Katie Higgs

Associate
Katie decisively supports clients in executing complex transactions and navigating corporate advisory matters.
Katie decisively supports clients in executing complex transactions and navigating corporate advisory matters.

About

Katie is an agile lawyer with a breadth of experience in private M&A, restructuring and equity investments.

Katie joined Stevens & Bolton in 2025 from an international law firm. She advises clients on both sell-side and buy-side mergers and acquisitions, advisory work, restructurings and equity investments. Katie has experience working across a variety of sectors, including early years education, fintech, IT, and fashion and luxury.

Katie adopts a collaborative and responsive approach to transactions to foster strong client relationships and reach pragmatic solutions.

Expertise
Corporate advisory Corporate transactions

Experience

  • Recent work
    • Advising on the restructuring of 20 IT distribution companies and assisting with the multi-hundred-million-pound share sale to a global player in the IT sector.
    • Advising, alongside overseas legal advisors, on the acquisition of a group of IT companies based in the UK and Germany worth £31m.
    • Acting for the sellers of a leading cyber security services specialist on the sale to a private equity firm as part of growth plans to strengthen the company’s services.
    • Providing corporate advice on an asset-based re-financing for a British luxury mattress manufacturer.
    • Advising a food manufacturer on the exit of several angel investors from its business.
    • Advising individual shareholders on the sale of two nurseries in Greater London.
  • Advising on the restructuring of 20 IT distribution companies and assisting with the multi-hundred-million-pound share sale to a global player in the IT sector.
  • Advising, alongside overseas legal advisors, on the acquisition of a group of IT companies based in the UK and Germany worth £31m.
  • Acting for the sellers of a leading cyber security services specialist on the sale to a private equity firm as part of growth plans to strengthen the company’s services.
  • Providing corporate advice on an asset-based re-financing for a British luxury mattress manufacturer.
  • Advising a food manufacturer on the exit of several angel investors from its business.
  • Advising individual shareholders on the sale of two nurseries in Greater London.

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