Rebecca Campbell > White & Case LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

White & Case LLP enjoys a reputation as an ‘extremely responsive, well-connected, practical team with a wealth of knowledge about, and experience in, the industry’. The global team acts on behalf of an impressive international client list on the full-suite of both transactional and contentious matters, including company issues, banking and capital markets, dispute resolution, ESG, project finance, restructuring and M&A, among others. Practice leader Rebecca Campbell is praised as ‘one of the best in the business – practical, smart, responsive, creative, and very connected’ and ‘the one you want on your side when you are working on a complicated mining deal.‘ Experienced M&A and equity investments lawyer David Lewis is a key name for the full range of corporate matters in the mining and minerals space, whilst Kamran Ahmad devotes much of his practice to project development and financing.

At White & Case LLP, clients appreciate ‘the exceptional combination of competence, expertise, responsiveness and friendliness which provides for an outstanding client experience‘. The firm is active in emerging markets across the globe in work streams as diverse as project finance, bond issuance, corporate transactions and sovereign-related advisory work. ‘Particularly important is their deep bench of EMEA experienced US counsel‘, among them US-qualified debt specialists Melissa Butler and Ian Clark, who work closely with English debt finance experts James Hardy and Stuart Matty. Clark handled a major liability management transaction for the the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine. Project development and finance partner Mark Castillo-Bernaus, international finance partner Jason Kerr. Banking partner Christopher Czarnocki, energy partner Philip Stopford and head of the Africa group Mukund Dhar are also heavily involved in emerging market transactions. Senior associate Judith Olloh is highly recommended for energy, infrastructure and project finance. EMEA Head of Project Development and Finance Michael Watson worked with Butler and a strong team of associates to assist Sweihan PV Power Company with the refinancing of the Noor Abu Dhabi solar PV plant through $700m in green bonds. Mining and metals partner Rebecca Campbell is ‘commercially and technically brilliant‘.