White & Case LLP covers a range of major securitisation asset classes, including RMBS, CMBS, leveraged loans, and equipment leases. The team is led by Tom Falkus, Ingrid York, and Debashis Dey. Falkus advises on securitisation, restructurings, back-leverage transactions, and loan portfolio acquisitions, while York’s expertise spans asset-based financings, sub-participations, synthetic risk participations, and derivatives. Dey focuses on private credit and brings experience advising European financial services clients and Middle Eastern-based corporates.
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Testimonials
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- Debashis Dey: precise and clear advice that was tailored to our institution and easy to digest for our non-legal colleagues as well. Felix Mueller: very responsive associate who had an excellent understanding of the particularities of our organization and the relevance of this for the transaction.
- Very responsive team; their advice is clear, and they brought in experts for specific questions very quickly.
- Debashis Dey, Salvia Matonyte, and Felix Mueller have developed excellent relations in the market and are extremely well respected as legal advisors.
- Sebastien Seele is exceptional.
- Excellent commercial and technical skills.
Key clients
- Blackstone Alternative Credit Advisors LP
- BNP Paribas
- Cabot Credit Management Group Limited
- Citibank NA
- European Investment Fund
- Goldman Sachs International
- Hertz
- HCOB
- Macquarie Bank Limited
- Nomura International Plc
- Oaktree Capital Management
- Santander
Work highlights
Representation of Hertz Holdings Netherlands 2 B.V. in connection with the extremely complex multi-jurisdictional Hertz European ABS financing of over €1.3bn.
Representation of the European Investment Fund as guarantor and the European Investment Bank, as most senior investor in connection with a PLN 1.35 billion (€317,000,000) cash securitisation of a portfolio of performing auto leases originated by VEHIS.
Representation of Goldman Sachs International as senior lender on an English law governed forward flow securitisation of limited recourse funding facilities to SMEs originated via the Beehive P2P Limited origination platform in the UAE and the subsequent upsize of the facility.
Practice head
Tom Falkus; Ingrid York; Debashis Dey