Published : 8 years ago, on 04/12/2016

Global law firm White & Case LLP has promoted 26 lawyers to counsel and 15 to local partner with effect from January 1, 2017.

“These promotions reflect the quality and achievement of our lawyers and the truly global and diverse nature of our Firm,” said White & Case Chairman Hugh Verrier. “They embrace 21 offices and 13 global practices, and exemplify the way in which White & Case provides worldwide support to clients on their most important, complex, cross-border legal challenges.”

In addition to the internal promotions, White & Case has hired eight counsel and seven local partners during 2016.

At White & Case, counsel is a role for senior lawyers with significant experience in a particular practice area. The title is used across the Firm, in all offices, as an alternative career path to partnership but does not preclude consideration for promotion to partner.

The position of local partner is offered in select White & Case regions and locations where it is common market practice. At present this includes offices in Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Belgium, Germany, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. The title of local partner is a recognized career step towards admission into Firm partnership.

AMERICAS

Henri Capin-Gally has been named a local partner in our Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in Mexico City, he advises on mergers and acquisitions and project finance, as well as local and cross-border financings, securities, corporate law and private equity transactions.

Ipek Candan Snyder has been named counsel in our Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in New York, she advises corporate clients across a broad range of industries on mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, divestitures, restructurings, reorganizations, joint ventures, spin-offs and tender offers.

Antonio Cárdenas has been named a local partner in our Global Commercial Litigation Practice. Based in Mexico City, he advises on bringing amparo proceedings and ordinary defense procedures in administrative matters, as well as counsel in regulatory matters and relations with authorities.

James P. Gagen has been named counsel in our Global Intellectual Property Practice. Based in Washington, DC, he advises on intellectual property litigation in federal courts, as well as e-discovery law and ITC investigations.

Richard Graham has been named counsel in our Global Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice. Based in New York, he advises on chapter 11 proceedings, multinational bankruptcy cases and out-of-court restructuring transactions.

Jesse Green has been named counsel in our Global Commercial Litigation Practice. Based in Miami, he advises on large, complicated litigation matters.

Ash Ilkhani has been named counsel in our Global Capital Markets Practice. Based in New York, he advises a broad range of clients on the structuring, formation and placement of a range of private equity, real estate and hedge funds.

Carlos Mainero Ruíz has been named a local partner in our Global Capital Markets Practice. Based in Mexico City, he advises lenders, underwriters and issuers on financing and capital markets transactions.

Charles Moore has been named counsel in our Global Antitrust Practice. Based in Washington, DC, he advises on antitrust litigation and counseling, as well as commercial litigation and real estate litigation and arbitration.

Robert Morrison has been named counsel in our Global Banking Practice. Based in Los Angeles, he advises banks, lenders, investors and private equity funds on secured and unsecured syndicated credit facilities and leveraged acquisition financings.

Andrés Mosqueira has been named a local partner in our Global Asset Finance Practice and our Global Banking Practice. Based in Mexico City, he advises on financial regulatory matters, bank and asset finance, aviation-related matters and international joint ventures.

Terry O’Brien has been named counsel in our Global Capital Markets Practice. Based in New York, he advises on securities offerings and private equity and hedge fund transactions for both sponsors and investors.

Roberto Ríos Artigas has been named a local partner in our Global Project Finance Practice. Based in Mexico City, he advises on project finance, infrastructure and public-private partnerships, local and cross-border financings as well as private equity transactions.

Frank X. Schoen has been named counsel in our Global Project Finance Practice. Based in New York, he advises clients on a broad range of project finance, asset finance and bank finance transactions in the power, oil & gas, infrastructure and aviation sectors.

Irina Yevmenenko has been named counsel in our Global Capital Markets Practice. Based in New York, she advises public companies on SEC reporting requirements and other obligations including annual shareholder meetings, as well as required and best governance practices under NYSE and Nasdaq rules.

EMEA

Yassin Dimassi has been named a local partner in our Global Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice. Based in Berlin, he advises clients on insolvency administration and restructuring, including the continuation of insolvent businesses and cases of restructuring by transfer.

Ilona Fedurek has been named counsel in our Global Banking Practice. Based in Warsaw, she advises clients on domestic and cross-border loan transactions including project finance and acquisition finance, and on banking regulatory issues.

Niklas Forsmark Helmer has been named counsel in our Global International Arbitration Practice. Based in Stockholm, he advises clients on Swedish and international arbitrations and litigation proceedings, with particular experience in construction law.

Ceylan Kara has been named a local partner in our Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in Istanbul, she advises clients across a range of sectors, including banking and insurance, on public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and related corporate transactions.

Constantin Lauterwein has been named a local partner in our Global White Collar Practice. Based in Berlin, he advises clients in all areas of white collar criminal law and corporate compliance, as well as regulatory issues and matters arising under corporate and insolvency law, including related litigation.

Ekaterina Logvinova has been named a local partner in our Global Project Finance Practice. Based in Moscow, she advises clients on financing transactions, with significant experience in project finance, trade finance, acquisition finance and other secured financing transactions involving Russian and international banks, companies and multilaterals.

Jakub Menčl has been named counsel in our Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in Prague, he advises clients on private equity, mergers and acquisitions, intellectual property and commercial contract law.

Malgorzata Mroczek has been named counsel in our Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in Warsaw, she advises clients on the employee aspects of mergers and acquisitions and public listing of companies, as well as post-transactional employment issues and employment restructuring.

Camille Note has been named counsel in our Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in Paris, she advises French and foreign companies, financial investors and private equity firms on acquisitions and restructurings.

Magda Olyšarová has been named counsel in our Global Antitrust Practice. Based in Prague, she advises clients on competition law, regulatory matters, European Union law and dispute resolution.

Jan Pařík has been named a local partner in our Global Tax Practice. Based in Prague, he advises clients on Czech corporate tax, cross-border taxation, individual income taxation and mergers and acquisitions and reorganization accounting and taxation, as well as leveraged buyouts and private equity transactions.

Lars O. Petersen has been named a local partner in our Global Antitrust Practice. Based in Hamburg, he advises clients on national and international merger control proceedings and cartel investigations, and on public procurement matters before the competition authorities and courts.

Mickaël Rivollier has been named counsel in our Global Antitrust Practice. Based in Paris, he advises clients on alleged anti-competitive practices, including follow-on damages claims, and merger control.

Alexandra Rogers has been named a local partner in our Global Antitrust Practice. Based in Brussels, she advises clients across a broad range of European Union and competition law issues, including cartel investigations and compliance with EU and international merger control rules.

Katrin Rübsamen has been named counsel in our Global Banking Practice. Based in Berlin, she advises domestic and international clients and private equity firms on national and cross-border projects and transactions, and public institutions, banks and insurance companies on regulatory, corporate and product-related issues.

Strati Sakellariou-Witt has been named a local partner in our Global Antitrust Practice. Based in Brussels and Frankfurt, she advises clients across a range of industries on merger control reviews, abuse of dominance and cartel proceedings.

Ceren Sen has been named counsel in our Global Banking Practice. Based in Istanbul, she advises lenders and borrowers on secured and unsecured financings including domestic and cross-border syndicated loan transactions, leveraged buyouts, project financings, corporate financings and restructurings.

Ali Shaikley has been named a local partner in our Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in Dubai, he advises on mergers and acquisitions and equity capital markets transactions.

Nneka Wood has been named counsel in our Global Project Finance Practice. Based in Abu Dhabi, she advises clients on finance, oil & gas and power transactions worldwide, including the Middle East and Africa.

ASIA-PACIFIC

Jiong Deng has been named a local partner in our Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in Shanghai, he advises on a broad range of transactions and corporate financings relating to China, including acquisitions and restructurings.

Tess Fang has been named counsel in our Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in Hong Kong, she advises clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and divestitures, private equity transactions and joint ventures.

Stephen Howard has been named counsel in our Global Banking Practice. Based in Hong Kong, he advises clients on leveraged buyout financing, cross-border acquisition financing and bank/bond structures.

William Moran has been named counsel in our Global International Trade Practice. Based in Tokyo, he advises on international trade and regulatory matters such as export control and sanction rules.

Seiji Niwa has been named counsel in our Global Antitrust Practice. Based in Tokyo, he advises on complex commercial and antitrust litigation and counseling, as well as securities fraud litigation.

Tabitha Saw has been named counsel in our Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in Singapore, she advises private equity and multinational corporate clients on cross-border acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic investments, public takeovers and restructurings.

Gee Hou Tng has been named counsel in our Global Banking Practice. Based in Singapore, he advises lenders and sponsors on domestic and regional syndicated loans and structured and acquisition financings.

During 2016, eight counsel and seven local partners have joined the Firm.

AMERICAS

• Anna Kertesz, counsel, Global Antitrust Practice, Washington, DC

EMEA

• Irene Arévalo, counsel, Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice, Madrid
• Tim Brune, counsel, Global Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice, Hamburg
• Giuseppe Barra Caracciolo, local partner, Global Banking Practice, Milan
• Nicholas Forwood QC, counsel, Global Antitrust Practice, Brussels
• Paul Griffin, counsel, Global Project Finance Practice, London
• Claire Matheson Kirton, local partner, Global Banking Practice, Dubai
• Michał Matera, local partner, Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice, Warsaw
• Hadrien Servais, local partner, Global Banking Practice, Brussels
• Willem Van de Wiele, counsel, Global Banking Practice, Brussels

ASIA-PACIFIC

• David Albagli, local partner, Global Intellectual Property Practice, Tokyo
• Yijing Fu, counsel, Global Mergers & Acquisitions Practice, Shanghai
• Keisuke Imon, counsel, Global Project Finance Practice, Tokyo
• Cameron Watson, local partner, Global Project Finance Practice, Melbourne
• Damien Whitehead, local partner, Global Banking Practice, Hong Kong