Michael (Mike) Kim focuses his practice on corporate and transactional matters.

Bethany Drayton is an associate in the London Finance, Restructuring and Special Situations Group and focuses her practice on cross-border leveraged finance transactions, advising corporate borrowers and issuers, private equity firms and other institutional investors. Her experience includes advising clients on the refinancing of existing indebtedness, debt restructuring, acquisition financing, financing of portfolio companies and other transactions.

• Advised Barings in connection with its financing of Zenchef and CoverManager
• Represented a specialized oilfield services company providing surface data logging, data and consultancy and well intervention services, in a senior secured facility agreement and a PIK facility
• Represented a manufacturer and distributer of food supplements, as borrower, and a mid-market investment company, as sponsor, in a revolving capital facility financing provided by an international banking and wealth management group for working capital purposes
• Assisted in an insurance company’s refinancing of existing indebtedness and debt restructuring
• Advising a credit fund on the acquisition financing for a software provider
• Advised a private equity firm on its €300m refinancing of a software and business process outsourcing service provider
• Assisted in Golub Capital’s financing of the Mintec Group

• Pro Bono Recognition List of England and Wales, 2026

Caitlin P. Drott focuses her practice on employment law. Caitlin has experience with the broad spectrum of federal, state and local employment laws and regulations, including compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and related website and business accessibility standards.

Caitlin advises clients on a wide range of employment matters and workplace discrimination, including employee classifications, separations, internal complaints and investigations, wage and hour disputes and restrictive covenants. She has also conducted legal and policy analyses in the areas of tort reform, merging of sentences and appellate court decisions and has drafted numerous memoranda summarizing interviews, depositions and related pre-trial activities related to employment matters.

While earning her law degree, Caitlin completed a judicial internship under the Honorable Irma S. Raker of the Maryland Court of Special Appeals and a law clerkship at the American Tort Reform Association. She served as notes editor of The George Washington International Law Review.

• Cuban American Bar Association, member
• New York State Bar Association, member

Michael (Mike) Abercrombie focuses his practice on transactional and corporate matters, and is a certified public accountant.

Prior to law school, Mike worked in public accounting with a focus on financial institutions.

Harry Denlegh-Maxwell focuses his practice on international commercial litigation and arbitration. He advises clients in complex, high-value, multi-jurisdictional disputes, from providing pre-dispute strategic advice, including on dispute avoidance and litigation risk, through to appeal. Harry counsels clients from a range of sectors including financial services, technology and life sciences. Harry also represents parties in significant competition litigation proceedings.

Harry maintains an active pro bono practice.

• Pro Bono Recognition List of England and Wales, 2026

Nils Ladewig focuses his practice on restructuring and insolvency law, corporate law as well as on mergers and acquisitions (M&A).

He advises companies, executive and supervisory board members, shareholders, investors and creditors in both out-of-court restructuring – including corporate reorganizations and financial restructurings – and insolvency proceedings. In addition, Nils regularly advises clients on a wide range of corporate law matters as well as on national and cross-border M&A transactions.

Following his first state examination, Nils worked as a research assistant at an international law firm in the area of insurance law and at McDermott in the areas of restructuring, corporate and insolvency law. He also completed his legal clerkship at McDermott’s offices in Düsseldorf and Chicago.

Andrew West is an associate in the finance restructuring and special situations group. In particular, Andrew focusses his practice on assisting clients in financial restructuring transactions and has worked closely with private equity fund asset managers, insolvency office holders, debtors, creditors, shareholders and directors in a variety of complex contentious and non-contentious cases, which are often cross-border in nature.

• Advising Treo Asset Management LLC in connection with the management of the Gottex Real Asset Fund
• Advising the successor fund manager and general partner of the NOAL SCSp Fund (the fund formerly known as Novalpina Capital)
• Advised the insolvency office holder in the administration of a famous high-end fashion brand

• Pro Bono Recognition List of England and Wales, 2026

Kavya Rallabhandi focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation matters.

While in law school, Kavya was the Executive Guide Editor of The George Washington International Law Review, Senior Editor of The Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Brief, member of the Moot Court Board and President of the South Asian Law Student Association. She served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Mary Kay Vyskocil of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York and as a law clerk for the US Department of Justice, Civil Division. Prior to law school, Kavya served as a Intellectual Property paralegal at an IP boutique firm.

• District of Columbia Courts, Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2023

Courtney Seams focuses her practice on intellectual property litigation matters.

While earning her law degree, Courtney served as an intern in the Civil Rights and Elder Justice Sections of the Public Interest Division of the District of Columbia Office of the Attorney General. She was also a member of the Business and Finance Law Review (Volumes 4 and 5), a blog moderator for the GW Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Brief, co-president and founder of the GW Entertainment and Sports Law Association and co-president of GW Street Law.

• District of Columbia Courts, Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2023