White & Case LLP

White & Case LLP brings together expertise from multiple practice areas, among them debt finance, debt capital markets and project finance, to cover the full range of trade finance instruments. It acts for clients across levels in the deal structure, including bank creditors, traders, buyers, exporters, sovereigns and state-owned entities. The firm provides ‘excellent product knowledge with deep understanding of local jurisdictions’. Practice head James Hardy is a debt finance specialist whose work spans commodity pre-payment deals, pre-export finance, borrowing base transactions, receivables purchase, and export credit facilities. He works closely with newly promoted counsel Catherine West. Together, they assisted European Bank for Reconstruction and Development with its participation in the payables finance portfolio on trade receivables of Eurocash S.A. originated by Santander. The transaction forms part of EBRD’s Sustainable Supply Chain Finance programme. Clients remark that West ’has a very strong commercial background, and is fast-thinking and hardworking’.