Firm Awards

• White & Case is in the top 50 of Multicultural Law magazine's 2009 list of Top 100 Law Firms for Women

White & Case Women: Notable Achievements

Executive Committee and Partnership Committee Representation

• Asli Basgoz (partner, Istanbul) was elected to the Partnership Committee of the Firm in 2007 and subsequently appointed by Chairman Hugh Verrier to serve on the Firm's four-person Executive Committee, the first woman in the Firm's senior management. As an associate, Asli helped found our offices in Turkey in 1985 and she was for many years the office executive partner for the Istanbul office. She is listed as a recommended lawyer in Corporate/ M&A and Banking & Finance by the current edition of Chambers & Partners Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers for Business.
• Carolyn Lamm (partner, Washington, DC) was inaugurated as President of the American Bar Association in August, 2009. Carolyn also serves on the White & Case Partnership Committee and has been named one of the 50 Most Influential Women Lawyers in America as well as one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America by the National Law Journal. She notes her greatest accomplishment is being the mother of two wonderful sons.

Americas

• Donna Attanasio (partner, Washington, DC) was inaugurated as president of the Energy Bar Association (EBA) in May 2008 for a one-year term. With more than 2,600 lawyers and others specializing in the area of energy law, EBA offers national and regional programs through its six regional chapters and its 20 committees, including its Climate Change Committee and System Reliability and Planning Committee, which were established at the beginning of her term as president.
• Linda E. Carlisle (partner, Washington, DC) serves as vice chair of the DC Bar Council on Sections. The council oversees the activities and operations of the Bar's 21 sections, representing approximately 25,000 lawyers in DC. She also serves on the Executive Committee of the DC Bar Tax Section and is immediate past chair. She has been recognized as a ‘World Tax 2009: Leading Individual' by International Tax Review.
• Sylvia Chin (partner, New York) was awarded the Council on Legal Opportunity's (CLEO) inaugural CLEO Legacy Diversity Award. CLEO is a nonprofit organization founded under the American Bar Association's Fund for Justice and Education, which works to increase diversity among the nation's leadership by providing scholarships and assistance to minorities. Sylvia serves as chair of the Firms UCC Committee. She is vice chair of the Project Finance Committee and co-chair of the Cross Border Legal Opinions Subcommittee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association She is listed in the Guide to the World's Leading Structured Finance Lawyers and her honorary positions include membership in the American Law Institute and the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers. She was recently appointed to the ABA's Asia Law Initiative Council and serves as a delegate in the NYS Bar Association House of Delegates. She has also received the Leonard F. Manning Achievement Award from Fordham Law Review, the NAPABA Northeast Region Trailblazer Award and the Fordham Law Women Distinguished Alumna Award.
• Ank Santens (partner, New York) is a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation for International Arbitration Advocacy, a Geneva-based group of prominent international arbitration practitioners which organizes international arbitration advocacy workshops around the world. She also serves, by invitation, on the International Bar Association's Sub-Committee on the Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards and on the International Commercial Disputes Committee of the New York City Bar. Ank was appointed to the Advisory Board of the Institute for Transnational Arbitration, which educates business executives, government officials and lawyers about arbitration as a means of resolving transnational business disputes. She co-organizes bi-annual "Women in International Arbitration" events in New York, which combine substantive presentations with mentoring and networking.
• Abby Cohen Smutny (partner, Washington, DC) serves as a member of the executive council of the American Society of International Law and is vice chair of the Arbitration Committee of the International Bar Association. She has also been named to Euromoney's Expert Guide to the Leading US Lawyers – Best of the Best USA and American Lawyer's Fab Fifty, which recognizes litigators under the age of 50.
• Heather McDevitt (partner, New York), who is a commercial litigator, has also devoted substantial time and energy to pro bono capital representation throughout the course of her career, and recently led the challenges to Alabama's method of execution by lethal injection. She is a two-time recipient of the Thurgood Marshall Award, presented by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, in connection with pro bono capital defense work.
• Andrea Menaker (partner, Washington, DC) is co-chair of the American Society of International Law's Dispute Resolution Interest Group.

Europe, Middle East and Africa

• Magdalene Bayim-Adomako (partner, London) is head of Bank Finance in the Firm's Banking & Capital Markets group in London and leads the global client team for one of our key finance clients. Magdalene has been named one of Europe's 100 most influential businesswomen by business daily Financial News. She is one of just two lawyers included on this 2010 list, the "FN 100 Influential Women." She was also named in The Lawyer's Hot 100 2008 as a leading finance lawyer.
• Shamilah Grimwood (partner, Johannesberg) is ranked as a leading lawyer in Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa 2009 for South Africa: Projects and Infrastructure and South Africa: Project Finance/PPP. She is also ranked in Chambers Global 2009 as a leading lawyer in her field for South Africa Project Finance/PPP, South Africa Corporate/M&A and Africa Projects & Energy.
• Maya Melnikas (partner, Moscow) is ranked among the top banking and finance lawyers in Russia by Chambers Global and PLC Which Lawyer?
  Gisèle Rosselle (local partner, Brussels) has been named co-chair of the International Bar Association's Corporate and M&A Committee.
• Anna Sundberg (partner, Stockholm) is the head of the M&A Practice in the Stockholm office. She is ranked in Band 3 in Chambers Europe, Private Equity and as a leading lawyer in IFLR 1000, Capital Markets.