Walter White is a Partner in Grundberg Mocatta Rakison LLP (GMR). He was the Founding Partner of White and Jones LLP London, England. This practice merged with GMR in July 2006.

His work consists of multinational securities transactions, international business and finance law issues and complex litigation and related arbitration. He has represented clients in major business transactions in the U.S., Canada, Europe, throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States (C.I.S.) and Africa. He has also advised governments of the C.I.S. and Africa on economic development issues and legislation. From August 1994 until the end of 1998, Mr White was a partner in Steptoe and Johnson LLP and the managing director of Steptoe and Johnson International. Mr White served as Commissioner of Securities for the State of Wisconsin from February 1988 until January 1991. Since 1980, Mr White has also served as a partner in Bryan Cave LLP (London and Washington D.C.); Quarles and Brady LLP (Milwaukee) and as an Associate at Michael Best and Friedrich LLP (Milwaukee).

Mr White currently serves as a director of Church Mutual Insurance Company of Merrill, Wisconsin, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Hampshire College, he has previously served as a director and Chairman of the Board of the Central Asian-American Enterprise Fund (appointed by President Clinton) as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York City. He is currently a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. In the North American Securities Administrators Association, he has served as chair of the International Corporation Finance Committee and as vice chair of its Corporation Finance Section. He was a member of the SEC Task Force on the U.S. Canadian Multijurisdictional Disclosure System. He has been an active member in the Association Internationale Des Jeunes Avocats in Brussels, Belgium and the International Bar Association, as well as chair-elect of the Section on International Law of the State Bar of Wisconsin, director of the Wisconsin Trust Account Foundation, Inc. and a trustee of the Milwaukee Foundation as well as a former president of the Milwaukee Urban League and a member of the board of directors of the Milwaukee Symphony.

In the American Bar Association, Mr White serves on the boards of the Center on Rule of Law Initiatives, The Center for Human Rights and is a past Chair of the ABA Africa Project. He has served on the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors, was the chair of the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, a member of the House of Delegates, on the Special Advisory Committee on International Activities, chair of the C.I.S. Law Committee of the International Law Section, chair of the Young Lawyers Division and Executive Council liaison to the Business Law Section. Mr White has published books and articles on multinational business activity and lectured in North America, Europe, Central Asia and Africa. Mr White is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, Wisconsin, is registered as a foreign lawyer in England and Wales and has previously been registered as a foreign lawyer in the Russian Federation.

Languages: English and Russian