Overview
Catherine Gokah is a partner in the Investment Funds & Private Capital practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the firm’s London office. Catherine has extensive experience advising fund sponsors with respect to the formation and operation of private investment funds across multiple asset classes, with a focus on infrastructure and real estate as well as advising on carried interest arrangements and secondaries transactions. Catherine also advises clients on a variety of bespoke transactions and arrangements, including separately managed accounts, co-investment programs and liquidity solutions transactions. She is recognized by clients as “an extremely proficient funds lawyer whose strong understanding of funds contracts and focus and determination to deliver client goals is unwavering.”
Accolades
- Next Generation Partner, The Legal 500 U.K., 2025
- The Legal 500 U.K., Real Estate Funds
Education
- The University of Law, York, Legal Practice Course, Post Graduate Diploma in Law
- University College London, LLB
Representations
- A U.K. fund manager on the establishment of a flagship infrastructure fund focused on core infrastructure assets in the U.K.
- A transatlantic infrastructure fund manager on the establishment of a US$2 billion infrastructure fund focused on core plus investments.
- A U.K. fund manager on the establishment of its first European core infrastructure fund.
- A European fund manager on the establishment of a €900 million energy infrastructure fund.
- A leading European fund manager on the establishment of a renewable energy infrastructure fund focused on emerging markets.
- A U.K. fund manager investing in renewable energy on its reorganization and the creation of one of the largest operators and investors in solar and onshore wind in Europe.
- A U.K. fund manager on the formation of a co-investment vehicle in connection with the acquisition of an equity stake in a portfolio of infrastructure assets as part of the US$2 billion take private of a leading infrastructure developer and asset manager.
- A European fund manager in relation to its primary and secondary investment and its co-investment programs, including in relation to the structuring of a co-investment fund in connection with the £200 million buy-out of a U.K. engineering company.
- A leading European infrastructure fund manager on the establishment of a number of co-investment structures for investment in U.K. and European infrastructure.
- A U.K. fund manager on the establishment of a co-investment vehicle to invest alongside their main funds as part of a co-investment program.
- A sovereign wealth fund with respect to various managed account investments.
- A global fund manager in relation to various transactions involving the secondary purchase of fund interests including the purchase of a fund portfolio valued at more than €600 million.