White & Case’s European practice continues to be one of the most distinctive and promising teams yet put together by a US-based firm. A confident showing from the firm’s finance team has helped to drive forward UK revenues by 38% in 2006 to hit $172m. The London office has also increased its fee earners from 64 to nearly 350 in the UK.
The debt practice, which boasts respected operators such as Maurice Allen, Mike Goetz, Chris Kandel and Rachel Hatfield, has been building up its client base and the quality of its instructions over the last two years. Its biggest clients over the first half of this year have been Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and BNP Paribas. Last year it also won its first appointment to the Royal Bank of Scotland panel and it is also improving links with Barclays and Merrill Lynch.
