Katten recently bolstered its commercial finance practice in Dallas by adding Erin England.
England was formerly at Haynes and Boone, where she had spent her entire career and was a co-chair of the firm’s Women Attorney Initiatives Committee. She handles commercial transactions for corporations, banks and private equity funds and specializes in fund finance, which involves the securitization of the capital commitments of investors in a fund.
“In the last two years, we’ve added leading attorneys like Erin in key growth areas such as commercial finance,” Mark Solomon, managing partner of Katten’s Dallas office, said in a statement.
“As an active member of several organizations committed to the hiring, retention and promotion of diverse lawyers, Erin also shares in Katten’s deep commitment to diversity and inclusion, which is a fundamental part of the culture in our Dallas office.”
Katten has had early success in recruiting and hiring women partners as it has built out its two-year-old, 40-plus-lawyer Dallas office. Eight months after opening in 2018, the firm brought on the prominent healthcare trio of Kenya Woodruff, Lisa Atlas Genecov and Cheryl Camin Murray from Haynes and Boone, Norton Rose Fulbright and Winstead.
England is a former board member of the Dallas Women Lawyers Association and the Women’s Finance Exchange of Dallas. She is also a former member of Leadership Dallas (class of 2018) and the Texas Women’s Foundation Leadership Institute.
Before attending and graduating from SMU Dedman School of Law, England was a relationship manager for Wells Fargo.