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Practice Experience

Jamie Thomas is a member of our Banking, Capital Markets & Restructuring practice and India team. Based in Singapore, Jamie is qualified to practice English law. His experience includes advising on finance transactions, restructurings and general bank lending. He is presently advising on a number of pre-IPO refinancings, offshore lending into India (FCCDs, OPCDs, ECBs) and restructurings in Asia.

Prior to joining White & Case, Jamie was managing director of two award winning companies. Prior to that, he was an associate in the London banking practice of a Magic Circle law firm.

Some examples of his recent experience includes representing:

Citibank in a Japanese Yen ECB Facility equivalent to US$20 million to Honda Siel Cars India Ltd.
Two secured and guaranteed facility agreements of US$30 million to Capital Drilling Ltd. from Standard Bank.
Deutsche Bank as arranger, DB International (Asia) as original lender and DB Trustees (Hong Kong) Limited as security agent in a US$225 million financing to Platex Limited.
Catalyst Samsara in the incorporation and financing of a fund to acquire property in India.
AlpInvest (lead investor) in a fund being set up to acquire loan assets originated by The Royal Bank of Scotland plc. Staple financing was provided to investors by The Royal Bank of Scotland plc.
ABN AMRO Bank N.V., Barclays Capital, BNP Paribas, Citigroup Global Markets Limited, Deutsche Bank AG, London Branch, HSBC Bank plc, ING Bank N.V., Morgan Stanley Bank International Limited and Société Générale Corporate & Investment Banking as mandated lead arrangers in the £9.2 billion financing to Dutch chemicals company Akzo Nobel N.V. in support of its £8.1 billion acquisition of UK industrial company, Imperial Chemical Industries PLC.

Examples of transactions (prior to joining White & Case) include representing:

MTC Vodafone in its US$3.1 billion debt financing of the acquisition of the African operator, Celtel which operated in 14 sub-Saharan countries.
Lenders in Italy to a consortium named Edipower led by the electricity and gas company, Edison, on the €1.8 billion senior and €2.025 billion junior debt financing of the acquisition of Eurogen, one of Enel's generating companies.
BNP Paribas, Milan branch, on the debt financing of the 'public to private' acquisition of Lottomatica S.p.A., the Italian State lottery, which was acquired by an Italian publishing company and an Italian private equity house.

Bars and Courts
England and Wales, 1999

Education
LPC, College of Law, Guildford, 1996
CPE, College of Law, Guildford, 1995
BSc, Hons, Manchester University, 1994

Awards and Recognition
Pro bono: Winner of the Wig and Pen prize (London, Westminster)

Publications
Co-author, "Market Disruption – Issues arising under APLMA/LMA and US Law Credit Agreements – A Global Perspective," White & Case, October 2008

Presentations
Co-presenter, "Restructuring & Workouts," Asia Pacific Loan Market Association, April 28, 2009
Co-presenter, "Leveraged Finance: An overview of legal issues in Singapore, China, Malaysia and India," White & Case, November 2008

Languages
English
Italian

Citizenship
British