White & Case has strengthened its UK Banking practice with the addition of new Partner Colin Harley in the firm's London office.
Harley, who joins the firm's Global Banking Practice, focuses primarily on advising financial sponsors and alternative capital providers on all forms of borrower finance. He joins from Maclay Murray & Spens, and previously worked at Dickson Minto. He brings with him over 12 years of experience.
"The addition of Colin will enhance our bank finance capability in the UK," said White & Case Partner Eric Berg, Global Banking Practice Leader. "As a dedicated borrower-side lawyer, Colin will have a particular role to play in our drive to establish a leading pan-European, cross-border private equity practice based in London."
"Colin is an energetic, technically astute lawyer with excellent experience," said White & Case Partner Lee Cullinane, Regional Section Head, EMEA Banking. "He has developed strong borrower-side characteristics to his practice which will help intensify our focus on the representation of sponsors, with clients benefiting from increasingly sophisticated finance advice to support the English, US and local law capability White & Case already provides in all the major jurisdictions in which private equity funds invest or raise finance."
In the past year White & Case has expanded its EMEA Private Equity practice with the addition of Partners Ian Bagshaw, Richard Youle, and Ross Allardice in London, as well as the recent hire of Equity Capital Markets Partner Inigo Esteve.
Since the beginning of 2014 the firm's Private Equity-related work has included advising Polish mobile telecoms operator Play on its inaugural EUR 870 million high yield bond issue (as reported by CEE Legal Matters on February 7), Innovia Group on its debut floating rate high yield bond issue, Avast Software on its sale of a significant minority stake to CVC Capital Partners (as reported by CEE Legal Matters on February 7), Mid Europa Partners on the sale of T-Mobile Czech Republic to Deutsche Telekom (as reported by CEE Legal Matters on February 12), and DX (Group)'s IPO and admission to the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange.
