK for her work in M&A and Private Equity.
Admissions
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England and Wales
Related Capabilities
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Private Equity
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Technology Transactions
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M&A & Corporate Finance
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Start-Up & Venture Capital Practice
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Carve-outs & Transitions
Experience
PRIVATE EQUITY AND VENTURE CAPITAL*
- MMC, Cherry Ventures and Rocket in relation to exits and reinvestments.
- Roundshield Partners in relation to management incentive plans.
- Kennet Partners on its investment in an AI platform.
- Vitruvian Partners on its investment in Twinkl, an educational resources platform.
- Unilever Ventures in relation to exits, investments and corporate governance.
- Aurelius Equity Opportunities on the acquisition of McKesson UK, a provider of healthcare business services, including Lloyds Pharmacy and AAH Pharmaceuticals.
- The Halifax Group and management on several transactions including the sale of Pirtek Europe, a provider of hydraulic hose replacement to PNC Riverarch Capital, a US-based private equity firm; and the carve-out of the packaging business Sonoco.
- Magnetar Capital on the sale of KIMS, an independent hospital in Kent.
- Marlin Equity Partners on its investment in Learning Pool, an e-learning company.
- CBPE Capital on its investment in Perspective Financial Group Limited, a financial advisory aggregation business following approval from the Financial Conduct Authority.
- Vitruvian Partners on its investment in Sykes Holiday Cottages.
- Sovereign Capital Partners in respect of various UK acquisitions.
M&A*
- Keyless, on its acquisition by Ping Identity.
- Octopus Energy on an acquisition of a UK wind farm and an Italian joint venture.
- Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners with respect to a joint venture.
- Capricorn Energy plc on a disposal to Waldorf Production Limited.
- PlusPetrol on its acquisition of AGIP Oil Ecuador from ENI International.
- Crisp, Inc. on its acquisition of Atheon Analytics Limited.
- Deel, Inc. on its acquisition of Safeguard, a payroll platform.
- Imperas Software Limited on its acquisition by Synopsys, Inc.
- Generac Holdings Inc, a designer and manufacturer of power generation equipment, in respect of two UK acquisitions.
- Pancreta Bank S.A. on the purchase of HSBC branch operations in Greece.
- LoopMe a mobile advertising platform, on its investment from Mayfair.
- Phrasee, an AI-powered natural language generation platform, on its investment from Capital D Management LLP.
- Ziglu Limited, a cryptocurrency platform, on its acquisition by Robinhood.
- Woolrich International Limited, on the minority acquisition by Goldwin Inc.
- Mapi Group on the sale of the company to ICON plc.
DISTRESSED M&A*
- Willow Innovations on its acquisition of Elvie from administration.
- Permira on the acquisition of a large portion of the stationery retailer Paperchase.
- Baring on the purchase of certain assets of Cath Kidston Limited.
CAPITAL MARKETS*
- Mereo BioPharma Group plc, in respect of its fundraisings and delisting from AIM.
- Peel Hunt LLP on various private placements.
- Cantor Fitzgerald on the placing of shares in Redx Pharma Plc.
- Cerillion plc on its initial public offering on AIM.
- Cenkos and Zeus on a fundraising to fund a reverse takeover of the BCA Group and on the admission to the Main Market.
- A materials science company on its placing and admission to the Main Market.
- Millicom International Cellular on its rule 144A/Regulation S bond offerings.
* Denotes experience prior to joining BCLP