White & 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.