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A.B. in East Asian Studies (China) from Harvard University
J.D. from the Columbia University School of Law (Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar).
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Catherina is a transactional attorney, with 25 years’ experience in cross border investment across a broad array of debt and equity finance including investment funds, direct investment (FDI), mergers & acquisitions, and restructurings. Her principal practice at Hills Stern is representing multilateral Development Financial Institutions (DFIs) in connection with their finance and investment funds programs, as well as other clients at the intersection of the public sector funding private commercial investment. Previously, Catherina was a foreign legal consultant in Jakarta, Indonesia with the corporate law firm of Makes & Partners and a corporate associate with the New York and Hong Kong offices of White & Case and Davis, Polk & Wardwell, including numerous sovereign representations across Asia. From 2009 through 2011, Catherina served in a US government agency as Senior Compliance Manager for the multi-billion-dollar Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) administered by the U.S. Department of Treasury, where she worked closely with the policy, program and operational lines to implement and comply with robust public reporting and congressional oversight. Catherina was also Associate General Counsel for a public company in Belgium (formed from the assets of a Ripplewood Japan fund) where she handled compliance, risk management and corporate matters for the company’s international operations.
