Natalie Kirk is Head of Legal and Compliance at Gulf Capital and oversees all legal, compliance and governance matters for the firm. Ms. Kirk has over 17 years of legal experience and has advised on the full range of cross-border M&A and private equity transactions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings and general portfolio company advisory work. Prior to joining Gulf Capital, Ms. Kirk was a senior in-house lawyer with one of MENA’s largest institutional investment groups and prior to that, spent 12 years in private practice with international law firms Ashurst LLP and Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP where she worked on a broad range of complex and high value corporate transactions for global and regional private equity firms, corporates and publicly listed companies.
Ms. Kirk, who has been admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales since 2007, is licensed to practice as a solicitor by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. She holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Glasgow, a Bachelor of Law from the University of Strathclyde and a Diploma in Legal Practice from the Glasgow Graduate School of Law.