Kate Tracey

Managing Associate, Simmons & Simmons

Kate is a Managing Associate in the Financial Services - Funds group. Kate specialises in advising asset managers, with a key focus on the establishment, structuring, restructuring and maintenance of hedge funds and managed accounts.

Kate’s advisory and regulatory experience includes acting for many of the UK and Europe's best known established hedge fund and institutional managers in relation to, among other things, hedge fund structuring, discretionary investment management arrangements, sustainability and Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) requirements, AIFMD and MiFID 2 obligations and marketing requirements. Kate has also advised start-up firms on the launch of their hedge fund businesses.

Kate has spent time on secondment at leading UK hedge fund managers as part of their respective legal teams and has also completed an international secondment to the UAE.