The team behind White Oak has provided expert guidance on a wide range of financial matters to governments and other clients in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East. It has advised on some of the most high-profile and innovative sovereign debt work-outs of recent times involving middle-income countries, and enjoys an enviable track record for developing cutting-edge solutions for clients in often testing circumstances.

The team has amassed an extensive store of first-hand knowledge relating to the intricacies of successful sovereign debt restructuring strategies, creditor-debtor tactics and dynamics, the interface between debt policy and the broader macroeconomy, and the role played by the multilateral institutions in shaping economic policy in the cases of countries experiencing financial stress.