She handles crisis and insolvency situations, advising creditors, debtors and their management as well as insolvency administrators, especially in complex cross border matters (also with a focus on French speaking clients).

At White & Case, Janina works closely together with insolvency administrators, handling in-court insolvency proceedings in various industry sectors (e.g. shipping, retail).

Prior to joining White & Case, she built an expertise in insolvency and restructuring law matters while working with a number of leading international law firms.

Janina holds a master’s degree in law (double maîtrise franco-allemande) of the University of Cologne and the University of Paris 1 (Panthéon-Sorbonne). Her doctoral thesis deals with the invalidity of contractual ipso-facto clauses in the event of insolvency – with comparative law and conflict of law aspects. She regularly writes publications on insolvency and restructuring law.