Katherine Curtis
Legal Project Manager
Baker & McKenzie Services Limited
Not admitted to practice law in this jurisdiction
Biography
Katherine is a legal project manager in the Global Transactional practice group, based in London. She has a background in management consultancy, and has worked across multiple industries to both improve and assure project and programme management capability. Her experience with Baker McKenzie covers cross-border M&A, restructuring and carve-out projects, with a focus on aligning legal matter management with operational delivery of business change.
Practice Focus
Katherine has experience in design and implementation of governance and reporting structures across multi-party teams, process design and workflow management for preparation and execution of 1000+ local transaction documents, management of scope and financial analysis for the purpose of identifying efficiencies, dependency and interface management, in particular with central PMO / SMO functions with the view to streamlining data management and progress reporting, and facilitation of timely information sharing and development of communication strategies.
She supports clients across a range of industries, with a particular focus on Industrials and Technology.
Representative Experience
Katherine has acted as the lead LPM on the following matters:
- Emerson Electric’s USD 14 billion sale of its Climate Technologies business to Blackstone.
- Baker Hughes’ carve out and sale of the Nexus Controls business to General Electric.
- Emerson Electric's carve out sale aspects of its technology contribution of OSI, Roxar and Paradigm businesses with AspenTech.
- Baker Hughes’ carve out sale of its Subsea drilling business into a joint venture with MH Wirth/ Akastor.
Education
- The City Law School (PG Dip BPTC) (2013)
- Swansea University (LLB, Law) (2012)
Baker & McKenzie LLP, an English partnership, is a member of Baker & McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein.