Global law firm White & Case LLP recently represented the Education Law Center (ELC), a New Jersey non-profit legal advocacy organization, in a case before the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit with sweeping implications for countless children with disabilities, especially those raised in low-income families.

Global law firm White & Case LLP represented Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Santander Investment Securities Inc., as initial purchasers and joint bookrunners, in connection with the offer and sale of US$1.75 billion 5.750% senior notes due 2021 by Centrais Elétricas Brasileiras SA – Eletrobras, the Brazilian government-controlled electricity generation, transmission and distribution holding company and the largest electricity generation and transmission company in Brazil. The notes were offered to qualified institutional buyers (as defined in Rule 144A under the US Securities Act of 1933, as amended) in the United States and institutional and other investors outside Brazil and the United States in accordance with Regulation S under the Securities Act.

White & Case's Energy, Infrastructure, Project Finance and Asset Finance (EIPAF) practice has been awarded the coveted 'Airport Finance Law Firm of the Year 2011' title by Jane's Transport Finance Journal.

Global law firm White & Case LLP today announced the promotion of 21 lawyers worldwide to its partnership for 2012. The promotions are effective January 1, 2012 and span eight of the Firm’s global practices, with a focus on Mergers & Acquisitions, Capital Markets and Disputes.

Global law firm White & Case LLP advised Jersey-based Nordic Capital Fund V and Point International in a US $1.05 billion deal under which VeriFone Systems Inc. will acquire Point.

White & Case in Asia has been awarded "Best Law Firm for Alternative Assets 2011" by AsianInvestor, a monthly magazine dedicated to the asset-management industry in Asia, providing authoritative commentary to institutional investors, distributors of investment products, investment managers and the service providers to these groups.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised the Republic of Namibia on its debut US$500 million international bond issue which closed today. Barclays Capital and Standard Bank led the transaction. Only three Sub-Saharan African countries outside of South Africa managed to access the international markets this year, and White & Case advised all three.

White & Case was named "Law Firm of the Year 2011" by Germany's most influential legal journal JUVE.

In a substantial boost to its market-leading practice in Russia, global law firm White & Case LLP has further reinforced its Moscow office with the addition of three new partners: Grigory Chernyshov, Jonathan Langley and Alexandra Schukina.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has been recognized at the top of the field of Latin American arbitration by Chambers Latin America 2012. Chambers describes White & Case as "a powerhouse at the forefront of Latin American international arbitration" and "impressively efficient." White & Case is the only firm to rank tier one in both international arbitration and project finance, fields which are critical to investment and dispute resolution in the region.

In a substantial boost to its strategy to strengthen further its international mergers and acquisitions practice, global law firm White & Case LLP has significantly raised its profile in the Middle East with the addition of Campbell Steedman as a partner in the Firm's Abu Dhabi office. Qualified in England, Steedman joins White & Case from Norton Rose LLP, where he was the Middle East Senior Partner, as well as head of its regional corporate finance practice.

Global law firm White & Case LLP advised global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group on its acquisition of 70% of Sagemcom, a global high-technology group specializing in broadband communications and energy activities, from private equity firm The Gores Group.

Global law firm White & Case LLP was ranked the second most diverse law firm by The American Lawyer in its 2011 Diversity Scorecard. The annual survey ranks the largest and highest grossing law firms in the United States by their percentage of minority lawyers, including partners. In last year's survey, White & Case ranked No. 4.

Global law firm White & Case LLP is representing Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Saudi Aramco) on its joint venture with The Dow Chemical Company (Dow) to build and operate a US$20 billion world-scale integrated chemicals complex in Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. Saudi Aramco and its predecessor company, the Arabian American Oil Company, has been a White & Case client for more than half a century.

Global law firm White & Case LLP advised UniCredit Bank AG, London Branch, as arranger on a new €335 million Turkish covered bond programme for Şekerbank TAŞ and initial issuances thereunder—the first-ever covered bond programme in the Turkish market. Known as the Şekerbank Asset-Guaranteed Bonds, the covered bond is also the first to earn an "A3" rating from Moody's Investors Service.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has advised GMR Energy (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (formerly known as Island Power) on the SG$1 billion greenfield financing of an 800-megawatt power project on Jurong Island, Singapore.

Global law firm White & Case LLP advised Daimler AG on the establishment of a 50-50 joint venture with Robert Bosch GmbH. The consortium agreement regarding the joint development, production and distribution of traction motors for electric vehicles is subject to approval by the antitrust authorities.

Global law firm White & Case was successful today before the European Union's ("EU") General Court in the high profile synthetic rubber cartel case against clients Unipetrol a.s. and Synthos Kralupy a.s. (formerly, Kaučuk a.s.). The EU's General Court has annulled the European Commission's infringement decision against the companies, and has overturned in their entirety, the fines imposed on them.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has provided English and Russian law advice to RusVinyl LLC ('RusVinyl'), and transaction sponsors, CJSC SIBUR Holding and SolVin GmBH & Co KG, on the €750 million project financing of a 330,000 tonnes pa PVC plant in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.

Global law firm White & Case LLP represented Russell City Energy Company, LLC, a project company 75%-owned by Calpine Corporation and 25%-owned by an affiliate of GE Energy Financial Services, in connection with the $844.5 million construction financing of a natural gas-fired, combined cycle power generation facility. The 620 megawatt facility – which is under construction in Hayward, CA, and is expected to begin operations in mid-2013 – is the country's first power plant to receive a federal air permit that includes a voluntary limit on greenhouse gas emissions.

Global law firm White & Case LLP advised the lenders to a consortium selected as the preferred concessionaire for a €7.8 billion, 50-year concession to build and operate France's Sud Europe-Atlantique (LGV SEA) high-speed railway line. The project, which will connect Tours and Bordeaux through a 303-kilometre high-speed rail link, marks the largest project finance deal to be awarded in the French railway sector and represents one of Europe's most important infrastructure investments in the past 20 years.

Global law firm White & Case LLP announced today that Hugh Verrier was re-elected Chair of the Firm by the partnership. Verrier ran unopposed in his bid for a second four-year term.

Global law firm White & Case LLP and Jindal Global Law School (JGLS) of O.P. Jindal Global University have signed an agreement to develop executive and continuing legal education programs. The agreement, a first between a major US law firm and an Indian law school, calls for visiting faculty arrangements, adjunct professorships, joint conferences and seminars and internships for JGLS students.

Partner Dan Woods of global law firm White Case LLP has been chosen as a recipient of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Litigation's 2011 John Minor Wisdom Public Service and Professionalism Award. Woods was chosen for the award for his pro bono representation of the Log Cabin Republicans in its successful federal court challenge to the constitutionality of the US government's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law, which prohibits openly gay men and women from serving in the military.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has boosted its Global Project Finance Practice with the addition of Caroline Miller Smith as a partner in London. The move further strengthens the Firm's market-leading capabilities across a broad range of infrastructure and renewable energy activities.

Global law firm White & Case LLP has bolstered its bengoshi profile in Japan with the hire of two new Japanese partners with expertise across M&A, real estate and restructuring. Mr Jun Usami and Ms Ayako Kawano join the firm from Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP.

Global law firm White & Case LLP advised Mexichem SAB de CV, a major Mexican chemical producer, on its US$300 million acquisition of the AlphaGary Plastic Compounding Business Division of Rockwood Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ROC). This is the second acquisition in which White & Case acted for Mexichem in less than a year.

Carolyn Lamm, an international arbitration, litigation and trade partner based in Washington, DC, recently completed her 2009 – 2010 term as President of the American Bar Association (ABA), a nearly 400,000-member organization and the largest voluntary professional organization in the world.

Global law firm White & Case LLP announced today that James B. Hurlock, former chairman of the Firm, was awarded the prestigious 2010 Root/Stimson Award by the New York State Bar Association. The annual award honors an attorney who has demonstrated an exemplary commitment to community service. State Bar President Stephen P. Younger (Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP) and Paul Michael Hassett of Buffalo (Brown & Kelly, LLP), Subcommittee Chair on the Root/Stimson Award for the Committee on Annual Award, presented the award to Hurlock at the June 19 House of Delegates Meeting in Cooperstown.

The Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision today in Stolt-Nielsen S.A. v. AnimalFeeds International Corp., No. 08-1198, 559 U.S. ___ (2010). In a complete and total victory for White & Case client Stolt-Nielsen, the Court denied class arbitration of antitrust claims, squarely holding that the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) does not permit arbitrators to impose class-action arbitration on parties whose arbitration agreement undisputedly is silent on the question of class arbitration.

A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action. The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States. An individual mandate would have two features that, in combination, would make it unique. First, it would impose a duty on individuals as members of society. Second, it would require people to purchase a specific service that would be heavily regulated by the federal government.

When Mara Topping, a partner in the D.C. office of White & Case, was a young girl, she lived in five countries on three continents, moving wherever her father, a high ranking USAID official, was stationed. Her childhood abroad—and her experiences with the beauty, diversity and poverty in Africa in particular—triggered a lifelong interest in other cultures and in international development. She applies this passion to her role as the head of the fund formation practice in the D.C. office of White & Case. "Emerging markets are a good part of the focus of the work that I do in private equity fund formation. I feel very good about seeing foreign capital mobilized into emerging markets where there is tremendous economic opportunity and a great deal of need."

Global law firm White & Case LLP announces that Ellis Baker, Ben Mellors, Scott Chalmers and Anthony Lavers have authored a new book, FIDIC Contracts: Law and Practice, published by Informa, which is set to become the leading industry standard guide to using the FIDIC forms of contract.

White & Case is sponsoring 10 Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competitions this year, including nine national competitions and the US regional competition in Washington, DC. This is the third straight year White & Case has sponsored multiple competitions as the sole Jessup Global Partner and the first year the Firm is sponsoring the International Rounds and the Jessup Cup.