White & Case Elects 31 New Partners

New York, January 10, 2008 ... Global law firm White & Case LLP today announced the election of 31 new partners, effective January 1, 2008.
 
"These new partners are the future of White & Case," said Chairman Hugh Verrier. "Their talent and commitment enhance our ability to serve our clients' needs around the world."

Listed by the offices in which they are based, the new partners are:

Ankara

• Mehtap Yildirim Ozturk specializes in international commercial and financial transactions, including project finance, financing, general corporate and commercial matters, mergers and acquisitions, power development, mining, privatization and construction matters. She also represents many clients in complex antitrust, antidumping arbitration and commercial lawsuits.

Bratislava

• Marek Staroň advises clients in the areas of direct foreign investments, mergers and acquisitions, telecommunications regulatory issues, financing, securities and corporate matters. Chambers Global named him as one of the leading lawyers in Slovakia in the area of corporate and commercial law.

Frankfurt

• Dr. Thomas Flatten focuses on bank finance, specializing in real estate and acquisition finance. He has broad experience in international finance transactions and frequently advises both German and international lenders, investors and corporations.
  
• Christoph Schröder's principal areas of practice include German and international tax law and accounting law. He mainly advises clients on corporate reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures.

Hamburg

• Kai-Michael Hingst specializes in bank finance and corporate law. He advises clients on acquisition finance, regulatory matters and corporate law issues.

London

• Jonathan Bloom concentrates on corporate finance and US securities law, representing both issuers and underwriters in a variety of debt and equity financing transactions, including high-yield debt offerings, initial public offerings, secondary offerings, acquisition financings and recapitalizations.
  
• Alan Burke has a wide range of experience in corporate transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and reorganizations. He represents public and private corporations, governments and banks.
  
• Colin Chang is a US securities lawyer specializing in underwriter and issuer representation in high-yield debt offerings, with an emphasis on leveraged buyout financings. He has also represented clients in a range of structured finance products, including cross-border leveraged leases, securitizations, credit default swaps and conduit financings.
  
• Nick Collins has significant experience advising project sponsors, multilateral lending agencies, export credit agencies and commercial banks in international banking, asset finance and project financings. His clients represent a variety of industries, including oil and gas, LNG, aluminum and telecommunications, mainly in the Middle East and Africa but also in the emerging markets of Eastern Europe. Collins is the first lawyer to be made partner from White & Case's London trainee program, one of the first to be established by a non-UK firm.
  
• Paul Cowan has extensive experience in national and international construction dispute resolution, including international and national arbitration, litigation and adjudication. He also has considerable experience negotiating and advising on a wide range of construction contracts, consultancy appointments, development agreements, collateral warranties, bonds and guarantees involving all forms of construction procurement.
  
• Nicholas Greenacre advises on employee benefits and pensions. He has experience in a broad range of matters affecting clients of all sizes, from technology start-ups to global investment banks, and co-heads the Firm's Global Equity Based Compensation Practice.
  
• Sam Hamilton focuses on leveraged, investment grade and emerging markets finance. He acts for private equity sponsors, corporations and financial institutions and specializes in Nordic region and public-to-private financings.
  
• Christopher Langdon focuses principally on project finance and development and has  extensive experience in joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, off-takes and concessions. His clients include corporations, commercial banks and international financial institutions. He has sectoral expertise in metals and mining and upstream oil and gas.
  
• Evgenia Laurson is an English and Russian law-qualified partner who focuses on structured finance and mergers and acquisitions. She has extensive experience advising on transactions in Eastern Europe, including Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Her experience covers a range of sectors, with an emphasis on the oil and gas and metals and mining industries.
  
• Simon Morgan specializes in a variety of structured finance, securitization and capital markets products. His particular focus is on structured cross-border emerging market transactions.

Miami

• Mark Bagnall advises issuers and underwriters on public and private offerings of debt and equity securities, with a focus on offerings by Latin American issuers. He also advises clients on mergers and acquisitions and a broad range of other corporate and commercial matters.

New York

• David Johansen focuses on securities offerings. He also advises clients on securities law in connection with mergers and acquisitions and restructurings, as well as general corporate law matters.
  
• Daniel Nam specializes in corporate finance transactions and general securities and corporate matters. He has represented numerous investment banks and issuers in public and private high-yield debt, equity and equity-linked securities offerings, as well as bridge financing commitments, debt tender offers and consent solicitations, across a broad range of industries.
  
• Daren Orzechowski specializes in all areas of intellectual property law and handles both litigation and transactional matters. He focuses on the sports and entertainment industries and on information technology and outsourcing.
  
• Ank Santens focuses on international arbitration. She has served as counsel in numerous international arbitrations and also regularly sits as an arbitrator. She also represents clients before US courts, mainly in arbitration-related proceedings, and has advised sovereign clients on a variety of dispute-related matters.

Paris

• Charles Nairac concentrates on international commercial and investor-state arbitration, with emphasis on the construction sector. He has been involved in international arbitrations conducted under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), American Arbitration Association (AAA) and the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), as well as in ad hoc arbitrations.

Prague

• Damian Beaven focuses on international corporate and commercial transactions. He has significant experience in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity financings, privatizations, joint ventures and real estate development projects.

Singapore

• Guan Feng Chen specializes in cross-border financing transactions and private corporate debt restructurings in Asia. The 2008 publication of IFLR 1000 recognized him as a leading lawyer in Singapore for banking transactions.
  
• Brad Roach advises clients in the oil and gas and energy sectors, focusing primarily on LNG projects. He has extensive experience in connection with the upstream and downstream sectors of the petroleum industry throughout Asia and the Middle East. He has been recognized by publications such as The International Who's Who of Oil & Gas Lawyers and Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Energy and Natural Resources Lawyers.
  
• Huey Yann Thong advises clients in the areas of banking, structured finance, project finance and debt restructuring. She has extensive experience in cross-border financing and debt restructuring transactions across Asia.

Stockholm

• Lennart Pettersson focuses on private and public mergers and acquisitions and corporate transactions, as well as general corporate and commercial law.

Tokyo

• David Case is an experienced disputes and licensing attorney practicing in the areas of intellectual property, product liability, privacy and data protection.
  
• Thomas LaMacchia advises clients on a wide range of corporate matters. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, capital markets and other corporate transactions.
  
• Brian Strawn concentrates on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, as well as international corporate, commercial and financial transactions, including joint ventures, strategic alliances and reorganizations.

Washington, DC

• Brian Gleicher focuses on international tax issues, with an emphasis on transfer pricing and tax treaty issues. Additionally, he represents corporate and individual taxpayers in domestic tax examinations and settlement negotiations with the US Internal Revenue Service at the examination and appeals levels.

Washington, DC/Geneva

• Brendan McGivern practices international trade law, particularly the law of the World Trade Organization. He advises companies and sovereign governments on the full range of WTO disciplines relating to goods, services and intellectual property rights and represents clients in dispute settlement proceedings before WTO panels and the Appellate Body. He also advises on the negotiation of bilateral and regional free trade agreements.

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