David Thatch > White & Case LLP > New York, United States > Lawyer Profile

The New York-based structured finance team at White & Case LLP works closely with the firm’s capital markets team in order to offer clients expert market knowledge alongside a comprehensive service full of technical expertise. The group is able to tackle both traditional and esoteric asset type transactions involving blue-chip and Fortune 500 multinational corporations and financial services. Furthermore, the practice demonstrates notable skill in rental car securitizations and financings, as well as asset-backed notes offerings and CLOs. David Thatch heads the team and is highly experienced in esoteric securitizations, leveraged investment funds and CLOs. Jim Fogarty covers the full range of financing issues and provides trusted counsel to clients wishing to navigate the current regulatory environment in regard to the Dodd-Frank Act, the Volcker Rule and risk retention. Elizabeth Devine is a key contact for US and cross-border receivables transactions, investment funds and structured credit facilities. Carla Moore left the practice in early 2024.

White & Case LLP advises a number of major clients such as The Hertz Corporation on key corporate governance concerns such as CEO transition advice and EV strategy advice. The firm is praised for its deep bench, with clients nothing that ‘the team’s global reach and resources means that they are prepared to handle any matter regardless of its size or scope’. Practice head David Thatch in New York is regional section head, and other standout team members include the ‘technically superb lawyer‘ Maia Gez. More widely, the group is noted for being ‘uniquely pragmatic in its approach to advising clients on issues and matters that present novel or complex situations.’