White & Case wins seven “Deal of the Year” awards at Global Banking & Markets Middle East Awards

Global law firm White & Case LLP has been honored with seven Deal of the Year awards at the 2025 Global Banking & Markets: Middle East Awards. 

The Firm won the following:

• Global Banking & Markets Deal of the Year – White & Case advised the State of Qatar on their inaugural US$2.5 billion dual tranche Reg S/Rule 144A green bond issuance, the first sovereign green bond in the region.
• Ground-Breaking Deal of the Year – White & Case advised Citigroup Global Markets on the issuance of US$100 million blue notes by global logistics company DP World.
• Corporate Bond Deal of the Year – White & Case advised Saudi Aramco on the establishment of a Rule 144A/Reg S trust certificate issuance program relating to certificates to be listed on the London Stock Exchange and a US$6 billion triple tranche issuance of trust certificates.
• International Equity Capital Markets Deal of the Year – White & Case advised Saudi Aramco on its US$11.2 billion secondary public offering.
• Securitization Finance Deal of the Year – White & Case advised Goldman Sachs International as senior lender on an English law-governed, forward-flow securitization of Sharia-compliant funding facilities to SMEs originated via the Beehive P2P Limited origination platform in the UAE. The transaction was one of only a small number of securitizations in the UAE in 2024.
• Transport Finance Deal of the Year – White & Case advised AviLease on a US$2.5 billion financing facility comprising a US$1.7 billion conventional facility and US$770 million Sharia-compliant Murabaha facility that was used, inter alia, to fully refinance a bridge facility entered into by AviLease in 2023 when acquiring Standard Chartered Bank's aircraft leasing platform.
• Liability Management Deal of the Year – White & Case advised Alinma Investment, AlJazira Capital, Al Rajhi Capital, HSBC Saudi Arabia and SNB Capital as dealer managers on the 2024 liability management exercise for the National Debt Management Center of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in relation to more than SAR 60 billion outstanding debt instruments issued by the Ministry of Finance.