White & Case promotes 22 to local partner and 27 to counsel

Global law firm White & Case LLP has promoted 22 lawyers to local partner and 27 lawyers to counsel.

“Representing 12 global practices and 21 offices across the Americas, EMEA and Asia-Pacific, the 49 lawyers being promoted have a wide range of skills, experience and backgrounds that underline the diverse and truly global nature of White & Case,” said White & Case Chair Heather McDevitt. “They have all made significant contributions to the Firm’s success through the exceptional service they provide to our clients, and we are proud to see them take this important step in their careers.”

In addition to the internal promotions, White & Case has hired 13 local partners and 19 counsel during 2024 to date.

At White & Case, the position of local partner is offered in select regions and locations where it is common market practice including Mexico in the Americas; Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, the Middle East, Poland, South Africa and Spain in EMEA; and China, Japan and Korea in Asia-Pacific. It is a recognized career step toward admission into Firm partnership.

The role of counsel is for senior lawyers with significant experience in a particular practice area. The title is used across White & Case, in all offices, usually as an alternative career path to partnership.

The promotions are effective January 1, 2025.

Americas (17 promotions)

Ana Arias
Ana Maria Arias has been named counsel in our Project Development and Finance Practice. Based in Miami, her practice focuses on Latin America project finance transactions.

Viktor Braun
Viktor Braun has been named counsel in our Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice. Based in New York, his practice focuses on advising international banks, corporates, security trustees, agents and administrators on cross-border insolvencies, financial and corporate restructurings and administrations.

Olha Datsko
Olha Datsko has been named counsel in our Commercial Litigation Practice. Based in Los Angeles, her practice focuses on advising multinational social media and telecommunications companies on international litigation and regulatory investigations related to data protection, privacy laws, intermediary liability, hate speech, defamation and other commercial disputes.

Samanta Fernandez Micone
Samanta Fernandez Micone has been named counsel in our Commercial Litigation Practice. Based in Los Angeles, her practice focuses on advising multinational corporates on international litigation and regulatory investigations, with a particular focus on technology, social media, music streaming, online messaging and telecommunications services.

Carlos Gonzalez
Carlos Gonzalez has been named a local partner in our Capital Markets Practice. Based in Mexico City, his practice focuses on advising financial institutions and fintechs on regulatory compliance issues, cloud computing services, blockchain, payment systems, crypto and authorizations before financial authorities.

Susan Grace
Susan Grace has been named counsel in our Commercial Litigation Practice. Based in New York, her practice focuses on the defense of complex commercial litigation and securities class actions, advising clients in various sectors on civil cases in US state and federal courts as well as various mediation and arbitration forums.

Doah Kim
Doah Kim has been named counsel in our Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice. Based in Los Angeles, her practice focuses on advising debtors, creditors, acquirers of distressed assets and other stakeholders on complex business reorganization and restructuring matters, including out-of-court restructurings and chapter 11 proceedings.

Emma Kurose
Emma Kurose has been named counsel in our Commercial Litigation Practice. Based in Los Angeles, her practice focuses on advising multinational technology, social media and e-commerce clients on complex international litigation, consumer class actions and regulatory matters, including privacy and data protection, intermediary liability, content regulation, intellectual property, consumer protection and international affirmative litigation related to online platform integrity.

Wilbert Luna Arellanes
Wilbert Luna Arellanes has been named counsel in our Capital Markets Practice. Based in Mexico City, his practice focuses on advising international and domestic clients on corporate law, anti-money laundering, anti-bribery and corruption, data privacy, fintech, financial services regulation and technology.

Narissa Lyngen
Narissa Lyngen has been named counsel in our Tax Practice. Based in New York, her practice focuses on advising clients in various sectors on cross-border and domestic taxation related to mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings, securitizations and financing transactions, as well as matters involving intellectual property, tax-deferred reorganizations, restructurings, corporate inversions and tax treaties.

Gretel Martinez
Gretel Martinez has been named counsel in our Project Development and Finance Practice. Based in Miami, her practice focuses on advising developers, infrastructure funds and financiers including banks, underwriters, investment funds and institutional investors on complex infrastructure projects in the US and Latin America.

Erin McNamee
Erin McNamee has been named counsel in our Commercial Litigation Practice. Based in Washington, DC, her practice focuses on defending leading technology and social media companies on a range of matters from initial complaint through final trial verdict and subsequent appeals, as well as advising clients on government and regulatory authority investigations and cross-border data privacy, defamation, cybersecurity, consumer class action claims and commercial contract disputes.

Simon Micha Kurc
Simon Micha Kurc has been named a local partner in our Capital Markets Practice. Based in Mexico City, his practice focuses on advising international and domestic corporates, Mexican public entities and a variety of financial institutions on capital markets, banking, lending, securities and corporate law.

Jose Joaquin Pacheco Mendoza
Jose Joaquin Pacheco Mendoza has been named a local partner in our Commercial Litigation Practice. Based in Mexico City, his practice focuses on advising global corporates and technology companies on commercial, white collar, compliance, technology, privacy and data protection disputes before Mexican federal and local courts, including data privacy, cybersecurity, defamation, intermediary liability, class action and consumer class action claims.

Ricardo Machado Pasianotto
Ricardo Machado Pasianotto has been named counsel in our Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice. Based in New York, his practice focuses on advising debtors and creditors on a variety of corporate restructurings, including chapter 11 and chapter 15 proceedings and other cross-border reorganizations.

Erin Smith
Erin Smith has been named counsel in our Commercial Litigation Practice. Based in New York, her practice focuses on advising large corporates and individual clients across a variety of industries including pharmaceuticals and healthcare, energy and financial services on disputes in the US federal, state and bankruptcy courts, including bankruptcy-related litigation.

Amanda Woodall
Amanda Woodall has been named counsel in our Intellectual Property Practice. Based in Houston, her practice focuses on advising clients on a broad range of intellectual property and commercial disputes including complex litigation matters involving patents, trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, false advertising and IP licensing, as well as IP damages law and remedies, market analysis and damages mitigation.

EMEA (27 promotions)

Marie-Sophie Bandeira Vieira
Marie-Sophie Bandeira Vieira has been named a local partner in our Investment Funds Practice. Based in Dubai, her practice focuses on advising fund sponsors on the structuring, formation and operation of private investment funds across asset classes, warehousing arrangements, separate account arrangements and structuring executive carried interest and co-investment, as well as advising institutional investors on deploying capital in a range of investment structures including open- and closed-ended private funds, co-investments, separate managed accounts and other bespoke investment platforms.

Heidi Blomqvist
Heidi Blomqvist has been named counsel in our Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in London, her practice focuses on advising corporate and private equity firms, particularly in the infrastructure sector, on a range of transactions including mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and general corporate matters.

Karolina Brzeska
Karolina Brzeska has been named a local partner in our International Arbitration Practice. Based in Warsaw, her practice focuses on advising clients on arbitration and court proceedings related to complex cross-border, local infrastructure and construction disputes, restructuring and bankruptcy proceedings and disputes arising out of mergers and acquisitions and other corporate transactions.

Fiona Candy
Fiona Candy has been named Professional Support Counsel in our International Arbitration Practice. Based in Paris, she is focused on monitoring and reviewing developments in the law, practice and marketplace and reporting these both internally and to clients, capturing and managing know-how, coordinating and developing training and supporting business development across a variety of marketing activities.

Sboniso Cibane
Sboniso Cibane has been named a local partner in our Debt Finance Practice. Based in Johannesburg, his practice focuses on advising sponsors, banks and other credit providers on financing transactions including leveraged finance, acquisition finance, asset finance, restructurings and work-outs.

Eduardo Dachary
Eduardo Dachary has been named a local partner in our Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in Madrid, his practice focuses on advising clients in the infrastructure, energy and natural resources sectors on cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures and project development.

Ryan Gawrych
Ryan Gawrych has been named a local partner in our Project Development and Finance Practice. Currently based in London, Ryan is relocating to Hamburg in early 2025 and his practice focuses on advising clients on project development and commercial contracts, acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures and offtake contracts, with a particular focus on energy transition projects.

Asli Gulum
Asli Gulum has been named counsel in our Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in Istanbul, her practice focuses on advising clients in a range of industries including online gaming, energy, technology, financial services, e-commerce, insurance, infrastructure, transportation and manufacturing on cross-border mergers and acquisitions and general corporate and commercial law matters.

Nick Hallemeesch
Nick Hallemeesch has been named a local partner in our Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in Brussels, his practice focuses on advising public and private corporates on all aspects of mergers and acquisitions and corporate law, in particular corporate governance and shareholder rights.

Anaïs Harlé
Anaïs Harlé has been named counsel in our International Arbitration Practice. Based in Paris, her practice focuses on advising states and corporates in a range of industries on investment treaty and commercial arbitrations under the rules of various institutions including ICSID, ICC, SCC, LCIA and UNCITRAL, as well as on complex construction and energy disputes and annulment proceedings before French courts.

David Inns
David Inns has been named counsel in our Construction Practice. Based in London, his practice focuses on advising clients on both contentious and non-contentious international construction and infrastructure projects.

Kate Kelliher
Kate Kelliher has been named counsel in our Antitrust Practice. Based in London, her practice focuses on a wide range of competition law issues with a particular focus on state aid, energy markets, cross-border international merger control and foreign investment reviews, as well as a range of abuse of dominance, cartel investigations, horizontal and vertical agreements and regulatory law issues.

Olga Klyzhenko
Olga Klyzhenko has been named counsel in our Project Development and Finance Practice. Based in Abu Dhabi, her practice focuses on projects and transactions in the energy and natural resources sector, advising clients on supply and service agreements, concessions, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and project delivery, as well as on complex public-private partnerships in the power, resources and infrastructure sectors and general corporate and commercial issues.

Timo Lockemann
Timo Lockemann has been named a local partner in our Capital Markets Practice. Based in Frankfurt, his practice focuses on advising issuers and underwriters on equity and debt offerings including initial public offerings, rights offerings, equity-linked and corporate bond offerings, as well as on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets compliance.

Tadeáš Matys
Tadeáš Matys has been named a local partner in our Debt Finance Practice. Based in Prague, his practice focuses on advising international and domestic financial institutions and corporates on acquisition, real estate and project financings.

Magda Olysarova
Magda Olysarova has been named a local partner in our Antitrust Practice. Based in Prague, her practice focuses on advising clients in a range of industries on merger filings with EU and national competition authorities, proceedings before the EC, Czech competition authority and other courts related to cartel investigations, state aid and abuse of dominant position, and on public procurement, regulatory and commercial litigation matters.

Lucía Quiroga
Lucía Quiroga has been named a local partner in our Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in Madrid, her practice focuses on advising clients in a range of industries on cross-border and domestic private mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, general corporate matters, joint ventures and corporate restructurings.

Daniel Sander
Daniel Sander has been named a local partner in our Capital Markets Practice. Based in Frankfurt, his practice focuses on advising corporates and financial institutions on equity and debt capital markets transactions including issuance programs for bonds, certificates and other structured products, standalone issuances, registered bonds and Schuldscheindarlehen.

Bachir Sayegh
Bachir Sayegh has been named counsel in our International Arbitration Practice. Based in Paris, his practice focuses on advising states, state entities and corporates across a range of sectors including infrastructure, oil & gas, energy, transportation and logistics and construction on investment treaty and commercial arbitrations under the rules of various institutions including the ICC, UNCITRAL and ICSID.

Aleksandra Stadnik
Aleksandra Stadnik has been named a local partner in our Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in Abu Dhabi, her practice focuses on advising sovereign wealth funds, private equity firms and corporates on a variety of cross-border mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, leveraged buyouts, reorganizations and portfolio matters.

Jonas Tangermann
Jonas Tangermann has been named counsel in our Financial Restructuring and Insolvency Practice. Based in Hamburg, his practice focuses on advising corporates in a variety of sectors on restructuring and the preliminary stages of insolvency.

Priscilla Tatschner
Priscilla Tatschner has been named a local partner in our International Arbitration Practice. Based in Frankfurt, her practice focuses on representing multinational and domestic clients from various sectors including life sciences, transportation and other technology-intensive industries in all phases of complex disputes involving, among other things, product and other forms of liability, supply chain and post-mergers and acquisitions matters.

Jan Vacula
Jan Vacula has been named a local partner in our Capital Markets Practice. Based in Prague, his practice focuses on advising international and domestic lenders, investors and corporates on capital markets and debt financing transactions, as well as advising financial institutions on complex regulatory and compliance matters.

Yannick Whorms
Yannick Whorms has been named a local partner in our Investment Funds Practice. Based in Dubai, his practice focuses on advising institutional fund managers on the formation and life cycle of private investment funds across a range of asset classes, as well as private open- and closed-ended funds and their managers on ongoing regulatory and corporate matters related to underlying fund investments and compliance with cross-border and domestic requirements.

Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson has been named Professional Support Counsel in our Capital Markets Practice and Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in London, he is focused on monitoring and reviewing developments in the law, practice and marketplace and reporting these both internally and to clients, capturing and managing know-how, coordinating and developing training and supporting business development across a variety of marketing activities.

Marcin Zawadzki
Marcin Zawadzki has been named a local partner in our Capital Markets Practice. Based in Dubai, his practice focuses on advising international and regional investment banks and corporates on public and private conventional and Shari’ah-compliant capital markets transactions, as well as on public and private structured finance transactions.

Tobias Zuendorf
Tobias Zuendorf has been named a local partner in our Mergers & Acquisitions Practice. Based in Hamburg, his practice focuses on advising clients on cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, distressed situations, financial restructurings and insolvency-related transactions.

ASIA-PACIFIC (five promotions)

Donovan Ang
Donovan Ang has been named counsel in our Project Development and Finance Practice. Based in Melbourne, his practice focuses on advising clients on the development and sale of major infrastructure projects across various sectors including renewable energy, transport and social infrastructure, and also on defense procurement and the development of various commercial and mixed-use building projects.

Sebyul Chun
Sebyul Chun has been named a local partner in our Commercial Litigation Practice. Based in Seoul, her practice focuses on advising multinational companies across technology, social media and other industries on international civil litigation and regulatory investigations including privacy and data protection, intellectual property protection, defamation and intermediary liability.

Sabrina Lee
Sabrina Lee has been named counsel in our Debt Finance Practice. Based in Hong Kong, her practice focuses on advising major financial institutions, alternative finance and capital providers, private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers across a range of capital structures.

Matt Sercombe
Matt Sercombe has been named counsel in our Project Development and Finance Practice. Based in Melbourne, his practice focuses on advising clients on the delivery and financing of major infrastructure and power projects, in particular government procurement and privatizations, including large-scale wind farms, transport and social infrastructure, petroleum, mining and civil construction.

Philip Tan
Philip Tan has been named a local partner our International Arbitration Practice. Based in Singapore, his practice focuses on commercial and investment treaty arbitrations, in particular energy and construction disputes, representing clients in international arbitrations under various rules including ICC, SIAC, LCIA, UNCITRAL and ICSID.

In addition, the following 13 local partners and 19 counsel have joined White & Case laterally during 2024 so far.

Americas

• Andy LeGolvan, counsel, Intellectual Property, Silicon Valley
• Alexander Hyung-Joon Lee, counsel, Intellectual Property, Silicon Valley
• Alfonso Vargas Mayoral, local partner, Mergers & Acquisitions, Mexico City
• Chris Ohlgart, counsel, Tax, Chicago
• Todd Rouse, counsel, Commercial Litigation, Washington, DC
• Danielle Tarin, counsel, Antitrust, Washington, DC
• Alfred Wang, counsel, Project Development and Finance, New York
• Sean Zoltek, counsel, Debt Finance, Los Angeles

EMEA

• Joshua Alexander-Passe, counsel, Mergers & Acquisitions, London
• Omar Anwar, local partner, Mergers & Acquisitions, Dubai & London
• David Berman, local partner, White Collar, Dubai
• Felix Biedermann, local partner, Capital Markets, Frankfurt
• Kevin Boyero, counsel, Debt Finance, Paris
• Ana Calvo, local partner, Mergers & Acquisitions, Madrid
• Mateo Catalano, local partner, Mergers & Acquisitions, Milan
• Davide Cavazzana, local partner, Mergers & Acquisitions, Milan
• Kate Chapman, local partner, Debt Finance, Doha
• Jana Chwaszcz, local partner, Mergers & Acquisitions, Prague
• Annabel Hodge, counsel, Financial Services Regulatory, London
• Brian Jennings, local partner, Mergers & Acquisition, Johannesburg
• Camilla Kehler-Weiß, counsel, Capital Markets, Frankfurt
• Paweł Łączkowski, counsel, Mergers & Acquisitions, Warsaw
• Michael McGowan, counsel, Tax, London
• Francesca Maria Moretti, counsel, Antitrust, Milan
• Viren Raja, local partner, Commercial Litigation, Johannesburg
• Deepa Ramjee, local partner, Commercial Litigation, Johannesburg
• Joachim Schmidt, counsel, Debt Finance, Frankfurt

Asia-Pacific

• Masao Fujino, counsel, Commercial Litigation, Tokyo
• Jenny Lo, counsel, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sydney
• Hiroto Nakayama, counsel, Investment Funds, Tokyo
• Suzanne Rizk, counsel, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sydney
• Sayako Shiraki, local partner, Investment Funds, Tokyo

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