Grégoire Karila
White & Case LLP
White & Case LLP
Client SatisfactionWhite & Case LLP's has the scale to handle a diverse portfolio of work. The team is notably retained by leading banks as well as issuers to assist with large transactions, including the issuance of green and charitable sustainable bonds. The Paris team, alongside its London counterparts, also advised the Ukrainian finance minister on a strategic liability management deal. Séverin Robillard directs the practice, which also includes Grégoire Karila and Olga Fedosova.
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‘Grégoire Karila is a dedicated lawyer who is attentive to the needs and specificities of the client. He is a kind and very competent individual. ’
‘Dynamic, available, attentive team.’
‘Grégoire Karila: good mastery of subjects, availability, fluid exchanges’.
'Expert guidance. Great insights and work well together with peers across different disciplines.. Always available, always reactive. Highly commercial. Experts in their fields.'
Key clients
- Barclays
- Belfius Bank
- BofA Merrill Lynch
- BPCE
- BNP Paribas
- BNP Paribas Personal Finance
- Citigroup
- Crédit Agricole SA
- Crédit Agricole CIB
- CA Consumer Finance
- PSA Banque Finance/Credipar
- Credit Mutuel Arkea
- Credit Suisse
- Deutsche Bank
- Goldman Sachs
- HSBC
- J.P. Morgan
- LCL
- Natixis
- Société Générale
- UBS
- Air France-KLM
- Air Liquide
- Atos
- ENGIE
- Faurecia
- LVMH
- Michelin
- Peugeot
- Plastic Omnium
- Rubis
- SMCP
- Sanofi
- Stellantis
- Sodexo
- SPIE
- SUEZ
- Tereos
- Verallia
- Vinci
- Worldline
Work highlights
- Advised Faurecia S.E. (FORVIA) on FORVIA's €700 million sustainability-linked bond offering and €705 million rights issue to partially refinance the acquisition of HELLA.
- Advised SNCF on the issue of its first green bond with a shared coupon for the benefit of the Child Brain Robert-Debré Institute.
- Advised the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine on a comprehensive liability management transaction delaying for two years Ukraine's contractual obligation to make payments under approximately US$25 billion of its international bonds, GDP-linked warrants and sovereign-guaranteed debt obligations.
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Séverin Robillard
White & Case LLPPractice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Séverin Robillard