Anna Soroka
Anna Soroka
Anna Soroka
Anna Soroka

“Anna is a standout performer. She is focused on client delivery and understands where the client needs to get to on a transaction.” Chambers and Partners UK 2026: Capital Markets: High-Yield Products

“Expert in complex international leveraged finance/HY offerings. Anna according to clients is smart, hardworking and dedicated professional lawyer who provides outstanding legal and commercial advice.” Legal 500 UK

Biography

Anna is a Partner in the White & Case Capital Markets Group in London. 

Anna advises on securities and corporate finance transactions, primarily related to high yield bonds, leveraged finance transactions, restructuring and investment-grade debt offerings across a broad range of sectors and jurisdictions.

Anna's robust professional representation is based on her wide array of experience advising investment banks, private equity sponsors, public and private corporations on a variety of capital structures and instruments spanning acquisition financings, liability management transactions and in- and out-of court restructurings.

Anna is ranked by several legal publications.

Experience

EchoStar/DISH
Advised EchoStar in a series of transformative, high-value transactions that advanced its key strategic, financial, and operational goals, including a $17 billion sale to SpaceX for AWS-4 and H-block spectrum licenses, which included up to $8.5 billion in cash, $8.5 billion in SpaceX stock, and SpaceX's commitment to fund approximately $2 billion in EchoStar debt interest payments through November 2027. Additionally, guided EchoStar in de-levering its balance sheet and improving its debt maturity profile by raising $5.2 billion from existing stakeholders for 5G Open RAN investment and general corporate purposes, exchanging approximately $5 billion of DISH Network convertible notes for new EchoStar secured debt instruments with over 96% participation, securing $2.5 billion in new financing from TPG Angelo Gordon and co-investors at DISH DBS, and closing a $400 million PIPE transaction for additional liquidity.

Trivium Packaging
Advised a syndicate of investment banks on the US$2.925 billion (equivalent) refinancing of Trivium Packaging. The refinancing comprised the following transactions: (i) €900 million term loan B facility maturing in 2030, (ii) €700 million 6.25% Senior First Lien Secured Notes due 2030, (iii) US$600 million 8.25% Senior First Lien Secured Notes due 2030, (iv) US$600 million 12.25% Senior Second Lien Secured Notes due 2031 and (v) US$330 million asset-based lending facility. The net proceeds from the transactions were used to refinance in full Trivium's existing financing arrangements, pay related fees and expenses and for general corporate purposes.

Puma Energy 
Advised Puma Energy, a Swiss multinational mid- and downstream oil company, in a range of international capital markets transactions, including multiple bond offerings and complex liability management exercises, supporting the company’s ongoing financing strategy and capital structure management.

Atalian
Advised Atalian on the conclusion of a commercial agreement for the refinancing and rescheduling of its entire bond debt with a group of noteholders representing 98.46 percent of the existing notes.

Petrofac
Advised the new money investors to Petrofac.

Pure Gym
Advised Barclays, Deutsche Bank, ING, J.P. Morgan and RBC on the offering of €380 million 8.250% Senior Secured Notes due 2028 and the £475 million 10.000% Senior Secured Notes due 2028 by Pure Gym Group.

Ideal Standard
Advised Ideal Standard and its shareholders on the Exchange Offer, Consent Solicitation and Scheme Solicitation in connection with the €325,000,000 6.375% senior secured notes due 2026 and the subsequent sale of the Group to Villeroy & Boch AG for approximately €600 million. 

Adler Group
Advised Adler Group on its financial restructuring, involving an amendment to the terms and conditions of €3.2 billion of senior unsecured bonds through English restructuring plan proceedings and the subsequent incurrence of €937.5 million of new money following.

Cerba HealthCare
Advised Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Natixis and UBS on the offering of €420 million senior secured and €325 million senior notes in connection with the acquisition of Cerba HealthCare by EQT Partners.

Energean
Advised Energean Israel Finance, a finance subsidiary of Energean on its US$2.5 billion offering of high yield senior secured notes - the largest ever non-US energy high yield bond offering.

Swissport
Advised Swissport on its comprehensive restructuring and recapitalization. The restructuring provided Swissport with a delevered and strengthened balance sheet by addressing approximately €1.9 billion of existing debt, and left the business with improved liquidity with which to withstand the ongoing challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic.

Bank Leumi Le-Israel
Advised Bank Leumi Le-Israel B.M. on the ground-breaking issuance of US$750 million 3.275% Tier 2 Subordinated Notes due 2031.

Republic of Angola
Advised Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and ICBC International in respect of the launch by the Republic of Angola of sovereign debt bonds in the international market in the form of Eurobonds, amounting to US$1.5 billion. One of the largest sovereign debt offerings in Africa and one of the first of its kind sovereign debt offering from the Republic of Angola.

OCI
Advised BofA, J.P. Morgan and MUFG, as Arrangers and Dealers, on the establishment of the US$2 billion global medium term note (GMTN) programme for OCI Global, a leading producer and distributor of nitrogen, methanol and hydrogen products, guaranteed by Iowa Fertilizer Company, and on a US$600 million Notes issuance thereunder.

Terminal X
Advised UBS and Numis on the international component of the US$86 million IPO and Tel Aviv Stock Exchange listing of Terminal X.

Retailors
Advised UBS on the international component of the US$174 million IPO and Tel Aviv Stock Exchange listing of Retailors.

New York
Israel Bar Association
LLM
Harvard Law School
MBA
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
major specialization in Banking and Finance
LLB
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
English
Hebrew
Russian

Next Generation Partner, High Yield, Legal 500 UK 2026

Up and Coming Partner, Capital Markets: High-Yield Products, Chambers and Partners UK 2026

Next Generation Partner, High Yield, Legal 500 UK, 2025

Rising Star, Debt Capital Markets, Legal 500 UK, 2024

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