White & Case has hired a partner from Weil to lead its global financial restructuring and insolvency practice in Paris.

Anne-Sophie Noury has joined the firm after a little over five years at Weil, where she was co-head of its Paris restructuring and insolvency team. 

“Anne-Sophie is a highly regarded restructuring lawyer in France who advises on significant cross-border and domestic matters, including some of the most important French restructurings in recent years,” said Severin Robillard, White & Case office executive partner in Paris.

He added that Noury has worked extensively with White & Case partner Saam Golshani, a noted restructuring expert who also heads the firm’s private equity practice in Paris. Both Golshani and Noury were involved in the restructurings of technology services company CGG and digital marketing company Solocal, according to their respective firm biographies.

Noury’s practice focuses on distressed M&A, safeguard and insolvency proceedings and she is also skilled at advising on conciliation procedures and corporate restructurings. White & Case highlighted her experience in distressed LBO transactions and cross-border restructurings, noting she is “one of the few lawyers in France able to handle both high-end out-of-court and in-court restructurings, including chapter 7-like processes”.

Before joining Weil Noury practised at French boutique BDGS Associés, where she created and led the restructuring practice. She is the seventh partner in White & Case’s Paris restructuring team; globally the practice includes more than 260 lawyers. 

Practice head Tom Lauria said the firm aimed to “have a unique ability to provide our clients with top-level counselling and support, whether they are a company in, or at risk of being in, financial distress, a creditor of, investor in or potential purchaser of, such a company – regardless of the jurisdictional landscape”. 

He added that Noury’s arrival “strengthens our ability to service clients on global restructurings that are signature White & Case”.

Noury’s hire follows a disputes team led by prominent former prosecutor Jean Pierre Picca defecting from White & Case in Paris in January to join Hogan Lovells. Meantime in April a four-lawyer government regulation team led by partner François-Guilhem Vaissier was recruited by Jones Day. 

White & Case also bolstered its Paris bench early in the year with the hire of Quinn Emanuel commercial litigation partner Kami Haeri and of counsel Alexandre Kiabski, both of whom joined as partners. 

Other significant partner laterals for the firm this year in Europe include M&A lawyer Domenico Fanuele in Milan from legacy Shearman & Sterling and capital markets specialists Oliver Seiler and David Rath, who joined in Frankfurt from Latham & Watkins. 

Meantime in London the firm has hired partners from rivals including Hogan Lovells, Cahill and Macfarlanes this year and in July recruited Ropes & Gray’s European secondaries team lead, Alexandra Chauvin, in the City to support the build-out of its global funds offering.