White And Case LLP

White & Case LLP is a global law firm based in New York City. Founded in 1901, the firm has 46 offices in 31 countries worldwide and has been ranked among the top ten firms worldwide by revenue.

History

The firm was launched on May 1, 1901 when two Wall Street lawyers, Justin DuPratt White, 31, and George B. Case, 28, each contributed $250 () to launch White & Case.

White had attended Cornell University and was married to a banking heiress while Case attended Yale, playing baseball as a student athlete. The pair had a close relationship with Henry P. Davison, a noted banker who helped create the Federal Reserve. The firm's first clients included Bankers Trust Company.

James Hurlock led the firm as chairman from 1980 to 2000. Under Hurlock, the firm tripled its roster of lawyers and expanded into multiple global markets.

Duane Wall was named chairman in 2000. Although he refocused its business on New York's financial services industry, Wall also oversaw a merger with the German firm Feddersen Laule Ewerwahn Scherzberg Finkelnburg Clemm. This enabled White & Case to become the first American company to enter the "top ten" firms in Germany.

On October 1, 2007, White & Case announced a new leadership team led by chairman Hugh Verrier. Shortly after taking the reigns of the firm, Verrier retained the consulting firm of McKinsey & Company to conduct a review of its worldwide business operations.

In 2010, White & Case created a Global Pro Bono Practice, focusing on three areas: access to justice, promoting the rule of law, and serving the world’s leading non-governmental organizations. The Firm was profiled by ''Law360'' in 2012 for its pro bono efforts.

The firm's antitrust law practice has been recognized as part of the top 5 Global Elite by the Global Competition Review (GCR) in 2020.

The firm also has one of the most successful international arbitration practices in the world, having ranked first every year from 2015 to 2019, and most recently in 2021, by the Global Arbitration Review (GAR). White & Case is also noted by GAR as having the largest portfolio valuation of any firm for 2020-2022 (a full 20 percent larger than the portfolio at the second-largest firm), and has the highest number of recognized market-leading practitioners.

In June 2020, the firm announced that it had " poached" four Winston & Strawn specialists to establish itself as a destination law firm for special-purpose acquisition companies (SPACs): Joel Rubinstein, Jonathan Rochwarger, Elliott Smith and Daniel Nussen."The Law Firm of White & Case Acquires the Winston & Strawn SPAC Team"
by Kristi Marvin, ''SPAC Insider'', June 17, 2020. Retrieved November 10, 2021.

See also

*List of largest United States-based law firms by profits per partner
*List of largest United States-based law firms by head count

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Foreign law firms with offices in Hong Kong
Foreign law firms with offices in Japan
Law firms based in New York City
Law firms established in 1901
1901 establishments in New York City