Catherine Bar is an English-qualified restructuring and insolvency associate who has practised in the London offices of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, including a secondment at the Intercontinental Exchange. She has advised a broad range of stakeholders – including states, funds, banks, corporates, noteholders, clearing houses, exchanges, trustees, and insolvency practitioners – on high-value, cross-border matters spanning debt finance, consensual restructurings, enforcement actions, and insolvency legislative projects. 

A member of the International Women’s Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC), International Bar Association (IBA), and Thought Leaders 4 FIRE, Catherine has published award-winning research on cryptoasset regulation, digital asset enforcement, and liability management exercises, including as the winner of the 2026 IBA Insolvency Section Scholarship. Her research examines how corporate insolvency law should adapt when conventional assumptions about value, jurisdiction, and creditor protection no longer hold, particularly at the intersection of private credit, restructuring practice, financial regulation, and borderless assets.