White & Case LLP

White & Case LLP‘s London finance division has huge range across structured finance. Its work spans investment and hedging transactions across interest rate, credit, equity, currency, and commodity derivatives, as well as regulatory capital trades, repos, securities lending, synthetic investments, and Islamic derivatives in developed and emerging markets. Its client base has similar breadth, encompassing sovereign entities, corporates, and financial institutions. Practice head Ingrid York is ’the pre-eminent expert in the market for carbon trading and complex derivatives’. She leads a ‘personable, available and approachable’ group that includes Anthony Colegrave, whose qualification in South African law sees him active in many cross-border transactions and who is known for his ’deep industry knowledge and out-of-the-box thinking’, and Tom Falkus, who is a key adviser to credit funds, originators, asset managers, sponsors and investors. Debashis Dey, who works from both London and Dubai, also plays a pivotal role in the practice. Coming up through the ranks is Phillan Amin, who specialises in OTC derivatives, structured finance, and repos. Lara Taylor, noted for her focus on OTC derivatives and finance-linked hedging, is also recommended.