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Katherine Bell is a partner in the Finance and Restructuring practice of Paul Hastings LLP and is based in the firm’s Orange County office. Her practice focuses on commercial and corporate finance transactions where she regularly represents banks, finance companies, other lenders, and borrowers in working capital facilities (asset-based and cash flow), acquisition financings, and other leveraged finance transactions and restructurings. Katherine has negotiated intercreditor relationships across a variety of structures, including 1st lien/2nd lien transactions, split collateral arrangements, and unitranche structures; has industry experience in a variety of business sectors and has considerable experience in cross-border transactions. She recently co-wrote Asset-Based Lending: A Practical Guide to Secured Financing Practising Law Institute, 8th ed. 2015, which is generally considered to be the definitive treatise on asset-based lending. Katherine regularly conducts seminars and workshops on asset-based lending, credit agreements, intercreditor agreements, split collateral intercreditor arrangements, trends in commercial loan documentation, unitranche facilities, interplay between the Uniform Commercial Code and Bankruptcy law, and intellectual property lending.