Kathleen L. Werner

Ms. Werner has been a partner in the Capital Markets practice of Clifford Chance since 2000.. Ms. Werner primarily represents companies and investment banks in capital markets and mergers and acquisitions transactions. Ms. Werner’s clients include public and private companies in the financial services, real estate and media industries. She acts as regular outside corporate and SEC counsel to many of her clients. In addition, Ms. Werner regularly represents investment banking firms acting as underwriters and initial purchasers in public and private securities offerings. Ms. Werner’s transactional experience includes initial public offerings, follow-on equity offerings, investment grade debt offerings and high-yield debt offerings. Ms. Werner also regularly represents her corporate clients in their merger and acquisition activities. Ms. Werner and Clifford Chance’s REIT practice have been recognized as leaders in the REIT industry by Chambers USA and Chambers Global. Ms. Werner earned a BA cum laude in 1988 from St. Joseph’s University and a JD cum laude in 1991 from Georgetown University Law Center. She is admitted to practice in New York. Ms. Werner has been a partner with Clifford Chance since 2000 and is based in its New York office.