Kate Broome is a senior corporate attorney with 20 years of experience handling complex international transactions across the energy, mining, and asset management sectors. Her practice spans mergers and acquisitions, private equity, capital markets, debt and project finance, international dispute resolution, commercial contracts, and corporate governance.
Before joining Womble, Kate spent several years in private practice, was senior in-house counsel to a high-growth midstream oil and gas portfolio company and most recently served as Deputy General Counsel at a leading private equity firm in the mining sector. This combination of in-house and private practice roles equips her with a broad understanding of risk management, growth strategies, and value creation. Kate is a trusted advisor to executives, boards of directors, and investment committees on complex cross-border transactions, high-stakes negotiations, multi-tier equity and debt financings, and dispute resolutions spanning multiple continents.
Known for a pragmatic, solution-focused approach, Kate excels at building trusted client relationships through clear and business-aligned communication. She has extensive experience leading legal teams and managing outside counsel to deliver responsive, efficient service tailored to client needs. Additionally, she provides comprehensive general counsel services covering governance, litigation management, employment, entity structuring, board advisory, and compliance.
Kate’s transactional experience covers all stages of strategic M&A and private equity deals, including negotiation of bespoke insurance products and handling project finance, shareholder agreements, joint ventures, and regulatory compliance across the industries she serves.
Representative Experience
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- Lead in-house attorney advising on a $375 million project financing for the construction of a copper mine in Chile, involving both private equity and local operating company investors.
- Structured and negotiated a convertible debenture, intercreditor agreement, administrative agent agreement, shareholders’ agreement, and political risk insurance policy on behalf of the private equity sponsor in support of a Canadian public company’s early-stage gold mining project in West Africa.
- Managed a $45 million private equity investment in an industrial minerals portfolio company, including a full capital restructure and acquisition of manufacturing facilities in the United States, supported by raw materials sourced from South America.
- Advised on the spin-off of a private equity royalty portfolio into a Canadian public company, including negotiation of five purchase and sale agreements covering royalties in Australia, Canada, Chile, and Spain.
- Served as project manager and in-house representative in a successful ICDR arbitration against global insurers in an expropriation claim under a political risk insurance policy.
- Structured and closed a reserve-based loan facility in ten business days to refinance Brazilian oil and gas assets, with funding led by a French commercial bank.
- Advised on a $700 million acquisition financing involving a senior secured term loan for a U.S. precious metals royalty company, with multi-jurisdictional guarantees and collateral across Chile, Canada, and the U.S.
- Structured and negotiated a convertible loan to a Cyprus-incorporated, AIM-listed mining company with cross-border security provided by subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Spain, and Slovakia.
- Closed a private-to-private oil and gas asset transaction in Brazil involving a Dutch purchaser, a Bermuda-based seller, and financing from a South African bank’s London office.
- Managed the seller-financed disposition of oil and gas concessions in Argentina, with parties domiciled in the United States and Cayman Islands.
- Participated in renegotiation of a risk-based operating agreement with Petrobras concerning ownership and operation of Brazilian oil fields.
- Coordinated due diligence and regulatory filings for the acquisition of a rare earth mine in California, securing CFIUS clearance for a private equity buyer with Australian ties.
Professional & Civic Engagement
- Save Our Youth
- Board Member, 2017-2022
- Board Chair, 2018-2022
- Joshua Station, Volunteer and Advisory Council Member, 2010-2018
- Mile High United Way, Emerging Leaders Council Organization Member, 2010-2011
Thought Leadership
- “Offshore Mining Investments – The Application of Bilateral Investment Treaties and Political Risk Insurance Policies,” International Mining and Energy Law, Development and Investment Conference, Mexico City, April 2023
- “Private to Private Onshore Oil and Gas Transactions in Brazil,” Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation International Mining and Oil and Gas Law, Development and Investment Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, April 2011
Honors & Awards
- Named to Oil and Gas Investor’s "Top 20 Under 40", June 2013
- Recognized by the Denver Business Journal as one of the Top Women in Energy, July 2015
