White & Case Adds Leading High Yield Team

New York, February 20, 2007 ... White & Case LLP today announced the expansion of its high yield practice, with the addition of a leading high yield team of five lateral partners. Ronald S. Brody and his partners Jin Kim, Kenneth Suh, Jeffrey Whyte and Nazim Zilkha will augment the Firm's top-tier bank finance practice led by Eric L. Berg, giving White & Case exceptional global capabilities to advise on bank-bond transactions. Berg and Brody will co-head the Firm's US leveraged finance practice.

"Having this extremely strong capability across the entire range of bank and bond deal structures will benefit our clients," said Berg, adding that the new high yield team, with its strong investment banking relationships and market presence, enhances the Firm's growing high yield practice in New York. "Combined with the Firm's prominent bank-bond capability in London, White & Case is now firmly positioned in the leveraged finance markets in the world's two dominant centers of global finance," Berg said.

The arriving team of lateral partners previously practiced at a major law firm in New York, where Brody had been head of that firm's high yield group. "We are excited to join a leading New York firm with an elite international bank finance practice and an extraordinary global platform," Brody said.

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