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Adam Farlow
Adam Farlow
Adam Farlow is the Global Chair of our Capital Markets Practice Group. He is a New York and English qualified capital markets partner based in London. He has extensive experience in US securities laws and transaction management. He has been elected as a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and serves on the Council of the American Bar Association Section of International Law. Adam focuses on offerings of international debt (primarily high yield), equity and other forms of financing involving companies, investors, major financial institutions and trustees, as well as all forms of restructuring and liability management for debtors, creditors, trustees and dealer managers.
Ákos Fehérváry
Ákos Fehérváry
Ákos Fehérváry serves as managing partner of the Firm’s Budapest office, while heading the M&A/Corporate Practice Group and the Employment Practice Group in Budapest. Ákos brings three decades of distinguished experience in complex corporate transactions and employment law. As a trusted advisor on mergers and acquisitions, he has guided both domestic and international clients through sophisticated deals spanning privatizations, private equity investments, and greenfield ventures. His transaction portfolio includes notable work in energy, automotive, banking, technology, and transportation sectors. As Head of Employment, Ákos leads strategic workforce initiatives for multinational corporations, skillfully managing business transfers, restructurings, and sensitive employment matters. His integrated expertise in both M&A and employment law provides clients with comprehensive guidance through complex corporate transformations. Ákos is particularly noted for his work on cross-border transactions and corporate reorganizations, including mergers and spin-offs. His counsel extends beyond traditional deal execution to encompass the critical employment considerations that shape successful business transitions. A respected voice in the legal community, he regularly shares insights at various forums and conferences.
Alain Huyghe
Alain Huyghe
Alain Huyghe is a partner in the Tax Practice Group of the Brussels office. He joined Baker McKenzie in 1986 and became partner in 1994. Alain advises clients on a broad range of domestic corporate tax and international tax issues. He also has extensive experience in tax controversy work (including transfer pricing audits and disputes, mutual agreement procedures, and the representation of clients before the European Court of Justice and the Constitutional Court) and has successfully handled a number of major cases. He also focuses on advisory and tax controversy work for insurance companies on specific tax matters inherent to the insurance sector.
Alex Chadwick
Alex Chadwick
Alex Chadwick is a tax partner and the Firm's EMEA+ Chief Executive. Alex’s practice focuses on international tax planning with an emphasis on the tax aspects of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate restructurings, especially those with an international aspect and those involving entrepreneurs. Alex is an experienced global key client manager and is the Firm's global relationship partner for several of our key clients. Alex's clients include large corporates, funds and financial services groups. Alex is currently the Firm's EMEA+ Chief Executive. Since 2016 he served for five years as the London office Managing Partner and prior to that Alex headed and led the growth of Baker McKenzie's London tax practice for 10 years.
Alex Lewis
Alex Lewis
Alex Lewis is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Private Equity & Funds group, based in London. Alex advises private equity houses and other financial investors on a wide range of domestic and international private equity transactions, including buyouts, joint ventures, minority investments and exits.
Alexander Wolff
Alexander Wolff
Alexander Wolff heads the Labor Law Practice Group in the Firm’s Berlin office. He co-authored the German section of Baker McKenzie’s Worldwide Guide to Termination, Employment Discrimination, and Workplace Harassment Laws and Global Employer. He is also a regular contributor to other labor law journals, and is a frequent speaker on employment law issues in seminars and conferences. Dr. Wolff routinely advises clients on employment matters relating to reorganizations and restructurings, transfer of businesses (TUPE), negotiations with works councils and unions, as well as general employment advice. He also advises on executive compensation and employee benefits, mass dismissals and employment litigation. In addition, he provides sound counsel on issues arising from data protection and discrimination, pension funds and harassment issues. He also handles employment litigation, employer-work council relations and the mandatory representation of employees in companies’ supervisory boards.
Alexander Gee
Alexander Gee
Alexander is a senior associate in the Corporate Group in the London office of Baker McKenzie. Alexander joined the Firm in March 2010 as a trainee solicitor. Following qualification as a solicitor, Alexander joined the Firm's corporate team in London. Alexander completed a three-month secondment to the Hong Kong office of Baker McKenzie in 2012 and a two-year secondment to Baker McKenzie's Singapore office in 2017. Alexander completed a nine-month client secondment at a UK-based global pharmaceutical group in July 2020. Alexander is recognised by the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in the United Kingdom as “One to Watch” for Mergers and Acquisitions Law. Alexander is experienced in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, with a particular focus on the pharmaceutical, medical devices and healthcare industries, as well as general corporate matters including multi-jurisdictional reorganisations, joint ventures, distressed M&A, and corporate governance issues.
Alexander Wyss
Alexander Wyss
Alexander Wyss is a seasoned business lawyer with a special focus on real estate transactions, private equity & venture capital, mergers & acquisitions and fund structuring. He is a member of the Management Committee of Baker McKenzie Zurich, co-heads the Swiss Real Estate Transaction Practice Group and is a former member of the Firm’s European Real Estate Steering Committee. He is ranked among the leading lawyers in his areas of practice by various publications, including Chambers Europe and Legal500. Alexander Wyss acts as trusted advisor for his clients and serves as a member of the board of directors in selected companies. He is a lecturer at the University of Zurich in the CUREM master and executive classes. Alexander advises domestic and international clients in cross-border and national real estate and corporate transactions, private equity & venture capital, mergers & acquisitions as well as fund structuring.
Alexander Fischer
Alexander Fischer
Alexander Fischer co-chairs Baker McKenzie’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity practice groups in Zurich. Currently based in Zurich, Alexander also has experience working in the Firm’s Chicago office. He routinely represents clients on a wide range of areas of law ancillary to the Firm’s Banking & Finance, Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions practices. Alexander is a recommended lawyer in his areas of practice by the Legal 500, Chambers and other publications. He serves as a member of the board of directors of different Swiss companies. Alexander advises listed and non-listed clients in the areas of cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, private equity and debt financing. He also provides sound and insightful counsel on general corporate and commercial matters.
Alexandra Glad
Alexandra Glad is an associate and member of Baker McKenzie’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in Stockholm. Her main practice areas are trademark law and copyright law. Prior to joining the Firm in October 2013, Alexandra worked as a lawyer at a branding agency. Before that, she was an associate at another law firm specialized in intellectual property rights and media law. Alexandra practices mainly within the field of intellectual property rights. She assists companies from various industries with IP protection, licensing and infringement situations. She especially advises international and Swedish companies on how to create, build and safeguard strong trademark portfolios. Alexandra also has qualified experience in issues related to marketing and media law.
Amar Hamouche
Amar Hamouche
Amar Hamouche is a Principal within the Tax practice group of Baker McKenzie's Luxembourg office. He has over 20 years of experience. Prior to joining the Firm's Tax team in 2011, Amar was Senior Tax Manager at Ernst & Young Luxembourg for over seven years and a member of the Financial Services Organization tax group, which focuses on Financial Institutions. Amar has significant knowledge in the field of financial services, within which he solves corporate tax matters on behalf of international clients, such as investment funds and asset managers, as well as holding companies and private equity structures. He has experience in all areas of Luxembourg income tax law, with an emphasis on corporate taxation. In addition, Amar has significant experience in real estate tax and wealth management. Amar's practice focuses mainly on corporate and international taxation (including both inbound and outbound tax planning), as well as on M&A and real estate transactions. He has experience in all areas of Luxembourg income tax law, with an emphasis on corporate taxation. Amar also regularly advises on structured capital market transactions as well as fund, carried interest and management incentive plans structuring. He is also very active within the private wealth sector, notably advising numerous family offices, HNWI and private bankers in the tax structuring of investments and estates, as well as in succession planning.
Anahita Thoms
Anahita Thoms
Anahita Thoms heads Baker McKenzie's International Trade Practice in Germany and is a member of our EMEA Steering Committee for Investigations, Compliance & Ethics. Anahita is Global Lead Sustainability Partner for our Industrials, Manufacturing and Transportation Industry Group. She serves as an Advisory Board Member in profit and non-profit organizations, such as Atlantik-Brücke, and is an elected National Committee Member at UNICEF Germany. She has served for three consecutive terms as the ABA Co-chair of the Export Controls and Economic Sanctions Committee and as the ABA Vice-Chair of the International Human Rights Committee. Anahita has also been an Advisory Board Member (Beirätin) of the Sustainable Finance Advisory Council of the German Government. Anahita has won various accolades for her work, including 100 Most Influential Women in German Business (manager magazin), Top Lawyer (Wirtschaftswoche), Winner of the Strive Awards in the category Sustainability, Pioneer in the area of sustainability (Juve), International Trade Lawyer of the Year (Germany) 2020 ILO Client Choice Awards, Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, Capital 40 under 40, International Trade Lawyer of the Year (New York) 2016 ILO Client Choice Awards. In 2023, Handelsblatt recognized her as one of Germany’s Dealmaker and “most sought after advisors of the country” in the field of sustainability. Anahita focuses her practice on global investigations and white-collar crime proceedings before German authorities and courts. She has significant experience advising on internal compliance programs, accompanying internal and external investigations and self-disclosures, inter alia in cases of breaches of sanctions, export control, human rights, data protection and foreign investment review, closely collaborating with the competent authorities.
András Horváth
András Horváth
András has more than ten years of experience advising and representing clients in antitrust and competition law matters. He represents FMCG, banking and travel agency clients in cartel cases, pharmaceutical clients in abuse of dominance cases and technology companies and OTAs in unfair commercial practices and cases. András regularly advises automotive clients in connection with vertical competition law issues. He has experience in advising FMCG clients on significant market power issues. András also represents energy and automotive companies in merger control cases. He frequently advises banking and pharmaceutical clients on compliance matters, preparing competition law compliance manuals and dawn raid manuals, also holding respective trainings for employees. Before joining the Competition practice group of the Budapest office, András was an attorney at the Budapest office of another international law firm, and a trainee attorney before that. Before that András worked as a trainee at DG Competition of the European Commission in Brussels, at the Hungarian Competition Authority, as well as the Hamburg office of German law firm.
Andrea Cicala
Andrea Cicala is the head of the Antitrust, Competition & Trade Practice as well as of the International Commercial Practice of Baker McKenzie Italy. Andrea regularly assists clients on competition matters including the assessment of the legitimacy of agreements and commercial practices as well as the detection of anti-competitive conduct (cartels, abuse of dominant position, restraints and evaluation of related risks). He also assists clients in investigations started by competition authorities, in related appeals before Italian administrative courts, and in litigation before the ordinary courts, including in relation to claims for antitrust damages. He also leads competition law compliance training programs and seminars. Andrea has also a relevant experience in assisting clients in pre-merger filings before the Italian Antitrust Authority in connection with acquisitions (both shares and asset transactions) as well as joint ventures, disinvestments, mergers. In addition to the practice relating to the area of competition law, Andrea regularly advises on commercial and company law, in particular commercial contracts focused on the fashion/retail and luxury sector.
Andreas Traugott
Andreas Traugott
Andreas Traugott heads the Firm’s Competition Practice Group in the Vienna office. He practices on EU and Austrian competition law, state aid and regulatory matters. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, he served as a partner at DLA, Piper Weiss-Tessbach. Andreas has significant experience advising domestic and international clients on all aspects of competition law. He focuses on merger control, licensing and distribution, IP law, restrictive practices, abuse of dominance, cartel investigations and state aid. Andreas regularly represents clients before the Austrian and European competition authorities.
Andreas Schulz
Andreas Schulz
Dr. Andreas Schulz, a counsel, has several years of experience in the areas of public procurement and administrative law, particularly in the healthcare, defense and utilities sectors. He wrote a number of publications related to his field and regularly delivers presentations on current aspects of public procurement law. Andreas is a member of Forum Vergabe e.V. and the Humboldt Forum Wirtschaft. Andreas focuses his practice on national, European and international public procurement law, as well as public and European law aspects of privatizations. He advises and represents local and international companies and public authorities in tender and review procedures, particularly in pharmaceuticals and medical devices, public infrastructure and transportation systems, and military procurement. In addition, he assists bidders and state institutions in public-private partnerships and tender procedures outside the scope of public procurement law, including the sale of public assets.
Andrew Hedges
Andrew Hedges
Andrew Hedges is a climate change and clean energy lawyer based in London. He works on a range of transactions driven by the ongoing transition to a low carbon economy. His expertise spans the development of renewable energy projects, energy efficiency, sustainable energy procurement (including long term corporate PPAs) and carbon finance. Andrew also provides regulatory advice impacting on the design of a range of energy transactions.
Andrii Moskalyk
Andrii Moskalyk
Andrii Moskalyk is a partner at the Kyiv office of Baker McKenzie with the M&A and corporate practice group, primarily focusing on oil & gas, energy, mining and infrastructure projects (EMI), including public-private partnerships (PPPs) and other cooperation agreements between investors and the government, complex M&A and carve-out transactions in the EMI area. Andrii has more than 10 years of experience  advising foreign and domestic clients on structuring, negotiating and implementing complex EMI deals in both Ukraine and abroad. Andrii joined Baker McKenzie in 2016 from Clifford Chance, where he had worked in the corporate department since 2009, both in the Kyiv and London offices. Andrii has vast experience working on complex multi-jurisdictional transactions, in particular, those involving European countries and North Africa, in such industry sectors as oil & gas, electricity generation and transmission and infrastructure. Andrii has worked extensively on structuring and institutionalizing new corporate governance models for national energy strategic companies, privatizations in the energy sector, energy M&A and PPP deals.
Andy Moody
Andy Moody
Andy is a partner in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution team based in London. He advises clients on international, commercial and investment treaty arbitration as well as in complex, often multijurisdictional litigation, mediations and expert determinations. He also advises clients on issues pertaining to private and public international law. The majority of Andy's work is cross-border and for clients in the energy, financial services, aviation, diversified industrials, and telecommunications sectors. Andy has advised on many disputes in Eastern and Western Europe, the CIS, the Middle East and Asia. He has acted as advisor and advocate in many international arbitrations under the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL, SIAC, CAS, ICSID and LMAA arbitration rules, and in ad hoc arbitrations. Andy also sits as arbitrator and serves as vice chair of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution (CPR)'s Committee on Energy, Oil and Gas. Andy has written numerous articles on arbitration, private international law and public international law in a number of leading journals and texts. He is also the co-author of the book "International Arbitration: A Practical Guide" (January 2013). He speaks and teaches regularly on international arbitration, including at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in London and also at SOAS University of London, and has led training days on international arbitration in Mumbai, Mexico City and Istanbul.
Anika Schürmann
Anika Schürmann
Dr. Anika Sch��rmann is a Partner in Baker McKenzie’s Dusseldorf office and a bar-certified professional in criminal law (Fachanwältin für Strafrecht). Anika has extensive experience in advising clients in antitrust and white collar crime matters, with a particular focus on complex investigations and regulatory and judicial proceedings. Anika co-heads Baker McKenzie's German Investigations, Compliance & Ethics Group as well as the German Consumer Goods & Retail Industry Group. She is also chairing the North Rhine-Westphalia chapter of the prestigious German Association of Antitrust Lawyers. Her expertise has repeatedly been recognized by The Legal 500 ("Next Generation Partner"), Juve ("frequently recommended") and the renowned German business magazines Handelsblatt (Best-Lawyers-Ranking) and Wirtschaftswoche. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie in 2013, Anika was a member of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s antitrust team in Brussels (2007-2011), and practiced at Wessing & Partner, a leading German law firm for high-profile white collar crime matters (2012-2013). Anika advises on all aspects of antitrust and white collar crime matters, including anti-competitive agreements, bid rigging, corruption, fraud, tax evasion and export control violations. She has long-standing experience in handling complex internal investigations as well as proceedings before German and European authorities and courts – in self-disclosure / leniency cases as well as on the defense side. Anika is also an expert in designing and implementing global compliance programs and in advising clients on the admissibility of business models and contractual relationships with business partners.
Anita Lukaschek
Anita Lukaschek
Dr. Anita Lukaschek, a Counsel, joined Baker McKenzie in 2015. She previously worked for the Austrian Federal Competition Authority, handling major cartel cases and being responsible for the leniency program. Anita has been on secondment to the European Commission (DG Competition) and the Federal Ministry of Economy (Trade Law Division). She regularly writes articles and book contributions, particularly on competition matters. Anita has been lecturing on EU competition law at the University of Economics and Business Administration in Vienna (where Anita started her professional career as a university assistant) and the University of Applied Sciences Joanneum, Graz. Anita advises on all aspects of Austrian and EU competition law. She focuses her practice on compliance issues, competition litigation, restrictive practices, abuse of dominance, cartel investigation and leniency filings.
Anjuli Patel
Anjuli Patel
Anjuli is a senior associate in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution team based in London. Anjuli has over ten years' experience representing clients in high-value, complex commercial disputes in international arbitration and commercial litigation, with a particular focus on energy and infrastructure disputes and/or disputes with a geopolitical or sanctions risk element. She frequently advises on issues of contractual interpretation, risk mitigation and settlement strategy. Anjuli has acted on arbitrations under a variety of institutional rules including ICC, LCIA, AFSA, HKIAC and ad hoc arbitrations under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. Anjuli is recognised by the Association of Young Arbitrators (AYA) as one of Africa's 50 Most Promising Young Arbitration Practitioners. She is also recognised by Legal 500 as a "litigation star in the making" and a "key lawyer" for international arbitration, and by Best Lawyers as "One to Watch in the United Kingdom for International Arbitration".
Anna Marina De Vivo
Anna Marina De Vivo is a partner in the Corporate M&A department of Baker McKenzie Milan office. She mainly practices in the area of M&A and Corporate law. Anna Marina has developed strong experiences in national and multijurisdictional transactions, including acquisition of companies (for industrial clients or private equity) and reorganizations of multinational groups, including mergers, de-mergers and transfer of businesses. In connection with said transactions, Anna Marina activities focus on the drafting and negotiation of the transaction agreements and the coordination of the teams involved in the due diligence. She graduated in Law cum laude from Federico II University of Naples in 2006. She attended the Master in Company Law at the Business School of Il Sole 24 Ore (2007) and attended as speakers at the same Master. Admitted to the Bar in 2009.
Annabel Mackay
Annabel Mackay
Annabel Mackay has extensive experience of advising employers and employees on a range of complex employment issues. She has been ranked in Legal 500 and Chambers & Partners since 2015. Chambers & Partners 2024 report that Annabel "draws praise for her work on behalf of financial sector clients and large corporates." An employer client notes that "she navigates her way through complex legislation and case law to give us new perspectives and initiatives." Annabel advises clients on the full range of employment issues, with a focus on compliance-related work in regulated sectors and complex global projects (M&A, outsourcing and carve-outs). She spent 18 months on secondment to the legal teams of two leading investment banks where she advised on a range of cross-border employment matters. Annabel has also provided on-site support to clients in relation to significant integration and harmonisation projects.
Annick Van Hoorebeke
Annick Van Hoorebeke
Annick Van Hoorebeke is a counsel in the Tax Practice Group in the Brussels office. She joined Baker McKenzie in 1990. Annick advises on employee compensation and benefits (including equity-based compensation), with a focus on the tax, social security and labour aspects of executive compensation and employee benefits for resident and non-resident (expatriate) individuals. Annick also advises on the structuring of cross-border transfers of employees and directors.
Annie Elfassi
Annie Elfassi is the Partner in charge of the Litigation and Employment departments of Baker McKenzie's Luxembourg office. She has over 19 years of experience. Prior to joining the Firm in 2019, Annie Elfassi was a member of the Litigation and Risk Management practice and headed the Employment department of a leading law firm in Luxembourg. Annie is a renowned expert in Dispute resolution and Employment matters. She advises and assists clients on dispute resolution, employment law, contract Law, corporate Law, and intellectual property rights. She manages all aspects of shareholder disputes, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty and/or fraud. Annie has a strong experience in employment disputes, commercial litigation, insolvency procedure, debt collection. She has also been involved in transactional and arbitration work. She is experienced in employment law issues in an international context, particularly in the complex areas of cross-border employment, pension benefits, social security and corporate restructuring effects on employment.
Annika Schürmann
Annika Schürmann
Dr. Anika Schürmann is a Partner in Baker McKenzie’s Dusseldorf office and a bar-certified professional in criminal law (Fachanwältin für Strafrecht). Anika has extensive experience in advising clients in antitrust and white collar crime matters, with a particular focus on complex investigations and regulatory and judicial proceedings. Anika co-heads Baker McKenzie's German Investigations, Compliance & Ethics Group as well as the German Consumer Goods & Retail Industry Group. She is also chairing the North Rhine-Westphalia chapter of the prestigious German Association of Antitrust Lawyers. Her expertise has repeatedly been recognized by The Legal 500 ("Next Generation Partner"), Juve ("frequently recommended") and the renowned German business magazines Handelsblatt (Best-Lawyers-Ranking) and Wirtschaftswoche. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie in 2013, Anika was a member of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s antitrust team in Brussels (2007-2011), and practiced at Wessing & Partner, a leading German law firm for high-profile white collar crime matters (2012-2013). Anika advises on all aspects of antitrust and white collar crime matters, including anti-competitive agreements, bid rigging, corruption, fraud, tax evasion and export control violations. She has long-standing experience in handling complex internal investigations as well as proceedings before German and European authorities and courts – in self-disclosure / leniency cases as well as on the defense side. Anika is also an expert in designing and implementing global compliance programs and in advising clients on the admissibility of business models and contractual relationships with business partners.
Anthony Poulton
Anthony Poulton
Anthony is a partner with Baker McKenzie's Dispute Resolution team and chair of the market-leading Trusts Disputes group in London. Anthony specialises in advising clients engaged in disputes related to private wealth, succession, trusts and private banking. In such disputes, he acts for trustees, executors, protectors, beneficiaries and interested third parties and is very familiar with all the major offshore jurisdictions. Anthony is a founding member of the Commercial Fraud Lawyers Association and a member of ACTAPS. He was elected to the ACTAPS Committee in 2018. Anthony has extensive experience advising clients in relation to managing risks associated with exposure to wealth-related controversy, including dealing with corporate governance and family governance and resolving "private" family disputes. More generally, Anthony also has considerable expertise in handling general commercial litigation, including cases affected by fraud, asset tracing and financial recovery as well as situations involving applications for freezing or proprietary injunctions. He also assists trustees in handling disputes, managing formal litigation, carrying out risk audits and mitigating exposure to risks.
Antonio Weffer
Antonio Weffer
Antonio A. Weffer is a tax principal in Baker McKenzie's Tax Practice Group and the head of the Firm's transfer pricing practice in Luxembourg. He has over 20 years of experience handling complex financial and non-financial multinational enterprises, cross-border transactions, reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions across a range of industry sectors. Antonio is an active member of several international professional tax organizations, and regularly publishes articles on international tax issues and speaks at worldwide seminars and conferences. He is recognized as a highly regarded practitioner in the World Transfer Pricing 2023 guide and named once again as Leading Individual by Legal 500 EMEA in 2023. Other professional honours of this year include: Antonio's practice focuses on transfer pricing and valuation documentation, benchmarks, and other economic analysis services to the business community worldwide. He has over 22 years of experience handling complex financial and non-financial multinational enterprises, cross-border transactions, reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions across a range of industry sectors.
Antonio Ortúzar
Antonio Ortúzar
Antonio Ortuzar Jr. is head of the Mining Practice Group for the Santiago-Chile office and Joint Coordinator of the Latin America Energy, Mining, Chemicals and Infrastructure Group.    
Arron Slocombe
Arron Slocombe
Arron leads our London Pensions practice, having specialised in complex pensions work and major projects for global corporate clients and UK trustees for over 20 years. Arron advises on a broad range of pensions work including pension buyouts and liability management, regulatory clearance work, scheme mergers, benefit and corporate restructurings with particular focus on managing statutory debts, investment issues including climate change, risk hedging arrangements including longevity, and pensions litigation.
Artúr Tamási
Artúr Tamási
Dr. Artúr Tamási has 18 years of experience in the field of dispute resolution and general commercial law gained at other prestigious international law firms. Artúr has focused his practice on dispute resolution and has experience in all major areas of dispute resolution, including Hungarian domestic litigations, co-ordination of foreign court litigations and enforcement procedures, Hungarian domestic and international arbitration procedures, enforcement procedures, Hungarian domestic insolvency procedures and administrative and public law proceedings. He also has experience in corporate investigations and victim representation in white collar criminal proceedings. Artúr has extensive experience in commercial law, and drafted and negotiated a vast array of contracts ranging from sale and purchase, distribution, contract manufacturing, contract of work to logistics or marketing co-operation agreements.
Artur M. Swierczok
Artur M. Swierczok
Prof. Dr. Artur M. Swierczok joined Baker McKenzie as Counsel in 2021 and works in the area of Restructuring and Insolvency. Prior to that, he worked for two international law firms in Frankfurt. Artur studied law at the University of Tuebingen, where he also earned his doctor's degree in law. He further received an LL.M. in Corporate Law from University College London (UCL) and a MSt. in Legal Research from the University of Oxford. Artur was admitted to the German bar in 2015. Artur is a Professor for Law at the University of Applied Science IU Internationale Hochschule and has authored numerous publications on restructuring and insolvency law. Artur's practice focuses on international restructuring and insolvency law. He advises German and international corporations, shareholders, creditors and other stakeholders on all aspects of international restructuring and insolvency law. He also advises on distressed M&A transactions.
Ashley Crossley
Ashley Crossley
Ashley Crossley is head of the Wealth Management Department in the London office. He has been chair of the Firm’s Europe and Middle East Wealth Management Practice Group as well as serving as a member of Baker McKenzie’s Global Wealth Management Steering Committee and coordinating partner for the Firm’s global banking relationships. He also heads the Firm's Middle East practice. Ashley frequently speaks at external conferences and seminars, and is the editor of STEP's Russia/CIS directory. Ashley is qualified as a barrister and solicitor. Ashley specialises advising clients — particularly those from the Middle East — on cross-border trust and tax-related issues. He also advises governments and global financial institutions on compliance and regulatory issues, including disclosure and exchange of information. Ashley advises high net worth individuals, families and global financial institutions on cross-border tax and trust structuring, asset protection, multijurisdictional investment structures, as well as contentious and non-contentious trust work. He has extensive experience in establishing private trust companies and tax-efficient venture capital, as well as pre-IPO tax structures and other private equity structures.
Barbara Faini
Barbara Faini
Barbara Faini is a tax litigator and a member of Baker McKenzie’s Tax Dispute Resolution Group. She has extensive experience in the major areas of tax law, including cross-border and domestic transactions, application of tax treaties and partnerships’ tax issues, VAT and customs duties issues. She has particular experience in private banking and employees benefits. She was admitted to the Supreme Court in 2012. Barbara Faini’s practice focuses on tax controversies. She has been involved in major domestic, EU and international tax litigation proceedings. She regularly assists clients during fiscal audits and in complex alternative tax disputes resolution procedures through settlements, arbitration and mutual assistance procedures.
Ben Wilkinson
Ben Wilkinson
Ben Wilkinson is a Principal of Baker McKenzie based in the Firm's Stockholm office as part of the global Banking and Finance Practice, working on English law deals in the London and Scandinavian markets as well as other cross-border matters. Ben regularly advises lenders, borrowers and financial advisors in connection with the debt financing of acquisitions of public companies. Ben also acts for a variety of lender syndicates, steering committees, sponsors and companies in relation to various restructuring matters. Ben has spent extended periods on secondment at Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs in their leveraged finance teams, as well as a secondment to the legal team at Goldman Sachs and a period at an international law firm's New York office. Ben is recognised as a key individual for acquisition finance and bank lending in Legal 500 UK, 2021.
Ben Allgrove
Ben Allgrove
Ben is a partner in Baker McKenzie's IP, Data and Technology team based in London. He is a much sought-after industry specialist, with a particular emphasis on digital media and intermediary platforms. Ben is also Baker McKenzie's Chief Innovation Officer, in charge of the Firm's Reinvent innovation arm. Ben's practice includes product counselling for market-leading technology companies, advising on cutting edge technology regulation issues, content and digital commerce, and acting in major digital and consumer disputes and regulatory investigations. Ben has a particular focus on advising providers of platform business models on topics including copyright, intermediary liability, artificial intelligence, content issues, data protection and emerging technology regulation.
Ben Farnell
Ben Farnell
Ben Farnell is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Real Estate Practice Group in London. He focuses his practice on commercial property law, planning and development, and real estate sustainability. Ben advises tenants on occupational and real estate management requirements, and property development companies, investors, banks and corporate occupiers on real estate, planning and development requirements. He has advised individuals, domestic and multinational corporates, and foreign governments on all aspects of commercial property law, including a broad range of real estate development and investment opportunities, real estate financing transactions, renewable energy developments and leasing. Ben also advises hotel owners, port operators and offshore investors in relation to their planning and development requirements as well as sustainability issues.
Ben Levitt
Ben Levitt
Ben Levitt is a senior associate in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution Department based in London. Ben has substantial experience in multijurisdictional insolvency and commercial litigation, particularly those involving fraud and white-collar crime, and complex banking and finance disputes. Ben was a Judicial Assistant for The Honourable Mr Justice Snowden (as he then was) in the Chancery Division in 2015, and seconded to Standard Chartered Bank's distressed debt department in 2018-2019. Ben advises multinational companies on multijurisdictional insolvency and commercial litigation, principally across the banking, technology, energy, and construction sectors. Ben has experience of all forms of alternative dispute resolution and frequently advises on issues of contractual interpretation, risk mitigation and settlement strategy.
Ben Smith
Ben Smith
Ben Smith is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s London office and a member of the Firm's Compliance & Investigations Group and International Trade Practice, ranked Tier 1 by the Legal 500 UK. Ben joined the London office of Baker McKenzie in September 2007. He has also worked in Baker McKenzie's San Francisco and Brussels offices, and was on secondment to the legal and compliance teams at three FTSE 100 UK plcs. The Legal 500 UK ranked Ben as a “Next Generation Partner,” noting “Ben Smith is a pleasure to work with. Professional, knowledgeable and always ready to assist with practical solutions.” Ben advises clients on EU and UK sanctions, export controls, anti-bribery and corruption, competition and broader corporate compliance laws. Ben has significant experience in advising clients in a number of sectors, including energy and energy services, technology and telecommunications, consumer goods and retail, financial services, healthcare, defence, and transport. Ben assists in managing risk assessments and the design and implementation of compliance programmes; conducting due diligence and managing compliance risks in the context of M&A transactions; handling external and internal compliance investigations; and engaging with government authorities on disclosures, licence applications and export classification.
Benedek Kovács
Benedek Kovács
Dr. Benedek Kovács is a partner in the Commercial Corporate, Real Estate & Tax Practice Group of the Firm’s Budapest office. Dr. Kovács also advises on corporate, commercial and real estate issues and has previous experience in advising financial institutions and brokerage houses on issues related to his field. Dr. Kovács' practice focuses on real estate acquisitions —including the negotiation, preparation and review of real estate sale and purchase — as well as lease agreements. He advises Hungarian and multinational clients active in the retail and real estate sector on their general corporate and commercial matters and real estate projects in Hungary. Dr. Kovács also has extensive experience in court proceedings and litigation matters, and regularly represents clients in real estate litigation matters.
Benjamin Bierwirth
Benjamin Bierwirth
Benjamin is a New York qualified partner in the Firm’s Corporate Finance group in London, focusing on leveraged finance transactions and high yield bonds. Prior to joining the Firm in 2019, he worked in a leading US law firm in London. With a focus on high yield bonds, Ben has experience advising clients on a wide range of leveraged finance transactions, including high yield debt offerings, related debt and equity products, syndicated credit facilities, US securities law matters, restructuring and liability management. His clients comprise sponsors, top-tier investment banks and some of the largest international companies in their industries. Ben has also worked on secondment at a leading global investment bank its leveraged finance legal team. Benjamin's practice focuses on leveraged finance transactions with a particular emphasis on high yield debt offerings. Ben regularly acts for corporations, private equity funds, investment banks and underwriters on leveraged finance transactions involving high yield debt offerings and committed financing processes. Ben also regularly works on the syndicated loan and liability management transactions, including restructuring, debt exchange and tender offers. He is a US Securities laws practitioner focusing on complex cross-border Rule 144A and Regulation S debt offerings and restructurings.
Benjamin Pirlet
Benjamin Pirlet
Dr. Benjamin Pirlet is a counsel in the Real Estate and Construction Practice Group in the Brussels office. Benjamin primarily advises Belgian and foreign clients on real estate and related tax matters. He has experience in all aspects of real estate matters, including corporate, tax and public law, and primarily focuses on real estate transactions and development projects, as well as tax structuring. His experience encompasses all types of real estate structures, including share deals, asset deals, split sales, in rem rights, building rights, financial leasing and sale-and-lease-back transactions, integrating both transactional and tax aspects. He is a regular speaker at real estate conferences, and he teaches and publishes regularly in the fields of real estate and tax law. He has completed a PhD at Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) on the transfer of real estate contracts.
Bernhard Trappehl
Bernhard Trappehl, former Chair of the EMEA Employment Practice Group, manages relationships with several of the Firm’s largest clients. He served as managing partner of the Firm’s German/Austrian offices between 2007 and 2012. He frequently speaks at seminars and provides in-house trainings on a wide range of employment matters, and regularly contributes to publications, books, newspapers and law journals. Bernhard Trappehl provides strategic corporate and comprehensive employment law advice to domestic and multinational clients. His focus is on pre- and post-merger corporate restructurings, collective dismissals as well as negotiations with works councils — national and European — and unions. He also counsels on outsourcing projects, service and work contracts for and separation from senior management employees. Bernhard Trappehl also advises on pension and benefit schemes, email monitoring, data privacy and compliance investigations.
Berthold Hummel
Berthold Hummel
Berthold A. Hummel is the co-head of the Corporate/M&A Practice Group in Germany. Berthold has more than 20 years in-depth industry knowledge in private equity from private practice and as a senior legal counsel of a leading international private equity firm. He advises on local and international M&A, private equity, growth capital, venture capital and equity capital markets transactions. Berthold has a particular experience working with biotech and life science companies and their financial sponsors. Berthold focuses on M&A, private equity, growth capital, venture capital and equity capital markets transactions in advising multinational strategic clients, institutional investors, financial sponsors, large family offices, management teams and companies backed by financial sponsors and institutional investors. He handles all types of complex corporate and commercial transactions, including cross-border acquisitions, financing rounds, takeovers and capital market matters, as well as corporate restructurings, compliance and corporate commercial matters. Berthold also advises European technology and biotech companies on their successful US-IPOs at NASDAQ and NYSE.
Bram Hoorelbeke
Bram Hoorelbeke
Bram Hoorelbeke is a counsel in Baker McKenzie's European Competition & Regulatory Affairs group in Brussels. He started his career in 2007 as a lawyer in the EU, competition and regulatory department of a highly regarded Benelux law firm. Bram joined Baker McKenzie in 2017 and is the assistant editor of Competition, the leading review on Belgian Competition law. In relation to EU competition law, Bram advises clients on a wide variety of competition law issues including merger notifications and Article 101 and 102 TFEU cases. Bram also advises on State aid cases and the application of the EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation. Bram also has extensive experience in government procurement procedures launched by European Union institutions. In addition, Bram deals with follow-on damage actions and competition-law-related claims before Belgian courts of law. Besides these competition-law-related matters, Bram advises clients on general EU law, such as free movement, customs, etc. With regard to Belgian competition law, Bram assists clients in the notification and follow-up of concentrations, and in complaints and procedures before the Mededingingscollege/Collège de la concurrence (Belgian Competition Council) and the Belgian courts of law. His sector experience includes fast-moving consumer goods, sports, the automotive industry, telecoms, platform economy, pharmaceuticals, semiconductor, chemicals and financial technologies.
Caitlin McErlane
Caitlin McErlane
Caitlin is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Financial Services Regulatory practice group in the London office. Caitlin's practice focuses on advising a range of global financial institutions on complex and high value regulatory matters. She advises banks, major corporates, payment institutions and asset managers on navigating UK and EU financial services regulation. She has particular experience in advising clients on regulatory implementation projects, day-to-day compliance issues, and regulatory issues arising in the context of large-scale transactions. She also expertise in the areas of banking and wholesale financial markets regulation, in particular in the FX and fixed income space, alongside experience advising market infrastructure providers, including major international exchanges, trading platforms, clearing systems and payment services providers, on a variety of compliance issues. Caitlin is also a member of the Baker McKenzie's ESG and sustainability taskforce, and advises a range of clients on the drafting and implementation of ESG policies and the implications of becoming a signatory to the UNPRI and the Stewardship Code. Caitlin is an authority on regulatory reforms in the sustainability space and sits on a number of trade association working groups.
Carinne Kamdar
Carinne Kamdar
Carinne is a senior associate in Baker McKenzie's Dispute Resolution Group based in London. She is a member of the Firm's TMT, International Arbitration, Business Crime and Regulatory, Public and Media Law Groups. Carinne's practice covers a broad spectrum of advisory and contentious work. In addition to experience in general commercial litigation, Carinne practices in a number of specialist areas, including IT disputes, oil and gas disputes and international arbitration.
Carl Svernlöv
Carl Svernlöv
Carl Svernlöv — listed as a highly recommended lawyer in several law publications — practices in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and corporate governance. He is an adjunct professor of the law of business associations at the Department of Law at Stockholm University and a member of the Scientific Counsel of non-profit Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law. In 2009 he presented an official report commissioned by the Swedish Government (SOU 2009:34) proposing simplifications to the Swedish Companies Act for small and medium-sized companies, many of now have been enacted into law. Prof. Svernlöv is the author of 12 books and over 150 articles on Swedish and international business and commercial law. Carl represents clients in the aerospace, airline services, defense, industrial electronics, IT, manufacturing, private equity and telecommunications industries.
Carl Richards
Carl Richards
Carl is a partner in the Employment Group at Baker McKenzie. He focuses on advising organisations on the employment aspects of financial transactions together with more general employment and litigation advice. Carl focuses on employment advice linked to financial transactions including Carve Outs, Mergers and Acquisitions, Transactions and Corporate deals. Carl also has significant experience in international project management. It is for this work his team won Commercial Team of the Year 2015 at the British Legal Awards and was shortlisted for the Transatlantic Innovators award at the Transatlantic Legal Awards 2016.
Caroline Serbanescu
Caroline Serbanescu
Caroline Serbanescu is a junior associate in the IP & Tech Practice Group in the Brussels office. She joined Baker McKenzie in March 2022. Prior to that, she worked as a Blue Book trainee at the European Commission and as a trainee at the Belgian Data Protection Authority as well as at several international business law firms. Caroline advises clients on various aspects in the field of Tech Law. Her practice focusses on assisting clients on complex legal questions in the areas of data law, data protection law, whistleblowing law, e-commerce law, marketing law, consumer law as well as cybersecurity law.
Caroline Heinickel
Caroline Heinickel
Caroline Heinickel, a counsel, was admitted to the German bar in 2006. She joined Baker McKenzie in 2005 and has, since then, worked mainly in the field of public law with a focus on regulated industries, particularly in the telecommunications and energy sectors, energy law and environmental law. Caroline is a member of the German offices public law practice group as well as the European telecommunications and environmental law practice groups. She advises companies and public authorities on a broad range of administrative law matters, focusing in particular on regulated industries, particularly in the telecommunications and energy sectors and energy law.
Catherine Martougin
Catherine Martougin
Catherine Martougin is a partner in the Funds & Asset Management team of the Baker McKenzie Luxembourg office. She has more than 20 years' experience in business law. Prior to joining the Firm, she practiced in elite international law firms in Paris and Luxembourg. Catherine represents asset managers of private equity funds, real estate funds, debt and infrastructure funds and other financial institutions. She works on a range of corporate and commercial transactions, including organizational structuring and related regulatory matters (notably AIFs and AIFMs), as well as initial fund formation, complex restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, asset dispositions, secondary trades, capital raisings, real estate investments, venture capital investments, and joint venture arrangements.
Charles Gschwind
Charles Gschwind
Charles Gschwind is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Real Estate practice in Geneva and Zurich. Charles graduated from the University of Fribourg Law School with a bilingual degree and earned his MBA at London Business School. He is a recommended lawyer in real estate by both Chambers and Legal 500. Charles regularly publishes in his areas of expertise and has taught namely at the MBA Program of ZHAW and at SVIT School. He is also a member of the Committee of SVIT Romandie. Before joining the Firm in 2020, Charles spent most of his professional career at another major law firm in Zurich. Charles has broad experience in M&A with a particular focus on real estate transactions. He regularly advises domestic and international clients on asset deals, large-scale portfolio transactions, development projects, hotel transactions, acquisitions of real estate companies as well as on the financing of real estate portfolios. Related administrative law matters (e.g., Lex Koller and environmental law), general corporate, commercial and contract law as well as tenancy matters also belong to his areas of expertise. Together with the dispute resolution team, he further regularly advises on (pre-)litigation matters in the real estate sector.
Charles Farnsworth
Charles Farnsworth
Charles Farnsworth is a New York and Illinois qualified capital markets lawyer based in London. He has extensive experience in US securities laws and transaction management. Charles advises on New York law, US securities law and transaction management in connection with SEC-registered offerings and private placements of international debt and equity, restructuring and liability management, and SEC reporting and other compliance matters, for companies, investors, major financial institutions and trustees across Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the United States.
Charles Thomson
Charles Thomson
Charles is a partner in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution team based in London. Charles has substantial experience of managing a broad range of high-value, multijurisdictional commercial disputes and investigations, particularly those involving fraud and white-collar crime, contentious trusts and complex banking and finance disputes. He leads the Business Crime Unit, and he is particularly well known for his experience of advising on criminal law issues, and the interaction between criminal and civil law processes
Charles Whitefoord
Charles Whitefoord
Charles Whitefoord is a partner in Firm's Corporate Group in London with over 25 years’ experience in advising clients on private equity and M&A transactions. He joined the Firm in 1989 and became a partner in 1997. From 2003 to 2008, he was head of Baker McKenzie's Global Private Equity Practice. Charles is primarily focused on leveraged buyouts, investments, acquisitions and disposals for UK and international clients. A large proportion of Charles' work is in relation to cross-border or multi-country transactions with a particular focus on the German market. He has significant experience in the technology
Charlotte Nolan
Charlotte Nolan
Charlotte is a partner in Baker McKenzie's corporate group based in London. Charlotte advises clients in relation to Corporate Reorganisations and general English company law matters. Having completed her training contract at Baker McKenzie, Charlotte qualified into the corporate group in 2013. Charlotte has completed two client secondments during her time at Baker McKenzie, spending six months at a multinational pharmaceuticals company in 2014 and ten months at a global financial institution overseeing corporate law matters across EMEA and APAC in 2018 and 2019. As a member of Baker McKenzie's Global Reorganisations Practice, Charlotte focuses on designing, planning, implementing and delivering cross-border and domestic business transformations for our multinational clients. Charlotte advises clients across a range of industries, with a particular focus on Financial Institutions and Healthcare.
Christian Koops
Christian Koops
Christian Koops joined the Munich office of Baker McKenzie in 2015. He is a member of the Firm’s European and Global Labor Law practice groups. Christian advises domestic and multinational companies on employment law matters, including outsourcing and other transactions. He frequently speaks at in-house and external seminars, and conducts training on a wide range of employment matters. He also practiced in the Firm’s Berlin office. Christian Koops advises on domestic and multijurisdictional projects, with a focus on cross-border transactions and reorganizations. He is also specialized in employee data protection and employment-related compliance, encompassing anti-discrimination law and the engagement of external personnel. Christian's client base extends from Germany- and EMEA-headquartered clients with global operations to local subsidiaries of multinationals.
Christian Atzler
Christian Atzler
Christian Atzler is a member of the Firm's Global M&A Steering Committee. He is also the co-head of the Corporate/M&A Practice Group in Germany. Christian regularly advises German and international clients on cross-border M&A transactions, corporate matters and joint venture projects. Prior to joining the Frankfurt office of Baker McKenzie in 2009, Christian worked in the Shanghai and Hong Kong offices of Baker McKenzie from 2005 to 2008, and mainly advised international clients on M&A projects, joint ventures, and China foreign direct investment projects.
Christian Reichel
Christian Reichel
Dr. Christian Reichel joined Baker McKenzie Frankfurt in 1998 after serving Allianz Lebensversicherungs AG as assistant to the board since 1996. He graduated from the University of Munich in 1992 and passed his second state exam in 1996. He completed his Doctorate studies at the law faculty of the University of Goettingen in 1995. Christian is admitted as an attorney specialized in employment law. Christian is active in the area of pension and employment law. He advises companies in all contentious and non-contentious pension, employment law related matters, in particular in conjunction with complex reorganizations and M&A activities, negotiations with works councils and unions, negotiations of European Works Council agreements, outsourcing projects and the hiring of, and separation from, managerial employees. Christian advises on the introduction, change, transfer and closure of pension and other benefit schemes, pension funds and Contractual Trust Arrangements.
Christian Vocke
Christian Vocke
Dr. Christian Vocke is a partner of the Corporate/M&A Practice Group in the Firm’s Frankfurt office. He has numerous years of experience in virtually all areas of corporate law. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Dr. Vocke worked for one of the leading German law firms. In 2011/2012, he was seconded to Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP (Blakes) in Toronto. Christian Vocke is ranked by JUVE Handbuch Wirtschaftskanzleien, Legal 500 and by The Best Lawyers in Germany for corporate law. Christian focuses his practice on corporate law matters, including stock corporation law, corporate group law, corporate reorganizations, corporate governance structures and securities trading law. He advises on joint ventures as well as public and private M&A transactions.
Christoph Kurth
Christoph Kurth
Christoph Kurth heads the Investigations, Compliance & Ethics practice of the Swiss offices and co-leads the EMEA Financial Institutions Industry Group. He has been recognized by Legal 500 as a leading individual for compliance, regulatory and investigation matters. Before joining the Firm, Christoph was global head of Litigation & Investigations and general counsel in Asia for a large Swiss bank. For over 15 years, he has led complex regulatory and criminal investigations as well as high stakes litigation across the US, Europe and Asia, and has advised on transformational regulatory developments and wealth management products and services across Switzerland and Asia. In his roles, Christoph has worked closely with business leaders, government authorities and the media, navigating businesses through regulatory and other challenges. Prior to this, Christoph was a litigator in leading practices in Switzerland and the US. Christoph also teaches post-graduate courses in 'Crisis Management' and 'Risk Governance' at the Europa Institute at the University of Zurich. Christoph helps clients in the financial services and other industries establish effective legal and compliance risk management programs, investigate instances of non-compliance and their root causes, defend clients’ interests vis-à-vis authorities and in court, and develop responses to transgressions that limit financial and reputational consequences. In this context, he regularly advises Boards and senior executives in relation to their responsibilities and risk governance requirements. Drawing from his experience as general counsel and his substantial exposure to businesses, legal systems and cultures in the US, Europe and Asia, Christoph often offers more than legal advice.He also supports in overall crisis management, including responses to dawn raids, cyber-attacks and data leaks, serious compliance and other incidents, adjustment of business conduct and strategies, cultural transformation and sustainable legal and compliance risk management solutions. Furthermore, he advises financial institutions and clients in other industry in relation to financial crime matters, including bribery and money laundering related risks and over the last few years his practice has expanded to include compliance advisory work in relation to environmental, societal and governance risks (ESG).
Christoph Stutz
Christoph Stutz
Christoph Stutz is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Zurich office and serves as head of the Firm's Employment Law Practice Group in Switzerland. For more than 10 years, Christoph has been advising numerous companies in complex labor issues and has successfully represented clients in court. He also advises and represents pension funds and companies in pension-related matters. Christoph regularly publishes work in relation to all aspects of Swiss employment law and is a speaker at internal and external seminars. Christoph is admitted as attorney specialized in labor law (Certified Specialist SBA Labour Law) and holds a certificate as Social Security Specialist. Christoph provides strategic and comprehensive employment law advice to domestic and multinational clients in various sectors, particularly healthcare, MEM, financial, insurance, transport & logistics and IT & technology industry. He focuses his practice on Swiss labor law, social security as well as pension matters, with an emphasis on corporate and other forms of restructurings such as business transfers, outsourcing projects and collective redundancies, executive compensation, pension and benefit schemes, data privacy, compliance investigations, contingent work force solution and management transfers.
Christoph Becker
Christoph Becker
Christoph Becker joined Baker McKenzie in 2006. Christoph co-heads the German Tax Practice Group of Baker McKenzie. He has ten years of experience in advising clients in the field of international and domestic German tax law. Mr. Becker's work is focused on international tax planning and tax advice in connection with M&A transactions and corporate restructurings. He routinely assists German and international clients in inbound and outbound tax planning strategies. In addition, Mr. Becker advises clients on tax matters in all phases of a transaction process, from designing tax optimized acquisition and joint venture structures, carrying out tax due diligence reviews to the drafting and negotiation of tax related aspects of the transaction documentation and the implantation of tax efficient post-merger integrations. Moreover, he represents clients in tax audits and tax court litigations. He is the author of several articles and publications and regularly speaks at seminars on topics related to international tax planning and transactional tax advice.
Claire Dietz-Polte
Claire Dietz-Polte
Claire Dietz-Polte is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Transactional practice group. Claire is co-head of the German Energy & Infrastructure practice and EMEA Sustainability Lead of the Industrials, Manufacturing & Transportation Industry Group. Claire started her career in 2011 in the Energy M&A team of a leading international law firm and worked in the M&A / Energy & Infrastructure practice group of another international law firm from 2013 to 2016. Claire advises domestic and foreign companies, sponsors, banks and financial investors on M&A transactions, joint ventures, projects and related financing in the energy and infrastructure sector. She has extensive expertise and experience in generation assets (renewable energy, gas, coal, nuclear), storage (battery, gas, oil) and grids (fiber, transmission, long-distance and distribution). Claire also advises in all phases of project development (especially for renewable energy systems, battery storage and data centers), from project structuring and financing to share or asset deal transactions and (corporate) PPAs. In addition, Claire focuses on the implementation of projects and service agreements in the future mobility sector (electromobility, micro mobility). She is a member of Baker McKenzie's Future Mobility Group. Claire's practice also includes advising on energy and media supply contracts as well as infrastructure (usage) contracts. Furthermore, she advises comprehensively on regulatory issues (e.g. unbundling, access regulations for third parties) in the energy and infrastructure sector.
Claude Chase
Claude Chase
An Associate in Baker McKenzie's Geneva office, Claude Chase is an international trade lawyer with over a decade of experience in WTO law and dispute settlement. Claude has extensive experience advising sovereign and private sector clients on how to leverage WTO rules and dispute settlement procedures to achieve their international trade objectives. Claude previously served as a Dispute Settlement Lawyer at the WTO Appellate Body Secretariat, where he provided legal advice and assistance to adjudicators of the Appellate Body in the context of appeals before the WTO dispute settlement system. Claude's practice focuses on WTO law and litigation. He advises clients on the full spectrum of matters regulated under WTO treaties, and appears before WTO adjudicators in disputes between WTO member States.
Costin Mihailescu
Costin Mihailescu is the Managing Partner of Baker McKenzie's Stockholm office. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, with particular emphasis on financial sponsor work. Prior to joining the Firm in 2015, Costin was a senior associate in another international law firm. Costin advises private equity houses and their portfolio companies on M&A transactions. He also has significant experience in advising private equity houses and their portfolio companies on leveraged and acquisition finance and restructurings.
Cristina de Freitas Bueno
Cristina de Freitas Bueno
Cristina Bueno joined Trench Rossi Watanabe in 2024 as a partner in the Transactional practice group. With more than 25 years of experience in M&A and private equity, she represents domestic and foreign clients, including publicly-held companies and investment funds in local and cross-border Merger and Acquisitions transactions, sales of assets, joint ventures, asset purchases from companies under judicial reorganization, corporate restructurings and reorganizations, and other corporate transactions involving various industries and sectors of the economy. Cristina acted as an investment banker for 15 years, having worked in London and New York offices of Goldman Sachs (Vice President, Investment Banking Division, Latin America Group), Standard Bank (Managing Director, Head of the M&A for the Americas) and UBS (Executive Director).
Csaba Vári
Csaba Vári
Csaba Vári is the head of the IPTech Practice Group in Budapest. With more than 20 years of experience Csaba represents Hungarian and multinational companies in many business sectors (e.g., automotive, manufacturing, bank, insurance, trade, pharma, real estate, IT) on a broad range of business law, including data privacy and cybersecurity issues, compliance investigations, whistleblowing, and different areas of digitization related matters, such as online marketplaces, connected cars, electronic signatures, social media and applications, as well as online payment services and crypto assets, NFTs. Csaba has particularly broad experience in the field of data protection; he provides legal advice to our clients in connection with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and relevant Hungarian laws and provides complex assessments of companies' data processing activities and assists our clients in introduction of GDPR compliant data processes and policies. Csaba also assists clients in connection with Data Subject Access Rights related matters, Intra Group Data Transfer Agreements, transfers of personal data to third countries, and assessments of legal basis for data processes (e.g., legitimate interest balancing tests, data privacy impact assessments). Csaba assists his clients in addressing legal issues in connection with processing of consumer and employee data, and data privacy aspects of online applications. His area of expertise includes advising on operation of surveillance systems, and preparation and operation of whistleblowing schemes. Csaba advises clients in connection with the transposition of the Whistleblowing Directive into Hungarian law. Csaba has particular experience in the area of cyber investigations and cyber incident management. He represents clients before the National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Hungarian DPA) in connection with data breach reporting and registering Data Protection Officers. Csaba regularly publishes articles and holds presentations and continued legal education courses in connection with legal aspects of data protection and digitization, as well as the Whistleblowing Directive and its Hungarian transposition laws. Csaba is a member of the Budapest Bar since 2003 and a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) and Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM) by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).
Daniel Bork
Daniel Bork
Dr. Daniel Bork is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Real Estate Practice Group in Dusseldorf. Prior to joining the Firm in 2014, Daniel served his legal traineeship at the District Court of Cologne. During this time, he also worked at the German Embassy in Switzerland and in the Firm's New York office. In 2018, Daniel was seconded to the Real Estate Practice Group of our Chicago office. Dr. Bork advises domestic and international clients in all real estate matters, with particular focus on real estate transactions, commercial leases, project development, and construction matters.
Dániel Orosz
Dániel Orosz
Daniel is a seasoned Corporate/M&A attorney located in our Budapest office. He specializes in assisting clients with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and corporate restructuring. Daniel has provided expert advice on numerous acquisition transactions and regulatory matters, particularly within the energy and gas sectors. Dániel’s practice is centered on both domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), FDI, joint ventures, and corporate restructuring. He has a particular emphasis on energy and renewable energy transactions. Dániel has advised on numerous acquisition transactions and regulatory matters within the energy and gas sectors. With substantial experience in various forms of financing transactions, Dániel has also expertise in various financing arrangements including  corporate, project, public-private partnership (PPP), acquisition financing, syndicated, sub-participated, and cross-border financing across the CEE region. He is also well-versed in state-subsidized export financing and factoring transactions. Dániel has assisted many clients with workout and restructuring transactions. He has provided comprehensive advice and support to a wide range of Hungarian and international financial institutions and corporate borrowers. His services include the preparation of transaction documents (including Loan Market Association (LMA) standard documentation and the establishment of collateral packages), management of negotiations, support for business considerations, and coordination and management of due diligence processes. Additionally, Dániel has expertise in Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) requirements related to transactions, ensuring compliance and integrating sustainable practices into his clients’ business strategies.
David Scott
David Scott
David is a highly experienced Corporate partner based in our London office. He leads our London M&A practice, and is co-head of our London Consumer Goods & Retail group. David is described in The Legal 500, 2023 as "excellent". David's practice concentrates mainly on cross-border M&A and joint ventures, primarily for clients active in the Consumer, Healthcare or Tech sectors.
David Allen
David Allen
David trained at Baker McKenzie and became a Partner in 2010. David became Head of Corporate in 2020, having previously been Head of Private Equity in London since 2015 and Global Head of Private Equity since 2017. David's team has won a number of awards, including "M&A Team of the Year (Large Deals)" in the 2019 British Legal Awards and "Private Equity Team of the Year" in the 2016 British Legal Awards. David is primarily focused on mergers & acquisitions and restructurings for private equity funds, infrastructure funds, pension funds and other clients. David also has significant experience in representing management teams in respect of their equity incentive structures. In addition, David has extensive experience in advising Japanese investors and is a regular visitor to Japan.
David Duncan
David Duncan
David Duncan is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Corporate Department in London. He is also a member of the Global Energy, Mining and Infrastructure Industry Group. David specialises in strategic international mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and equity capital markets, with a particular focus on the energy, infrastructure and pharmaceuticals sectors.
David Jamieson
David Jamieson
David is a partner and has represented clients in VAT disputes for over 15 years at all stages of the litigation process. He specialises in resolving high-value VAT disputes working primarily with clients in financial services and telecommunications and e-commerce sectors. David is a Solicitor Advocate specialising in VAT and tax litigation. He has appeared as advocate at both the First-tier Tribunal and Upper Tribunal and has represented clients at all stages of the litigation process. David is ranked as a leading expert by the International Tax Review in its "Tax Controversy Leaders Guide" and “Indirect Tax Leaders Guide” 2019.
David Becker
David Becker
David Becker is a partner in the Firm's Capital Markets, High Yield & Leveraged Finance Group. David joined the Firm in 2019 after having spent a total of 20 years in the Wall Street and London offices of two other leading international law firms. David is a highly regarded high yield and leveraged finance specialist, advising banks, private credit and alternative capital providers, borrowers and issuers on a broad range of high yield, leveraged finance, liability management and restructuring transactions across the debt capital structure and over the full credit life cycle.
Davide Chiesa
Davide Chiesa
Davide Chiesa is a counsel in the Tax Practice Group. He focuses on tax structuring, corporate reorganizations and M&A transactions. Before joining Baker McKenzie, Davide worked in the boutique tax firm founded by Giulio Tremonti, former Italian Minister of Finance, and in PwC, working as auditor in the audit department specialized in financial institutions. He is a tax specialist with an extensive experience in national and international tax. He has regularly lectured on tax matters and audit or compliance issues at seminars, and has authored several articles on tax and compliance matters. Davide provides strategic tax planning for multi-jurisdictional corporate reorganizations and M&A transaction. He also has a background as an auditor focusing on issues of corporate governance and compliance issues. Davide regularly assists clients during fiscal audits and in complex alternative tax disputes resolution procedures through settlements, arbitration and mutual assistance procedures. He is an experienced professional in the major areas of tax law, including cross-border and domestic transactions, application of tax treaties, and real estate taxes. His main areas of practice encompass assistance in tax planning activities, including review for tax purposes of the SPA/BTA and analysis of the tax implications connected to the extraordinary transactions; assistance in tax due diligence activities; support in the implementation of the tax planning projects; review of international business restructurings under corporate income tax perspective; support in day-by-day operations in national and international tax issues; assistance in tax audit, tax settlement and tax litigation in relation to national and international tax issues; assistance in Patent Box procedures, Advance Pricing Agreements (APA) procedures and Mutual Agreement Procedures (MAP) vis-à-vis tax authorities.
Davinia Martens
Davinia Martens is a partner in the Corporate Finance Practice Group in the Brussels office. She joined Baker McKenzie in 2004. Davinia's practice focuses on reorganisations, M&A, private equity, and corporate compliance and governance. She is also a member of the Global Reorganisations Practice Group. Davinia advises both domestic and international clients on corporate finance matters, covering Belgian and cross-border M&A transactions and corporate reorganisations and restructurings, buy-outs, private equity, and venture capital transactions. She also advises clients on corporate compliance and governance matters and has played a prominent role in many of the reorganisations that our Belgian practice has been involved in.
Désirée Prantl
Désirée Prantl
Désirée is a partner in our Dispute Resolution Practice Group. Her practice encompasses international commercial arbitration and state court litigation. Désirée is experienced with disputes in the construction, energy, telecommunications and post-M&A sector. Our global, international and domestic clients entrust Désirée with the most delicate disputes and value her smooth and prudent conduct of proceedings and high-level work products. Désirée is a member of the National Advisory Board of the International Arbitral Centre of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (VIAC). She lectures at the University of Innsbruck and the Austrian Arbitration Academy and regularly publishes and speaks on contemporary topics in the field of dispute resolution. Désirée also engages in pro bono work, spreads the Firm's Diversity Inclusion & Equality policy and supports women in law initiatives. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Désirée worked at an internationally renowned law firm and gained working experience in New York, London, Paris, Kiev and Brussels. With over 10 years of practice, Désirée has represented a broad range of clients across various industries in domestic and international arbitrations administered under major institutional arbitration rules, and in court proceedings. Désirée has been practicing in civil law jurisdictions, predominantly under Austrian, German and Swiss law. She has, amongst others, represented global and national energy and construction companies, leaders in the software and technology sector, the Austrian branch of a market leader in the metal industry, the Romanian branch of an Austrian headquartered global industrial service provider, affiliates of a leading corporate and investment bank, a conglomerate on technology and electrical engineering as well as a leading biotech technology manufacturer in high stake and complex arbitration proceedings and state court litigations. She has been increasingly involved in disputes related to the CEE region.
Diogo Duarte de Oliveira
Diogo Duarte de Oliveira is a tax lawyer and partner in the tax department of Baker McKenzie's Luxembourg office. Before joining the Firm, Diogo was tax partner and head of tax at a BeNeLux leading law firm. He was also an international tax manager with a Big Four audit firm in Luxembourg (and in Mexico City as a secondee). Diogo focuses on advising asset managers and a wide range of private and institutional investors on fundraising, management incentive strategies and transactions structuring. Diogo contributes to renowned international tax journals and is a regular speaker at international conferences, In 2018, Diogo was invited to the IBA Congress in Rome to address EC’s approach to Illegal (Tax) State Aid. In 2019, he presented at the IBA Congress in London the mandatory disclosures under the so-called DAC 6. Recently, Diogo has co-authored technical articles on the European Court of Justice decision on the 2019 Danish Beneficial Ownership cases; on the mandatory disclosures in the context of private equity structures; and on the Significant People Functions concept in Luxembourg CFC rules. He is a member of Luxembourg Bar, Portuguese Bar, American Bar Association and International Bar Association and he participates in several Luxembourg tax work groups at the AmCham and the Luxembourg Banker’s Association.
Dominique Maes
Dominique Maes is co-managing partner of the Belgian offices. He also co-heads Baker McKenzie's Corporate Practice for the EMEA region and is a member of the Firm's Global M&A Steering Committee. Dominique is a Corporate/M&A partner in the Brussels office. He joined Baker McKenzie in 1999 and has been a partner since 2009. Dominique advises clients on M&A, private equity, reorganisations, and corporate compliance and governance. His practice focuses on private equity and M&A transactions, buy-outs, corporate restructurings and corporate governance issues.
Ed Poulton
Ed Poulton
Ed Poulton is the Managing Partner of Baker McKenzie’s London office. A key name in the arbitration community, Ed's practice focuses on international arbitration and investment treaty arbitration. He sits as an arbitrator in ICC and LCIA arbitrations, and is the consulting editor of a seminal text on the arbitration of M&A disputes. He also has extensive experience managing cross-border litigation. Ed focuses on advising clients on managing risk and resolving disputes relating to investment treaties, financial services and M&A. He is highly experienced in resolving disputes through international arbitration (in which respect he has experience of all of the major arbitral institutions and of ad hoc arbitration) and by other methods including litigation and mediation. In addition to commercial dispute resolution, Ed regularly advises clients in relation to investment treaties and public international law issues. Ed is experienced and knowledgeable in a wide range of sectors, including financial services, energy, infrastructure and manufacturing.
Elisabeth Dehareng
Elisabeth Dehareng
Elisabeth Dehareng joined Baker McKenzie's Brussels office in 2003. She has been a partner in the Information Technology & Communications and Intellectual Property practice groups since 2014. Elisabeth advises clients across all areas of IT, IP and new technology law, with a special focus on privacy, cybersecurity and AI. Her practice focuses on European and worldwide data protection compliance projects, in which field she advises on GDPR-readiness programmes, cross-border data transfer strategies, cybersecurity and data breach management. She provides strategic advice on internal compliance issues, whistleblower protection legislation, investigations and privacy/data litigation. She also helps clients navigating the new regulatory developments and enforcement in relation to the growing body of legislation governing the European Data & Digital Economy (DMA, DSA, Data Governance Act, Data Act, AI Act, NIS 2, Cybersecurity Act, Cyber-Resilience Act, among others), advertising and marketing practices, including adtech, and consumer protection. She represents clients in all sectors, with strong industry focus on tech, healthcare and financial services. Elisabeth's practice also covers data protection and cybersecurity aspects of corporate transactions and reorganisations.
Elodie Duchêne
Elodie Duchêne is a partner in the M&A and Corporate practice groups of Baker McKenzie's Luxembourg office and has more than 17 years of experience. Prior to joining the Firm in 2015, she worked for an independent law firm in Luxembourg for nine years. Elodie focuses on domestic and international M&A and practices mainly in the area of corporate law. She advises local and international clients on the structuring of international transactions, corporate finance, and on complex issues relating to mergers and acquisitions, group reorganizations and the setup of company structures in Luxembourg. She routinely works with private equity funds on the structuring of their investments, and has significant experience in advising international clients, including Luxembourg banks and insurance firms, on acquisitions, joint ventures and management incentive plans. In addition, Elodie has experience in structuring private wealth for high net worth individuals.
Els Janssens
Els Janssens is a counsel in commercial law, litigation and healthcare regulatory issues in the Brussels office. Els worked as a senior regulatory legal counsel for Johnson & Johnson, supporting the company's global safety operations and advising on regulatory issues in relation to specific medicinal products. Els also worked as legal advisor for the European Medicines Agency, where she advised management, scientific committees, CMD(h) and the European Commission on a wide variety of issues in connection with authorisation procedures, submission requirements, pharmacovigilance obligations and procedures, as well as inspections. Based in Abu Dhabi from 2014 to 2019, she advised both multinational medical devices and pharmaceutical clients on healthcare regulations in the EU and UAE. Els advises multinational pharmaceutical clients and investors on healthcare regulations in the EU and UAE. She equally supports the Firm's global healthcare group with knowledge management for the healthcare sector.
Emelie Ageby Svensson
Emelie Ageby Svensson
Emelie Ageby Svensson is a member of Baker McKenzie’s Intellectual Property and Data & Technology practice groups in Stockholm. Emelie joined Baker McKenzie as an associate in 2021. Prior to joining the Firm, she worked at a Stockholm based startup as legal counsel. Emelie focuses her practice mainly on intellectual property, IT and privacy law.
Emily Carlisle
Emily Carlisle
Emily Carlisle is a member of the London office's Corporate Department. She advises clients on a wide range of corporate matters with a focus on reorganising the corporate group structures of multinational companies. Emily joined Baker McKenzie in 2000 and was seconded to the Firm's New York office in 2006. She was admitted to the Law Society of England and Wales in September 2002. Emily helps clients — mostly multinational companies — structure, implement and manage cross-border reorganizations efficiently while ensuring compliance with local and international legal requirements. She is part of a dedicated team in London focused on international reorganizations and business transformation projects.
Emma Smith
Emma Smith
Emma Smith is a counsel and member of the London office's Corporate Department. She advises clients on a wide range of corporate matters with a focus on business transformations. Emma joined Baker McKenzie in 2008 and was seconded to the Firm's Frankfurt office in 2011. Emma practises corporate law and advises clients in relation to business transformations. Her primary focus is structuring and implementing complex cross-border reorganisations and she is a member of Baker McKenzie’s Global Reorganisations Practice Group. Emma has broad experience across a range of industries including: consumer goods & retail; hotels, resorts & tourism; industrials; pharma; and technology, media & telecoms.
Erik Forsin
Erik Forsin
Erik Forsin is a partner and heads Baker McKenzie’s Dispute Resolution Practice Group in Stockholm. He joined Baker McKenzie in 2020. Prior to joining the Firm, he worked at the Stockholm office of another global law firm. He graduated from Stockholm University (LL.M., jur.kand.) in 2008. He also has experience from working in Swedish Courts and the Swedish Enforcement Agency. In addition to acting in commercial disputes Erik serves as an arbitrator and has completed the SCC Institute and Swedish Arbitration Association Arbitrator Training Program (Class of 2021/2022). Erik is recognized as leading practitioner in the Legal 500 Arbitration Powerlist: Nordics 2024. Erik focuses primarily on international and domestic arbitration and litigation for Swedish and foreign companies with a particular emphasis on disputes within the fields of contentious M&A, company law, banking & finance and contractual disputes. He has been lead counsel in numerous arbitrations, mainly under the SCC Rules and ad hoc as well as co-counsel in several Sweden seated arbitrations under foreign laws. Erik has tried cases in all major courts in Sweden, including four cases before the Swedish Supreme Court. Erik writes and speaks regularly on topics related to international arbitration in Sweden as well as other Swedish law issues.
Eugenio Muschio
Eugenio Muschio
Eugenio Muschio handles the regulatory and debt capital market work in Italy. He has extensive experience in the financial, banking and insurance sectors, as well as in capital markets transactions, with a particular focus on the debt sector (EMTN, standalone bonds, liability management, both domestic and Euro market). Eugenio's practice covers European financial and insurance regulations, such as UCITS, AIMFD, MiFID II, Prospectus Directive, Solvency II Directive, Basel III, Payment Services Directive, Electronic Money Directive, as well as domestic regulations issued by the Bank of Italy, the CONSOB, and the IVASS. He regularly assists financial players in relation to the provision of regulated services and the offer of financial products, and is often involved in cross-border reorganization of regulated entities. Eugenio also assists major financial institutions in the context of debt capital market transactions (EMTN, standalone bonds, liability management), acting both on the part of the issuers and the dealers, and has recently advised on some of the most significant debt issuances in the Italian market.
Eva-Maria Ségur-Cabanac
Eva-Maria Ségur-Cabanac
Eva-Maria is a partner in our Austrian corporate / M&A group and a member of our global sustainability practice. She acts as global lead sustainability partner for our financial institutions industry group, heads Baker McKenzie's capital markets practice in Austria and is a member of our EMEA steering committee for capital markets. Eva-Maria is a dual-qualified lawyer, admitted to practice in Austria and New York. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie's Vienna office in 2008, Eva-Maria worked in the New York, Paris and Frankfurt offices of a well-known US law firm. Eva-Maria focuses her practice on cross-border transactional work, with a focus on energy and sustainable industries. She also provides ongoing advice to Austrian, EU and non-EU clients on the evolving EU regulatory agenda around ESG. She is a regular speaker and author of articles relating to sustainable finance and the EU regulatory framework regarding ESG.
Eva-Maria Strobel
Eva-Maria Strobel
Eva-Maria Strobel is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Zurich office. She co-Chairs the Firm's global IP, Technology and Data Practice Group and heads the Swiss IP, Technology and Data team. Eva-Maria is admitted to the bars in Switzerland and Germany and worked in the Firm's Frankfurt office prior to relocating to Zurich. Legal 500, Chambers, WIPR, Managing IP and WTR 1000 praise Eva-Maria as one of the leading trademark lawyers in Switzerland. Eva-Maria focuses on the development of intellectual property strategies to procure, protect and commercialize her domestic and multinational client's intangible assets and to grow the return on investment. She conducts IP portfolio audits, tailors trademark and design clearances, manages large global trademark and design portfolios and represents clients in IP related enforcement, litigation and in relation to governmental administrations. Eva-Maria also supports her clients on the implementation of business decisions, licensing, and contracting to maximize economic returns. She advises clients in luxury goods, cosmetics and foods and beverages industries as well as in the healthcare sector on a whole host of regulatory issues relevant to the industry, with a particular focus on marketing and advertising. She has been complimented by clients who have said that she "walks the extra mile and thinks outside the box to achieve the best results for her clients." Eva-Maria is an active member of INTA's Unreal Campaign Committee, Marques' Regulatory Team and ECTA's Law Committee.
Fatima Alhasan
Fatima Alhasan
Fatima is a partner in the Banking & Finance Practice Group of Baker McKenzie (focusing on Saudi Arabia and Bahrain) and a member of Baker McKenzie's Global R&I Steering Committee. She is also a member of the Firm’s global Alternative Capital team that provides best-in-class investment solutions for family offices, founders, sovereign wealth, and other sources of private capital. She is experienced in a broad range of conventional and Islamic banking and finance matters, focusing on financial restructuring and insolvency, project finance, corporate finance and trade finance. Fatima also has experience in a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including international trade and commerce, private equity, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture partnerships and investment funds. Fatima is recognised as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global, Legal 500 and IFLR.
Filip Uziębło
Filip Uziębło is an attorney-at-law admitted to practice in Poland, a partner and the co-head of Baker McKenzie’s Private Equity Group in Warsaw. He has experience in private equity and M&A deals as well as restructuring transactions. The prestigious legal ranking publication Chambers & Partners has multiple times ranked Filip as one of the best lawyers in Poland for private equity, and since 2015 it has ranked him as one of the best lawyers for corporate/M&A. According to recent reports, Filip Uziębło is frequently engaged by a diverse range of clients, including real estate groups, private equity houses and venture capital funds on various transactions. Another prestigious legal ranking, The Legal 500, has since 2018 ranked Filip in the “Next Generation Lawyers” category for private equity. In the most recent report a source stated that “Filip Uziębło demonstrated unique expertise in terms of the critical analysis of real estate and organising the exercise in an efficient and innovative manner. His combined knowledge in corporate law, restructuring and real estate has clearly given him a keen eye to quickly and easily identify material issues and important information.” Filip has advised major private equity funds, vendors, targets, industry investors, listed companies and institutional financial investors with regard to a wide range of transactions. Filip has provided assistance on a number of cross-border multijurisdictional acquisitions.
Filip Boras
Filip Boras
Filip Boras heads the Dispute Resolution Practice Group in the Baker McKenzie Vienna office and is member of Baker McKenzie’s global International Arbitration Steering Committee. He is double qualified as an attorney in Austria and New York and represents clients in international arbitration proceedings before all major institutions and ad hoc tribunals. Filip is widely recognized as a leading lawyer for dispute resolution in Central and Eastern Europe. Filip's experience covers a wide variety of disputes related to Central & Eastern Europe, including international commercial and investment arbitration. He helps global clients when investing in countries of the former Yugoslavia, where his clients benefit from his region-specific experience and his being a native Serbo-Croatian. His experience from representing clients in post-merger and acquisition disputes and corporate disputes, including issues arising from restructuring and insolvency, gives him a good commercial understanding. Filip understands the energy markets from his cases that include price-revisions and regulatory issues, as well as plant construction and infrastructure projects. He has acted on investor-state disputes based on bilateral investment treaties and the Energy Charter Treaty, under the ICSID Convention and UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules.
Fiona Carlin
Fiona Carlin
Fiona Carlin is the head of the EU Competition & Regulatory Affairs Practice in Brussels. She is the former chief executive of Baker McKenzie's EMEA region and the former chair of the Firm's Global Competition and Antitrust Law Practice comprising more than 320 lawyers in over 40 countries. She has remained an active practitioner throughout her various leadership roles with a particular focus on regulated industries. Fiona was a founding and long-standing member of Baker McKenzie's Global Diversity & Inclusion Committee and is dedicated to creating an inclusive high-performance culture where the talent of our lawyers and business professionals can flourish. Fiona advises clients on a wide range of competition law issues, including merger control, the structuring of distribution networks, state aid grants, compliance programmes and the defence of clients involved in competition investigations up to the appeal stage before the European courts in Luxembourg. Her focus is predominantly on the life sciences, consumer goods and industrials segments. Fiona has a stellar success rate before the European courts in competition and state aid cases. She has served as key adviser to the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations ever since the European Commission's pharmaceutical sector inquiry was launched in 2007.
Florian Tannen
Florian Tannen
Florian Tannen is a partner in the Munich office of Baker McKenzie with more than 14 years of experience. He advises on all areas of contentious and non-contentious digital, data, AI, cyber and general information technology law. Before joining the Firm, Florian worked for two major law firms and a large US-based technology company. Florian focuses this practice on digitalization, cybersecurity, data economy, data protection and digital law and has a strong focus on the automotive, pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors as well as industry, manufacturing and transport and advises several large companies on the market launch of (digital) products and services that process data. He also advises on matters relating to intellectual property, unfair competition, compliance and general contract law in this area. Florian also leads several major, complex proceedings before German Data Protection Authorities.
Florian Käestle
Florian Käestle
Dr. Florian Kästle practices in the area of M&A, private equity, restructuring, corporate law and post-M&A disputes. He joined Baker McKenzie as a partner in 2000. He is regularly cited by top legal directories in Germany as one of Germany’s leading M&A lawyers. In addition to regularly giving presentations on M&A topics, Dr. Kästle authored the first legal commentary in German language on an English-language share purchase agreement. Dr. Kästle has broad experience in all kinds of M&A transactions, including acquisitions, sales, public takeovers, joint ventures, post-merger integrations and post-M&A disputes. Throughout his 20 years of practice, he has represented numerous strategic and financial investors, corporate sellers and other corporations in various industries.
Florian Thamm
Dr. Florian Thamm is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Frankfurt office. He is the head of the German Real Estate Practice and former chair of the EMEA Real Estate Practice Group of Baker McKenzie. Before joining the Firm in 2007, he worked in the Frankfurt, Dusseldorf and London offices of Hengeler Mueller since 2000. In 2004, he was seconded to Slaughter and May in London. Dr. Thamm was admitted to the Frankfurt bar in 2002. Dr. Thamm has extensive professional experience advising clients on real estate transactions, with particular focus on sales and acquisitions, construction and corporate real estate services.
Francesca Baratta
Francesca Baratta is a senior associate in the Dispute Resolution Practice Group of Baker McKenzie Italy. She joined Baker McKenzie in May 2006. Francesca Baratta regularly assists clients in compliance matters such as internal investigations and the setting-up and updating of compliance models, internal policies and procedures aimed at preventing the commission of certain crimes including corruption-related crimes, H&S safety crimes, environmental crimes and other crimes whose commission may trigger the corporate liability pursuant to Legislative Decree No. 231/2001.
Francesca Gaudino
Francesca Gaudino
Francesca Gaudino is the Head of Baker McKenzie's Information Technology & Communications Group in Milan. She’s member of the EMEA Steering Committee of the IPTech practice of Baker McKenzie. Francesca works in the IT/C practice group since she joined the firm, specializing in the area of data protection and security, with specific attention to legal issues emerging in use of cutting-edge technologies. Francesca assists clients in a full range of data protection and security related matters, including: data protection compliance programs, education and training, adoption of devoted e-tools for HR management and reporting, pharmaceutical related privacy and security issues, compliance and regulatory filings (e.g. notifications, requests of authorization with the Italian data Protection Authority, prior checking procedures), critical processing of personal data, transfer of data out of the European Union, multi-jurisdictional platforms, behavioural advertising, social networks, cloud based and IT outsourcing deals. Francesca is a regular contributor on international reviews such as World Data Protection Review, DataGuidance, Wired Italy, IAPP publications, Privacy Laws & Business, Bloomerg BNA and World Communications Regulation Report. She routinely holds lectures on data privacy and security at post-graduate courses of SDA – Manager Direction School of the Milan Bocconi University and Almaweb – University of Bologna; she regularly participates as speaker in national and international conferences and workshops on the same areas
Francesca Richmond
Francesca Richmond
Francesca Richmond is a partner in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution team based in London. Francesca graduated from Kings College London with a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) and subsequently attained a Master of Law from the University of London specialising in Administrative Law and Human Rights. Francesca joined Baker McKenzie in 2004 and was admitted as a solicitor in September 2006. She attained higher rights of audience to act as a solicitor-advocate in 2009. Francesca has been seconded to Baker McKenzie's offices in Chicago, Washington and Sydney as well as to clients Barclays Bank PLC, the BBC Trust and O2. Francesca was a marshall at the Royal Courts of Justice in 1998 and in 2000 sitting with a High Court judge. Francesca specializes in the litigation and investigation of high value commercial and regulatory enforcement matters with a focus on class actions and mass torts litigation. Her practice spans antitrust, consumer and human rights law. She is recognised by Legal 500 as a Leading Individual in Commercial Litigation and practice lead of a Firm to Watch in Competition Litigation - identifying Francesca as a recommended lawyer who is "Adept at handling regulatory investigations and group litigations".
Francesco Goisis
Francesco Goisis is a member of the Firm’s Environmental Law, Public Law, Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare Law and Real Estate practice groups. A member of the Milan Bar Association, he was admitted to represent clients before ordinary courts and Supreme Courts in 2001 and 2008, respectively. He is a tenured full professor of administrative law at the State University of Milan, where he lectures on environmental law and public law and has been visiting scholar at the Universities of Cardiff and Nottingham (Public Procurement Research Group). Mr. Goisis has authored and co-authored several scientific and practical publications on public, European, environmental and administrative law. Mr. Goisis regularly advises on administrative, environmental and energy, pharmaceutical and real estate law, with specific regard to public law issues. He frequently works on public contracts and public concessions, authorizations and permits, public utilities, energy, environmental law, planning law, as well as proceedings before Italian regulatory authorities, especially in relation to antitrust cases.
Francesco Maruffi
Francesco Maruffi is a partner in the Firm’s Dispute Resolution practice in Italy. Francesco is recognized as a leading Individual by Legal 500 (2018) for dispute resolution in Italy. Francesco is a litigator advising clients on a broad range of litigation and arbitration matters relating to commercial, corporate, financial and insurance disputes with a strong international focus. Francesco has extensive experience in assisting major companies on commercial and corporate disputes (e.g., post-acquisition, R&W claims, directors’ and shareholders’ disputes, unfair competition claims) including with respect to construction and real estate matters, before Courts and Arbitral Tribunals. He regularly acts for financial institutions on wide range of disputes including asset management, investors’ claims, class actions and investigations brought by the Italian Regulation Authorities. He also acts for major insurance companies and brokers with respect to financial lines, product liability, life insurance, property damage and casualty claims. He has been assisting aircraft lessors in a variety of disputes including with reference to aircraft repossession, airport charges and disputes with airport management companies.
Francesco Pisciotta
Francesco Pisciotta
Francesco Pisciotta co-heads the tax practice of Baker McKenzie Italy. Francesco is a member of Baker McKenzie’s Europe and Global Tax Practice Group. He has been a member of the International Tax Commission of the Milan Association of Certified Accountants. Mr. Pisciotta is a certified auditor and a member of the Milan Tax Bar. He is regularly invited to speak on tax issues in various seminars and conferences. Francesco Pisciotta focuses his practice on domestic and international taxation. He counsels multinational clients on international tax planning, with an emphasis on cross-border transactions, corporate restructurings, real estate transactions and indirect tax matters.
Geert Bovy
Geert Bovy
Geert Bovy is a partner in the Brussels office and heads the International Commercial & Trade Practice Group in EMEA and Belgium. He joined Baker McKenzie in 2001. Geert was a teaching assistant in procedural law at KULeuven from 2006 to 2009. Geert advises clients on all aspects of commercial and consumer protection law. He often works on global or pan-European projects, assisting clients in navigating the differences between various local laws in a centralized and coordinated manner. Geert has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial agreements (e.g., sourcing, manufacturing, logistics, distribution, agency, franchising, selective distribution, sales. etc.) both in business-to-business and business-to-consumer contexts. He also advises clients on regulatory issues, marketing, promotion, labelling and advertising of consumer products, particularly food products, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Geert's practice also comprises commercial litigation, including pre-litigation assistance, litigation and settlement negotiations.
Gemma Willingham
Gemma Willingham
Gemma is a partner and solicitor advocate with Baker McKenzie's Dispute Resolution team and our market-leading Private Wealth litigation group in London. Gemma has experience in advising clients engaged in disputes related to private wealth, succession and trusts. In such disputes, she acts for trustees, executors, protectors, beneficiaries and interested third parties and is very familiar with all the major offshore jurisdictions. Gemma is a full member of STEP and ACTAPS, and a regular speaker at international conferences about wealth litigation. Gemma has extensive experience advising clients in relation to managing risks associated with exposure to wealth-related controversy, including dealing with corporate governance and family governance and resolving private family disputes. More generally, Gemma also has considerable experience in handling specialist pensions litigation and general commercial litigation.
Georg Diwok
Georg Diwok
Georg Diwok heads the Banking & Finance Practice Group at Baker McKenzie Rechtsanwälte LLP & Co KG in Vienna. He previously worked as a law clerk at Bruckhaus Westrick Heller Löber and was a partner at Lattenmayer, Luks & Partner. He started his career as an assistant at Vienna law school. Georg focuses his practice on direct national and cross-border lending and restructuring. Georg's particular focus is on real estate finance. He further advises banks and business enterprises on licensing issues and represents clients in banking regulatory matters.
George Marshall
George Marshall
George is a partner in the Corporate Finance practice group in London. George's practice is focused on equity securities offerings of all types, as well as mergers and acquisitions, corporate advisory and general corporate work across a number of industry sectors in both mature and emerging markets. He regularly advises a range of corporate and investment bank clients and his industry sector focus is financial institutions. George is ranked in the UK’s Legal 500 2023 as a “Next Generation Partner” (Mid-Large Cap, Equity Capital Markets) and noted for his experience on transactions in the GCC and “detailed knowledge of the Middle East”. He is recommended in particular as “excellent on Saudi deals” (UK Legal 500 2021). George has experience of working in both London and Hong Kong for a variety of clients across EMEA (particularly in the Middle East) and Asia Pacific. He also has broad capital markets experience across a range of listing venues, including London, Riyadh and Hong Kong.
Gergely Riszter
Gergely Riszter
Dr. Gergely Riszter heads the Tax Group of the Firm’s Budapest office. He has been recognized as a Highly Recommended Tax Practitioner by PLC Yearbook 2008. Dr. Riszter regularly lectures at the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, Faculty of Law on financial and tax law matters. He serves as editor of the Budapest office’s Tax Newsletter and regularly contributes to other tax-related publications. Dr. Riszter focuses on corporate tax, transfer pricing and VAT matters. He routinely advises multinationals on the tax structuring of their investments in Hungary and the tax implications of establishing financing and licensing structures through Hungarian vehicles. He also helps clients manage cross-border taxation matters. Dr. Riszter advises on tax and related legal issues arising from M&A transactions, and on VAT issues of various transactions and structures implemented in Hungary. He also represents clients before the Hungarian courts, Ministry of Finance and the tax authority.
Gerhard Hermann
Gerhard Hermann
Gerhard Hermann heads the M&A Department in the Firm’s Vienna office. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, he served as partner in a leading law firm in Europe and lecturer at the University of Vienna. In addition to his practice, Dr. Hermann likewise writes articles on corporate law matters for various publications. Dr. Hermann practices mainly on (public and private) mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, as well as other general corporate law matters.
Géry Bombeke
Géry Bombeke
Géry Bombeke heads Baker McKenzie's Brussels Tax Practice Group. He joined Baker McKenzie in 2004, after several years of experience in a Big 4 company and its related law firm. He became partner in 2010. Géry advises our clients on a broad range of corporate income tax issues, both international and domestic. Géry's practice focuses on transfer pricing, where he assists clients with strategy, design, implementation and documentation. He also regularly negotiates unilateral and bilateral Advance Pricing Agreements (APA), and assists in transfer pricing audits and disputes, including mutual agreement procedures. In addition to transfer pricing, Géry is also a tax specialist in corporate restructurings such as mergers and de-mergers, etc. where he assists our clients on pre- and post-acquisition restructurings, corporate simplifications, etc. Being based in the centre of the EU, Géry centralizes and coordinates for most of his international clients the firm's tax assistance in the region.
Ghada El Ehwany
Ghada El Ehwany
Ghada El Ehwany is a partner at Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo, where she heads the Corporate and Commercial Practice Group.
Ghada El Gharib
Ghada El Gharib
Ghada El Gharib is a Counsel at Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo. She practice focuses on banking and finance, major projects, and energy. With over 13 years of experience, advising clients on high-value financing transactions, her work track-record has earned her well-deserved recognition IFLR1000 lauding her as a "Rising Star" in 2023 and 2024. She was seconded with the legal regional team of International Finance Corporation. 
Giacinto Zampetti
Giacinto Zampetti
Giacinto Zampetti is a counsel of the Antitrust & Trade Practice Group of Baker McKenzie Milan office. Giacinto advises on competition law, in particular, on horizontal and vertical restrictive agreements and abusive conduct as well as unfair business practices to the detriment of consumers. He regularly assists national and international clients in setting up and implementing selective distribution, franchising and subcontracting contracts in the fashion, automotive and food sectors. Giacinto has also significant experience in consumer law matters by assisting the Firm's clients, in particular, in drafting e-commerce terms and conditions of sale as well as reviewing advertising and promotional initiatives. He has represented several clients in proceedings before the Antitrust Authority (including the dawn raid phase) in cartel and abuse of economic dependence proceedings. He has also defended several operators in the digital world before the Italian Competition Authority in proceedings concerning unfair commercial practices and unfair terms against consumers.
Gillian Parnell
Gillian Parnell
Gill Parnell is an of counsel in the Employee Benefits Group, part of the Employment Department of the London office of Baker McKenzie. She is a member of the Firm’s Global Employment and Compensation Practice Group that provides advice upon related corporate, tax and labour law issues. Gill advises on a wide variety of matters relating to employee share incentives and employment taxation, including executive remuneration. Gill assists companies with the tax and social security consequences of employees working remotely abroad or coming to work in the UK. Gill has a focus on the tax aspects of the modern workforce and, in particular, is helping clients to prepare for the changes in IR35. Gill assists UK and multinational companies with the design, implementation and administration of their UK and international share plans. She also advises on employee share incentives and executive remuneration in the context of corporate transactions. Gill has been named by Legal 500 as a "Next Generation Lawyer" in 2017 and a "Rising Star" in 2019 and 2020.
Giorgio Telarico
Giorgio Telarico
Giorgio Telarico is a counsel in the Banking & Finance Department. He has practiced as a lawyer since 2004 and has mainly dealt with the project finance sector throughout his professional life. Before joining Baker McKenzie, he worked as a member of the project finance team of leading Italian and international law firms, dealing with the most important transactions of the project finance area. Giorgio's practice is mainly focused on the project finance area, either as a member of responsible team or as a project manager, assisting both sponsors and financial institutions.
Graham Stuart
Graham Stuart
Graham Stuart is a partner in Baker McKenzie's London office specialising in product regulation and environmental, health and safety law. Graham advises on the regulation of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, chemicals, food, and a wide range of consumer and industrial products, acting for clients in connection with global integrations and reorganisations; product manufacturing, marketing, supply and distribution; EU and UK product authorisation regimes; non-conformities, regulatory investigations and prosecutions. His practice also covers operational environmental, health and safety matters for industrial and manufacturing facilities; the assessment and management of environmental risk in complex multi-jurisdictional projects, mergers and acquisitions; and climate change law and emissions trading.
Gregory Lebrun
Gregory Lebrun
Gregory Lebrun is a Brussels-based partner in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution team. He heads the Belgian Dispute Resolution & Arbitration Practice. Gregory has a particular focus on international litigation and arbitration, notably in the construction, technology and pharma sectors. He has extensive experience and an outstanding track record before commercial courts (including in summary proceedings), international courts and the Council of State. He is also known as a skilled negotiator, especially in the context of commercial contracts, settlements and discussions with public authorities. Gregory writes about and speaks regularly on litigation and arbitration, as well as on public contract-related topics. Gregory advises national and international clients on all legal aspects of business, commercial and administrative disputes, including regulatory issues. As well as representing clients in disputes, Gregory advises on dispute avoidance and project management issues. He and his team are known for managing pressing and/or critical situations and assisting large clients in crisis and reputational management.
Günter Pickrahn
Dr. Günter Pickrahn is co-head of the Dispute Resolution Department of Baker McKenzie's German offices and a steering committee member in the Firm’s Europe and Global Dispute Resolution groups. Günter's litigation and arbitration practice is wide-ranging and covers all aspects of commercial domestic and international disputes. He acted for many clients in arbitral proceedings as party representative, mostly in post-M&A disputes and licensing and intellectual property matters. He acts regularly as arbitrator, both as chairman and as party-appointed arbitrator.
Hani Nassef
Hani Nassef
Hani Nassef is a Partner and Head of the Mergers and Acquisitions Practice Group at Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo.
Hannah Moxon
Hannah Moxon
Hannah Moxon is a senior associate who joined the Pensions Department in March 2017 after completing her training contract at the Firm. Hannah advises both pension scheme trustees and sponsoring employers on all aspects of pensions law for contentious and non-contentious matters and is a member of the Association of Pensions Lawyers. She is also a member of Baker McKenzie’s cross-practice data protection group. Hannah advises clients across multiple industries on all aspects of pensions law, including amending schemes to respond to legal developments, dealing with member benefit queries and other day-to-day issues. In particular, Hannah has acted for clients in relation to liability management exercises, employer deficit matters and member complaints, and has been involved in multijurisdictional transactional projects, which includes providing advice and coordinating international pension teams.
Heiko Haller
Heiko Haller
Heiko Haller has represented clients in more than 40 international arbitration cases involving disputes that arise during major infrastructure, construction and IT outsourcing projects. He is particularly experienced in disputes involving large energy projects, such as the construction of nuclear power plants and offshore wind farms. Heiko co-chairs Baker McKenzie's German Dispute Resolution Group. He also advises pharmaceutical companies in contractual disputes and serves as an arbitrator in M&A-related disputes under the rules of the International Chamber of Commerce and German Institute of Arbitration. Heiko's experience working on a variety of cases and solid grasp of engineering concepts have given him a deep understanding of the entire energy chain, from production of raw materials and power generation to energy transmission and storage. This industry knowledge enables him to get up to speed on the technical and commercial aspects of cases quickly, develop winning legal strategies for clients and help them minimize losses or maximize profits. To help clients make more informed decisions about whether to invest in a dispute and to ensure they get the best return on their investment, Heiko and his team put each case through a risk analysis to calculate the probability that they will prevail on their claims. Heiko also uses this assessment to determine which aspects of the case to focus on and where to invest in expert opinions to achieve the greatest outcome.
Helen Brown
Helen Brown
Helen Brown is a partner in the London IT/Commercial Department. Together with Julia Hemmings, Helen heads up the Consumer and Commercial Advisory Practice. Helen advises on all aspects of offline and online sales to consumers including issues relating to data privacy, sales promotion and advertising with particular focus on the fashion retail and digital media sectors. She has extensive experience of advising and negotiating distribution, agency and franchising agreements. Helen also assists companies on the legal aspects of promotional activities and tie-ups with charities.
Hennadiy Voytsitskyi
Hennadiy Voytsitskyi heads Baker McKenzie's Tax Practice Group in Kyiv, which was named Ukraine Tax Law Firm at the International Tax Review's 2016 European Tax Awards. He has more than 20 years of experience practicing in Ukrainian and international tax law. Mr. Voytsitskyi participated in a working group led by the National Bank of Ukraine on development of draft legislation for the introduction of controlled foreign companies and implementation of BEPS Actions. Mr. Voytsitskyi focuses his practice on providing sound legal advice to multinational and domestic clients on international tax planning and tax structuring matters, including cross-border inbound and outbound investment, tax controversy and litigation and wealth management concerns. Most recently, he has been heavily involved in advising clients on strategy negotiations and appealing against decisions and other acts and inquiries of tax authorities and tax police, including participation in litigation against tax authorities and tax police.
Henric Roth
Henric Roth
Henric Roth is based in Stockholm and a partner in the Capital Markets team. He joined Baker McKenzie in 2010. Mr. Roth graduated from Lund University (LL.M., jur. kand.) in 2010 and has also studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2008/2009. Further, he has taken several classes in Business Administration and Economics at the University of Lund and has experience working as an officer in the reserve for the Swedish Navy. Mr. Roth was seconded to the Firm’s London Office for six months in 2016/2017. In 2018/2019 he was seconded as in-house legal counsel to one of the leading investment banks in the Nordics. During the last four years (2016-2019), Baker McKenzie's Capital Markets Group in Stockholm has been ranked #1 in acting for investment banks in capital markets transactions (in terms of deal volume) and #1-3 in acting for issuers in capital markets transactions (in terms of deal volume). Mr. Roth specializes in capital markets work, representing late-stage private and publicly traded companies, sponsors and underwriters, with a particular emphasis on capital markets transactions within two of the most rapidly growing industries: technology and life sciences. He has extensive experience counseling clients on the full range of capital markets related matters, including IPOs, public offerings, secondary share issues, public mergers and acquisitions, strategic corporate relationships, compliance and corporate governance.
Henry Garfield
Henry Garfield
Henry is a partner in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution team based in London, and a member of the Compliance and Investigations group. Henry is an English qualified solicitor. Henry also worked in the San Francisco office for an extended period and has been seconded to the litigation and regulatory investigations team of a well known bank. During his secondment, Henry played a leading role in the internal legal team on a number of high profile investigations and disputes. Henry has also been seconded to the UK Serious Fraud Office, during which he was the Case Lawyer on a high profile and significant multi million pound investigation.
Hesham Ragab
Hesham Ragab
Hesham Ragab is Of Counsel at Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo.
Holger Engelkamp
Holger Engelkamp
Holger Engelkamp is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Corporate Practice Group and co-heads the German Energy & Infrastructure team. Prior to joining the Firm, he worked for international law firms in Berlin and Toronto. Holger completed a six-month secondment in 2012 / 2013 to one of the world's largest investor-owned power and gas companies, advising in connection with the merger of its gas unit with its energy trading business. Holger primarily focuses on the energy and infrastructure sector as well as on the life sciences sector and advises domestic, multinational and global companies on large and mid-size M&A transactions as well as on venture capital and private equity transactions. He also focuses on joint ventures, all aspects of transformation and merger law as well as general corporate law.
Hugh Lyons
Hugh Lyons
Hugh Lyons is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Dispute Resolution department, based in London. He has extensive experience of high-profile and high-value commercial and financial disputes. His clients include major corporates, financial institutions and leading insolvency practitioners. Much of his work arises from disputed financing transactions, restructuring and insolvency, fraud and financial misconduct. He is also actively involved in the Firm's pro bono offering. Hugh is recognised for his practice by Legal 500, while Super Lawyers ranks him a “Top Rated Attorney in London” in the categories of commercial litigation, fraud and insolvency & bankruptcy. Hugh is a member of the Insolvency Lawyers Association and a fellow of the Association of Business Recovery Professionals. Hugh regularly advises clients on litigation and investigations arising from financing transactions, restructuring and insolvency, fraud and financial misconduct. In such cases, Hugh helps clients both to formulate a strategic response to their issues and to decide how best to engage with regulators and prosecuting authorities. Hugh has extensive experience representing clients involved in disputes in the Middle East, where he is admitted as an advocate before the DIFC Courts, as well as in other jurisdictions including the Caribbean, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Singapore and the US.
Hugo Jay
Hugo Jay
Hugo Jay is a senior associate in Baker McKenzie's Real Estate Practice Group in London. He qualified as a solicitor in 2013 and joined Baker McKenzie from another global law firm in 2022. Hugo's practice focuses on real estate investment and development, advising on acquisitions, financing, planning, development, structuring, leasing and disposals, often by way of complex joint venture, corporate wrapper, forward funding and forward sale arrangements. Hugo also has considerable experience advising banks and borrowers on financing real estate investment and development and assisting investors and corporate occupiers with leasing matters.
Ida Cederborg
Ida Cederborg is co-head of Baker McKenzie's Employment and Compensation Group in Stockholm. She advises Swedish and international clients on a wide range of employment matters. Ida as served as a law clerk at the Administrative Court in Stockholm. Prior to that, Ida worked at the District Court of Södertälje and the Swedish Migration Agency. Ida participates in the Swedish employment law debate in the form of articles in, for example, Dagens Juridik. She also gives lectures and seminars on employment law matters for both clients and external audiences. Ida advises on a wide range of employment matters, such as restructurings, business transfers, and employment law aspects of transactions, as well as recruitments, work force reductions and individual terminations of employment. She also handles multinational employment law projects focusing on harmonization and local integration of structures and term and conditions of employment. Moreover, she assists clients with all aspects, including practical implementation, of internal investigations regarding work environment issues, discrimination, and cases concerning sexual harassment and unfavorable treatment.
Ihor Siusel
Ihor Siusel has more than 15 years of practical experience, 12 of which as a legal advisor in major local and international law firms where he consistently practiced law in dispute resolution, namely international and domestic arbitration, litigation, enforcement of court judgments and arbitral awards and bankruptcy law. Mr. Siusel advises and represents local and foreign clients in commercial, real estate, construction, corporate, IP, tax, customs, labor, insurance, loan, maritime, aviation, telecom, product liability and bankruptcy disputes, including complex cross-border disputes. His clients span a number of industries including mining, oil and gas, steel production, food production, publishing, ship building, telecom, pharma, IT, construction, transport, agriculture, distribution and retail, insurance, banking and finance.
Ines Radmilovic
Ines Radmilovic
Ines Radmilovic is a senior counsel in the Firm's M&A practice group. She is the past chairperson of the Firm's EMEA M&A Practice Group Steering Committee and former member of the Global M&A Practice Group Steering Committee. Before moving to Budapest in 1992, Ines was a corporate and securities associate in the Chicago office. She became a partner in 1996 and senior counsel in mid 2024. Ines has advised clients in various industries - including manufacturing, IT/communications, life sciences & healthcare, and financial services - on a range of cross-border or multijurisdictional transactional matters, including purchases and sales of businesses, advising on the complete transaction lifecycle, from structuring to implementation, as well as post-acquisition legal entity integration, spin-offs, mergers, demergers and corporate group restructuring.
Iolie Calochristos
Iolie Calochristos
Iolie Calochristos is an Of Counsel in the Structured Capital Markets Team in London, working in the area of derivatives and structured finance. Iolie regularly advises sovereign wealth funds, hedge funds, global investment managers, pension funds and other institutional investors, together with end-users (such as corporates, CCPs, insurance companies and rating agencies) on a broad range of OTC derivatives and structured products, including interest rate and currency swaps and options, total return swaps, equity derivatives, securities lending transactions, repurchase transactions, regulatory capital and tax driven structures, loan and securitisation hedging. Iolie also advises on the regulation of derivatives and other financial products in the UK and EU, particularly in connection with the requirements of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), the Bank Resolution and Recovery Directive (BRRD), the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR), as well as related legislation. During her time at Baker & McKenzie LLP, Iolie has completed client secondments at: (i) Citigroup Global Markets Limited, working with the Prime Finance and Listed Derivatives legal team (July to November 2012); and (ii) Credit Suisse, working with the Strategic Transactions and Structured Equities legal team (June to October 2015).
Jack Rubin
Jack Rubin
Jack Rubin is a counsel in Baker McKenzie's Real Estate Department having joined the Firm in 2012. Jack has spent time working in Baker McKenzie's Hong Kong and Sydney office. Jack acts for a wide range of multinational clients, including property investment companies, investment banks and corporate occupiers. He has a particular focus on real estate finance and construction matters but also regularly advises on commercial and residential conveyancing, landlord and tenant issues and the real estate aspects of multi-national corporate transactions.
Jaime Munro
Jaime Munro
Local Partner in the Santiago, Chile office.  Related Expertise Banking & Finance Capital Markets Energy, Mining & Infrastructure Financial Institutions Mergers & Acquisitions Private Equity
Jakub Lorys
Jakub Lorys
Dr. Jakub Lorys is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Corporate/M&A Practice Group in Munich. He has numerous years of experience in all areas of M&A transactions for both corporate and private equity clients. Prior to joining the Firm, Jakub worked for one of the leading German law firms. In 2017, he worked one year for Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City. Jakub focuses on German and international M&A and Private Equity transactions, advising corporate clients, institutional investors, financial sponsors, family offices and companies backed by institutional investors and financial sponsors. He handles a broad range of transaction types (both buy- and sell-side), including national and cross-border acquisitions and divestments (including auction processes), joint ventures, co-investments as well as related corporate matters.
Jakub Czerka
Jakub Czerka
Jakub Czerka is an advocate admitted to practice in Poland, a senior associate in the Banking and Finance Practice at Baker McKenzie in Warsaw. Jakub graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń in 2013. He also obtained a Bachelor of Laws in Business Law from the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the University of Aberystwyth in 2015. He qualified as an advocate in 2020. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie in Warsaw, Jakub worked at renowned global law firms starting from 2015. Jakub specialises in transactions related to debt financing. He advises financial institutions, private equity funds and other various private and public entities on domestic and international financing transactions, in particular, in the field of acquisition and corporate financing, as well as on comprehensive debt restructuring projects. He also has experience in advising issuers and bondholders on matters concerning bond issuances.
Jakub Falkowski
Jakub Falkowski
Jakub Falkowski is a Counsel in the IP/IT department of Baker McKenzie, Warsaw. He has been involved in several IT transactions and arbitration proceedings. Mr. Falkowski has gone on a six-month secondment to a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company. He joined Baker McKenzie in 2007. Mr. Falkowski regularly advises on technology and outsourcing transactions and counsels companies in the media and technology sectors on digital media issues. He also has considerable experience advising on privacy matters. Additionally, he has dealt with IP issues, particularly with matters relating to unfair competition practices, copyrights, digital media, and e-commerce advisory.
James Thompson
James Thompson
James is a Partner in the Corporate Finance Department. James joined Baker McKenzie as a Partner in January 2016 from another multinational law firm, having been predominantly based in the London office, but also having spent time in the New York and Singapore offices. He began his career in the Sydney office of a renowned law firm and has spent time as a consultant to Barclays' M&A Legal team. James is a member of TheCityUK's Capital Markets Group. James is a public M&A practitioner, with deep blue-book experience, having acted for international bidders seeking control of Code-governed companies, for UK targets and also as cash confirmation counsel to financial advisers across the City. He has acted as international counsel for both bidders and targets involving companies listed in other European jurisdictions. On the capital raisings side, James has been prolific over the years, acting for both issuers and underwriters on IPOs, rights issues, placings and open offers both in the UK and across EMEA. Issuers value his proactivity and commerciality and banks his depth of knowledge and practical experience of a multitude of forms of underwriting and transaction structures, as well as the UK sponsor regime. Beyond London, he has advised on equities transactions involving issuers listed in Amsterdam, Brussels, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Johannesburg, Paris, Saudi Arabia, Stockholm, Tallinn and Warsaw. James’ practice comprises a mix of equities capital raising transactions, international M&A involving companies listed on a range of London and international markets, and the provision of general corporate governance and regulatory compliance advice to listed clients.
James Robinson
James Robinson
James Robinson is a partner in the London office’s Antitrust & Competition department, and has extensive experience in UK and EU competition law. He is a member of the Baker McKenzie Global Antitrust & Competition Practice Group, and is Global Co-Chair of the Firm’s Cartels Practice, which is ranked #1 in the world by GCR Magazine. James has been named a Future Leader in Competition Law by Who's Who Legal and GCR. James advises across a range of competition compliance issues and investigations. In particular, he has extensive experience advising clients on all aspects of competition investigations, including audits and risk assessments, supporting clients during UK and EU dawn raids, making immunity and leniency applications to the European Commission and CMA, engaging in settlements, defending contested cases before the authorities, undertaking appeals to the General Court and Court of Justice and defending clients in follow-on damages or related antitrust litigation. James also advises on a full range of behavioral compliance issues, including distribution arrangements, market power assessments and horizontal co-operation agreements. In addition to working in Baker McKenzie's London office, previously James has been seconded to our Brussels office, and has undertaken two client secondments with a FTSE 100 company.
James Tanner
James Tanner
James Tanner is a partner in Baker McKenzie's London office. James's practice focuses on debt capital markets, securitisation and portfolio sales/acquisitions of both distressed and non-distressed assets. He also has experience across a range of financing transactions and products, including sovereign advisory matters, cross-border restructurings, CLOs and has a rapidly expanding sustainable finance / green bonds practice.
James Burdett
James Burdett
James leads our Middle East and Africa Funds Group and sits on the Firm's Global Funds Steering Committee. He has experience in the formation of private equity and hedge fund structures, fund reviews and due diligence for investors, investment management and advisory agreements, information memoranda and other offering documents, and in advising on specific investment structures for asset classes. He also has extensive experience in advising both buyers and sellers in secondary transactions private equity and real estate fund interests, end of life portfolios and GP-led buyouts. As well as advising fund managers, he counts many large institutional investors amongst his clients. James co-leads the Firm's Sovereign Investor Group and its relationship with the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds with whom Baker McKenzie has an exclusive partnership for the provision of Legal and Regulatory knowledge services.
James Heller
James Heller
James is a Partner in the Baker McKenzie Corporate Group based in London. He principally advises large corporates, infrastructure funds and other financial sponsors in relation to cross-border mergers and acquisitions, shareholder arrangements and joint ventures. James has experience working cross-sector but has a particular interest in infrastructure, energy and industrials transactions. In 2024, James was recognised by Legal500 as a Key Lawyer in both upper mid-market/premium M&A (£750m+) and Infrastructure M&A. James has a special interest in Japan-outbound transactions, having advising many large Japanese corporates on European and global transactions. James chairs UK Japan Connect, the Firm’s legal and business forum that helps build greater cooperation between legislators, government, trade and industry associations and Japanese businesses in both London and Tokyo. James is also a member of CityUK’s Japan Market Advisory Group which helps to advance the UK’s relationship in financial and related professional services with Japan. James has completed a secondment with a trading house in Tokyo, working as a deal and projects advisor for the energy, renewables and chemicals sectors. James is also one of the Firm's leading advisors with respect to warranty and indemnity insurance and related deal-risk products, advising clients on policy placements around the globe.
Jana Fischer
Jana Fischer
Jana Fischer is a partner in Baker McKenzie's International Tax Practice Group. She joined Baker McKenzie's Frankfurt office in 2011. Jana studied law in Göttingen and Sydney. She obtained an LL.M. specialized in taxation and is admitted to the Frankfurt bar since 2011. In 2014 she qualified as a certified tax consultant (Steuerberaterin). She’s the General Editor of the Firm’s Handling Tax Disputes in Europe Handbook 2018-2020. Jana Fischer advises German and non-German clients with respect to national and international tax. Her practice focuses on the representation of clients in tax disputes, including tax field audits and tax litigation. She also advises on structuring and implementing complex corporate restructurings including requests for binding tax rulings from the German tax authority.
Jane Hobson
Jane Hobson
Jane Hobson is a corporate partner in Baker McKenzie's London office. She heads the London Private M&A practice and the Global Transactional Healthcare group. She is part of the Global Healthcare steering committee and a member of the Global M&A Practice group. Jane's practice focuses on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, licensing transactions and joint ventures in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector.
Janet Butler
Janet Butler
Dr. Janet Butler is a counsel in Baker McKenzie's Transactional / Projects practice in Berlin. She joined Baker McKenzie in 2001 and meanwhile has more than 20 years of experience advising domestic and foreign companies, financial institutions, financial investors and public authorities in a broad range of public law matters, with a focus on regulated industries (chemicals, life sciences, (renewable) energy and infrastructure). Janet is a member of the European Energy, Mining & Infrastructure Industry Group and the Global Environment & Climate Change Practice Group. She has worked in the Firm's Berlin, Frankfurt and London offices. Janet regularly advises clients on the management of environmental liability and regulatory risks in the context of M&A transactions and project developments, covering all stages of project development. She has extensive experience advising on environmental, planning and permitting issues as well as subsidy and EU state aid law. She also advises on the implementation of projects in the broadband infrastructure and future mobility sector.
Jannan Crozier
Jannan Crozier
Jannan Crozier is a partner in Baker & McKenzie's Corporate Group based in London and the Firms Global M&A Chair. Jannan practices in Corporate Law and advises clients in relation to cross-border mergers and acquisitions and negotiated carve out transactions. Jannan joined Baker & McKenzie's London office as a trainee solicitor in 2003, qualifying as a solicitor in the Corporate Group in 2005 and being promoted to partner in 2015. The Legal 500 lists Jannan as a "Next Generation Partner" within M&A: upper mid-market and premium deals, GPB 500 million and ".. is especially experienced in cross-border M&A, and complex carve-outs."
Jaspreet Takhar
Jaspreet Takhar
Jaspreet advises market-leading tech and healthcare companies on issues at the cutting-edge of digital health. She focuses on the development and regulation of healthcare technology and data solutions. This includes assessing how digital health solutions can comply with the legal framework for data privacy, medical research and medical devices / pharmaceuticals. Jaspreet advises clients on complex issues at the intersection of healthcare, data and technology. Her practice has a particular focus on accessing and using patient data, innovative collaborations with hospitals, and the use and regulation of AI in the healthcare space. Jaspreet regularly speaks at medtech and pharma industry trade association events on issues ranging from health data and innovation to medical research. She has contributed to white papers and policy work by the Association of the British HealthTech Industry (ABHI) and the UK’s Department of Health and Social Care, focussing on the future regulation of health data and fostering healthtech innovation in the UK.
Jean-François Findling
Jean-François Findling
Jean-François Findling is a founder and the managing partner of the Firm’s Luxembourg office. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, he established his own law firm in 2009 and was a partner in a leading Luxembourg firm. Mr. Findling is regularly recommended by Legal 500 for his extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions and private equity. Mr. Findling advises clients on issues relating to mergers and acquisitions and group reorganizations. He routinely works with private equity funds on structuring their investments, and has significant experience in advising Luxembourg banks and insurance firms on acquisitions and joint ventures.
Jean-François Trapp
Jean-François Trapp
Jean-François Trapp is a partner in the Real Estate team of the Baker McKenzie Luxembourg office. He has more than 20 years' experience in Luxembourg law. Prior to joining the Firm, he was a partner in a Luxembourg law firm where he headed the Real Estate department and co-led the Banking & Finance department. In 2007, he co-founded the Luxembourg law firm Roemers Trapp Pautot, a niche firm focusing on the real estate, real assets and infrastructure sectors. Jean-François Trapp is a renowned expert in real estate law. He regularly assists clients with real estate transactions both in Luxembourg and abroad. He also provides advice in the fields of tenancy law, construction law, administrative law and environmental law. Jean-François supports and counsels his clients on all aspects of their real estate investments, including the financial and contractual aspects, as well as those related to corporate law.
Jean-François Vandenberghe
Jean-François Vandenberghe
Jean-François Vandenberghe is a partner in the Real Estate and Construction Practice Group. He joined Baker McKenzie in 1994. Within Baker McKenzie, he leads the Real Estate Practice Group in Belgium and for the larger part of the EMEA region. He is also a member of the Environmental Law Practice Group and the Corporate Practice Group. Jean-François was also the managing partner of the Belgian offices from 2009 to 2016, and more recently ad-interim since end of January 2023 to end of March 2024. Jean-François advises national and international clients on real estate transactions and their environmental aspects.
Jeanette Holland
Jeanette Holland
Jeanette Holland offers nearly three decades of experience advising employers and trustees on all aspects of pension law. Jeanette is co-secretary of the Association of Pension Lawyers Legislative and Parliamentary Committee, having previously been on the International Committee. Jeanette advises both companies and trustees in all aspects of pension law and often manages large-scale restructurings/projects involving the mitigation of pensions risks. She has advised on many anti-avoidance/clearance issues.
Jennifer Revis
Jennifer Revis
Jennifer Revis is a partner in Baker McKenzie's London office and co-leads our EMEA Customs Team. Jennifer focuses her practice on the public regulation of international trade, particularly in a wide range of customs compliance issues. She regularly advises clients on import matters, including customs valuation, rules of origin, and classification. She has worked with clients designing and implementing their compliance programs, policies, procedures and risk assessments, and assisting them in customs audits. She has significant experience in managing global customs projects and disputes, particularly in the area of customs valuation (transfer pricing; assists; royalties). Jennifer also advises on FTAs and trade remedies matters. Jennifer has been consistently recognised as a "Leading Individual" for Customs & Excise and “Next Generation Partner” for Trade, WTO Anti-Dumping And Customs. Clients describe her as "an outstanding customs lawyer and litigator with fantastic experience. She is also easy to work with and leads her team with aplomb", "without a doubt, one of the best customs lawyers in the business (…) with an exceptionally deep knowledge of customs valuation concepts, as well as considerable experience applying those concepts in a variety of jurisdictions." Jennifer has been on secondment to the UK customs authorities (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) in their tax and excise litigation department and to the Firm's European Law Centre in Brussels.
Jeremy Levy
Jeremy Levy
Jeremy Levy is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Structured Capital Markets Team in London, working in the areas of securitisation, structured finance and derivatives & financial products. Jeremy joined Baker McKenzie as a trainee in 2005 and qualified into the Structured Capital Markets Team in 2007. Jeremy has been named a Next Generation Lawyer and a Next Generation Partner by the Legal 500. Jeremy regularly acts for sponsors, originators, arrangers and trustees on securitisation and other structured finance transactions across multiple jurisdictions and involving various asset classes (including trade receivables, residential mortgages, auto loans, consumer loans and equipment leases). Jeremy also regularly advises buyers, suppliers and platform providers on all types of supply chain finance transactions and advises companies listing bonds on the Channel Islands and Cayman Islands Stock Exchanges. Jeremy has considerable experience in establishing new structures and vehicles, and advised PrimeRevenue in establishing a new supply chain finance platform, named a Standout Deal at the FT Innovative Lawyers Awards 2016.
Jeremy Edwards
Jeremy Edwards
Jeremy Edwards is a partner and the head of the Employee Benefits Group in Baker McKenzie’s London office. He advises on all aspects of employee share plans and employee taxation. Jeremy has over 20 years’ experience as a share plan lawyer and two years’ experience as a corporate lawyer. He is currently serving on the advisory panel of ProShare and is a regular speaker at share plan conferences held in the United Kingdom. Jeremy has substantial UK experience, including implementing plans for UK-listed companies and dealing with issues arising for UK-listed companies, including advising on executive remuneration developments, UK tax issues and the position on cessation of employment and dealing with share plans in the context of corporate transactions. Jeremy has extensive experience in connection with the implementation of share plans globally and working with multinational clients.
Jerzy Bombczyński
Jerzy Bombczyński
Jerzy Bombczyński is an advocate admitted to practice in Poland, a counsel and the head of the Financial Services Regulatory and Investment Funds practice at Baker McKenzie in Warsaw. Prior to joining the Firm, Jerzy worked at the leading Polish development institution and asset manager, where he held the position of manager of the Legal Office – Investments. Previously, he had been associated with another renowned global law firm and a Polish independent law firm where he worked as a counsel at the banking & finance practice focusing on regulatory matters. He graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 2012, also studying law at Stockholm University between 2011 and 2012. Jerzy completed postgraduate studies on the Warsaw School of Economics: Risk Management in Financial Institutions (2021) and Management of Corporate Restructuring (2020). He qualified as an advocate in 2016. Jerzy combines extensive experience in various areas of regulatory law such as CRR, BRRD, MIFID, SFDR and AIFMD-related matters, with a hands-on approach to advising on M&A transactions and effective risk management. He advises clients on regulatory matters, cross-border investments and finance transactions, restructuring projects, fund formation matters and international offerings of securities. He is also experienced in advising on resolution mechanisms, ESG regulations, as well as the operation and liquidation of investment funds and AIFMs.
Jessica Mutton
Jessica Mutton
Jessica Mutton's practice focuses on international trade, encompassing customs, tax evasion, sanctions and export controls, and anti-bribery. She joined Baker McKenzie from another global law firm in 2015. Jessica has knowledge of both the English common law and French civil law systems and has worked in London, Paris, Barcelona and Madrid. Jessica conducts training and presents at various seminars, webinars, and conferences on the complexities of international trade compliance. She is identified as a "rising star" by the Legal 500 and is recommended by the same body for her customs and Brexit work. Jessica's practice at Baker McKenzie focused on international trade work, encompassing Customs and Excise, Sanctions and Export Controls, Anti-Bribery and Corruption, Tax Evasion, and Product Regulation. Jessica specialises in Customs and her experience includes advising multinational companies on global supply chain issues including EU and UK tariff classification, origin, and customs valuation. She has run numerous multi-jurisdictional and complex valuation and transfer pricing projects, including liaising with counsel across the globe to provide consolidated, commercial and practical client-facing advice. Jessica has experience working with Customs authorities in various jurisdictions and she has prepared a range of applications and disclosures in a number of different countries. Jessica is praised by clients for being commercial and pragmatic, and regularly has to develop compliance strategies that take into consideration competing demands from the business. Jessica also advises clients in relation to the UK offence of Failure to Prevent the Facilitation of Tax Evasion, and helps clients conduct risk assessments to assess whether they meet legislative requirements in this respect. Jessica advises global clients across a number of sectors including consumer goods and retail, finance, pharmaceuticals, defence, aviation, energy, and telecommunications. She advises clients with complex and multi-jurisdictional supply chains.
Jessica Le Gros
Jessica Le Gros
Jessica Le Gros heads Baker McKenzie’s Trade Mark Registration practice in London. She has extensive experience in intellectual property enforcement, particularly in trade mark infringement and customs matters. For two years, she served as operations manager for Unilever’s global trade mark portfolio. Jessica is a member of the European Communities Trade Mark Association and a qualified solicitor in New Zealand. Jessica focuses her practice on global trade mark prosecution and advisory work for the Firm’s global and regional clients. She has particular experience implementing Baker McKenzie’s offshored portfolio management model, and refining innovative technological and process-based offerings to clients in the areas of clearance, filing acquisition and disposal of trade marks.
Jessica Eden
Jessica Eden
Jessica Eden is a partner in the London Tax Disputes team and the head of the London Tax Practice Group of Baker McKenzie. With over 15 years experience in all aspects of tax dispute resolution across a broad range of sectors, she is also a CEDR Accredited Mediator. Jessica concentrates her practice on corporate and international tax disputes. She advises on large-scale, complex enquiries, including within HMRC's High Risk Corporates Program. In addition to utilising ADR techniques to reach negotiated resolution with HMRC, Jessica act for clients in the Tax Tribunal and Appeal Courts at every level. She has experience defending clients' public law rights through Judicial Review claims in the Administrative Court and defending claims to legal professional privilege in the FTT. She also supports clients with dispute readiness, including preparation of legal defence files and dawn raid training. Jessica regularly acts for large multinationals in resolving transfer pricing and Diverted Profits Tax disputes and advises clients on debt financing enquiries.
Jingjin Guo
Jingjin Guo
Jingjin Guo is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Merger & Acquisitions and Banking & Finance practice groups in Switzerland. Jingjin is also actively involved in the Firm's EMEA-China initiative. He is also the general secretary of the Swiss-Chinese Chambers of Commerce in Geneva. Jingjin focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate matters and investments. He regularly advises multinational companies on cross-border reorganizations and restructurings. He is also experienced in multijurisdictional complex financing structuring, investments and financings, including creating and implementing complex securities interests, assets-backed financings and aircraft financings. In addition, Jingjin advises a great number of technology companies and groups, especially in connection with data centers and crypto-related companies in the fields of cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs), the metaverse and play-to-earn games.
Jo Hewitt
Jo Hewitt
Jo Hewitt is a partner in the Corporate Department in Baker McKenzie's London office. Jo has a particular focus on advising multinational groups on the structuring, implementation and management of complex corporate reorganisation projects including post-acquisition integrations, holding company restructurings and group rationalisations. She is part of a dedicated team in London focused on international reorganisations and business transformation projects. Jo's practice also encompasses company law and corporate governance advisory work for private companies, including assisting clients to embed good corporate governance policies and practices across their organisations. Jo was named "Best in Corporate Governance" at the Euromoney LMG Women in Business Law Awards 2019.
Joachim Ponseck
Joachim Ponseck
Joachim Ponseck has more than twelve years of work experience in restructuring and insolvency law. He started his career in the R&I team of a magic circle law firm where he held the position of counsel before joining Baker McKenzie as a partner in 2021. With a very international focus during his studies and his career, Joachim advises clients worldwide in relation to issues related to German and European insolvency law. Joachim advises companies, their creditors and the management in connection with all legal questions concerning companies in financial difficulties and insolvencies. He regularly advises insolvency administrators as well. Joachim has a special focus on insolvency litigation, meaning the enforcement of or the defense against insolvency related claims against the management of the insolvent entity and their creditors. He also advises sellers and buyers in Distressed M&A transactions.
Joachim Fröhlich
Joachim was admitted to the German bar in August 2005 and joined the Trade and Commerce Practice Group of Baker McKenzie in Munich, Germany in March 2007. He was seconded to the legal department of Siemens AG in 2009 and to the legal department of Amazon in 2013 and 2016. In 2010, he worked at Baker McKenzie’s office in Frankfurt. He earned a Master in Law at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, with an emphasis on commercial law in 2006. Joachim studied law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, from where he graduated in 2003. He routinely publishes on distribution law issues. Furthermore, he is a co-author of the legal commentary Flohr/Wauschkuhn on all aspects of distribution law published by the leading German legal publishing house C. H. Beck. Joachim advises clients on all aspects of commercial law, contract law and distribution law. He particularly drafts, advises on and negotiates commercial contracts, such as contracts with sales intermediaries (e.g. sales agents, distributors, franchisees), logistics services and transportation contracts, purchase, supply and services contracts and manufacturing agreements, often having cross-border implications. Joachim is also seasoned on German law on standard terms and conditions. Additionally, Joachim assists clients in the reorganization of their distribution system.
Joakim Falkner
Joakim Falkner
Joakim Falkner is based in Stockholm and is heading up Baker McKenzie’s Capital Markets Practice Group in Europe, Middle East and Africa. He is ranked as leading lawyer for capital markets by the leading legal directories. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie in 2012, he worked at another global law firm for six years in Stockholm and London. During the last six years (2016-2021), Baker McKenzie's Capital Markets Group in Stockholm has been ranked #1 in acting for investment banks in capital markets transactions (in terms of deal volume) and #1-3 in acting for issuers in capital markets transactions (in terms of deal volume). Mr. Falkner is qualified to practice in Sweden, England and Wales and has a U.S. LLM from Suffolk University in Boston, United States of America. Mr. Falkner practices mainly in the fields of equity capital markets and represents late-stage private and publicly traded companies, investment banks, investors, shareholders and sponsors in a wide range of transactions, including pre-IPO transactions, IPOs, public offerings, primary share issuances, preferential rights offering, sell-downs and public mergers and acquisitions.
Joanna Ludlam
Joanna Ludlam
Joanna Ludlam is co-chair of Baker McKenzie's Investigations, Compliance & Ethics practice. She has held this position since 2017, having previously led this group in the EMEA region. She is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution team in the London office, where she leads the Regulatory, Public & Media law team. Joanna has extensive experience in leading complex investigations and pioneering compliance initiatives. She advises clients, including the C-suite, on corporate criminal liability, regulatory compliance, and crisis and reputation management. She also prepares senior executives for appearances at public inquiries and Parliamentary Select Committee hearings. Her expertise in administrative and public law and public procurement law complements her investigations practice. Joanna co-authored the Firm's Connected Compliance thought leadership, which includes the world's first global compliance integration benchmarking tool. Joanna is also listed for Investigations in Who’s Who Legal and listed in Business Today’s Top Legal Eagles for Public Law. Joanna was the winner of the “Compliance Innovator of the Year for Connected Compliance” at the Women in Compliance Awards and the “Admin & Public UK Lawyer of the year” by ACQ5 in 2019. She was one of GIR's "Top 100 Women in Compliance” in 2018 and “Role Model in the HERoes Women Role Model Lists” in 2019. Joanna designed the Firm’s innovative Investigations Academy, a comprehensive, state-of-the-art training programme for investigations practitioners within the Firm’s team and clients. She is also a member of the leadership team for BakerWomen, a key Baker McKenzie D&I focus group. Joanna advises clients in the areas of administrative and public law, procurement law, litigation and investigations. She has particular experience in sectors including media, financial services, healthcare, technology, pharmaceuticals and medical devices, professional services, and consumer goods. Joanna handles all kinds of high court litigation as well as investigations, including into issues of bribery, corruption and fraud. She advises clients, frequently at board-level, on regulatory compliance and crisis and reputation management. Joanna focuses on bringing practical solutions to client issues, and designed the Firm’s innovative Investigations Academy, a comprehensive and state-of-the-art training programme for investigations practitioners within the Firm team and our clients'.
Joanne Redmond
Joanne Redmond
Jo is a senior associate in Baker McKenzie's Dispute Resolution team in London. Jo advises clients in a wide range of industries on complex commercial disputes and investigations. She also regularly provides specialist product safety and regulatory compliance advice and acts for clients in product liability disputes. One of Jo's other areas of specialism is advising clients on a wide range of regulatory, public and administrative law issues, including judicial review, consultations, freedom of information and public procurement. Jo's practice often involves drawing on crisis management experience to help clients protect their reputations and shareholder value when dealing with urgent, time pressured issues and/or intense public scrutiny. Jo was ranked as a Next Generation Lawyer in the Legal 500 Product liability: defendant category in 2017. Jo has participated in the UK Government's Working Group on product safety and recalls and has assisted with the development of the Government's training programme for Trading Standards Officers on the new UK Code of Practice for Product Recalls.
Joerg Risse
Joerg Risse is widely recognized as one of Germany's leading arbitration lawyers. Being double-qualified as an attorney-at-law in Germany and in New York (USA), he represents his clients in international arbitration proceedings under the rules of all major institutions. Joerg Risse is one of Germany's most-in-demand arbitrators; as a result, his clients also benefit from his judiciary "outlook" on a case. Joerg Risse teaches dispute resolution and advocacy skills at the University of Mannheim and at Humboldt-University, Berlin. Joerg Risse focuses on corporate law and post-merger & acquisition disputes, in particular on price adjustment claims, accounting and tax related disputes and reps & warranty claims. His second main area of practice are disputes related to large infrastructure projects such as power plants, airports, offshore wind farms and public transport projects. Most of his clients are companies form the chemical, automotive, medical and mass transport industry. Joerg Risse has special expertise in ADR proceedings where he advises his clients in settlement negotiations, mediation and adjudication proceedings.
Johanna Moesch (Mösch)
Johanna Moesch (Mösch)
Johanna Moesch is an associate in the Firm's IPTech and Compliance & Investigations Practice Groups in Zurich. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, she worked as an associate and senior associate in a major Zurich law firm and, prior to that, as a law clerk in a Swiss district court. She was also a tutor and student research assistant at the University of Basel in the fields of public and private law. Johanna obtained a LLM degree from the Tsinghua University (Beijing). She is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and has been a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) since January 2021. Johanna advises Swiss and international companies on all the legal aspects of IT, in particular, on data protection and telecommunications law, cybersecurity, and IT contracts. She has an additional focus on e-commerce and general contract law. Her practice covers for example advising companies on issues concerning domestic and cross-border data protection and technology law-related issues, as well as commercial law matters such as distribution, franchising, sponsoring and other agreements. She works for various industries, in particular, the technology, financial, healthcare, sports and consumer goods sectors.
Johannes Baumann
Johannes Baumann
Dr. Johannes Baumann is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Corporate/M&A Practice Group in Frankfurt. He has numerous years of experience in all areas of M&A transactions for both corporate and private equity clients. Prior to joining the Firm, Johannes worked for one of the leading German law firms. He has been appointed as a notary with his seat in Frankfurt am Main. Johannes advises on complex M&A transactions, including carve-outs and restructurings, as well as on corporate law, representing companies and private equity funds. One focus of his advice is on complex structural measures, including the preparation of capital, transformation and other structural measures as well as corporate governance issues and shareholder matters. The focus of his notarial practice are complex M&A and PE transactions as well as complex corporate measures.
John Groom
John Groom
John is a media and technology lawyer in Baker McKenzie's IP and Technology team. John's practice has three main strands: (1) copyright and digital media; (2) online and digital regulation; and (3) product counselling on new technologies. He is currently a partner in Baker McKenzie's London office, having spent 12 months in the San Francisco office in 2018. In 2020 he was elected to TechUK's Data Analytics and AI Leadership Committee. John's practice has three main strands: (1) copyright and digital media; (2) online and digital regulation; and (3) product counselling on new technologies. Most of his time is currently spent advising clients on: (1) Impact of the EU Digital Services Act and UK Online Safety Bill; (2) Generative AI, associated regulation and copyright issues; and (3) Metaverses and interactive content. John writes regularly on these topics and his chapter (with Ben Allgrove) “Enforcement in a digital context: intermediary liability” was published in Tanya Aplin (Ed.) Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Digital Technologies in January 2020. John has led complex copyright litigation in the Copyright Tribunal and in arbitration, as well as commercial litigation in the High Court. He has also assisted with copyright litigation at the Supreme Court and CJEU. In 2013 he went on a client secondment to a leading international internet services and online advertising company, advising on a range of brand protection, licensing and general commercial issues. In 2017 he completed a client secondment to a leading social media and advertising company, advising on a range of intellectual property, commercial and music licensing issues. John writes regularly on these topics and his chapter (with Ben Allgrove) “Enforcement in a digital context: intermediary liability” was published in Tanya Aplin (Ed.) Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Digital Technologies in January 2020. John is also heavily involved in the Firm’s tech-focused pro bono work, as well as its social mobility initiatives.
John McGovern
John McGovern
John is an associate in Baker McKenzie's Intellectual Property and Technology team, based in London. He joined the Firm in 2016 and was admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2018. He is also admitted as an attorney in the state of New York. His practice encompasses aspects of commercial, technology and intellectual property law. He has a particular focus on data protection. John advises on a range of UK and EU privacy law issues, including transparency and consent requirements, ePrivacy, data protection impact assessments and data subject rights. He has a particular interest in adtech and works regularly with advertisers, publishers and intermediaries. He has recently been helping clients to assess the data protection implications of Brexit, particularly in relation to international data transfers and determination of lead supervisory authority. Together with Baker McKenzie colleagues, he assists clients in understanding international privacy law developments, including the CCPA, for their European and global operations. John is also involved in negotiating a range of commercial agreements and advising on ecommerce and consumer law matters. He provides support with the commercial and technology aspects of large corporate transactions. He regularly acts for clients in the new media sector, including platforms, on privacy, consumer and intellectual property law matters. Recently, John has been assisting several clients in assessing the contractual and commercial law implications of proposals for new digital services taxes in various jurisdictions.
Jonas Benedictsson
Jonas Benedictsson is a senior counsel in the Dispute Resolution Practice Group in Stockholm. He is a member of the Steering Committee of Baker McKenzie’s International Commercial Arbitration Practice Group. He is the editor of several in-house publications, including Arbitration in Sweden and International Commercial Arbitration Directory. Mr. Benedictsson has also authored several articles for various publications, including The Tracing of Assets and the International Arbitration Checklist. Mr. Benedictsson focuses his practice in the areas of arbitration, litigation, alternative dispute resolution and insolvency. He has tried a wide range of cases in all major courts in Sweden. Mr. Benedictsson also handles numerous domestic arbitrations and is frequently appointed as an arbitrator in commercial disputes. He has been the lead counsel and advocate in more than 70 institutional and ad hoc arbitrations in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, UK, Austria and Hong Kong in disputes originating from more than 20 different jurisdictions including the PRC and various countries in the CIS. In addition, he has acted as co-counsel in a number of arbitration cases in various other parts of the world.
Jonathan Sharp
Jonathan Sharp
Jonathan is a partner in the Pensions Department and has over a decade's experience as a pensions lawyer. Jonathan joined Baker McKenzie in 2003 and he has spent three months in Baker McKenzie's Chicago office in their employee benefit department in 2008. Jonathan is a member of the Association of Pensions Lawyers, sits on the Legal Advisory Group of the Pensions & Lifetime Savings Association, and also the PASA (Pensions Administration Standards Association) DC governance working group. Jonathan has spoken at a number of conferences, including the Association of Pension Lawyers' summer conference, for the Pensions Management Institute, and the Association of Member Nominated Trustees. Jonathan advises companies and trustees in a variety of sectors on the legal aspects of operating pension plans. This includes establishing and amending pension schemes, investments, and resolving scheme members' complaints and Pensions Ombudsman disputes. He has a particular interest in the tax issues relating to pensions. Jonathan has undertaken a variety of projects for clients, including complex pension plan mergers, the set-up of asset backed funding arrangements, and entering into fiduciary management agreements. Another area of expertise is coordinating and advising on pensions in the context of multijurisdictional transactions.
Jonathan Peddie
Jonathan Peddie
Jonathan chairs the firm's Financial Institutions Global Industry Group and is a partner in the London Dispute Resolution practice. Jonathan has deep experience in advising boards, executive teams and individuals dealing with issues of market integrity, ethics, brand and reputation impact, conduct risk, whistleblowing, market misconduct, systems and controls failings and remediation, public statements and investor relations, financial crime, fraud, regulatory investigation and enforcement, public policy, public law and civil and criminal litigation. Jonathan's substantial in-house experience delivers a highly strategic and commercial focus aimed at re-establishing confidence in the brand and individuals. Jonathan joined Baker McKenzie from Barclays Bank PLC. Spanning a decade of unique pressure in the financial sector amidst the global financial crisis, he led the global litigation, investigations and enforcement function and established the bank's financial crime legal team. Jonathan was responsible for a series of high-profile regulatory and criminal investigations in EMEA, the US and Asia Pacific regions and led a significant portfolio of wholesale and retail litigation. Supporting the bank's risk and compliance functions, he implemented and improved systems and controls in respect of money laundering, bribery and corruption, fraud and international sanctions. Jonathan worked with UK and US law enforcement and government intelligence agencies on counter-terrorism, organised crime and other domestic and international security initiatives. Jonathan is the contributing author to a number of leading legal and sector publications, including: Banks and Financial Crime: International Law of Tainted Money (Oxford University Press 2008, 2016); Global Investigations Review - The Evolution of Risk Management in Global Investigations (GIR 2016, 2017, 2018); and Risk.net's annual Top 10 Operational Risks (2018-2022). In his current role, Jonathan handles high-profile litigation, investigations, regulatory enforcement and financial crime defence matters. He also advises on the consequences: governance and control spanning the legal, compliance, risk and audit worlds; designing and implementing risk management strategies and control frameworks; developing investigative capability to enable clients to deliver comprehensive, cost-effective and credible investigation and resolution, with the emphasis on effective risk reporting and strong regulatory engagement and investor/public relations. Jonathan has particular experience of working on matters involving the UK Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority, UK Serious Fraud Office, UK Crown Prosecution Service, UK Competition and Markets Authority, EU Competition Commission, Ofcom, New York Federal Reserve Bank, US Securities and Exchange Commission, US Department of Justice, FBI, Saudi Capital Markets Authority, Security and Futures Authority of Hong Kong and the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He has worked in close partnership with UK Government departments including Treasury, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Home Office, National Crime Agency, Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, Combined Security Services, and the Metropolitan and City of London Police Services. Jonathan was praised by Legal 500 UK Guide in the Regulatory Investigations & Corporate Crime category for his 'huge experience in the regulatory sector, coming in part from his previous senior legal role at a bank' and ‘…many years of senior banking experience means he has real-life experience of the matters on which he now advises clients – and it shows in his insights, his ability to ensure the right blend of strategic and tactical in the team’s focus, and the quality of his analysis of key issues and his advice. Add to this his tremendous empathy for clients, and impressive tenacity, and you have a “go to” guy for contentious regulatory matters.’
Joren Janseunne
Joren Jansseune is a partner in the Banking & Finance Practice Group in the Brussels office. He joined Baker McKenzie in 2012. Joren advises on a broad range of domestic and cross-border financing transactions, including syndicated lending, acquisition finance, real estate finance, trade and export finance, securitization, structured finance, financial restructuring, general financing operations and security interests.
Josh Boyden
Josh Boyden
Josh is a senior associate in Baker McKenzie's IP and Technology team based in London. He joined the Firm in 2016 and was admitted as a solicitor in England & Wales in 2018. Josh's practice encompasses a wide range of IP and technology related issues, with a particular focus on new tech regulation, copyright and digital media. Josh regularly advises clients on cutting-edge intermediary liability, UK and EU tech regulation, music and content licensing, product counsel, content moderation and artificial intelligence issues. Josh also advises on the IP aspects of M&A and broader commercial transactions, notably in the technology and copyright spheres, and has experience working on complex multijurisdictional copyright disputes.
József Vági
József Vági
Dr. József Vági is the local partner in Banking and Finance Practice Group. József joined Baker McKenzie's Banking and Finance Practice Group in 2006. He regularly advises on a range of transactional and regulatory financing matters, including project financings, syndications, acquisition financing, energy projects. He supports clients in all aspects of financing transactions, from origination and negotiation to documentation and closing and, when necessary, to enforcement of remedies, litigation or procedures and agreements for workout and reorganisation. He advises financial institutions in their various capacities in financing, capital markets, securitization and derivatives transactions and assists them in connection with regulatory laws (including outsourcing, bank secrecy, etc.).
Judith Mulholland
Judith Mulholland
Judith Mulholland is a Partner at the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution team based in London. Judith has considerable experience in international commercial arbitration, including ICC, LCIA, SCC, UNCITRAL and ad hoc arbitration under the Arbitration Act 1996, as well as ancillary and enforcement proceedings before the English Courts. Judith also regularly advises clients on complex and high-value litigation and other forms of Alternative Dispute Resolution. As a result of time spent on secondment to the global litigation team at an oil and gas major, Judith has particular expertise of disputes in the energy sector. She regularly advises on the interpretation of commercial contracts and the drafting of complex dispute resolution provisions and settlement agreements.
Jukka Karjalainen
Jukka Karjalainen
Jukka Karjalainen is a partner in the London Tax Department of Baker McKenzie and leads the Firm's EMEA transfer pricing practice. He has over 25 years of experience in dealing with transfer pricing and international corporate tax issues from both a private practice and an industry perspective. Jukka has specialised in transfer pricing throughout his career and has experience working in several jurisdictions, namely the UK, Finland and Australia. Jukka advises a variety of multinational clients from various industries on transfer pricing matters with specific focus on transfer pricing disputes, customs and transfer pricing overlap, supply chain restructurings and intangibles. His strongest focus areas in industries are TMT, pharma and EMI. Before joining Baker McKenzie, Jukka was a transfer pricing partner and the tax leader of the Business Model Optimisation service offering at a Big 4 accounting firm. Jukka has been listed amongst the leading practitioners in his field by the International Tax Review and the Legal Media Group's Expert Guides.
Julia Dickenson
Julia Dickenson
Julia is Of Counsel in the Intellectual Property department of Baker McKenzie London. She joined Baker McKenzie as a trainee in 2003. She qualified into the IP Group in March 2005, after completing a secondment in the IP Group at Baker McKenzie’s Sydney office. She specialises in brand advisory, litigation and enforcement and copyright advisory and litigation. She advises a variety of clients in the luxury and fashion, Consumer Goods & Retail, technology and digital industries on trade mark, design and copyright issues, and strategically advises on and runs litigation and enforcement matters both regionally and globally. She also regularly advises clients on platform liability and copyright in the digital space. Julia has acted for clients before the High Court, Court of Appeal, Supreme Court, CJEU and EPO on copyright, trade mark, design right and patent disputes.
Julia Gillert
Julia Gillert
Julia joined Baker McKenzie's London office as a trainee in 2005, qualifying in 2007, with a secondment to the Singapore office, and has shaped her practice to focus exclusively on regulatory matters affecting the Healthcare & Life Sciences industry. Julia is a key member of the Firm's Healthcare Practice Group, at the London, EMEA and global level. She advises both domestic and international companies in the medtech, pharma and healthcare sectors on a wide range of regulatory and general compliance matters including industry code compliance, interactions with healthcare professionals and patients, genetic testing, clinical research, virtual health, CQC registrations, market access, biological products, patient support programs, digital health applications, borderline products, pre-licence communications, CE marking, marketing authorisations. Julia sits on the Legal Committees of the Association of British HealthTech Industries and the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry, and is a spokesperson for the Firm on healthcare sector issues.
Julia Schieber
Julia Schieber
Julia is a partner in Baker McKenzie's IP and Technology team. She is specialized in IP transactional matters with a particular focus on the healthcare industry. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Julia worked for major law firms in Munich and New York City, and as a lecturer and research associate at the University of Konstanz. In 2018, she was seconded to Novartis. Julia has been ranked as a "rising star" for Life Sciences in Switzerland by Legal 500, and for Intellectual Property by Managing IP. Client's describe Julia as "truly outstanding" with "excellence in contracting and negotiating complex licensing contracts with strong and complex IP topics" (Legal 500). Julia is heavily involved in the Firm's children's rights pro bono work. Julia has vast experience in all aspects of intellectual property law with a particular focus on technology related matters. As part of the global IP and Technology team, she assists clients in complex IP transactions involving the development, exploitation and transfer of intellectual property rights. Julia advises on a broad range of IP, commercial and corporate agreements such as collaboration agreements, licensing agreements, R&D agreements, asset deals, settlement agreements and a variety of technology transfer issues. She has vast experience in advising clients in the Life Sciences and IT sectors.
Julia Hemmings
Julia Hemmings
Julia Hemmings is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s technology team based in London. Together with Helen Brown (they work in a job-share), Julia leads the Digital Commerce, Advertising and Marketing practice. Julia joined the Firm in 2001 and also worked in the Sydney office from March 2006 to March 2008. Julia was promoted to partner in 2019. Julia advises on a broad range of matters including consumer protection compliance, e-commerce and platform regulation issues with a focus on consumer transactions, particularly in the retail sector and on the technology side of fast-moving consumer products.
Julia Wilson
Julia Wilson
Julia Wilson is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Employment & Compensation team in London and co-chair of the Firm's Workforce Redesign client solution. Julia also leads the employment data privacy practice in London. Julia advises multinational organisations on a wide range of employment and data protection matters. She is highly regarded by clients, who describe her as a “standout” performer who "knows how we think." A member of the Firm's Pro Bono Committee, she plays a lead role in the Firm's pro bono relationship with Save the Children International. She also collaborates with Law Works to deliver employment law training to solicitors who provide pro bono advice to individuals. Julia regularly presents and moderates panels on podcasts, webinars and in-person events, is often quoted in mainstream media, and authors articles and precedents for a range of industry and other publications. Julia focuses on supporting employers with multi-jurisdictional and high-value matters involving strategic, operational, financial or reputational risk. In particular, she assists with designing workforce models, advising on regulatory frameworks governing non-traditional workforce engagement and on the implementation of organisational change and restructuring. Julia advises multinational corporations around the use of responsible AI, including the legal frameworks, AI ethics and governance, bias, and generative AI. Julia also advises on workplace data protection and compliance, complex employment litigation, global projects and transactions.
Julie Permeke
Julie Permeke
Julie Permeke is a partner in the Tax Practice Group of the Brussels office. She joined Baker McKenzie in 2016 after several years of experience as a tax lawyer in other well-reputed Benelux law firms. She also works as a voluntary researcher in the tax department of the Free University of Brussels. Julie has been listed as a recommended tax lawyer in the Legal 500. Julie has 10 years of extensive experience in tax controversy and tax advisory work. She has significant experience in complex procedural and dispute resolution tax matters, and represents clients at every stage of a tax dispute (e.g., assisting during tax audits, negotiating settlements, filing tax complaints and representing before the tax courts). She assists clients facing complex national or multijurisdictional tax audits and helps clients to deal with (or preparing for) tax dawn raids (including e-discovery matters). Julie also has extensive experience in national and international tax planning. She developed particular expertise in the field of wealth management, assisting financial intermediaries and high-net-worth individuals on personal tax planning and management of estates. In this context, she has also assisted many high-net-worth individuals with migrations from and to Belgium.
Juliusz Krzyżanowski
Juliusz Krzyżanowski
Juliusz Krzyżanowski is a counsel in Baker McKenzie's Warsaw office and a member of the Life Sciences group. He has over seven years' experience advising Polish and foreign companies operating in the healthcare sector. Prior to joining the Firm, he was the advisor to the Polish Minister of Health. He also co-headed the life sciences practice in a large law firm and practiced in various international law firms. Juliusz often participates as a speaker in various conferences and is an author of a number of publications. Juliusz has a broad experience advising on pharmaceutical, medical and food law. He advises pharmaceutical, medical devices and dietary supplements companies, pharmaceutical wholesale distributors, pharmacy chains, medical services providers and private equity investors on advertising, clinical trials, distribution, manufacturing registration and reimbursement matters. He also advises on investments in healthcare and has experience in compliance projects for pharmaceutical and medical devices companies. Juliusz represents pharmaceutical wholesalers and pharmacy chains before the main pharmaceutical inspector and regularly works with key industry organizations involved in legislation processes.
Justin Hutchinson
Justin Hutchinson
Justin Hutchinson is a partner in the Firm's London office and a member of the Private Equity & Funds group. Prior to joining the Firm in 2019, Justin was a partner in the London office of another leading international law firm. Justin is an experienced cross-border transactional lawyer, having acted throughout his career for financial sponsors and their portfolio companies on a broad range of control and minority investments, leveraged buyouts, management equity arrangements and disposals. Justin’s client base includes growth, mid- and large-cap private equity and other financial sponsors and their portfolio companies.
Justin Salkeld
Justin Salkeld
Justin is a partner at Baker McKenzie and has significant experience in various aspects of real estate law, his focus lays on matters concerning operational and investment real estate assets, including planning, acquisition and disposal, development, structuring, leasing and financing and joint ventures. He regularly advises banks and borrowers on financing investment and development real estate. Justin also acts for a number of investors and operators in connection with the acquisition, development, operation and disposal of hotel assets.
Justyna Glinka
Justyna Glinka
Justyna Glinka is an associate in the Warsaw Real Estate & Construction team. Before joining Baker McKenzie’s Warsaw office in June 2021, she worked at a renowned law firm in Warsaw for four years. She is a Polish qualified lawyer (legal counsel) admitted to the Warsaw Bar Association. Justyna Glinka has a considerable work experience in the area of real estate transactions (both share and asset deals) concerning office, warehouse and retail investments located in Poland. She provided comprehensive legal advice to domestic and international investors and financing institutions. Her expertise focuses on all aspects of real estate law from the initial due diligence analysis to post completion stages.
Kamil Matyśkiewicz
Kamil Matyśkiewicz
Kamil Matyśkiewicz is a legal counsel and associate in the Warsaw Real Estate & Construction team. He has over eight years of experience and specializes in real estate law, in particular in real estate transactions, including site acquisition and disposal, construction, as well as the development and commercialization of office and retail investments in Poland. He has handled transactions involving the acquisition of many pieces of real estate with different characteristics, located in different parts of the country. As a Polish qualified lawyer, Kamil regularly provides complex advice on real estate issues to international companies from various sectors that have acquired or wish to acquire real estate in Poland. He also has considerable experience in providing legal advice and handling investments involving construction, whether in the preparation of contracts between the investor and contractors, or in representing the investor in administrative proceedings. He also has considerable experience in assisting clients in the due diligence process at all stages of the investment, both before the commencement of the construction process, during it, and after its completion, in the case of real estate and buildings already in use.
Karen Guch
Karen Guch
Karen joined Baker McKenzie's Kuala Lumpur office in 1998 and has been a partner in the Firm's London office since 2007. She is the global chair of Private Equity, having previously served as EMEA chair of Private Equity. She is also a member of the London Management Committee. Karen is focused on leveraged buyouts, investments, acquisitions, disposals and carve outs for UK and international private equity clients. A large proportion of Karen's work is in relation to cross border or multicountry transactions.
Karol Czepukojć
Karol Czepukojć
Karol Czepukojć co-heads the Restructuring & Insolvency practice group in Warsaw and also serves as a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions, Dispute Resolution and Arbitration practice groups. He holds an Attorney-at-law's qualification and Restructuring adviser's license. Karol joined Baker McKenzie in August 2020. Before joining the Firm, he was associated with a renowned domestic law firm, Wardyński & Partners, for 13 years. Karol speaks at conferences, trainings and webinars on international and local court restructuring and insolvency matters. He has authored or co-authored a number of publications related to his field. He is also a member of well-known international and local associations of restructuring and insolvency practitioners, and is actively engaged in pro bono activities. Karol focuses mainly on cross-border and local court restructuring and insolvency matters, as well as on debt recoveries and commercial contracts. He advises all stakeholders, in particular debtors, creditors, security agents, insolvency practitioners and investors in distressed assets. Karol's assistance includes: directors' duties on insolvency court restructuring and insolvency strategies, including evaluation of security packages loan-to-own strategies and other distressed M&A transactions drafting, mitigating of insolvency risk and negotiating of commercial contracts, in particular in the context of supply chains and transactions all debt recovery strategies, especially enforcement of security packages and asset tracing
Katarzyna Grodziewicz
Katarzyna Grodziewicz
Katarzyna Grodziewicz is an attorney-at-law admitted to practice in Poland, a counsel in the capital markets practice at Baker McKenzie in Warsaw. She graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Gdańsk in 2010 and the Faculty of Economics of the University of Gdańsk in 2009 (with honors) and qualified as an attorney-at-law at the Warsaw Bar Association (with honors) in 2015. She is a graduate of Chicago-Kent College of Law, where she obtained an LL.M. in 2010 (with honors). In 2014, she also completed a postgraduate studies in intellectual property law at the Jagiellonian University. Prior to joining the Firm in May 2022, Katarzyna cooperated with another two renowned global law firms for over a decade. In 2020 Katarzyna was selected to the panel of international experts of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) as the only representative from Poland. Katarzyna focuses her practice on corporate and commercial law, with an emphasis on securities law and M&A transactions, as well as on corporate governance issues for clients from various sectors, including IT, banking and finance and energy. She has advised on Polish and EU law issues in a number of public issuances of shares and in public and non-public issuances of debt securities of Polish and foreign issuers. She has extensive experience in acting as a key lawyer in international teams of lawyers, providing legal advice to companies, financial institutions, selling shareholders, financial sponsors, strategic investors and investment banks in numerous international and domestic, initial and secondary, public and private equity offerings and M&A transactions.
Katarzyna Kopczewska
Katarzyna Kopczewska
Katarzyna Kopczewska heads the tax law practice at the Warsaw office of Baker McKenzie. She is an experienced tax advisor whose passion is providing comprehensive support to clients on tax-related issues. For over 20 years, she has worked at renowned consulting firms, gaining knowledge and experience in various areas of tax advisory. Her skills include: Strategic tax advisory and modeling: She helps clients achieve tax efficiency within the framework of current regulations Transactions and restructuring: She advises on the tax aspects of mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and other transactions International tax law: She is experienced in working with businesses operating in a wide range of international markets, which has allowed her to accumulate extensive knowledge and skills in dealing with issues related to global tax regulations Due diligence: She conducts tax analyses before transactions to identify potential risks and benefits Tax proceedings: She represents clients in tax proceedings before tax authorities and administrative courts, helping clients resolve disputes related to interpretations of tax law. She is active in the legal community, sharing her knowledge at conferences and in articles. Her flexibility, commitment and strategic thinking make her a valued professional in the tax field. Katarzyna is experienced in tax support for clients in the real estate sector (Polish and international investment funds, developers and construction companies), as well as entities in the technology sector. Drawing upon her experience as a lawyer at the Ministry of State Treasury, where she participated in privatizing major state-owned enterprises, she combines civil, corporate and commercial law with tax experience to offer complete solutions for clients. Her extensive tax and legal background, combined with sector-specific knowledge, enables her to provide comprehensive and pragmatic advisory services in transaction structuring, tax planning, tax disputes, transfer pricing and sector-specific VAT issues. Clients appreciate her interdisciplinary knowledge, excellent understanding of the real estate market and pragmatic solutions to tax problems, making her a valuable advisor in complex transactions.
Katarzyna Tobiasz-Dumania
Katarzyna Tobiasz-Dumania is an associate in the IP/IT department of Baker McKenzie Warsaw. She practices law in the field of industrial property since 1999. Before joining Baker McKenzie, Katarzyna worked for a law firm focused on trademark litigation and unfair competition and had her own practice as a patent attorney. Katarzyna Tobiasz-Dumania has experience in IP prosecution and litigation. Katarzyna is a Polish and European Patent Attorney and is also authorized to represent Clients before EUIPO and WIPO. Katarzyna Tobiasz-Dumania is experienced in IP-related litigation (trademarks, designs, patents, unfair competition). She also represents clients in prosecution and cancellation matters and advises on various IP-related aspects of their businesses. She represents clients from various industries (FMCG, pharma, media).
Kate Corby
Kate Corby
Kate Corby is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Dispute Resolution team in London. Kate has over two decades' experience of representing clients in complex litigation and arbitration, with a focus on arbitration of construction, engineering and infrastructure related disputes. She has handled arbitrations under the rules of all of the major arbitral institutions and ad hoc, seated in London and around the world and under a wide range of governing laws. Kate also has significant experience in advising on product liability, safety and regulatory compliance. Kate co-leads the firm's Industrials, Manufacturing and Transportation Industry Group in EMEA. Kate is also well-known for her inclusion, diversity & equity work, particularly for organising the London chapter of #Arbitration Lunch Match, sitting on the Global Executive Committee of the Equal Representation of Experts Pledge, and she is co-chair of the London office's BakerWomen Affinity Group. Kate is ranked as a Leading Individual in Legal 500 UK in both her practice areas in which she is described as “hugely impressive, extremely bright and on-the-ball, and has a deep understanding of the client’s needs and what really matters on the case. Kate acts for employers, main contractors, sub-contractors and joint venture partners from across the world in disputes concerning issues such as project delays, cost overruns and defective work, most of which involve arbitration. She has been involved in disputes arising out of projects from Kazakhstan in the East to Panama in the West, but in recent years has had a particular focus on projects in the Middle East. Kate is also active in advising clients on project and contract management and dispute avoidance. In addition, Kate has particular experience in advising on and coordinating large multijurisdictional product recalls as well as providing product liability, safety and regulatory compliance advice across a wide variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals and healthcare, electronics and consumer goods. She is recognised as an expert in this field at governmental level, having been invited by the UK government to be part of a steering group making recommendations about consumer product recall processes and took a leading role in preparation of the BSI Code of Practice.
Kate Alexander
Kate Alexander
Kate is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Corporate Tax Department in London and is Chair of our Global Technology, Media & Telecoms Industry Group. Kate is a solicitor, chartered accountant and chartered tax adviser with over 25 years' experience advising clients on their tax matters. Prior to joining the Firm, she spent seven years as a partner at a Big Four accounting firm. Kate has particular expertise in advising technology companies in relation to all aspects of their cross-border tax structuring. She regularly assists multinational companies with the design of their global holding, financing, intellectual property and supply chain structures. She has worked closely with many clients on strategic projects in this space helping them navigate the complexity of applying different tax regimes across the world. Kate has been heavily involved in the OECD Base Erosion Profit Shifting initiative and the proposals for Taxation of the Digital Economy, assisting clients to determine the potential implications for their businesses. She is an expert in the UK's digital service tax and has helped many clients determine the practical implications of the new law. Kate frequently helps clients to resolve on-going controversies with HM Revenue and Customs and has acted on some of the largest settlement negotiations in recent years concerning UK diverted profits tax. She is experienced with both Alternative Dispute Resolution and the High Risk Corporates Programme. Kate has also appeared as an expert witness in an arbitration matter heard by the World Bank International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes. She is a regular speaker on international tax issues and co-author of the Controlled Foreign Companies Handbook: A Practical Guide to Part 9A TIOPA 2010.
Kate Geale
Kate Geale
Kate is an associate in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution team in London. Kate has recently been seconded to one of the Firm's PLC clients. Kate sat within the organisation's Ethics & Compliance team, working directly for the Head of Ethics & Compliance, advising on matters relating to anti-bribery and corruption, financial crime and data protection. During her training contract, Kate spent six months on a client secondment to Shell International Limited, sitting within its Intellectual Property department. Kate spent a further three months on secondment in the Dispute Resolution department of the Firm's Singapore office, primarily advising clients in respect of arbitrations in the Asia-Pacific region.
Katharina Spenner
Katharina Spenner
Katharina Spenner is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Munich office and a member of the Firm's Steering Committee of the EMEA International Commercial & Trade Practice Group. She joined the Firm's Frankfurt office in 2000 and transferred to the Munich office in 2004. She was seconded to the Amsterdam office for eight months in 2003. Katharina previously worked as a freelancer in the legal department of Lufthansa Cargo AG from 1997 to 1999. She has written several commentaries on competition and distribution law and regularly delivers presentations and workshops on topics related to distribution and competition law. Katharina advises clients engaged in all industries and services on all issues related to commercial law, in particular, national, European and international distribution law and competition law. She is specialized in assisting clients as regards the set up and implementation of their distribution systems in particular selective distribution systems, and advises in relation to internet sales activities. She also provides advice to companies with respect to general contract law and compliance issues including the performance of compliance trainings and audits.
Katharina Stüber
Dr. Katharina Stüber is a lawyer and holds a degree in business administration. She is a partner in the German Corporate Practice Group in Baker McKenzie's Frankfurt office and advises on stock corporation and capital markets law. The focus of her work is advising listed companies on stock corporation and group law, including corporate governance, as well as capital market law, in particular on publication obligations as a consequence of the stock exchange listing. She is the author of various publications on stock corporation and capital market law, in particular on the statutory quota for women and market abuse law. Katharina has been awarded by Handelsblatt, Gemany's best lawyers, Wirtschaftswoche and Legal 500 with "Name of Next Generation" quoted with, 'Brilliant lawyer, not only in terms of her legal expertise, but also because of her pragmatic approach to proposing solutions. Always "on the ball" with upcoming legislative projects, regardless of the stage the project is at. She is well networked with the associations and institutions and, despite a very heavy workload, has an open ear for issues that need to be resolved at short notice within the company and never gives the impression that the call is a nuisance. It goes without saying that agreed deadlines are kept. Throughout the year it is a great pleasure to work with her.' Katharina regularly gives lectures at the Deutsches Aktieninstitut, Deutscher Investor Relations Verband, Deutsche Börse AG, WM Seminare, University of Augsburg, Bucerius Law School Hamburg, etc. Dr. Katharina Stüber advises listed companies on German and European stock corporation and capital markets law. This includes advising on issues relating to the rights and duties of management and supervisory boards, corporate governance, group law, market abuse and transparency law. She also regularly accompanies critical general meetings and advises in the context of public takeovers. One focus of her work is insider law. Clients include listed companies, in particular in the pharmaceutical, chemical, industrial and financial services sectors.In the attempted public takeover by Hellmann Friedmann and Blackstone of Scout24 AG, Katharina Stüber advised the target company, as well as on the various measures of capital repayment to shareholders of Scout24 AG and its change of legal form into an SE. Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA on the contemplated acquisition of Akorn Inc. listed in the USA.
Katja Häferer
Katja Häferer is a partner with more than 15 years of experience in labor and employment law. She co-heads the German Employment & Compensation practice and is an active member of the Firm's European Labor Law and Global Labor Law practice groups. Recognized as a Stand-out Legal Talent by Acritas in 2021 and listed among Wirtschaftswoche’s most renowned employment law practitioners from 2021 to 2024, Katja’s experience is well-regarded in the legal community. Her international perspective is enriched by her tenure in the Firm’s San Francisco and Palo Alto offices. Katja also co-leads Baker McKenzie's FeMale Leaders Initiative, promoting diversity and leadership opportunities for women in the legal sector and business community. A regular speaker and panel moderator at conferences, she conducts training on a variety of employment topics and frequently publishes in law journals, legal commentaries, and business newspapers. Katja provides strategic and comprehensive employment advice on domestic and multi-jurisdictional projects, including pre- and post-merger corporate restructurings, collective dismissals, negotiations with works councils and unions, cross-border secondments, global equity plans, and gender pay audits. She supports several multinational clients in the management of their global workforce regarding, addressing global working conditions, cross-border personnel deployment, and global HR compliance matters. Katja often leads multi-jurisdictional employment projects. Katja has extensive experience advising companies on employee representation in Societas Europaea (SE) supervisory boards and works councils, as well as European Works Councils (EWCs). She also provides strategic guidance on navigating the complex process of transforming into a Societas Europaea (SE). Katja authored a legal commentary on German SE-legislation “SEBG,” published in “AR - Kommentar, Kommentar zum gesamten Arbeitsrecht” (2021). She is also an experienced litigator in complex employment and SE law matters, including cases before the Federal Labor Court (BAG) and the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Katja's client base ranges from Germany- and EMEA-headquartered clients with global operations to local subsidiaries of multinationals.
Kim Stas
Kim Stas is a counsel in the Corporate Finance Practice of the Brussels office. She joined Baker McKenzie in 2008 after several years of experience in another international law firm. Kim advises clients on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate reorganizations as well as corporate governance and compliance.
Kim Sartin
Kim Sartin
Kim advises on a wide range of employment issues with a particular focus on the global HR aspects of transactions (carve outs, M&A, outsourcing), global projects and strategic cross border matters, complex and high value employment litigation, collective rights and the employment aspects of investigations.
Kimberley Fischer
Kimberley Fischer
Kimberley Fischer is a member of the international trade practice in Baker McKenzie's Berlin office. She joined the Firm in 2022. Kimberley studied law at the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg and the Universidad de Deusto (Spain), specializing in public international law and human rights. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Kimberley completed her legal traineeship at the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main, the German Federal Foreign Office in Berlin and at an international law firm in Brussels and Frankfurt am Main. She also gained significant experience in public (international) law as a research assistant at the University of Heidelberg and at a reputable law firm. Kimberley focuses on international, European and public law governing international trade compliance and sustainability. She advises clients on internal compliance systems, sanctions and embargo regimes, export control law and foreign investment reviews. She accompanies internal and external investigations and self-disclosures of export control and sanctions breaches. In addition, she assists clients in complying with the rapidly evolving EU and German legal landscape on sustainability, in particular the new directives and regulations under the EU Green Deal and the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act. This includes setting up and improving corporate governance structures and internal compliance programs with regard to environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters.
Kirsty Wilson
Kirsty Wilson
Kirsty Wilson is a corporate lawyer who specialises in corporate reorganisations and post-acquisition integrations. She is partner in Baker McKenzie's London office and is a member of Baker McKenzie's Executive Committee. She is ranked by Legal 500 as a Leading Individual for International Business Reorganisations and is head of the Firm's Global Reorganisations Practice Group. Kirsty joined Baker McKenzie in 1992 and she worked in the Firm’s Palo Alto office between 1996 and 1998. Kirsty Wilson helps clients, mostly multinational companies, structure, implement and manage cross-border reorganisations, including post acquisition integrations, carve-outs and supply chain restructurings in ways that meet business objectives while ensuring compliance with local and international legal requirements.
Koen Vanhaerents
Koen Vanhaerents
Koen Vanhaerents is a partner in corporate finance in the Brussels office. Koen joined Baker McKenzie in 1987. He advises Belgian and foreign clients on a wide range of corporate finance operations (both public and private) and complex corporate law issues. He is closely involved in numerous operations and take-overs on the Belgian capital markets, private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions. From October 2009 to October 2014, Koen was a member of the Executive Committee of Baker McKenzie and Chairman of the EMEA Region of the Firm. From October 2014 to July 2020, he was Head of Global Capital Markets. Koen advises Belgian and foreign clients on a wide range of corporate finance operations (both public and private) and complex corporate law issues. He is also closely involved in numerous operations and takeovers on the Belgian capital markets, private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions.
Kristoff Cox
Kristoff Cox
Kristoff Cox is a senior associate in the Corporate Finance Practice Group in the Brussels office. He joined Baker McKenzie in 2014. Kristoff advises clients in the field of corporate finance, covering (public and private) mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions and capital market transactions. He also advises clients on corporate compliance and corporate governance matters.
Kseniia Prokhur
Kseniia Prokhur
Kseniia Prokhur is a counsel in Baker McKenzie's Dispute Resolution Practice Group in Kyiv. In addition to her professional activity, Kseniia delivers lectures on procedural law at the National University of Kyiv Mohyla Academy and the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv. Kseniia represents and advises clients in various types of commercial, corporate and employment litigation in Ukraine, and has significant experience in enforcing the awards of the most prominent international arbitration institutions. Kseniia specifically focuses on challenging the acts of the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine and advises clients on all related legal aspects.
Kurt Haegeman
Kurt Haegeman
Kurt Haegeman is a partner in Baker McKenzie's EU Competition & Regulatory Affairs Practice in Brussels and co-Managing Partner of the Firm's Belgian offices. Kurt has extensive experience in advising consumer goods, luxury & fashion and cosmetics clients, and clients from other industry sectors, on complex multi-jurisdictional antitrust matters, including antitrust investigations focusing on horizontal and vertical conduct, dawn raid defence and leniency strategy. Kurt's team has a particularly strong track record in developing successful defense strategies for clients that are involved in antitrust investigations. Kurt assists consumer goods, luxury & fashion and cosmetics clients regularly in the development, roll-out and policing of Europe-wide distribution systems, and he has particular expertise in advising on selective distribution and ecommerce management. Kurt has been at the forefront of Baker McKenzie's efforts to support CG&R clients in their response to some of the most prominent challenges in today's marketplace, including the acceleration of digitisation, the shifting consumer attitudes towards ESG and the increasing regulations on supply chain transparency.
Lamyaa Gadelhak
Lamyaa Gadelhak
Lamyaa Gadelhak is a Partner at Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo, where she co-heads the Banking & Projects Practice Group.
Lauren Awoyinka
Lauren Awoyinka
Lauren Awoyinka is a senior associate in the Pensions Department of the London office. Lauren joined Baker McKenzie as a trainee in March 2011 and qualified into the Pensions Department in March 2013. Lauren also acts for a number of the Firm's clients on a pro bono basis, including Save the Children and Mencap. She is a member of the Association of Pensions Lawyers. Lauren advises both companies and trustees on all aspects of UK pensions law for contentious and non-contentious matters across multiple industries. This includes advising on liability management exercises, merging schemes, amending schemes to respond to legal developments and pensions aspects of corporate restructurings and acquisitions.
Laurent Fessmann
Laurent Fessmann is a Banking & Finance partner specializing in the formation and structuring of Luxembourg investment funds. He is a former managing partner of the Luxembourg office and the current co-chairman of the Baker McKenzie's Global Funds Steering Committee. He started his career in 1996 as in-house counsel in a French CAC40-listed company where he worked intensively on LBO transactions, capital markets and corporate law matters. Mr. Fessmann joined a Luxembourg business law firm where he became a partner prior to founding his own law firm in 2009. He contributes time and knowledge in several market participant industry associations in particular as co-chairman of the ABBL/ALFI depositary forum working groups, the European Public Real Estate Association, the Luxembourg Private Equity Association and the Association of Global Custodians. He is also a regulator at fund conferences such as ALFI, IBCI and regularly invited to speak on internal or bank seminars. Mr. Fessmann has 25 years’ experience in business law highlighted by significant experience in fund structuring and asset management including formation and ongoing assistance of investment funds in a variety of asset classes (real estate, private equity, loan funds and infrastructure funds ). He advises asset managers and global custodians on regulatory and custody law issues and acts for them in the creation of asset management companies and regulated entities active in the financial sector. He also provides fund raising solutions in the securitization business and the debt capital markets.
Lina Nemchenko
Lina Nemchenko
Lina Nemchenko is partner in Baker McKenzie's Real Estate Practice Group and she is head of the Kyiv Employment & Migration practice and member of the EMEA Real Estate Steering Committee of the Firm. Lina was named "Best in Real Estate" by European Women in Business Law Awards twice, and she is the only Ukrainian lawyer to ever receive this accolade. Lina has extensive experience in advising both domestic and foreign clients on a wide range of real estate and construction matters, including advising on structuring major office and shopping center acquisitions, property development projects and various land-related transactions. She also has extensive expertise in landlord-tenant relations and in advising a number of the Firm's clients on setting up real estate investment funds for investing in Ukrainian real estate. She also regularly advises clients on data protection and general labor law. Among the large international companies Lina represents are McDonald's, Boeing, Oracle, Billa Ukraine (REWE Group), IKEA, ArcelorMittal and she also advises the governments of Canada, the US and the UK. Lina is also involved in legislation drafting in the real estate and employment areas.
Linnea Back
Linnea Back is a member of Baker McKenzie’s Tax Practice Group in Stockholm. Her main practice area is tax reorganization for national and international company groups, as well as for small or medium-sized corporations managed by their owners. Linnea also advises companies in connection with tax litigation processes. She is recognized as Leading Individual for Tax in Legal 500 2021. Linnea is a frequent speaker on seminars regarding tax news and restructuring issues. Linnea advises corporations in relation to the tax aspects of restructuring and reorganization. She has handled tax matters involving listing companies on the stock exchange, advised in relation to the establishment of business in Sweden and on mergers. She also advises on the tax treatment of various incentive programs.
Lionel Van Reet
Lionel joined Baker McKenzie as customs lead in February 2022. He has over 23 years of experience in the field of customs, international trade, excises and energy levy. Lionel is lecturer at the UIA (Antwerp) and ULG (Liege). He is in charge of the customs, excises and international trade course at the Solvay Tax MBA. In 2023, Lionel was appointed by the Global ICC board as Chair of the ICC Global Customs Valuation Working Group. Lionel is also chairing the Indirect Taxes subcommittee of AMCHAM BE. Lionel's Indirect Tax practice team has been recognized as Tier 1 Indirect Tax Team in Belgium by ITR World Tax. Lionel focuses mainly on Trade & Customs transformation initiatives, Trade & Customs essentials, Trade & Customs processes optimization, Trade & Customs Strategy & Governance and Trade & Customs compliance. He has extensive knowledge and experience in the field of export control and sanctions, and in assisting companies in reviewing and managing their export control compliance monitoring system. Lionel furthermore has comprehensive knowledge of trade management, compliance and risk technical solutions (e.g., SAP GTS, MIC, Oracle GTM, Conex, Descartes, Streamsoftware, etc.). Over the course of his career, Lionel has also been heavily involved in the Trade aspects and impacts of the implementation of several trade-related legislations: REACH, CITES, Green Deal (inc. CBAM,..) in the EMEA region.
Lorenzo De Martinis
Lorenzo De Martinis
Lorenzo de Martinis is a partner and coordinator of the Dispute Resolution Practice Group of Baker McKenzie Italian Offices (Rome and Milan). Lorenzo and his team are top ranked and highly recommended in the main international legal directories such as Chambers and The Legal 500. Lorenzo specializes in technology disputes and trade secrets litigation. From 2001 he is professor from practice at MBA programs of the University of Bologna and Bocconi University of Milan.
Luc Meeus
Luc Meeus
Luc Meeus is a partner in the Tax and Corporate Finance practice groups and the global equity service line in the Brussels office. He joined Baker McKenzie in 1997. Luc has been mentioned consistently as a recommended tax lawyer in the European Legal 500 and other legal publications. Luc advises on the corporate and tax aspects of transactional work, with a specific focus on private equity, fund structuring and equity-based compensation plans. He focuses on fund structuring, private equity, equity-based compensation and transactional tax planning.
Luka Lightfoot
Luka Lightfoot
Luka trained and qualified at another major international law firm before joining Baker McKenzie in September 2009. Luka advises lenders, sponsors, borrowers and ECAs on a wide variety of international and emerging markets financing transactions and restructurings. He is primarily involved in cross-border Export and Project Finance, Structured Trade Finance, Syndicated Lending and Restructurings.
Lukas Feiler
Lukas Feiler
Dr. Lukas Feiler, SSCP, CIPP/E, is specialized in technology litigations, focusing on regulatory and civil disputes in the areas of data protection, AI, and platform regulation. Building on his litigation expertise, Lukas advises clients on strategic compliance issues in the areas of cyber security, data protection, and AI. He heads the Firm’s Commercial, Data, IPTech and Trade practice in Vienna. Lukas also leads the AI Desk in Vienna and is a member of the Firm’s EMEA Data Privacy & Security leadership team. Lukas regularly represents clients before the Austrian Supreme Court, the Austrian Administrative Supreme Court, the European Commission, and the EU’s General Court and the CJEU. Lukas has published best-selling books on data protection, AI, and cybersecurity law. He also holds teaching positions for data protection law and AI law at the University of Vienna and the Sigmund Freud University Vienna. Before his legal career, he worked as a software developer and system administrator in New York, Vienna, and Leeds and holds a certification as a Systems Security Certified Practitioner. Lukas’ practice is focused on representing clients in complex regulatory and civil technology litigations in the areas of data protection, AI, and platform regulation and regularly handles high-profile cases for market-leading technology companies. In particular, he has represented clients from various industries in more than 25 high-profile litigations against the data protection activist Max Schrems and his NGO noyb. Lukas is also known in the market as a strategic advisor in the areas of data protection, AI, cyber security, and digital copyright.
Lukas Glanzmann
Lukas Glanzmann
Prof. Lukas Glanzmann is a member of the Management Committee of Baker McKenzie Switzerland. He is ranked among the leading lawyers in his areas of practice by various publications, including Chambers. Lukas Glanzmann graduated from the University of St. Gallen law school and obtained a doctoral degree in the field of corporate law from the University of St. Gallen and a LL.M. degree from Harvard Law School. In 2006, Lukas Glanzmann finished his habilitation and today, he holds the position of a titular professor of business law at the University of St. Gallen. Lukas Glanzmann has published various articles and books in the fields of corporate, finance, accounting, restructuring and insolvency law. Prof. Glanzmann concentrates his practice in the areas of finance transactions, restructuring, insolvency, mergers & acquisitions as well as corporate and accounting law.
Luke Richardson
Luke Richardson
Luke is a senior associate and Solicitor-Advocate (Higher Courts, Civil Proceedings) in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution team based in London. He is a member of the department's practice groups for trusts disputes and wealth controversy; regulatory, public and media law; civil fraud and commercial litigation. Luke has completed secondments with clients such as the BBC Trust. Luke advises clients across a range of sectors on complex and high-value litigation in the UK and overseas, pre-action strategy, settlement negotiations and crisis management issues associated with potential claims. Luke's areas of focus include private-client wealth disputes and a range of public- and administrative-law issues.
Luke Murphy
Luke Murphy
Luke is a banking lawyer in Baker McKenzie’s London office specialising in real estate finance. Luke advises a mix of sponsors and lenders on a wide range of real estate finance investment and development transactions. He has particular experience advising sponsors on large-scale cross-border pan-European financings. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Luke spent five years at the London office of an American white-shoe law firm acting for the some of the biggest sponsors in the real estate market.
Magdalena Medyńska
Magdalena Medyńska
Magdalena Medyńska is an advocate admitted to practice in Poland and a counsel in the corporate department of the Warsaw office of Baker McKenzie. She graduated with distinction from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 2013 and qualified as an advocate in 2017. Prior to joining the Firm in July 2022, Magdalena worked for almost 10 years in the corporate departments and M&A/PE practices of other global law firms based in Warsaw. Magdalena is experienced in civil law, commercial law and securities law. She has worked on numerous complex multijurisdictional M&A and private equity transactions, including tender offers and M&A deals involving public companies and financial institutions, in many different business sectors, including the financial, FMCG, pharmaceutical, TMT, real estate and healthcare sectors. She has participated in M&A transactions structured in innovative ways, in particular in demergers of Polish banks. She has also advised various institutions on regulatory matters, including representing them in proceedings before the Polish Financial Supervision Authority.
Marc Florent
Marc Florent
Marc Florent is a partner in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution team based in London. Marc joined the Firm from another leading multinational firm in 2019 having been a partner there for 17 years and having been involved in several of the most significant cases in his field. Marc is a native English and French speaker. Chambers 2019 describes Marc as "notable for his expertise in structured finance disputes, particularly with regard to matters involving financial derivatives". In the Chambers 2020 Banking Litigation category, sources describe him as "a very good technical lawyer and a decisive team leader," who can "deploy his very substantial litigation experience to highly impressive effect." Marc acts for clients in the financial, commercial and industrial sectors in connection with a wide variety of complex, high value and multi-party disputes. Marc has particular expertise in the field of structured products and financial derivatives and extensive experience in all court related and/or contentious matters and situations arising from restructuring and insolvency. Marc's cases have been conducted in various jurisdictions including London, Hong Kong, Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.
Marc Thorley
Marc Thorley
Marc Thorley is a partner in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution team, based in London. Marc joined the Firm from another leading multinational firm in 2020 having been a partner there for 12 years, located in London and Hong Kong, and acting as the firm’s Asia Head of Dispute Resolution. He is recognised in Chambers and Legal 500. Marc has substantial experience in dealing with a broad range of complex litigation, investigations and regulatory matters. He specialises in financial services sector, acting for banks (investment, retail and commercial) and other industry participants. Examples of his experience are: Litigation arising out of complex autocall structured products Investigating issues arising out of a delta one / total return swap business A major and sensitive conduct investigation for a global FI Insider dealing investigation for a leading FI Dispute between two international FIs over the interpretation of ISDA master documentation, in the context of lookalike swaps Advising a major FI on a significant retail mis-selling issue, including advising on complicated regulatory aspects Marc also specialises in corporate litigation, where his experience includes major M&A litigation, breach of warranty claims, directors’ duties disputes, acting for both vendors and purchasers in large completion accounts disputes, substantial shareholder dispute proceedings, and disputes relating to earn out entitlements.
Marcin Trepka
Marcin Trepka is a partner and co-leader in Warsaw office's Antitrust & Competition practice. He specializes in Polish and EU competition law as well as consumer law. He regularly represents clients before the competition authorities, Polish and EU courts of law and the Polish Supreme Court. In addition, Marcin is active in the development of international competition law policy. He serves as the Co-Chairman of the Cartels&Leniency Task Force of the ICC Commission on Competition in Paris. He also serves as the Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network. Marcin assists Clients with respect to the entire spectrum of competition law. He represented clients in some of the most challenging and well-known antitrust matters involving cartels (cement, chemical products to mining industry, and heat power cartel cases), antitrust litigation (lead defense counsel in one of the first private enforcement cases in Poland), or abuse of dominant market position (regarding the abuse of a dominant position on the gas markets in CEE). Marcin has also an extensive expertise in delivering complex antitrust compliance solutions, advising Clients on vertical and horizontal agreements (including distribution issues, on-line sales, cooperation between competitors, pricing and bonus policies), merger control (multijurisdictional mergers and JV), and consumer law issues (regulatory and consumer litigation). Marcin advises a wide range of Clients, including chemical, energy, insurance, media, finance and life science groups.
Marcin Fijałkowski
Marcin Fijałkowski
Marcin Fijałkowski heads the IP team in the Warsaw office. He has been practicing law in the field of intellectual property since 2003. He represents clients before civil, criminal and administrative courts, the Polish Patent Office, the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) and the Warsaw Arbitration Court for Domain Names. Marcin has also worked in the Baker McKenzie Zurich office on Pan-European IP enforcement programs. Marcin Fijałkowski is registered with the European Patent Institute (EPI), and is a professional legal representative for the EUIPO in Alicante. Marcin is a member of INTA, Marques and AIPPI and represents the International Association for the Protection of Intellectual Property (AIPPI) Enforcement Committee in front of the EU Observatory. Marcin focuses his practice on IP enforcement and prosecution, civil and criminal litigation, copyright law and unfair competition law. He offers sound knowledge in handling important IP portfolios of international firms in various industries, including pharmaceutical, tobacco and FMCG sectors.
Marcin Fiałka
Marcin Fiałka
Marcin Fiałka is a senior associate in the IP Tech group at Baker McKenzie’s office in Warsaw. He has over eight years of experience and specializes in data privacy, new technology and life sciences law. Marcin graduated from the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Law and Administration. In 2018 he was admitted to the District Chamber of Legal Advisors in Warsaw. Marcin focuses on legal advisory concerning data privacy, technology and healthcare regulations. Since 2017 he has been a member of our GDPR task force involved in preparing and reviewing data protection documentation, including, inter alia, privacy policies and notices, data processing and transfer agreements, as well as compliance procedures and policies. Currently, Marcin is advising clients on a wide range of data privacy and security issues, including with respect to investigating and reporting of data security incidents. His expertise also includes direct marketing and e-commerce regulations. Marcin has also been involved in several international projects for clients from technology, food & beverage and healthcare sectors, with particular emphasis on regulatory aspects. He has been also advising on a variety of pharmaceutical market regulations, as well as issues related to medical devices and food supplements.
Marcin Chyliński
Marcin Chyliński
Marcin Chyliński is an attorney-at-law admitted to practice in Poland and a managing partner of the Firm’s Warsaw office. He also heads the Equity Capital Markets practice at the same office. Marcin has experience in complex public and private offerings and M&A transactions (including cross-border and public transactions), as well as in general corporate law advice, including corporate governance. He has extensive experience in leading international teams of lawyers, providing legal advice to companies, financial institutions, selling shareholders, financial sponsors, strategic investors and investment banks in numerous international and domestic, initial and secondary, public and private equity offerings and M&A transactions.
Marcin Iwaniszyn
Marcin Iwaniszyn is an attorney-at-law admitted to practice in Poland, a partner and the head of the Banking and Finance Practice at Baker McKenzie in Warsaw. Marcin graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw in 2006, also completing a course in US law, with distinction, at the Center for American Law Studies co-organized by the University of Warsaw and the University of Florida Levin College of Law in 2005, and he qualified as an attorney-at-law in 2010. Prior to joining the Firm in May 2022, Marcin worked at another renowned global law firm starting from 2005, most recently as a partner co-heading the banking and finance practice there. Following the withdrawal of the global firm from Poland, for two years he was a partner and co-head of the banking and finance practice at a Polish independent law firm founded by the partners of that global law firm. For many years Marcin has been ranked by leading international legal rankings, such as Chambers & Partners, The Legal 500 and IFLR1000, as one of the best banking and finance authorities in Poland. Marcin has experience in M&A financings (including cross-border and public ones), complex corporate financings and refinancings, debt securities issues and debt restructuring processes. He and his team have participated in numerous domestic and international debt financings and refinancings, advising companies, financial institutions, private equity funds, strategic investors and investment firms on many of the largest M&A transactions, leveraged buyouts and delistings in recent years. His experience also includes advising on many financings in the renewables sector.
Marcin Płonka
Marcin Płonka
Marcin Płonka is an advocate admitted to practice in Poland and is a counsel in the mergers and acquisitions and private equity practices of the Warsaw office of Baker McKenzie. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie in 2022, for almost 10 years Marcin worked at another renowned global law firm and at a Polish independent law firm founded by the partners of that global law firm after its withdrawal from Poland. Marcin was named one of Poland’s “Best Young Talents” in the 2016 edition of the American Chamber of Commerce in Poland 30 Under 30 Program, which focused on promoting the “top, brightest, most talented and promising young professionals” in the country. A specialist in commercial and civil law, with a focus on M&A and private equity transactions, Marcin has advised Polish and international clients, including private equity funds and public companies, on complex and groundbreaking M&A and joint venture transactions. He has worked on several significant transactions in the TMT and IT market, in particular M&A and joint ventures aimed at expanding Poland's fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network. His experience also covers the financial, real estate, pharmaceuticals and manufacturing sectors. Marcin also has a wealth of experience in advising shareholders in joint venture transactions and corporate disputes.
Margarita Kozlov
Margarita Kozlov
Margarita Kozlov is the co-head of Baker McKenzie's Employment & Compensation team in Stockholm. Margarita advises Swedish and multinational organisations on a wide range of employment and data protection matters. She is ranked as a Rising Star in the Legal 500 and recognised for her experience in matters dealing with employment benefits, restructurings, HR matters and whistleblowing claims. She is described as being "always on top of things". Margarita advises on a wide range of general and strategic employment issues. Her practice has a particular focus on global reorganisation projects, HR aspects of transactions as well as whistleblowing schemes and employment aspects of internal investigations. Margarita advises multinational and domestic clients on all main industry sectors, with particular focus on technology, media and telecoms industry as well as consumer goods and retail. Margarita also supports multinational and domestic clients on various GDPR and data protection matters with a particular focus on workplace data protection and compliance, employee monitoring, background checks and screening.
Mariana Marchuk
Mariana Marchuk has about 20 years of practical experience in the areas of labor and migration, compliance and anti-corruption, commercial and international trade law, M&A and pharmaceutical regulation. Ms. Marchuk joined Baker McKenzie’s Kyiv office in 1997 as an associate. From 1999 to 2004 she worked in Moscow, as an associate for a major Wall Street law firm and subsequently for Baker McKenzie. In 2004, she returned to the Firm’s Kyiv office and in 2010 she became a counsel. Ms. Marchuk advises Ukrainian and foreign clients on labor and migration law, focusing on employee compensation, terminations, transfers, data protection, and employee privacy. She is also experienced in dispute resolution and internal investigations, compliance and anti-corruption, international trade and commerce, consumer protection, mergers and acquisitions, information technology, and in matters concerning the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector.
Mario Cigno
Mario Cigno
Mario Cigno is a counsel in Baker McKenzie's Italian office specializing in environmental, healthcare, energy, food, and regulatory matters. Mario advises on environmental, energy and healthcare law, to assess and manage environmental risk in complex projects, including remediation projects, circular economy initiatives and product life-cycle management. He is active in sustainability and climate change initiatives as well as in ESG, CSR and forestry projects, and carbon credits transactions. He has consolidated experience in working on projects located in Africa, Asia and South America. His practice also covers the regulation of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, chemicals, food, and a wide range of consumer and industrial products, acting for clients in connection with global projects, product manufacturing, marketing, supply and distribution, non-conformities, regulatory investigations and prosecutions. Mario has spoken in many events, symposia and training organized for or by clients and/or private organizations. He is co-editor of the Italian monthly newsletter on Energy and Sustainability, and author of several publications on sustainability and healthcare matters.
Mario Deketelaere
Mario Deketelaere is an of counsel in the Environment Practice Group in the Antwerp office. He joined Baker McKenzie in 2002. He is experienced in administrative and public law. Mario is also a visiting professor at KU Leuven and a lecturer at Karel de Grote Hogeschool (Antwerp). Mario focuses on the regional, federal and European "environmental law" (Omgevingsrecht/Droit de l'Environnement), i.e. all law matters relating to the planning and protection of the human living environment, including the strengthening relations between environmental law, urban planning law, nature conservation and environmental impact assessment. In this field he is recognized as one of the most recommended and leading Belgian practitioners (International Who's Who of Environment Lawyers). He has extensive knowledge and experience in the areas of soil clean-up and (hazardous) waste management, environmental liability issues, environmental and building permit procedures, product safety, and environmental taxes. He advises Belgian and foreign multinational companies from different industrial sectors (chemical, metal industry, raw materials, waste treatment, energy, construction, food, ICT) on authorisation procedures and regulatory compliance, and assists clients with litigation relating to those areas of law (i.e. in civil, criminal and administrative disputes and procedures) before the national courts, the Council of State, the Constitutional Court and the EU Court of Justice.
Mark Delaney
Mark Delaney
Mark Delaney heads Baker McKenzie's London Tax Practice and serves as member of the Firm’s Europe Indirect Tax Steering Committee. Prior to joining the Firm in 2006, Mark was involved in the technology, international trade and services, information communications and energy/environment sectors. Currently a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, he regularly advises on a broad range of UK, EU and global VAT law. Mark advises clients on a broad range of VAT-related issues. He has extensive experience assisting in the planning of financing arrangements. He provides VAT litigation and dispute support and helps conduct multijurisdiction VAT assurance reviews, among others. Mark has also advised on the VAT, customs and transfer pricing elements of international business arrangements.
Mark Simpson
Mark Simpson
Mark heads Baker McKenzie’s Financial Services Regulatory (FSR) practice group in London, co-leads the FinTech Group in London, co-chairs the FSR practice for EMEA and sits on the Global FSR Steering Committee. Mark advises clients on a broad range of financial services legal and regulatory issues. His clients span the financial services and FinTech sectors, and include payment and e-money institutions, asset and wealth managers, broker-dealers, cryptoasset firms, consumer lenders, banks, insurers and brokers. Mark advises clients on matters throughout the business lifecycle, including business launches and regulatory authorisation, expansion, business innovation, new regulatory developments, and on responding to internally identified regulatory issues as well as external regulatory enquiries and investigations.   As well as his commercial client base, Mark has advised governmental bodies on the development of financial services laws. Mark is knowledgeable in AML and financial crime issues, and alongside his financial services and FinTech work, Mark advises the Firm's corporate client base on financial crime related issues.   Mark is a member of the TheCityUK’s Technology & Innovation Group.
Mark Agnew
Mark Agnew
As an experienced VAT practitioner, Mark advises a large number of clients across the financial services industry, with a particular emphasis on banks, fintech and payments businesses, with a deep specialism in card and electronic payments. Mark works with the wider financial services tax practice in addition to Baker McKenzie's financial regulatory and reorganisations teams to advise on structuring and restructurings for financial services groups, particularly as a result of regulatory change or European expansion plans. In addition, Mark advises clients with tax authority disputes where he helps to defend positions taken, reach settlements or to litigate where necessary. He also advises on the tax treatment of new products and markets, and also M&A and real estate transactions. Mark focuses on US, UK and EU regulated groups, VAT disputes and litigation for financial services clients, structuring of intercompany charges, VAT recovery optimization, procurement and outsourcing structures, pan-European advice (new products etc.) and M&A and real estate transactions.
Mark Banks
Mark Banks
Mark is a senior associate in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution team based in London. Mark is also a member of the Firm's Investigations, Compliance & Ethics Practice Group. Mark graduated from Oxford University in 2010 and joined Baker McKenzie in 2016 from another international law firm. Mark advises clients in the following areas: 1. Commercial & civil fraud litigation: Mark acts for clients on high value litigation matters, including disputes relating to civil fraud, insolvency, sanctions and cross-border enforcement. Mark's cases are typically international in nature and often involve complex jurisdictional and conflict of laws issues. He has particular experience acting for clients in the banking and finance sector and has undertaken secondments in the litigation departments at HSBC and Credit Suisse. 2. Investigations, compliance & ethics: Mark acts for clients in connection with internal and external investigations and criminal enforcement proceedings. He also advises on the implementation of compliance and ethics programmes. Mark has particular expertise advising clients on corporate bribery and fraud offences, including under the UK Bribery Act 2010 and Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023. 3. Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG): Mark advises clients on ESG-related disputes, investigations, audits and due diligence programmes, especially in the context of supply chain and forced labour issues.
Markus Meuller
Markus Meuller is a member of Baker McKenzie’s Banking & Finance Practice Group in Stockholm. He specialises in international and Swedish domestic financing transactions and has extensive experience from both Sweden and the U.S. Prior to joining the Firm in 2019, he was a practicing attorney in the U.S. at major New York law firms. Markus represents private equity funds, corporations, investment banks and commercial banks in connection with a wide range of international and domestic financing transactions, including acquisition financings, leveraged buyouts, bridge financings, mezzanine facilities, corporate recapitalizations, investment grade financings, asset-based loans, real estate financings and restructurings.
Markus Wolf
Markus Wolf
Dr. Markus Wolf is a partner in the Zurich office of Baker McKenzie. He is co-head of the Swiss Banking & Finance Practice Group and member of the Swiss Restructuring & Insolvency team. He has previously worked in the Firm's Sydney office and he was seconded to the legal team of one of Switzerland's leading banks. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie in 2012, he worked as a visiting associate with The Boston Consulting Group. Clients say: "I appreciate working with Markus Wolf very much. His assessments are of very high quality and equally practical. He is also a very reliable contact, especially for time-critical enquiries." (Chambers Global, 2023). Markus is a lecturer on private law at the University of St. Gallen (HSG). Markus advises on all aspects of banking and finance and restructuring and insolvency. He has extensive experience advising lenders, borrowers and sponsors on complex, multijurisdictional leveraged acquisition, corporate, project, export and property financing transactions. He also has experience in public sector (sovereign) financing. He regularly acts for Swiss and foreign creditors and debtors in domestic and cross-border financial restructurings and formal insolvency procedures. Markus has published numerous articles on banking and finance and restructuring and insolvency topics in Swiss and international journals.
Marnin J. Michaels
Marnin J. Michaels
Marnin Michaels is a senior partner at the Baker McKenzie Office in Zurich. Marnin has been practicing for more than 25 years in the areas of tax and international private banking. He handles insurance matters relating to tax investigations and wealth management, as well as counsels clients on issues relating to US withholding tax, qualified intermediary rule and FATCA. He also advises on issues related to potential tax evasion and cross-border regulatory issues, as well as money laundering avoidance legislation. He is also a member of the Firm’s global Alternative Capital team that provides best-in-class investment solutions for family offices, founders, sovereign wealth, and other sources of private capital. Marnin was a member of the Firm's Steering Committee addressing the firm's US Department of Justice Initiative for Swiss Banks. In the end, the Firm acted for 45 banks and the project won Litigation Firm of the Year from American Lawyer Magazine Award in 2015. Widely regarded as one of the world's leading wealth management lawyers, Marnin is on the Firm's Tax steering committee, co-leads the EMEA Tax group, and co-chairs its European wealth management committee. Marnin focuses on all matters relevant to the wealth management industry and its clients. In addition to writing extensively for many publications, Marnin also authored two legal treatises: International Taxation and Withholding and International Estate Planning, which were both published by Thomson Reuters. He also lectures in several LLM and MBA programs on various tax issues.
Martin Altschwager
Martin Altschwager
Dr. Martin Altschwager, a Partner, is a member of Baker McKenzie’s Pharmaceuticals and Healthcare Practice Group in Frankfurt. Prior to joining the Firm in May 2013, he worked in the pharmaceuticals and healthcare group of a major German law firm in Stuttgart. Dr. Altschwager has completed a comparative PhD thesis on European and US drug law as well as co-authored a publication on the reimbursement of medicinal products. Dr. Altschwager advises national and international clients on all aspects of European and German pharmaceutical and medical device law as well as on compliance and unfair competition issues pertaining to healthcare products and services. In particular, Martin provides legal advice on regulatory issues regarding the market access, manufacturing, distribution and advertising of medicinal products and medical devices. He also regularly assists clients in negotiating and drafting agreements with research and development facilities, manufacturers and distributors.
Márton Horányi
Márton Horányi
Márton Horányi heads the Antitrust and Competition Practice Group in the Budapest office of Baker McKenzie. He previously headed a Big Four accounting firm's antitrust and competition practice in Budapest and led the local competition practice of a boutique law firm. Between 2007 and 2015, he practiced in the competition team of Baker McKenzie, Budapest and was seconded to the Firm's Düsseldorf office. He also gained experience in competition law as a blue book trainee at the Legal Service of the European Commission in Brussels. Márton is a lecturer at the post-graduate competition law program of the Pázmány Péter Catholic University  as well as at the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He regularly speaks at conferences and client events, and publishes in reputable competition law journals. Márton focuses his practice on antitrust and competition, state aid, unfair commercial practices, consumer protection, compliance matters and European law. He has extensive experience representing clients in cartel, abuse of dominance and merger cases before the Hungarian Competition Office, the European Commission, and the Hungarian and EU courts. Márton also advises on distribution issues and assists clients in developing effective compliance programs. He frequently works with clients in the pharmaceutical, retail, energy, IT/telecom and automotive industries.
Massimiliano Biolchini
Massimiliano (Max) Biolchini heads the Employment practice of Baker McKenzie Italy and is a member of the steering committee of the EMEA practice group. He joined Baker McKenzie in January 1999. He became local partner in the Milan office in 2004 and partner in 2011. His practice spans all areas of labor and employment advice, commercial agency and employment litigation. Massimiliano Biolchini’s main areas of practice include general employment advice as well as pension and benefits, employment litigation, labor relations with trade unions, restructuring and collective dismissals, commercial agency law and related litigation. His practice covers all main industry sectors, with particular focus on fashion and retail, chemical and pharmaceutical, automotive, financial, IT and TV entertainment industries.
Mateusz Cieślak
Mateusz Cieślak
Mateusz Cieślak is a counsel in Baker McKenzie’s Warsaw office. Before joining the Firm in 2021, he worked at a leading international law firm for six years. He is a Polish qualified lawyer admitted to the Warsaw Bar association. Mateusz Cieślak specialises in institutional real estate transactions (industrial, office and retail sectors) and real estate law, with focus on construction and zoning law. He advised international and domestic investors, biggest domestic developers, financing institutions and private investors. He is experienced with both share and asset deals. Mateusz performed or supervised numerous due diligence exercises for investors or financing institutions.
Mats Rooth
Mats Rooth is head of Baker McKenzie's Banking & Finance Practice Group in Stockholm. He specialises in financing and restructurings, particularly acquisition finance in relation to private equity transactions where he acts for domestic and international borrowers and lenders. Prior to joining the Firm in 2017, he was one of the founding partners and head of the Banking & Finance practice at Byström Rooth & Partners. Mats has also worked as a partner and head of the finance practice at Ashurst in Stockholm and at SEB Merchant Banking and Vinge. Mats focuses on finance and restructurings. He has advised Nordic and international companies, investors and institutions as borrowers and lenders on a wide variety of transactions that involve financing, refinancing and restructuring.
Matthew Legg
Matthew Legg
Matt is a partner in our London tax team, advising on all aspects of UK corporate taxation, with a particular focus on investment structuring and cross-border transactions. He advises a broad client base, including private equity and sovereign wealth funds, family offices and multinationals. Matt has a comprehensive range of high-value transactional experience, particularly cross-border M&A, real estate investment, group reorganisations, refinancings and fund raisings. He is also a member of the Firm’s global Alternative Capital team that provides best-in-class investment solutions for family offices, founders, sovereign wealth, and other sources of private capital.
Matthew Cox
Matthew Cox
Matthew is a Banking partner in Baker McKenzie's London office focusing on leveraged and acquisition financing and restructuring. Matthew has significant experience with UK and international transactions, as well as deep knowledge of both the borrower and lender side of complex financings and restructurings. He regularly advises private investment, funds and investment banking clients.
Matthew Dening
Matthew Dening
Matthew Dening is Global Chair of the Firm's Banking & Finance practice group and a member of the Firm’s Structured Capital Markets Group in the London office. He focuses his practice primarily on cross-border structured finance transactions involving derivatives, repos and securities lending, as well as the regulation of financial products under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR), MiFID II and the Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR). Matthew is also a member of the Firm’s global Alternative Capital team that provides best-in-class investment solutions for family offices, founders, sovereign wealth, and other sources of private capital. Matthew has received acknowledgement from numerous legal industry guides. He has been ranked as a leading expert by Chambers & Partners since 2005, and is currently ranked Band 1 in Structured Finance & Derivatives in the most recent Global edition. They highlight that he "understands complex problems very well, and is able to think about business issues in conjunction with legal requirements," as well as being "incredibly responsive and client-friendly." He regularly acts for buy-side derivatives firms. The UK Legal 500 note him as "a true expert in this area of law, a pleasant person who can explain very difficult matters clearly." Matthew is a member of the Editorial Board of Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Finance Law and has served as a member of the City of London Law Society - Financial Law Committee. He is a frequent speaker and guest panellist at conferences in both the derivatives and structured finance area, as well as law firm management and social mobility.
Matthias Töke
Matthias Töke is member of Baker McKenzie’s Global Leveraged Finance Steering Committee and advises private equity sponsors, corporates, debt funds, banks and other financial institutions on all aspects of complex domestic and cross-border leveraged buy-out financings, financial restructurings and general corporate financings. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie in April 2022, Matthias was a counsel in the Frankfurt office of a top-tier Wall Street law firm, Head of Rule Enforcement at Deutsche Börse AG and senior associate in the Frankfurt, New York, London and Warsaw offices of a Magic Circle law firm. Matthias advises on financing deals across all sectors with particular experience in technology, industry, consumer and healthcare deals. Matthias is well experienced in all finance instruments involved in a leveraged buy-out including senior structures, senior / super senior (incl. first out/second out) structures, first lien / second lien structures, vendor loans, PIK / HoldCo loans and mezzanine instruments.
Maulik Mittal
Maulik Mittal
Maulik is a senior associate in Baker McKenzie's Commercial, Data and Technology team based in London. He joined Baker McKenzie as a trainee in September 2017 and was admitted as a Solicitor of England and Wales in September 2019. During his training Maulik was seconded to Google's commercial legal team for six months, and as an associate was seconded to Three UK's commercial and networks team. Maulik is ranked in the Legal500 as a Rising Star in IT and Telecoms and as a Key Lawyer in TMT. Maulik's practice focuses on drafting, negotiating and advising on complex, international technology and commercial contracts. He also focuses on complex telecoms transactions and regulation, outsourcing arrangements and new technologies, and advises on data protection and platform regulation.
Max Oehm
Max Oehm
Dr. Max Oehm is a partner of Baker McKenzie’s Dispute Resolution Practice Group. Max advises international clients on complex commercial disputes, in particular regarding professional services (advisors liability), post-M&A and IT-/ infrastructure projects. He represents his clients in state court litigation, international arbitration and in other ADR proceedings. The Legal 500 (2024) has recognized Max as "Rising Star Litigation" and Best Lawyers lauds him as "One to Watch" for International Arbitration, Litigation and Mediation since 2022. Max holds a doctoral degree from the University of Mainz, Germany, and obtained a master’s degree in law at Boston University, USA, where he was awarded the American Law Outstanding Achievement Award. Max writes and speaks regularly on international arbitration and professional services issues. He teaches at the University of Mannheim, Germany. Max focuses on advising clients on managing risks and resolving disputes relating to professional services (advisors liability), post-M&A and IT-/ infrastructure projects. He is experienced in resolving disputes through international arbitration, commercial litigation and other ADR proceedings, including mediation and adjudication. To help clients make informed decisions about whether to invest in dispute resolution and to ensure that they get the best possible return on their investment, Max relies on AI and legal technology risk analysis tools to calculate probabilities for clients to prevail on their claims. Max also uses these tools to efficiently determine key aspects of a case and to develop convincing arguments for his clients. Max regularly acts as an arbitrator in international arbitrations.
Megan Schellinger
Megan Schellinger
Megan Schellinger is a New York and England and Wales qualified partner in Baker McKenzie’s Corporate Finance group in London. Prior to joining the Firm in March 2018, she worked at a multinational law firm based in London. Megan has extensive experience in US securities laws and transaction management. Megan advises corporate and investment banking clients in connection with Rule 144A and SEC-registered offerings and private placements of international debt (both investment grade and high yield), equity (including IPOs, rights issues and block trades) and equity-linked securities, as well as on SEC reporting and other compliance matters. She also has experience advising on liability management transactions and mergers and acquisitions. Megan has extensive experience in the FIG space and is active in a number of other sectors including Mining and Telecoms. She is active in a range of jurisdictions across the EMEA region including the UK, Türkiye, Benelux and Switzerland and also has experience advising on equity transactions in India.
Michael Treis
Michael Treis
Michael Treis is Senior Counsel with the Firm's Intellectual Property Team in Switzerland. He advises on all aspects of IP protection and acts for companies before the Swiss courts. Michael has written on numerous related issues and has taught IP law at the University of St. Gallen. He began his career as an IP attorney of Baker McKenzie in 1989 and built up its Swiss IP practice from 1993 - 2022. He is ranked by Chambers Global and Legal 500 as a leading IP attorney in Switzerland. Michael has a wide range of experience in trademark, copyright, design and unfair competition issues and his practice covers IP advisory, prosecution and litigation. He advises a range of Swiss and global clients such as Apple, BAT, Dior and LVMH.
Michael Fammler
Michael Fammler
Dr. Michael Fammler is a partner in the Firm's Europe Intellectual Property Practice Group. He is a visiting lecturer for trademark law at the University of Constance, Germany. Dr. Fammler focuses his practice on all aspects of trademark and trade name law. He has extensive experience managing large, worldwide trademark portfolios, as well as drafting and negotiation of complex license agreements. Dr. Fammler's practice also covers all aspects related to antitrust and competition law. He also has experience working on IP enforcement and trademark litigation for well-known brand owners.
Michael Schmidl
Michael Schmidl
Prof. Dr. Michael Schmidl is co-head of the German Information Technology Group and is based in Baker McKenzie's Munich office. He is an honorary professor at the University of Augsburg and specialist lawyer for information technology law (Fachanwalt für IT-Recht). He advises in all areas of contentious and non-contentious information technology law, including internet, computer/software, data privacy and media law. Michael also has a general commercial law background and has profound experience in the drafting and negotiation of outsourcing contracts and in carrying out compliance projects. Michael advises in all areas of contentious and non-contentious information technology law, including Internet, computer/software, data privacy and media law. He also advises on matters relating to intellectual property, unfair competition, compliance and general contract law. Michael is experienced in general commercial law, and is likewise seasoned in drafting and negotiating outsourcing contracts, as well as in carrying out compliance projects.
Michael Van Acker
Michael Van Acker is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Banking & Finance practice group in Brussels, having been with the Firm since 2004. Michael advises on international finance, with a particular focus on leveraged finance deals across a number of industries and asset types. He is also well accomplished in advising on financial restructurings. Michael has represented a wide range of lenders and private equity sponsors on the leveraging of domestic and cross-border buy-outs, real estate acquisitions, and property redevelopments, among others.
Michaela Nebel
Michaela Nebel
Dr. Michaela Nebel is a partner in the Frankfurt office of Baker McKenzie. She obtained her Doctor of Law degree on a topic related to privacy in the Web 2.0 at the University of Passau. From July until December 2014 she practiced at the San Francisco office of Baker McKenzie. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) and a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States (CIPP/US). She is also the author of numerous articles on information technology law, in particular on data protection law and e-commerce law, and the co-author of an English language commentary on the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Michaela advises German and international companies on all aspects of information technology law, data protection law, data related and digital laws, IT contract law as well as on e-commerce, IT / data litigation and artificial intelligence related matters. Her practice covers in particular data dispute matters, including proceedings with the data protection authorities and legal disputes regarding the GDPR, as well as cybersecurity and whistleblowing.
Michal Lisawa
Michal Lisawa
Michał is experienced in labor and employment matters. He advises on all aspects of individual and collective labour law, in particular on hiring staff, redundancies, compensation and benefits, employment policies, discrimination, employment litigation as well as trade unions. He has extensive experience in handling HR issues in M&A deals and reorganizations. Michał provides skillful advice on labor and employment matters, compensation and benefits, HR issues in M&A and reorganizations as well as employment litigation. He also counsels clients on cross-border employment and posting of workers.
Michał Derdak
Michał Derdak
Michał Derdak has over 15 years of professional experience in international law firms. His main areas of practice are competition law, consumer protection law and distribution systems, as well as commercial contracts. He has broad experience in structuring distribution systems, including classic distribution, franchising and agency models. He has also advised clients on consumer protection issues, including consumer sales, as well as consumer communication and interaction. He has advised clients from various sectors, including pharmaceutical, FMCG (in particular food & drink, cosmetics and fashion businesses), energy, oil&gas, technology and others. His experience in advising clients covers the key competition law issues relevant for the sectors, such as rebates on dominant and near-dominant products, distribution and marketing models in various channels, parallel trade or relevant market definitions for advanced products.
Michał Głowacki
Michał Głowacki
Michał Głowacki is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Warsaw office, where he co-heads capital markets practice. He joined Baker McKenzie in 2008. Previously, he worked for five years in law firms and a consulting company. He graduated from the Faculty of Law and Administration of Warsaw University and the Warsaw School of Economics. Michał is known as a leader of innovation in debt capital markets deals. He has been at the forefront of creating first-of-its-kind debt deals in Poland, and has experience in a whole range of capital market transactions, including equity (ECM) and debt (DCM) offerings (both private and public, by Polish and foreign issuers'). He advises in tender offers, managerial and incentive programs (including also ESPP, SOP, RSU), financial services regulatory (capital and banking law, mifid, MAR, BMR), complex debt restructuring, corporate and public M&A transactions. Michał due to its extensive experience and deep legal knowledge is very well perceived by market participants (issuers, banks, brokerage houses, but also WSE and NDS).
Michał Maj
Michał Maj
Michał Maj has over 11 years of experience in tax advisory services with a particular focus on M&A. Michał started his career in 2007 in KPMG and has worked in PwC since 2009. Michał provides advice on the tax effective structuring and acquisition transactions. He has been involved in numerous due diligence projects (including vendor due diligence) related to the acquisitions of Polish business entities. Michał's specialization also includes tax restructuring of business entities for the realization of unique business aims. He was involved in cooperation with private equity funds, multinational corporate clients as well as Polish firms and individuals. In addition, Michał supports clients during tax audits and further proceedings, including proceedings before the court. Michał has been a licensed Polish tax advisor (license no. 11530) since 2010. Michał's practice focuses on tax structuring, tax due diligence, general tax advice, management incentive plans and tax litigation. He has advised private equity clients, local and multinational corporations and Polish individuals in the energy, FMCG, media, real estate and retail sectors. He has experience in the jurisdictions of Poland, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
Michele Santocchini
Michele Santocchini
Michele Santocchini co-heads the tax practice of Baker McKenzie Italy. He joined Baker McKenzie's Rome office as counsel in 2013. A certified public accountant, he is knowledgeable in international tax planning, including supply chain restructuring, cross-border reorganization and acquisitions, financial restructuring and transfer pricing. Mr. Santocchini also has vast experience in M&A matters, such as acquisition structuring, merger reorganizations and leveraged buyout. He has made several presentations on tax matters in events organized by the Rome CPA’s Association, and also lectures on advanced tax law at the University La Sapienza of Rome. Mr. Santocchini's practice focuses on international tax planning. He advises multinational and Italian companies with respect to cross-border transactions, international and local tax planning and tax litigation.
Mike Webster
Mike Webster
Mike Webster is a Senior Counsel in Baker McKenzie's Global Energy, Mining and Infrastructure Industry Group. Mike has more than 35 years experience working on transactions across the EMEA region, as well as in Asia and the Caribbean. Mike has worked in the Firm's London and Hong Kong offices. Mike specialises in advising on the development of major energy, mining and infrastructure sector assets, whether on a traditional construction or PPP, BOT or equivalent basis, and on commercial arrangements concerning such assets.
Mikołaj Piaskowski
Mikołaj Piaskowski
Mikołaj Piaskowski co-leads the Competition and State Aid Practice Group in the Warsaw office. He has practiced in competition law, focusing on antitrust, merger control, consumer protection and State aid laws, for more than 17 years. He represents clients in numerous proceedings before the President of the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK), the Competition and Consumer Protection Court (SOKiK), the Court of Appeals and the European Commission. He advises clients from various industries including pharmaceutical, FMCG, TMT, automotive, finance and energy sectors on all aspects of competition law relating to their business activity. He conducts many seminars and workshops on competition law, including workshops on practical aspects of dawn raids procedures.
Mohamed Ghannam
Mohamed Ghannam
Mohamed Ghannam is the managing partner of Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo. Mohamed heads the Banking, Projects, and Capital Markets Practice Groups.
Mohamed Elharmy
Mohamed Elharmy
Mohamed Elharmy is a Partner at Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo.
Mohamed Elfar
Mohamed Elfar
Mohamed El Far is a counsel at Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo.
Monica Kurnatowska
Monica Kurnatowska
Monica Kurnatowksa is a partner in the Firm’s London office. Monica is a member of the Consultation Board of PLC Employment On-line and is a regular speaker at internal and external seminars and workshops. Monica advises clients from sectors such as financial services, technology and manufacturing on the employment aspects of strategic projects. These include global M&A and restructuring, sensitive discrimination, whistleblowing and bonus disputes, investigations, and accountability reviews. Monica co-leads the firm’s global Inclusion and Diversity services for clients. She won the Women, Influence & Power in Law UK 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award for her efforts in championing diversity and inclusion initiatives. She has acted as a role model, active coach and sponsor throughout her career. Monica is highly regarded by clients for her ability to quickly gain an in- depth understanding of their business in order to offer the most strategic and commercial advice.
Mostafa Lotayef
Mostafa Lotayef
Mostafa Lotayef is a Counsel at Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo.
Nadine Archer
Nadine Archer
Nadine is a Senior Trade Marks Associate in the Intellectual Property practice. Nadine has extensive experience managing multijurisdictional trade mark portfolios with a focus on the contentious trade mark disputes, multijurisdictional brand clearance advice, filing strategies, design and copyright registrations. Nadine's practice is mainly in the food, beverage and technology sectors. Nadine is a qualified solicitor in South Africa and started her practice in South Africa. Nadine was ranked as a "key name" in Legal 500 2023 and 2024 for PATMA Trade Mark Attorneys. Clients say "Nadine is a highly-experienced trade mark counsel with extensive knowledge of national trade mark regimes around the world." Nadine as also ranked in WTR 1000 in 2024 and clients say that Nadine "brings valuable expertise in the technology industry and when handling multi-jurisdictional instructions. Putting in flawless performances across the board." Most of Nadine's time is spent providing strategic advice on trade mark disputes such as infringements, oppositions, invalidity, cancellation actions and  company name disputes; advising on new product launches through pre-launch brand clearance advice, preparing filing strategies in the artificial intelligence, food, confectionery and beverages sectors. Nadine has been actively involved in INTA since 2007 and is currently a member of INTA's Emerging Issues Committee. She has served on various INTA committees since 2008 and was the Sub-committee chair for the Model Law Trademark Guidelines sub-committee from 2014-2019. She also served on INTA's Africa Global Advisory Council from 2018-2019.
Nastassja Walschot
Nastassja Walschot
Nastassja Walschot is a counsel in the Dispute Resolution & Arbitration Practice Group and the International Trade & Commerce Practice Group, based in Brussels. She worked as a trainee in 2014 and 2015 and joined the Firm as an associate in 2016. Nastassja is also a teaching assistant at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). Nastassja's practice consists mainly of assisting national and international clients in their contentious matters before judicial courts and arbitral tribunals, as well as in investigations and compliance matters. She also advises clients in various legal aspects of business, commercial, public and contract law.
Natalie Dunne
Natalie Dunne
Natalie is a Partner at the London office of Baker McKenzie in the Corporate Tax department. Natalie was seconded to Baker McKenzie's Tax Practice Group in Hong Kong in 2010. Natalie supports our clients to navigate corporate tax risks and opportunities in the context of complex business transformations, business critical corporate reorganisations and transformational corporate M&A throughout the transaction lifecycle. Natalie's transactions focus is underpinned by her strong corporate tax advisory capabilities. Natalie also has a keen focus on supporting our clients to mobilise robust and effective ESG and Tax strategies and to unlock the intersection between ESG and Tax. Natalie plays an integral leadership role in talent management and the development and growth of our people.
Natalie Ellerby
Natalie Ellerby
Natalie advises clients across a wide range of sectors, including the life sciences, consumer and tech sectors, on acquiring, disposing of, commercialising and protecting their intellectual property rights. She heads up Baker McKenzie’s IP transactional practice in London and focuses on advising clients on IP-critical acquisitions and disposals including complex cross-border carve-outs, IP licensing matters, franchising arrangements, intragroup IP reorganisations and joint venture and collaboration agreements. Natalie is a qualified High Court advocate with a Master's degree in Chemistry. She has over 13 years of experience advising on a range of contentious IP matters, including trade mark and patent infringement litigation, coordinating international actions, coexistence and licensing disputes and damages inquiries. Natalie has been ranked as a Notable Practitioner by Managing IP (IP STARS) and teaches on University College London’s IP Transactions course. Natalie’s practice comprises transactional, commercial and contentious work. She advises clients on all aspects of IP-critical transactions and has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating bespoke licensing arrangements and collaboration agreements. Natalie is a qualified High Court advocate with a Master's degree in Chemistry. She has over 13 years of experience advising on a range of contentious IP matters, including trade mark and patent infringement litigation, coordinating international actions, coexistence and licensing disputes and damages inquiries.
Nick Bryans
Nick Bryans
Nick is a partner in Baker McKenzie's London office and a member of the M&A and Corporate Finance teams. Before joining Baker McKenzie, Nick was a partner in another international law firm for over 14 years and was the head of Middle East and based in Dubai from 2007 to 2010. Nick spent one year on secondment to a San Francisco law firm between 1999 and 2000. With over 25 years' experience, Nick focuses on public and private M&A, capital raisings, and corporate governance and advisory work. Nick has considerable experience advising on matters in a number of sectors, including oil and gas, renewable energy, infrastructure, industrials, consumer goods and healthcare. Nick regularly counsels the boards of public limited companies on a range of strategic, transactional and governance matters and regularly works on transactions involving Japanese and Middle East clients.
Nick Rainsford
Nick Rainsford
Nick Rainsford is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Private Equity and Funds group, based in London. He is also a member of the Firm’s global Alternative Capital team that provides best-in-class investment solutions for family offices, founders, sovereign wealth, and other sources of private capital. Nick's practice is focused on infrastructure M&A across Europe. He advises infrastructure funds, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and corporates. Nick has particular expertise in shareholder and management incentivisation arrangements.
Nick O'Grady
Nick O'Grady
Nick is a partner in the banking and finance team of Baker McKenzie. Nick is based in London and his experience includes a secondment to The Blackstone Group and to the Hong Kong office of his previous firm. Nick's practice focuses on cross-border leveraged and acquisition financing, real estate finance and distressed debt investing. Nick regularly advises private equity funds, debt funds, banks and corporates on a range of financing products and structures in particular, European TLB, Bank/Bond financings, Unitranche, Holdco PIK, Real Estate Senior/Mezzanine and special situations matters.
Nicolai Behr
Nicolai Behr
Nicolai is a partner in the Dispute Resolution group of Baker McKenzie, a member of the Global Investigations, Compliance and Ethics Steering Committee and co-heads the Investigations, Compliance and Ethics practice in Germany. Nicolai is a regular speaker and author on compliance, white collar crime, innovation and legal tech topics. He is the inventor of the automated risk assessment and risk monitoring platform Compliance Cockpit and the founder of Global Compliance News. Nicolai is the editor of the knowledge platforms Compliance Lexikon and Litigation Lexikon. Nicolai assists clients in a broad range of compliance and dispute resolution matters with a focus on internal investigations. The internal investigations cover a variety of topics including allegations for corruption, fraud, product compliance violations, discrimination, cyber and other white collar crimes. The prevention services include advice on the implementation of effective and digitized compliance programs including whistleblowing, corporate compliance, risk minimization strategies, money laundering issues, KYC checks and related civil litigation. He also focuses on corporate and commercial litigation, in particular with a tech focus and mass litigation cases. He develops innovative and digitized legal and compliance processes and scalable legal solutions and applications.
Nicolas Kredel
Nicolas Kredel
Dr. Nicolas Kredel chairs Baker McKenzie's EMEA Antitrust & Competition Practice Group as well as the Firm's global Industrials Manufacturing and Transportation Group. He also chairs Baker McKenzie's German Antitrust & Competition practice. Nicolas advises clients in EU and German competition law matters, including domestic and international cartel investigations, merger control proceedings and abuse of dominance cases. He routinely leads global projects for clients in the area of antitrust risk prevention and compliance systems, international investigations and in transactions. He also provides competition law advice on cooperation agreements with competitors as well as supply agreements and distribution systems. He has extensive experience in a variety of industries, including the automotive, telecommunications, FMCG, retail, defense, aviation and pharmaceutical sectors.
Nóra Óváry-Papp
Nóra Óváry-Papp
Dr. Nóra Óváry-Papp is a Counsel in Baker McKenzie's Budapest office and a member of the Firm's Employment & Compensation practice group. She also acts as lead attorney for Investigations & Compliance matters. She is a lecturer at the Department of Labor and Social Law at ELTE Faculty of Law. Nóra is a seasoned expert in advising clients on a comprehensive range of employment and employment-related issues. Her areas of expertise encompass termination of employment, dismissal, breaches of fiduciary duties, enforcement of restrictive covenants and confidentiality obligations, protection of trade secrets, and conducting thorough employee investigations. Nóra has a proven track record in conducting internal investigations, providing employment-related compliance advice, and managing work council and union relations. Additionally, she is adept at representing clients in labor safety matters, ensuring their compliance with relevant regulations and standards.
Oksana Simonova
Oksana Simonova
Oksana Simonova is a partner in the Kyiv office of Baker McKenzie with over 12 years of experience in advising clients on a wide range of sophisticated cross-border transactions. In 2012, she was appointed to lead the Kyiv office’s Competition and Pharmaceuticals practice groups. Ms. Simonova advises international clients on Ukrainian merger control and competition law issues (including in the pharmaceuticals industry). She also has broad experience in various corporate finance transactions (including syndicated lending, Eurobonds and IPOs). She has worked on numerous international capital markets offerings from Ukraine and led the local legal team on the first main market London Stock Exchange listing of a mining company from Ukraine. Her practice also includes mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate and commercial law matters.
Oleksiy Stolyarenko
Oleksiy Stolyarenko is the Head of the IT/TMT industry group in the Kyiv office. A partner focusing on complex IP/IT, copyright, trademarks, patents, domain names, internet & technology matters (including protection of privacy & information), Oleksiy is well versed in issues related to technology transactions, start-ups, innovative services and products. He represents clients before the courts of Ukraine in trademark and patent litigation matters and carries out anti-piracy/anti-counterfeiting campaigns. Oleksiy joined Kyiv office of Baker McKenzie in 2008 from the State Department of Intellectual Property of Ukraine, where he worked in the copyright division. He frequently participates in the Firm`s Pro Bono projects and was awarded with the Firm`s RED award in 2015. Oleksiy Stolyarenko practices on all aspects of intellectual property, information technology, personal data protection, consumer protection, e-commerce and advertising law. He has extensive experience guiding clients through IP and IT law challenges in the IT, consumer electronics, media, wine and spirits, confectionery, food, and beverage, pharma, FMCG, chemical production and banking industries in Ukraine.
Olga Mikheieva
Olga Mikheieva is a counsel in Baker McKenzie's Competition and Antitrust practice group with over 20 years' experience of advising on various issues concerning competition and antitrust law. Olga holds a PhD degree from the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko Kyiv National University. Within the area of competition and antitrust, Olga focuses mainly on Ukrainian merger control, concerted actions and various competition law infringements. Her experience also includes pharmaceuticals, corporate and commercial law matters.
Oliver Jefferies
Oliver Jefferies
Oliver Jefferies is a banking partner in Baker McKenzie's London office. He is experienced in real estate finance and data center financings. Oliver advises a mix of sponsors, lenders and property developers, acting for a range of asset classes including hotels, data centres, build to rent, logistics, student housing and commercial. He has particular experience in cross-border transactions and development finance. He also has experience across a range of other financing transactions and products including acquisition finance, corporate lending and restructuring work. Oliver joined the Firm in 2021 having previously worked at another renowned law firm. Advised TPG and Point Park Properties on their EUR 1.5 billion financing of their pan-European logistics group. Advised a leading data center operator on the financings of their data center campus in Amsterdam, and joint venture arrangements with a financial investor. Advised a leading data center operator on the development of a data center in France Advised Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company on various financings secured on logistics warehouses, BTR residential offices, hotels and commercial property. Advised a private equity firm on their acquisition of a data center site in the UK. Advised National Pension Scheme of Korea on their GBP 1.2 billion acquisition of Goldman Sachs' London HQ and their GBP 700 million financing of the acquisition with Rothesay Life. Advised various Schroders funds on their financings from lenders including Canada Life and Wells Fargo. Assets are secured on UK property portfolios Advised Royal Bank of Canada in respect of a CAD 1 billion facility secured on a portfolio of UK and Canadian healthcare assets Advised Ares on their EUR 450 million acquisition and financing of 27 commercial properties across seven European jurisdictions financed by senior and mezzanine debt with Citi and Goldman Sachs. Advised Goldman Sachs in respect of a EUR 600 million loan on loan financing provided to Kildare to enable the acquisition and refinancing an insolvent hotel group. Advised Wells Fargo on the development financing of various logistics warehouses in Ireland.
Oliver Socher
Oliver Socher
Dr. Oliver Socher is EMEA Banking & Finance Chair and member of Global Banking & Finance Steering Committee. His practice covers banking and finance and distressed debt matters. Prior to joining the Firm in January 2006, he worked as an associate for a "Magic Circle" law firm in Frankfurt and London. He also worked as an associate for a Wall Street law firm in New York. Dr. Socher studied law at the Justus-Liebig-University in Giessen, where he also earned his doctor’s degree in law, and at Fordham School of Law in New York. He was admitted to the German bar in 2001. Dr. Socher advises banks and investors in all aspects of banking and financing transactions, including national and international syndicated financing transactions.
Olivier Van Den Broeke
Olivier Van Den Broeke
Olivier Van den broeke is a senior associate leading the Financial Services Regulatory, Fintech and Insurance practice in Belgium. He joined Baker McKenzie in 2013 and has more than 10 years of experience in advising financial institutions and Fintechs on a broad variety of financial services, Fintech and insurance regulatory matters. Olivier has authored several articles and contributions for leading journals on a variety of financial services regulatory matters. Olivier's practice focuses on complex financial services regulatory issues, regulatory driven strategic projects, transactions and restructurings, and financial services litigation and enforcement. He advises a broad range of clients active in the banking, insurance, Fintech, funds and payments industries. His clientele includes banks, insurers, payment and e-money institutions, investment firms, asset managers, pension funds, crypto asset firms, consumer lenders and various types of financial and insurance intermediaries. Matters that Olivier advises on include license applications, up-scaling and expanding of clients' businesses, digitisation and financial innovation, cross-border offering of financial services and products, obtaining regulatory approvals for strategic transactions and restructurings, complex financial contracting, securitisations, fund regulatory matters and supervisory enforcement. Olivier is also a trusted advisor in relation to governance requirements for financial institutions, sustainable finance, anti-money laundering and financial crime issues. From time to time, he is also involved in restructuring and insolvency matters.
Olivier Dal Farra
Olivier dal Farra is a Partner in the Tax Group of Baker McKenzie's Luxembourg office. He has 15 years of experience in international and Luxembourg taxation. Before joining the Firm in 2019, Olivier worked as a senior tax manager for an audit firm in Luxembourg and in several international law firms in Paris and Luxembourg. In 2024, Legal 500 EMEA recognized him as a Tax “Next Generation” Partner in Luxembourg. Olivier's practice focuses on international tax planning and tax advice in connection with investment tax structuring and M&A transactions. Olivier routinely assists international clients, including asset managers and private equity firms, in tax structuring strategies concerning their debt or equity investments. He also advises financial institutions (asset managers/banks/insurance companies) on tax planning and international tax compliance aspects. He has significant experience in assisting high-net-worth individuals and families with international tax, wealth planning, regulatory and family governance issues and works closely with Baker McKenzie's Wealth Management Practice. He advises numerous family offices, HNWI and private bankers on the tax structuring of private investments, as well as on succession planning. He has also developed an in-depth expertise on matters relating to the EU Directive on Mandatory Disclosure Reporting (DAC6), assisting both intermediaries and taxpayers to detect and meet their DAC6 obligations. He is the author of a book on the taxation of Luxembourg holding companies titled "Luxembourg holding companies – Domestic and International tax aspects". He is a lecturer at Dauphine University (executive master in private estate and wealth management) and he is a member of the authors committee for the law review “Ingenierie Patrimoniale” (Editions JFA).
Pablo Bentes
Pablo Bentes
Pablo M. Bentes is a partner in Baker McKenzie Geneva, where he heads the global WTO disputes practice of the Firm. Pablo focuses on representing WTO Members before the WTO Dispute Settlement Body and assists private clients and trade associations on how to leverage WTO disciplines to resolve trade disputes. Pablo is one of very few practitioners in the world to have successfully represented WTO Members in all stages in WTO dispute settlement proceedings, serving as lead counsel in oral pleadings before WTO panels and the Appellate Body. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Pablo was managing director at a leading law firm in Washington DC and a Legal Officer in the Appellate Body Secretariat of the WTO. While working at the Appellate Body Secretariat, Pablo advised on some of the largest and most complex appeals giving rise to the leading case law in areas such as import restrictions, subsidies, trade remedies, technical barriers to trade, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, among others. Pablo was featured as "Next Generation Lawyer – Dispute Resolution: International Trade" in Legal 500 US for three years in a row. Law360 has repeatedly named him a "Rising Star." He is a welcomed speaker at international podiums and publishes regularly in professional journals and international media. Pablo advises sovereign states and private clients in every stage of complex WTO disputes dealing with the inter-section between economic and non-economic objectives. He frequently appears on behalf of WTO members in oral pleadings before WTO panels and the Appellate Body.
Pamela Floriani
Pamela Floriani
Pamela Floriani is counsel in the Tax department of Baker McKenzie Italy. Pamela focuses her practice on both domestic and international VAT issues, assisting several international groups. She deals with tax opinions, rulings, tax litigation and pre-litigation matters, and assist clients during investigations/audits and settlements with the Italian Tax Authorities. She has participated to various cross-border projects for several international groups, with VAT implications at European level. Pamela is experienced in the VAT tax aspects of cross border transactions, specially focusing on permanent/fixed establishment issues, intra-EU transactions, place of supply issues and complex VAT refund procedures. She also provides tax opinions and deals with tax rulings related to indirect taxes aspects among several industries: Consumer Products, Energy, Real Estate and Life Science & Health Care.
Paolo Ghiglione
Paolo Ghiglione is a partner in the Corporate M&A practice group of Baker McKenzie's Italian offices and leads the private equity and the energy & infrastructure teams. Paolo Ghiglione has more than 20 years' experience in M&A deals, including disposals and acquisitions of assets and shares, mergers, de-mergers and joint ventures in a number of industries, including transport, energy, financial institutions, telecommunications, infrastructure and consumer goods. He has acted for both buyers and sellers in some of the top-end privatisation transactions in the Italian market and has been involved in a number of major restructurings and reorganisations. He also advises on corporate governance and regulatory matters for listed and non-listed companies including Italian private equity funds and financial intermediaries.
Paolo Galli
Paolo Galli
Paolo Galli is a partner of the IP & Technology Practice Group of Baker McKenzie Italy. Paolo is adjunct professor at the University of Piemonte Orientale, faculty of law, where he takes regular courses on IP and media law. He has a PHD in IP and private law and he is the author of many publications on IP and media-related matters, on both national and international reviews. Paolo provides assistance (both contractual and litigation) in the areas of media, advertising (including television and regulatory aspects) and intellectual property, including copyright and related rights, distinctive sign rights and competition law. He regularly advises leading industry and primary international media companies and is involved on an almost daily basis in his clients' relationships with major Italian and foreign rights holders and local regulatory authorities. Paolo joins us from Sky Italia, where he was responsible for content acquisitions, management of copyright and IP rights issues and litigation, after a long professional career in universities and boutique firms.
Pascal Mallien
Pascal Mallien
Pascal Mallien is a senior counsel and leads the Environmental Law practice group in the Belgian offices. His experience is broader than environmental law; it also includes general compliance issues, construction law, renewable energy, zoning, and public procurement. Pascal's practice focuses on advice and litigation. He has developed extensive experience in these areas through defending landowners, contractors, architects and action groups. Pascal assists and represents clients in matters involving permit issues for all kinds of industries, including chemical plants, gas stations and wind farm projects. He deals with many soil contamination issues and related procedures on behalf of major industrial sites. His litigation knowhow comprises criminal, administrative and civil procedures, as well as environmental/product liability. His practical knowledge is very useful in ad rem advices.
Patrick Wilkening
Patrick Wilkening
Patrick Wilkening is a partner in the German Information Technology and Intellectual Property Group and is based in Baker McKenzie‘s Düsseldorf office. Prior to joining the Firm in the fall of 2022, Patrick practiced in the IT/IP group of a leading German commercial law firm for almost 14 years, including one year on secondment to the technology transactions group of a prominent Wall Street law firm. He studied law at the University in Passau and was admitted to the German Bar in 2008. Patrick's practice focuses on complex IT/IP-related contracts and projects as well as comprehensive advice on IT and IP topics arising in M&A transactions, joint ventures, IPOs, spin-offs and outsourcing deals. Patrick also works with clients on analyzing and introducing new business models. Patrick has extensive experience in drafting, negotiating and implementing complex commercial agreements, including license agreements, research and development agreements, service agreements, collaboration agreements, outsourcing agreements as well as contract manufacturing and distribution agreements. Patrick regularly supports clients in a broad range of industries such as life sciences, automotive, mechanical and plant engineering, software/IT, and private equity.
Patrick O'Gara
Patrick O'Gara
Patrick O'Gara is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Corporate Tax department in London. Patrick focuses on UK and international corporation tax planning and defence for UK and overseas multinationals and private equity investors across a range of sectors. He has a particular focus on matters related to Intellectual Property, cross-border financing, and supply chain structuring.
Peder Oxhammar
Peder Oxhammar is Head of Baker McKenzie’s Intellectual Property Group in Stockholm. He has more than 15 years of experience in all aspects of intellectual property. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie in December 2012, he worked in private practice in one of Sweden's largest patent firms as well as in his own law firm. He has also worked in major pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca and Novartis, managing multijurisdictional patent and trademark litigation worldwide. Mr. Oxhammar practices mainly within the field of intellectual property with special focus on patents, contentious matters, strategy and licensing. He advises clients in a wide range of industries in Sweden, including pharmaceuticals, white-goods, electronics, and defense.
Peryhane Gawish
Peryhane Gawish
Peryhane is a Senior associate at Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo.
Peter Reinert
Peter Reinert
Dr. Peter Reinert is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Zurich office. For more than 30 years, Peter has been advising numerous companies in complex labor issues and has successfully represented clients in court. He also advises healthcare companies on Swiss regulatory matters. Peter regularly publishes work in relation to all aspects of Swiss employment law and is a regular speaker at internal and external seminars. Peter focuses his practice on Swiss labor law matters, with an emphasis on executive compensation, business transfers and other forms of restructurings, as well as a myriad of issues related to pharmaceutical regulatory law. His corporate clients include many healthcare and TMT (technology, media and telecommunications) companies. Peters knowledge is highly valued by clients. According to Chambers Employment Switzerland 2021, "he handled a case in court fabulously and was really well prepared. He has wide knowledge and expertise." Peter was also described as "very helpful, responsive and knowledgeable" by Legal500 Europe Employment 2021.
Peter Wand
Peter Wand
Dr. Peter Wand is a partner in the Frankfurt office of Baker McKenzie. He has more than 20 years of experience in cross-border M&A transactions for corporate, private equity and venture capital clients. Peter regularly advises on high-end M&A transactions, reorganizations, carve-outs and joint ventures with a focus on automotive, financial services and healthcare. He also has long-standing experience advising leading institutional investors on fund investments and other asset management-related transactions.
Phelim O’Doherty
Phelim O’Doherty
Phelim O'Doherty is a partner in the Firm's Corporate Group in London. He joined the Firm in 2008 and is a member of its Healthcare and TMT Industry Groups. Phelim advises corporate clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, investments and licensing arrangements. He has a particular focus on the Healthcare and TMT sectors. He was seconded to Accenture's legal team as an associate.
Philip Thomson
Philip Thomson
Philip is a Partner based in the London office who specialises in transactions in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Philip focuses on development and financing of large-scale projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors. He is particularly recognised for his work in the midstream and downstream oil and gas sector. His experience also includes joint ventures, commercial contracts, M&A transactions and restructuring transactions in the energy sector. Philip has a strong track record of leading on both commercial and financing documentation, and has a broad experience of deals across Europe, Middle East and Africa as well as Asia and Latin America. Philip is particularly well-known in the LNG sector, having been solely featured in Chambers Singapore for "his expertise in the LNG sector." Clients describe Philip as having "good knowledge of project finance in the oil/gas sector" and "having a very calming influence when it comes to those big issues".
Philip Annett
Philip Annett
Philip Annett is a partner based in Baker McKenzie’s London office focussing on complex investigations, litigation and compliance matters. He has an in-depth knowledge of working with UK and international regulators and enforcement agencies, having previously been a senior lawyer in the Enforcement Division at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) where he led some of the regulator's highest-profile enforcement cases. He also previously worked in the Bribery and Corruption Division at the Serious Fraud Office. Philip advises clients on complex investigations, litigation, regulatory and compliance matters, often with cross-border aspects. He has particular experience in the financial services, EMI, technology and healthcare sectors in a wide range of complex, high-value regulatory/compliance matters, investigations and litigation, both domestically and cross-border.
Philipp Schütt
Dr. Philipp Schütt, a counsel and member of the Firm’s International Commercial & Trade Practice Group, began his career in law in 2009. He advises companies on all aspects of commercial law, contract law and distribution law. Moreover, his work focuses on cross-border litigation and arbitration proceedings in a variety of areas of private commercial law. Dr. Schütt advises companies on all aspects of commercial law, contract law and distribution law. He particularly drafts and advises on agency and distribution agreements, customer and supply agreements and general terms and conditions. He also represents German and international clients in complex disputes before German courts and domestic and international arbitral tribunals and is working as arbitrator in institutional and ad hoc arbitration proceedings. In 2014, he was appointed as Certified Specialist for International Commercial Law.
Philipp Maier
Philipp Maier
Philipp Maier is partner and head of the Baker McKenzie Employment Law Practice Group in Vienna. He joined Baker McKenzie Austria in 2009 as associate of the employment law practice group. Prior to that Philipp worked for several years in the employment law department of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and in the litigation department of Wolf Theiss Rechtsanwälte. He also completed an internship at Aichelin Heat Treatment Systems (Detroit, USA). Philipp Maier advises national and international clients on a wide range of employment law matters, including employment contracts, pension and compensation plans, transfer of undertakings, restructurings and rights of the works council and unions. He has also expertise in employment litigation.
Phyllis Townsend
Phyllis Townsend
Phyllis Townsend is partner in the Wealth Management practice in London and the EMEA Wealth Management practice group lead. Phyllis works with clients on a broad range of wealth management matters, with a focus on investment structuring. Phyllis is ranked Band 1 for “Family Offices and Funds Structuring” and as a "Foreign expert in Middle East-wide" and for "Private Wealth Law" in Chambers HNW Guide, Next Generation Partner for "Private Client (Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate)" in Legal 500 and is listed in Legal Week's "Private Client Global Elite - Ones to Watch" and ePrivateClient's "Next Generation Leaders". Phyllis joined in 2012 from Rothschild Wealth Management & Trust where she was legal counsel in London and Zurich. She is also a member of the Firm’s global Alternative Capital team that provides best-in-class investment solutions for family offices, founders, sovereign wealth, and other sources of private capital. Phyllis' main practice is advising trustees, family offices and high-net worth individuals on cross-border tax, succession, asset protection and investments via trust, funds and family office structures. Phyllis often advises on pre-UK arrival planning and provides ongoing advice to UK resident non-UK domiciled individuals and those with connections to the Middle East, Europe and the US. Phyllis has experience in tax investigations. Phyllis advises financial institutions on regulatory and compliance issues and in relation to their wealth management offering.
Pietro Bernasconi
Pietro Bernasconi
Pietro Bernasconi heads the Corporate & Commercial and M&A practice groups of Baker McKenzie's Italian offices. Mr. Bernasconi is highly knowledgeable about various legal issues, particularly in the real estate, media and corporate sectors. He advises Italian and multinational companies on acquisitions, reorganizations, commercial issues and capital market transactions. He also provides assistance to leading corporations and financial institutions in initial public offerings and capital increases.
Piotr Rawski
Piotr Rawski
Piotr Rawski is the head of the Employment Practice Group in the Warsaw office. He is also a member of the Firm’s European Employment Steering Committee in Warsaw. Highly experienced in general employment law, Mr. Rawski is often invited to a wide range of international conferences, where he is a guest speaker on topics related to his field. Mr. Rawski provides skillful advice on the legal aspects of restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, especially with regard to employment and corporate law. He also counsels industry clients on various outsourcing transactions.
Piotr Wysocki
Piotr Wysocki works in the Firm’s Tax Practice Group in Warsaw. His practice is focused on income tax and international tax law issues. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie in 2005, Piotr advised on tax issues as a practitioner at some of the largest international tax advisory firms. Piotr's practice is focused on advisory in the field of M&A, capital market and financial transactions. He assists leading private equity funds in structuring their Polish investments, and has significant experience advising on complex domestic and international restructurings, financings and securitizations. He also advises Polish HNWI on their M&A transactions, and in optimizing the legal model of business operations. His clients include local and multinational companies from variety of industries (financial, real estate, telecom, energy).
Priyanka Usmani
Priyanka Usmani
Priyanka Usmani is a Partner in Baker McKenzie’s Banking and Finance Department based in London. Priyanka predominantly acts on restructuring and insolvency matters, often with multijurisdictional aspects, representing a range of clients both on the debtor side (acting for companies and financial sponsors), the creditor side (acting for institutional lenders and funds) and insolvency officeholders. Priyanka is accustomed to acting for the full spectrum of stakeholders in any restructuring and insolvency situations, including investors and directors of distressed (or potentially distressed) companies. Since joining Baker McKenzie, Priyanka has spent six months on secondment with the workout team at Barclays.
Rachel MacLeod
Rachel MacLeod
Rachel MacLeod is a senior associate in Baker McKenzie's London office and is experienced in environment, ESG and sustainability issues. Rachel’s practice has a particular focus on advising industrial and consumer product manufacturers on EU and UK regulation covering the entire product life cycle including new sustainability legislation and developing ESG supply chain due diligence and reporting requirements. Her practice also covers environmental and health & safety legislation advising businesses on operational compliance and risk matters. Areas of experience include: ESG supply chain due diligence requirements including under the EU Deforestation Regulation and new Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive Mandatory ESG reporting requirements including under the Modern Slavery Act, Streamlined Energy and Carbon Reporting (SECR) regime, the UK TCFD-aligned reporting regime and the ESOS energy auditing regime Plastics regulation including single use plastics and plastic packaging tax regulation Chemicals regulation including RoHS, REACH, CLP and POPs Waste legislation and Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regimes (e.g. WEEE, batteries and packaging recycling laws) Risks associated with the use of green claims/greenwashing Manufacturing and conformity assessment requirements under CE and UKCA marking legislation Pre-marketing authorisation and certification procedures Non-compliant and defective products, regulatory investigations and prosecutions Environment and health & safety-related permitting and licensing requirements
Rachel Wilkinson-Duffy
Rachel Wilkinson-Duffy
Rachel is partner in the Trade Mark Unit within the Intellectual Property department of the London office of Baker McKenzie. Rachel advises on all aspects of trade mark and design protection and enforcement, including global filing strategies, clearance searching and transactions involving intellectual property for the UK, EU, Madrid Protocol and overseas.  Rachel specialises in trade mark disputes such as infringements, oppositions, cancellation actions, company and domain name disputes and dispute resolution.  Rachel has worked with clients in a broad range of different fields, including pharmaceuticals, finance and fashion, as well as assisting NGOs in a number of sectors on a pro bono basis. Rachel also has considerable experience in advising on IP and regulatory issues involving parallel trade in the EU, particularly in the context of the life sciences sector, and the interplay between trade mark and regulatory naming clearance. Rachel is actively involved in the Chartered Institute for Trade Mark Attorneys ("CITMA"). She is currently the CITMA President and was the Chair of the Law & Practice Committee for many years, so has regular interaction with government officials at the UK IPO, EUIPO and WIPO, amongst others.
Radosław Nożykowski
Radosław Nożykowski
Radoslaw Nożykowski is a Counsel and Co-Head of the IP Tech and Defense practices at the Baker McKenzie Warsaw office. He has over 15 years of professional experience working for high-tech industry clients. Radosław is experienced in compliance, tech regulatory, information technology and cybersecurity. He has participated in transactions for leading technology companies and has advised defense clients on regulatory and compliance matters. In addition, he has coordinated internal investigations concerning business conduct breaches and assisted in white-collar crime investigations as well as advised on matters involving data breaches and cybersecurity crimes.
Raffaele Giarda
Raffaele Giarda
Raffaele Giarda co-heads the Italian Corporate/M&A practice and he is a member of the Information Technology & Communications Practice Group. Raffaele assists domestic and multinational clients in the areas of IT/C, media, mergers & acquisitions, corporate law, and commercial contracts. He focuses on regulatory matters, particularly in the information technology and communications industry, as well as in areas such as wireless networks and services, infrastructures roll-out and provision, wireline services, satellite networks, media platforms, MVNO, interconnection and access, Internet of Things, disruptive technologies, Machine-2-Machine and other internet protocol scenarios. He has contributed articles to law journals, and often moderates and speaks at Italian and international conferences and seminars on tech legal and regulatory issues. Raffaele is a lecturer at the University of Rome as well as at the Italian National School for Public Administration.
Rakesh Rathod
Rakesh Rathod
Rakesh Rathod is a partner in the Corporate Department of Baker McKenzie London, and advises clients on a wide range of corporate law matters. Rakesh  advises clients from multiple sectors on a broad range of corporate transactions, including private M&A, joint ventures, corporate governance, listings on the main market of the LSE, on-going public company listing/disclosure obligations, corporate redomiciliations and general corporate advisory work. Rakesh has extensive experience, and a particular focus, on advising global corporates in relation to complex, multijurisdictional and multifaceted spin-offs / demergers, carve-outs (sales and acquisitions), post-acquisition integrations and group reorganisations and restructurings.
Raphaël Hendrickx
Raphaël Hendrickx
Raphaël Hendrickx is a junior associate in the IP and Technology Group in the Brussels office. He joined Baker McKenzie in 2021. Raphaël advises clients on intellectual property and ICT-related matters, with a focus on tech, e-commerce, telecom and audio-visual content services regulation.
Rhiannon Williams
Rhiannon Williams
Rhiannon Williams is a partner in Baker & McKenzie's Global Energy, Mining and Infrastructure Industry Group and Projects Practice Group, based in London. Rhiannon has over 10 years of experience working on construction and project development matters and related commercial arrangements across the EMEA region and also the Caribbean. Rhiannon has been recognised as a "Rising Star" in the Legal 500 2021 directory. Rhiannon specialises in advising on the development of major energy, mining and infrastructure sector assets, whether on a traditional procurement or PPP, BOT or equivalent basis. Rhiannon also advises on the commercial arrangements relating to such assets. Rhiannon has a particular specialism in construction both in the UK and on an international basis and the use of the FIDIC suite of contracts. Rhiannon has worked on a large variety of projects and concessions, including mining and natural resources projects, process plants, ports, airports and more general infrastructure.
Richard Blunt
Richard Blunt
Richard leads our Corporate Energy team in London and is chair of our global Energy and Infrastructure Practice Group. Richard is a transactional energy lawyer focusing on energy, mining and infrastructure transactions. Richard focuses on the representation of clients in the resources and energy sectors throughout Europe , Africa, the CIS and the Middle East with a focus on M&A, joint ventures, private equity and project development.
Richard Fletcher
Richard Fletcher
Richard Fletcher heads the UK Transfer Pricing Group in London. A seasoned professional with over 30 years of experience as an international tax adviser, he has published a number of articles in various tax technical journals. Richard has presented at the International Tax Review’s Global Transfer Pricing Conference for a number of years and at meetings of tax directors of UK multinationals for the UK branch of the International Fiscal Association. Richard has extensive experience in transfer pricing and related taxation issues. His work includes dealing with HMRC, particularly advising on the negotiation of advance pricing agreements and other controversies related to transfer pricing. He also advises clients on the transfer pricing consequences of actual and potential transactions and assists in documenting transfer pricing policy reviews.
Richard Needham
Richard Needham
Richard is a Corporate Partner from Baker McKenzie's global reorganisations practice group in London. Richard is recognised in the Legal 500 (2023) as a leading individual for International Business Reorganisations. He regularly advises clients on structuring and implementing complex cross border reorganisations, legal entity rationalisation programmes and carve-out transactions. His practice focuses largely on the IMT sector. After a short period away from the Firm, Richard re-joined Baker McKenzie in 2023 as a Partner in our London office. Richard originally joined Baker McKenzie as a trainee in September 2006 and was first elected as a Partner to our London office in 2018. Richard has spent time in working in our London, Melbourne and San Francisco offices.
Richard Molesworth
Richard Molesworth
Richard is a Senior Associate in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution Department based in London. He is a member of the firm's Arbitration Practice Group. Richard primarily advises on arbitration and commercial litigation, with a particular focus on post-M&A and joint venture disputes.
Rita Marchetti
Rita Marchetti joined Baker McKenzie in 2000 and currently is a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group. She is admitted to practice in Italy and in the state of New York. Ms. Marchetti’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, general corporate issues as well as commercial transactions with a special focus on the hotels, restaurants and tourism industry and real estate transactions. As a corporate and M&A lawyer, she has represented US-based, European and other multinationals in a broad range of M&A transactions in such diverse industries as automotive products, consumer electronics, fashion products, home appliances and fixtures, gaming, medical products and devices and hotels and real estate.
Rob Mathews
Rob Mathews
Rob Mathews is a partner in the Firm's Capital Markets Group. Rob's clients benefit from his significant experience in multinational corporate and finance transactions, notably high-yield debt offerings. Working with investment banks and corporates, he brings insight and rigour to securities and other finance transactions, including cross-border Rule 144A and Regulation S debt and equity offerings and restructurings.
Robbie Downing
Robbie Downing
Robbie began his career as an EU/antitrust lawyer at Baker & McKenzie. In 1990, he joined IBM as an in-house lawyer and later became a law lecturer at King’s College, London. Robbie returned to Baker McKenzie in 1995, becoming a partner in 1998. He has specialized for over 25 years in data protection and telecoms. He is ranked as a Thought Leader for Data - Telecoms & Media by Who's Who Legal. Since the 1990s, Robbie has specialized in data protection and telecoms. Recent projects include major global privacy compliance projects as well as specific privacy challenges such as international transfers, security breaches and rolling out new technology. He has also led numerous multinational telecoms compliance projects especially for new entrants.
Robert Wippel
Robert Wippel
Dr. Robert Wippel is a partner in the banking and finance team of the Vienna office and specializes in banking law and financing transactions. He advises lenders, borrowers and sponsors with respect to all types of financing transactions including project-, acquisition- and real estate financing. Robert also has a strong knowledge and track record in structured financing as well as regulatory matters. Robert started his career 2011 as a banking associate in the Vienna office of a Magic Circle firm and joined Baker McKenzie in 2019.
Roberto Cursano
Roberto Cursano has been a lawyer in Baker McKenzie since September 2007. He focuses on healthcare law and compliance, and assists in tender procedures, the negotiation of public contracts and litigation before administrative courts. Mr. Cursano is a former administrative officer in the Italian Ministry of Health and helps clients work closely with the Italian Public Administration. He is admitted to the bar before the Italian Supreme Court and the Council of State. As well as training and tutoring in the master’s degree program on clinical trials of pharmaceutical products at the University of Rome Sapienza, Mr. Cursano regularly publishes articles and scientific contributions. He also frequently hosts and participates in seminars and presentations on pharmaceutical and administrative law matters. Mr. Cursano advises primarily on pharmaceutical and healthcare matters. These include product licensing and marketing, clinical trials, pricing and reimbursement, promotions, interactions with healthcare professionals, distribution of products, and public procurement issues. Additionally, he assists in anti-bribery matters and related investigations, and helps set up internal compliance models preventing corruption-related crimes, money laundering and corporate crimes (so-called Law 231 Models). He also advises on administrative/public law, including export control law and public procurement law.
Rodrigo Díaz de Valdés
Rodrigo Díaz de Valdés
Local Parter.  Rodrigo Díaz de Valdés heads the Dispute Resolution and Antitrust practice groups of Baker McKenzie's Santiago office.
Roel Meers
Roel Meers
Roel Meers is a partner in the Corporate Finance Practice Group of Baker McKenzie's Brussels office. He joined Baker McKenzie in 1997. Roel is head of the Corporate Finance Practice Group of Baker McKenzie in Belgium. He is also chair of the EMEA Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Group, and a member of the steering committee of the Global Healthcare and Life Sciences Industry Group and the EMEA Capital Markets Practice Group of Baker McKenzie. Roel advises clients in the field of corporate finance, covering mergers and acquisitions (public and private), private equity transactions, as well as security offerings, listings and other capital market transactions. He also advises on complex corporate restructurings, corporate governance matters, and shareholder activism.
Roger Thomi
Roger Thomi
Roger Thomi is a partner at Baker McKenzie Switzerland and the co-head of the Swiss Antitrust & Competition Practice Group. Roger is specialized in antitrust & competition law, in commercial law – in particular distribution, franchising, and joint ventures – and regulatory matters. He has practical industry expertise in the food & beverages and the healthcare industries. The Legal 500 ranked Roger as a “Next Generation Partner" in competition law, praised for his "solution-oriented" approach and extensive "knowledge comprising a significant range of antitrust law issues." Roger Thomi has vast experience in all aspects of Swiss and European antitrust and competition law. He represents Swiss and international clients before competition authorities and courts, including in national and international cartel investigations and abuse of dominance proceedings, merger control or investment control filings, as well as in civil antitrust disputes. Roger's experience includes the introduction of selective or exclusive international distribution systems and the structuring of horizontal cooperation agreements (e.g., R&D cooperation, joint purchasing and joint production) and strategic alliances between competitors, setting up robust antitrust compliance programs, as well as advice on unfair competition law and advertising law. As an experienced commercial lawyer, Roger assists clients in drafting all kinds of commercial agreements, particularly distribution, franchise, agency, e-commerce, manufacturing, supply and joint venture agreements. In addition, he helps clients to strengthen and transform their supply chains and to pursue their sustainability goals and manage sustainability-related legal risk. Roger has extensive industry expertise in the food and beverages and healthcare industries. With his practical knowledge in food regulatory matters, he supports clients in launching food innovations, in food labelling and marketing, as well as in sustainability. He also regularly advises healthcare and pharmaceutical companies in connection with distribution of their products.
Ruslan Drobyazko
Ruslan Drobyazko heads the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in Kyiv. Throughout his career, Mr. Drobyazko participated in many international and national conferences and seminars regarding intellectual property and commercial law issues. Ruslan provides comprehensive services in connection with structuring transactions related to intellectual property and information technologies. He secures the intellectual property rights of its clients in Ukraine and protect clients against unfair businesses.
Sabrina Bodson
Sabrina Bodson
Sabrina Bodson is a counsel in the Employment Practice Group of Baker McKenzie's Luxembourg office. She has over 15 years of experience. Prior to joining the Firm in 2022, Sabrina was a counsel in the employment department of a Magic Circle firm in Luxembourg. She is a frequent speaker on employment law issues in seminars and conferences and contributor to various employment law related publications. Sabrina focuses on employment-related advisory work. She covers the full life-cycle of the employment relationship, from hiring to termination, including the drafting of complex contracts, the negotiation of senior employee exits and the assistance in the context of investigations around conduct issues, notably harassment. Sabrina routinely advises clients on employment matters relating to reorganizations and restructurings, including negotiations of collective dismissals with staff representatives and unions, in all sectors including industry and financial services. Sabrina is particularly recognised for her ability to deliver strategic advice combining both commercial and technical capabilities and manage the fine line between shareholder expectations, local culture and practices and local management's own expectations. Recently, she successfully handled a high profile and very visible matter concerning a job reduction programme affecting 160 employees, leading negotiations with government representatives (including Ministers) and unions as well as press management, with a positive negotiation outcome in a particularly tense context. Additionally, she has a broad experience in all contemporary employment law and HR topics, including diversity and inclusion, remote working, employee mobility and relocation, staff sharing arrangements as well as office build-ups. Sabrina also focuses in personnel questions in the regulated environment and is in particular a renowned professional in remuneration policies in the financial sector. She regularly assists banks, management companies, other financial players, insurance and listed companies in the design and drafting of remuneration policies, incentive plans, recruitment, retention and termination packages as well as in relation to regulatory audits.
Samantha Mobley
Samantha Mobley
Samantha Mobley is a senior partner in the Antitrust & Competition Practice of Baker McKenzie's London office. She is a former chair of Baker McKenzie's Global Antitrust and Competition Group, a team of over 300 competition and antitrust professionals worldwide. Samantha is a member of Baker McKenzie's India Steering Committee. Samantha has extensive experience in all areas of competition law. She is an experienced merger control professional and regularly advises the boards of UK plcs in numerous industry sectors on antitrust compliance matters. Samantha also represents clients in foreign investment review cases.
Samuel Marbacher
Samuel Marbacher
Samuel Marbacher is the co-head of the Firm’s  Real Estate practice as well as Banking & Finance practice in Zurich. He joined the Firm in January 2007 and was made partner in 2015.He graduated from the University of St. Gallen Law School and earned his LL.M. degree at the University of Sydney. Mr. Marbacher holds a bachelor's degree in business and finance from the University of Applied Science in Lucerne. Samuel Marbacher teaches at University of Zurich in the CUREM master and executive classes and at the IFZ Institute for Financial Services, Zug. Mr. Marbacher focuses on advising domestic and international client in the area of real estate transactions (including environmental and Lex Koller), real estate financing and syndicated debt financing (including export financing). He also advises on general banking and corporate matters as well as financing related aspects of private insurance law.
Sandra Wittinghofer
Sandra Wittinghofer
Sandra Wittinghofer — a member of the Banking and Finance Group — advises national and international banks, trustees and corporations on matters of banking and finance law, particularly on structured finance and relating banking regulatory matters. She studied law in Bayreuth and Paris (Assas) and is admitted as a German Rechtsanwalt and as Solicitor (England and Wales). Sandra advises national and international banks and corporations in matters of finance and regulatory law. She has extensive experience in ABCP securitization transactions as well in term transactions, covering a range of asset classes.
Sarah Williams
Sarah Williams
Sarah Williams is a senior associate in the financial services practice in London. Sarah advises a broad range of clients on financial services legal and regulatory issues. Sarah's practice includes advising on the regulation of payment services and electronic money, investment firms and consumer credit providers and anti-money laundering compliance issues. Sarah advises both traditional financial institutions and fintech clients, with a particular focus on advising clients in relation to new and innovative business models and products, including payments products, retail investment platforms, consumer lending and crypto-assets. She has particular experience on cross-border matters and has advised large fintech clients on their global expansion strategies, including advising on application of regulation and international compliance obligations.
Sarah Porter
Sarah Porter
Sarah Porter is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Structured Finance Group in London. Sarah advises arrangers, originators, trustees, issuers, rating agencies and other market participants on securitisation transactions across numerous asset classes, including residential mortgages, commercial mortgages, trade receivables, consumer loans and leases, corporate loans and synthetic structures. She has acted for arranging banks and originators in both commercial paper conduit and term issue securitisations, for a major rating agency in their review of European CMBS transactions for rating purposes and for trustees and issuers on term deals. In addition, she has acted for Issuers on straight debt capital market transactions, LPN transactions and on MTN Paper Programmes. Sarah has been recognised as "one to watch" and a "rising star" in the Legal 500, with reference to her being " smart, pragmatic, and a delight to work with". In 2017 and 2018 she has also been listed as a "Next Generation Lawyer" in Legal 500.
Sebastian Schwiddessen
Sebastian Schwiddessen is a counsel and a member of Baker McKenzie's TMT Practice in Berlin. Sebastian has been working in the entertainment and video games industry for over 20 years. At the age of 21 he founded his own media news related business and web portal where he oversaw up to 50 content creators and was responsible for content creation, data protection, advertisement and regulatory matters. After joining Baker McKenzie in 2014, he sold his business to fully focus on his career as a legal advisor in the media and IT sector. Sebastian studied law in Berlin and Australia, where he specialized in platform, media and IT matters. During his time as a law clerk he worked for two international law firms, one of them specialized in entertainment law. Due to his experience in the fields, Sebastian is responsible for most media and platform related matters in Germany and regularly coordinates global projects for clients. He is one of Baker McKenzie's EMEA key contacts for interactive entertainment clients and is also part of the firm's global working group for interactive entertainment. Sebastian maintains good contacts to a number of regulators in Germany, where he has been invited several times to speak as legal expert on regulatory and other matters. Sebastian is Baker McKenzie’s designated contact for the GAME association in Germany and regularly visits video game industry events such as the Gamescom, VGBA Law Summit and the Games Industry Law Summit. Sebastian’s clients range from various platform providers over market leading video gaming, film, video on demand and entertainment companies to indie publishers. Sebastian is well-known as an advisor in the video games and entertainment sector. He also regularly advises a wide range of leading social media companies and video-sharing platforms on regulatory and copyright related matters. Sebastian's practice focuses on all matters of platform, media and IT law such as platform liability matters, the EU Copyright Directive, media related youth protection and criminal laws, advertisement regulation, hate speech laws, data protection law, copyright law, gambling laws, eCommerce, app commerce, contract law, film taxes, etc. Sebastian also regularly advises on the media and IT aspects of M&A activities and was involved in several entertainment industry related M&A transactions.
Sebastian Tytgat
Sebastian Tytgat
Sebastian Tytgat is a counsel in the International Commercial & Trade Practice Group in the Brussels office. He joined Baker McKenzie in 2021. Sebastian has also been a civil procedure teaching assistant at KU Leuven from 2018 to 2024. He started his career as a lawyer at a first-tier independent Belgian law firm and continued as in-house counsel at the world's largest beer brewer, where he advised on contentious and non-contentious matters for the leisure and hospitality business in Belgium and Luxembourg. Sebastian advises national and international clients on contentious matters before judicial and arbitral courts. He also advises clients in various legal aspects of business, commercial and consumer protection law as well as the drafting and negotiating of a wide range of commercial agreements inter alia in the fields of agency, franchising and distribution.
Sebastian Pabian
Sebastian Pabian
Sebastian Pabian is a partner in the Warsaw Dispute Resolution and Arbitration Practice Group. He is an author of numerous publications on the subject of insurance law as well as dispute resolution. Mr. Pabian has extensive experience in advising clients on a wide range of litigation and arbitration matters. He focuses on financial institution litigation, particularly on insurance litigation, and regulatory disputes. The cases he has dealt with include, in particular, directors and officers liability (D&O), Bankers Blanket Bond (BBB) and professional indemnity (PI) insurance claims, disputes related to large infrastructure projects, currency derivatives, insolvency and white collar crimes, as well as litigation concerning consumer protection. His practice also focuses on group action/collective redress issues. He also provides day-to-day legal advisory services to insurance companies.
Sebastián Vivanco
Sebastián Vivanco
Partner. Mr. Vivanco is the leader of the Banking & Finance Practice Group in Chile.
Sebastien Marcelin-Rice
Sebastien Marcelin-Rice
Sébastien Marcelin-Rice is a banking partner in Baker McKenzie’s London office specialising in real estate finance, real estate private equity, distressed investing and the financing of special situations mostly in the real estate space. Sébastien advises a mix of sponsors and lenders in these areas and has extensive experience in advising on cross-border European financings. Sébastien leads our Real Estate Finance practice in London and sits on our Global Real Estate Finance steering committee. Sébastien also has broad experience across a range of other financing transactions and products including restructuring work. Sébastien joined Baker McKenzie in 2012 from another leading law firm where he trained and qualified in 2002. He is fluent in English, French and Italian and speaks conversational German.
Serena Fantinelli
Serena Fantinelli
Serena Fantinelli joined Baker McKenzie as counsel in October 2015. She advises on all areas of labor, employment and employment litigation. Serena has extensive experience in domestic and international transfer of undertaking procedures, outsourcing and redundancy processes. She advises on managing executive employment contracts and dismissals, including negotiations for consensual termination. She also assists in labor-related litigation and actions related to employment contracts with journalists.
Serge Pannatier
Serge Pannatier
Serge Pannatier worked as a trade negotiator with the Swiss Federal Administration before joining Baker McKenzie. Mr. Pannatier currently serves as head of the Employment Law and the WTO and International Trade practice groups in Geneva, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Firm's International Trade Compliance and Customs Practice Group. In addition to working for the Firm, he is also a faculty member of the World Trade Institute of the University of Berne (Switzerland). He is a key member of the Employment Law and the WTO and International Trade practice groups in Geneva, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Firm's International Trade Compliance and Customs Practice Group. He regularly advises multinational companies and governmental clients on a broad range of employment and international trade-related issues.
Serhiy Piontkovsky
Serhiy Piontkovsky is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Kyiv office, where he heads the Firm's Energy, Chemicals, Mining and Infrastructure and Real Estate practice groups. Serhiy is heavily involved in major privatization projects in Ukraine within the steel, mining, energy and industrial sectors. He has acted in numerous M&A transactions, including the acquisition of Ukrainian enterprises in the privatization process, particularly those via commercial tenders organized by the State Property Fund. In the real estate sector, Serhiy represents major international hotel chains, developers, construction companies, investment funds, embassies, religious organizations and private investors on various Ukrainian law issues related to property pre-lease and long-term leasing, acquisition of land lease rights, construction, design and letting.
Serhiy Chorny
Serhiy Chorny
Serhiy Chorny is a co-managing partner of the Kyiv office of Baker McKenzie and head of the Kyiv office's Banking, Finance and Capital Markets Group. Serhiy's primary focus vests in cross-border lending, structured finance, securitization, debt capital markets and debt restructuring. His clients include international financial institutions, major international banks and their subsidiaries in Ukraine, Eurobond issuance arrangers, state-owned and privately owned Ukrainian commercial banks, other financial institutions, international payment systems and a broad array of significant and mid-sized Ukrainian borrowers, issuers and security providers. Serhiy has successfully led a number of landmark transactions in the Ukrainian market, including debut Eurobond issuances, pioneering international securitizations and significant debt restructurings.
Sibel Owji
Sibel Owji
Partner; Co-chair, US International Tax Practice
Simon Porter
Simon Porter
Simon Porter is a member of the Firm’s Structured Capital Markets Group in the London office, where he works on a wide range of capital markets and structured finance transactions. His practice includes specialist advice to corporate trustees in capital markets transactions. Simon acts on a wide range of capital markets transactions, including debt, equity, equity linked and structured products. He advises issuers, trustees and arrangers on a wide range of matters relating to securities and finance, and is often involved in transactions involving Middle Eastern debt capital markets. Simon has worked on a number of technically demanding transactions, including the first ever pre-IPO convertible bond for a Ukrainian company, as well as a number of secured convertible bonds for AIM listed companies.
Simone Rieken
Simone Rieken
Simone Rieken is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Frankfurt office and a member of the Information Technology Practice Group. Prior to joining the Firm, she worked for a large German corporate law firm, focusing on IT and data protection law. She studied law at the University of Trier and at Queen Mary, University of London and clerked in Hamburg and Los Angeles. Simone advises national and international companies on all aspects of IT and data protection law. She focuses on IT (outsourcing) contracts and (agile) software developments. Another focus of her practice is on data protection with regard to direct marketing and related tracking and profiling activities.
Simone Liebmann-Slatin
Simone Liebmann-Slatin
Mag. Simone Liebmann-Slatin, MSc. joined Baker McKenzie as a partner in 2003. Since 2011, Ms. Liebmann-Slatin is a senior counsel in the Vienna office and is a member of the employment law practice group. She regularly delivers presentations on issues related to employment law in Austria, and is an active contributor to various publications, webinars and workshops. Ms. Liebmann-Slatin advises national and international companies on a wide variety of employment-related matters, including contract drafting and negotiations, drafts of company benefits and compensation systems as well as helping clients to expand or reduce their business in Austria. She is also knowledgeable in complex restructurings, cross-border transactions, as well as negotiations with works councils and unions. She also covers immigration and employment litigation.
Sławomir Boruc
Mr. Boruc provides comprehensive tax advice to foreign and local companies in the chemicals, printing and IT industries. He serves as trusted counsel to one of world’s largest telecommunication firms, and routinely represents clients before tax authorities and the Supreme Administrative Court.
Sophie Schubert
Sophie Schubert
Sophie Schubert is a senior associate at Baker McKenzie and a member of the Corporate Practice Group in Vienna. She joined Baker McKenzie’s Vienna office in August 2014 and has more than 9 years of experience advising clients in complex national and international corporate reorganizations and mergers and acquisitions. She worked also in the Munich office of Baker McKenzie. Sophie is focused on complex corporate national and cross-border reorganizations and restructurings as well as mergers and acquisitions with a strong track record in the healthcare, infrastructure and energy sector. She advises multinational and domestic clients on private equity, M&A transactions, reorganizations, restructurings, joint ventures and all aspects of general corporate law.
Stefan Balazs
Stefan Balazs
Stefan Balazs is a member of the Firm's Capital Markets Group in Stockholm and specialized in EU Prospectus and Market Abuse Regulation. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, Stefan worked in the field of capital market law as a legal counsellor at the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen), focusing primarily on prospectus law. He has also conducted studies in Business Administration and Economics at the Stockholm University. Furthermore, Stefan is the only Nordic representative of the Consultative Working Group within the Corporate Finance Standing Committee at the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA). Stefan focuses his practice mainly on Equity Capital Markets, Debt Capital Markets, and public mergers & acquisitions. Stefan has extensive transaction experience from representing both issuers and investment banks in IPOs, public capital raisings (preferential rights issues and directed issues), bond listings, MTN-programmes and representing clients in SFSA imposed Market Abuse Regulation-sanctions.
Stefanie Price
Stefanie Price
Stefanie is a partner in the Real Estate group and practices in all aspects of real estate law. In particular, Stefanie handles high-value real estate transactions for clients including investors and high-profile corporate occupiers. She has notable experience in a range of asset classes, including student accommodation, prime office space and logistics sites. Additionally, Stefanie advises on corporate transactions involving real estate assets, as well as having a specialism in the consumer goods and retail sector.
Steffen Scheuer
Steffen Scheuer
Dr. Steffen Scheuer is a member of the Firm’s European Labor Law and Global Labor Law practice groups. He is experienced in all aspects of employment law and compliance matters. Dr. Scheuer’s dissertation on stock options was awarded the Price of Honors by the Employers Association for the Metal Industry. He regularly delivers speeches for Baker McKenzie’s clients on employment law and compliance issues, and conducts management trainings in labor law and compliance policies. Dr. Scheuer also practiced in the Firm’s San Francisco and Palo Alto offices. Dr. Scheuer routinely advises companies on the labor law aspects of outsourcing projects, complex reorganizations and mergers and acquisitions, especially in relation to the conclusion of collective agreements with works councils. He is experienced in handling mass dismissals, employee benefits, compensation, executive terminations and transfers, pension issues, discrimination laws and employment litigation. Dr. Scheuer is knowledgeable in a wide range of matters concerning the relations between employers and works councils, as well as the mandatory representation of employees in companies’ supervisory boards. Dr. Scheuer is an experienced litigator and a member of the firm’s Compliance group.
Steve Holmes
Steve Holmes
Steve Holmes co-leads Baker McKenzie’s EMEA IP, technology and data teams. Steve’s practice focuses on drafting and negotiating major life sciences, technology, outsourcing, telecommunications and digital transactions, acting for both customers and suppliers across a range of sectors. He also provides regulatory advice to clients operating in the life science, technology and digital space.
Steve Abraham
Steve Abraham
Steve Abraham is a partner in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution team based in London and serves as the firm's Dispute Resolution chair for the EMEA region. Steve has a particular focus on international arbitration and ADR in the energy, mining and infrastructure projects, often involving projects in Africa, the Middle East and CIS countries. In addition to acting in commercial disputes Steve advises in relation to investment treaty issues and in relation to risk and project management issues during the course of projects. Steve writes and speaks regularly on international arbitration and construction law issues. Steve's work is predominantly international, with projects in Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and CIS countries. His practice focuses mainly on international arbitration, and he is experienced in working with all of the major arbitral institutions. In addition to commercial dispute resolution, Steve regularly advises on investment treaties and public international law issues. As well as representing clients in disputes, Steve advises on dispute avoidance and project management issues. He also sits as an arbitrator.
Sue McLean
Sue McLean
Sue is a partner in Baker McKenzie's IP, Data and Technology team based in London. Sue advises on complex technology and commercial deals and projects. Sue has advised on technology projects for over 24 years. She advises on strategic technology deals including cloud, outsourcing, digital transformation and development and licensing. She also advises on a range of legal and regulatory issues relating to the development and roll-out of new technologies including AI, blockchain/DLT and crypto-assets. Sue is a key member of our global AI practice and leads on responsible AI governance and AI related transactional projects at the firm. Sue co-leads our Commercial practice in London. On the commercial side, Sue's practice involves advising on a range of strategic commercial agreements including supply and distribution agreements, manufacturing agreements, warehousing and logistics agreements, IP licensing and assignment agreements, joint development agreements, collaboration agreements and franchising agreements. She also supports clients in preparing terms of business and related documentation for new offerings and coordinating global roll-outs. Sue also co-leads our transactional practice in London supporting our Corporate teams and providing strategic support on the commercial, technology and intellectual property aspects of M&A transactions, including advising on complex and strategic ancillary commercial, IP and transitional agreements related to acquisitions, disposals, carve-outs and JVs. Sue is ranked as a leading lawyer in Chambers for Information Technology & Outsourcing and Fintech Legal and in Legal500 for IT & Telecoms, TMT, Commercial Contracts and Fintech. Clients say of Sue: "She is pragmatic and focused on getting a sensible deal done" and "She quickly builds relationships with ease and leverages her network to gain valuable insight. Her knowledge of technology and the impact of existing and upcoming laws is evident. Her professionalism builds trust and we have been grateful for her responsiveness on urgent matters". Sue's practice involves advising clients across a range of sectors including TMT, healthcare, financial services, consumer goods and retail, EMI and IMT. Sue is a key member of our global financial services industry group. She is also an active member of our HLS and CGR industry groups. Sue is vice chair and a trustee of the Society for Computers and Law and founder and chair of the SCL Women in Tech Law network.
Sunny Mann
Sunny Mann
Sunny Mann is a Partner in Baker McKenzie's London office and co-leads the UK Compliance and Investigations Practice, as well as the UK International Commercial and Trade Practice. Both these practices are ranked Tier 1 by Legal 500 UK. He has also worked in our Firm's Washington DC, New York and Sydney offices. Sunny also advises many clients on risk matters in India. He advises clients (including numerous FTSE 100 and Fortune 100 businesses) on compliance and investigations with respect to export controls, trade sanctions and anti-bribery rules. The Legal 500 ranked Sunny as a “Leading Practitioner", and as "excellent", with a ‘calm’ and "very practical" approach. The India Business Law Journal also noted that Sunny is "excellent and has deep experience in India". He is a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, the leading institute for post-graduate European studies, where he teaches a course on Corporate Compliance.
Susanne Liebel-Kotz
Susanne Liebel-Kotz
Susanne Liebel-Kotz is a partner in the Baker McKenzie Zurich office. She has more than 10 years' experience in the fields of international tax planning and M&A. Susanne is a member of the Firm's Global Tax and Real Estate practice groups. She is a frequent speaker on seminars and other events regarding various taxation issues, particularly with respect to international taxation. Susanne is also a lecturer in the fields of international and real estate taxation. Susanne's work is focused on international tax planning and tax advice in connection with M&A transactions and corporate restructurings, including private equity, venture capital, real estate and capital markets transactions. She also has a strong focus on transaction-related VAT and new technologies. Susanne advises Swiss and international clients on inbound and outbound tax planning strategies. In addition, she gives advice on tax matters in all phases of a transaction process: from designing tax-optimized acquisition and joint venture structures, carrying out tax due diligence reviews to the drafting and negotiation of the transaction documentation's tax-related aspects, and implementing tax-efficient post-merger integrations.
Susie Davies
Susie Davies
Susie is a partner in Baker McKenzie London's Corporate Group and is a member of the Energy, Mining and Infrastructure team. Susie's practice focuses on advising domestic and international clients in the resources and energy sectors on M&A, joint venture arrangements, regulatory matters and corporate reorganisations. Susie has also spent eight months on secondment with a leading international mining group based in their London offices, working as part of the in-house legal team.
Sven Bates
Sven Bates
Sven Bates is Of Counsel for International Trade at Baker McKenzie. He has spent the majority of his career at the Firm's London office, focusing on international trade compliance, trade remedies and anti-bribery. He has also practiced in Amsterdam and has previously worked for the European Commission and the Shadow Attorney General. Sven has extensive experience in particular in the financial services sector, and has undertaken secondments at a Tier 1 UK bank and the Lloyd's insurance market. Sven's practice focusses on a comprehensive spectrum of trade compliance areas, including export controls, sanctions, trade remedies, foreign investment rules and anti-bribery. Sven has significant multi-jurisdictional experience in advising in these fields in the context compliance and investigations and broader government engagement. Sven has supported a number of clients in connection with investigations by the UK (and other) authorities and has counselled companies on negotiations with the highest levels of government on approaches to sensitive licensing matters, amending new legislation and international trade remedies. Sven has also advised extensively on the application of trade compliance and foreign investment rules to global mergers and acquisitions, supporting clients on a full range of pre-acquisition due diligence processes and post-acquisition integration strategies. Sven's expertise and profile is reflected in the Legal 500, where he is ranked as one of the top 10 lawyers in the City for international trade compliance. Sven is also periodically quoted in the press and is a regular speaker at external events hosted by the Financial Conduct Authority, the British Bankers Association and the London Institute for Banking and Finance, reflecting his recognised experience in the financial services sector in particular.
Tania Arora
Tania Arora
Tania joined Baker McKenzie 2007. She completed her training contract and qualified as an associate in the Energy, Mining and Infrastructure Industry Group in September 2009. Tania Arora is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Energy, Mining & Infrastructure Group based in London. She is experienced in project development, infrastructure and construction transactions in the UK and across Asia and the EMEA region, with a particular focus on power projects.
Tanja Schmid
Tanja Schmid
Tanja Schmid is an associate in Baker McKenzie's Banking & Finance and Capital Markets Groups in Zurich. She graduated from the University of Bern in 2016 and was admitted to the bar in 2019. Prior to joining the Firm in 2019, she worked as a law clerk at a Bern based law firm and a tax court of first instance. She gained additional experience by working at the legal service of a Swiss bank for five years. Tanja focuses her practice on Banking & Finance, Capital Markets, general corporate law matters as well as financial services matters.
Thomas Gilles
Thomas Gilles has more than 20 years of experience representing German and international clients in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructurings and general corporate law matters. He is the Chairman of the EMEA-China Group of Baker McKenzie. Thomas Gilles's practice is focused on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings, ESG-related due diligences, as well as general company law and compliance matters. His clients include companies in a broad range of industries, including automotive, pharmaceutical, technology, energy and infrastructure. Dr. Gilles likewise advises clients from emerging markets in their outbound investments into Germany and Europe.
Thomas Schänzle
Thomas Schänzle
Dr. Thomas Schänzle is co-head of the German Tax Practice Group. He has extensive experience (more than 26 years) in providing tax advice to German and foreign groups, including German family-owned groups, on complex domestic and international corporate tax issues with strong focus on deal-related tax structuring and internal group reorganizations. Thomas joined Baker McKenzie in April 2018. Before he was an international partner with PwC and a highly ranked German tax law firm and held key positions in the central tax department of Siemens in Munich and Brussels. He holds a diploma in International Business Administration from the European Business School (ebs) and is a certified German tax advisor since 2001. On top of that, Thomas holds a PhD in International Taxation and a Certificate in International Accounting (CINA). Thomas has published numerous tax articles during his professional career and is a frequent speaker at national and international tax conferences and, inter alia, a member of the Tax Committee of Frankfurt's Chamber of Commerce and IFA. Thomas' tax practice focuses on the structuring of inbound and outbound investments and (cross-border) corporate restructurings. He also has ample experience in advising on all aspects of transactions including acquisition and carve-out structuring, as well as post-deal integration and joint venture structuring.
Tímea Bodrogi-Szabó
Tímea Bodrogi-Szabó
Tímea focuses on tax law.  She has an outstanding expertise in representing clients in tax controversy both in front of the tax authority, and in front of the courts in case of a judicial review of the tax authority's resolution. She represented several Hungarian and multinational companies in complex tax audit procedures and the litigations following such audits. Tímea also advises our clients on VAT matters. Further to the above, she regularly advises the Hungarian subsidiaries of multinational companies regarding corporate law and mergers and acquisitions. She is also advising regarding liquidation and related tax issues."
Tobias Höfling
Tobias Höfling
Dr. Tobias Höfling is a partner in Baker McKenzie’s Dispute Resolution Practice Group. Tobias is a specialist in corporate litigation and has many years of experience in advising shareholders, companies and their boards in corporate law. Tobias represents clients in rescission actions and appraisal proceedings and all other corporate disputes in and out of court. Tobias has also represented clients in major arbitration proceedings involving post-M&A cases and disputes that arose during major infrastructure and construction projects. Tobias advises clients on international arbitration and litigation matters. Tobias has a special expertise in disputes related to major infrastructure projects such as power plants, offshore wind farms and underground gas storages. His second main area of practice are commercial and corporate disputes including appraisal proceedings and actions for annulment of shareholders’ resolutions.
Tom Quincey
Tom Quincey
Tom is a senior associate in the Corporate Finance practice group in London. He joined the Firm in 2015 as an associate having previously trained in-house and has also undertaken a secondment to the Investment Banking and Capital Markets (Legal) team at an investment bank. Tom's practice comprises a mix of UK PLC advisory, corporate reorganisations, public and private M&A and equity capital markets transactions. He has extensive experience in the FIG sector and is also regularly active in a number of other sectors including Energy, Resources & Infrastructure, Food & Beverage and TMT. He acts for both corporates and banks. Tom has established a corporate governance practice which encompasses PLC advisory for listed companies and corporate reorganisations for a range of multinational clients. Tom has also worked on a wide range of high profile public M&A transactions, including consortium, hostile and competitive offers, acting for a range of bidders and targets as well as financial advisors on cash confirmation exercises. He also has extensive UK PLC experience including IPOs, demergers of premium listed companies, several redomiciliations and a number of other primary and secondary offerings. On the private M&A side, Tom regularly acts on complex transactions involving pre-sale carve-outs and has experience of transactions across a range of jurisdictions.
Tom McNaughton
Tom McNaughton
Tom is a partner in the London office's Pensions Practice Group. Tom advises both pension scheme trustees and their sponsoring employers in various industries, with particular experience in relation to industry-wide schemes. He covers a variety of areas including advising in relation to pension scheme mergers, de-risking exercises, corporate transactions and re-organisations, scheme benefit redesigns and restructurings (including closures to accrual and other liability management exercises). He also advises on a number of contentious matters as part of the Pensions Department's pensions disputes practice.
Tomasz Krzyżowski
Tomasz Krzyzowski co-heads Baker McKenzie’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group in Warsaw. He routinely works on corporate acquisitions and disposals, and has led a series of private equity transactions and real estate projects. He is recommended by leading publications such as Chambers Global, Legal 500, PLC Which Lawyer? and IFLR1000, and was recognized among the BTI Client Service All-Stars in 2016. Tomasz is also actively engaged in pro bono activities and has worked for the non-profit organization Hospice for Children in Warsaw. Tomasz focuses his practice on takeovers through the acquisition of shares or assets, as well as reorganizations of companies. He also advises on private equity transactions for a range of funds active in the Polish market. He is seasoned in cross-border multijurisdictional transactions, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe as well as Southern and Eastern Europe.
Tomasz Chentosz
Tomasz Chentosz
Tomasz Chentosz joined Baker McKenzie Warsaw in March 2005 as a member of the office’s Tax group. He has a decade of experience working for international tax consultancy firms and has written several articles regarding taxation issues in the real estate sector. Mr. Chentosz advises real estate companies on tax matters and helps in the preparation of tax efficient transfer of buildings by foreign investors. He assists clients in preparing tax projections and accompanying reports relating to real estate investments.
Tomoko Sasaki
Tomoko Sasaki
Tomoko Sasaki is a Senior Immigration Specialist with over 12 years' experience advising in UK corporate immigration law and she heads the Japan Practice within the Firm's Global Immigration & Mobility practice in the London office. She is the Vice Chair of UK Japan Connect, which is a Baker McKenzie business group focused on connecting the business, culture and people of the UK and Japan. Tomoko is an appointed member of the trustee for The Japan Society and her work for Japanese clients has been noted in Legal 500. She is also a member of Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry and acts for clients under Coram, which is a pro-bono scheme for eligible children to apply for their British Citizenship. Tomoko advises on all areas of corporate immigration with an increasing emphasis on post-transactional due diligence work and strategic advice on immigration / global mobility policy. Tomoko also advises on the day-to-day work permit applications, management of sponsor license systems and on compliance requirements, indefinite Leave To Remain and British citizenship applications as well as on discretionary applications. Tomoko provides training to many of the firms clients, and presents at seminars and webinars, which includes an annual seminar in Japanese for the Firm's key Japanese clients.
Tony Haque
Tony Haque
Tony Haque is a senior associate with over 20 years' experience advising in all areas of UK immigration and nationality work, and related European Union law. He is a member of Baker McKenzie’s Global Labor Employment and Employee Benefits Practice Group, where he advises on related corporate, tax and labor law issues, and leads the Firm's Global Immigration & Mobility department in London. Tony is an appointed member of the Law Society's Immigration Law Committee which provides expert guidance to practitioners and seeks to influence the direction of policy. Tony acts principally for multinational companies and other corporate clients, entrepreneurs and wealthy individuals offering creative solutions to effect international transfers as expediently and cost-effectively as possible. He also coordinates immigration work for a number of clients on a global and regional basis. He advises on all aspects of immigration including business visitor visas, expatriate planning, end-to-end immigration services (including Tier 2 and other points based categories), sponsorship licenses, and applications based on EU law. Tony also advises on the day-to-day management of sponsor license systems and on compliance requirements, indefinite Leave To Remain and British citizenship applications as well as appeals and judicial review work.
Tristan Grimmer
Tristan Grimmer
Tristan is a Partner at Baker McKenzie, advising clients on sanctions and export controls, anti-bribery and corruption and other corporate compliance risks. He provides compliance advice to clients across these risk areas, including in the context of complex cross-border transactions, as well as supporting clients in the management of related internal and external investigations. Tristan has advised clients in respect of investigations by the Serious Fraud Office, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI), the National Crime Agency, HM Revenue & Customs, and the Competition and Markets Authority, as well as in related investigations by overseas agencies, including the US Department of Justice and the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). He also counsels clients in the design and implementation of their corporate compliance programmes. Tristan is the UK head of Baker McKenzie’s market leading international trade practice, which is ranked as Tier 1 by Legal 500. Tristan also advises clients – including multinationals, private equity, SOEs and SWFs – on the impact of national security policy and regulation on their business and transactional strategy, and has supported clients on numerous filings under the UK National Security and Investment Act, as well as coordinating strategy and national security filings before multiple other European and non-European agencies.
Ulf Wauschkuhn
Ulf Wauschkuhn
Dr. Ulf Wauschkuhn is head of the German International Commercial & Trade Practice Group of Baker McKenzie. Furthermore, he is co-publisher of the German Journal on Distribution Law and the legal commentary on all aspects of distribution law published by the leading German publishing house C. H. Beck. Ulf advises companies on all matters of commercial law, with particular emphasis on the setup and restructuring of distribution systems, the termination of distribution contracts and supply, logistics and commercial lease agreements. He is also adept at handling commercial law disputes — both in and out of court.
Ulrich Ellinghaus
Ulrich Ellinghaus
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Ellinghaus joined Baker McKenzie in Frankfurt in 1996. He has extensive experience in regulatory law, with a focus on environmental, health & safety and product safety law. Ulrich is Head of the International Commercial & Trade Global Steering Committee Focus Group, Product Liability, Anti-Corruption and Compliance Liaison. Ulrich Ellinghaus advises and represents international clients on product-related regulatory matters including technical, product safety and environmental law and regulatory compliance in the supply chain.
Viacheslav Yakymchuk
Viacheslav Yakymchuk
Viacheslav Yakymchuk is a co-managing partner of the Kyiv office of Baker McKenzie and heads the Firm’s Corporate/M&A and Private Equity Practice Groups in the Kyiv office. He also served as assistant corporate counsel in Europe for Archer Daniels Midland from 2005 to 2008. He frequently speaks on the diverse aspects of M&A and private equity transactions in Ukraine. Viacheslav is admitted to practice in Ukraine and in New York, USA. Viacheslav is seasoned in handling European M&A transactions and has extensive experience in private equity and equity capital markets. His client focus is on the industrial and TMT sectors.
Vinod Bange
Vinod Bange
Vin is well regarded and considered to be a ‘long-standing recognised leader in data privacy and regulatory matters stemming pre-GDPR to present day, arguably making him the go-to person’. Vin leads our London Data Privacy practice and is also a member of our Global Privacy & Security Leadership team bringing his vast experience in this specialist area for over 22 years, advising clients from various data-rich sectors including retail, financial services/fin-tech, life sciences, healthcare, proptech and technology platforms. Vin supports clients on all aspects of data protection advisory, compliance and risk management. He will guide you from a strategic and governance perspective, as well as provide advice on audit/assessment and implementation projects, cross-border data flows and solutions, enterprise security and data breach counselling and incident response. Vin is a highly technical advisor who can guide you through the compliant implementation of cutting-edge technologies and data transactional processing models. He also works with clients to develop data protection solutions for third-party collaborations, and very frequently acts as regulatory liaison for UK, EU and global projects.
Will Clifton
Will Clifton
Will Clifton is a senior associate in the Employee Benefits Group, part of the Employment Department of the London office of Baker McKenzie. He is a member of the Firm’s Global Employment and Compensation Practice Group, which provides tailored advice in respect of a variety of corporate, tax and labour law issues. Will joined Baker McKenzie after more than 8 years at PwC where he worked in the Reward & Employment and Global Mobility business units. Will advises on a wide variety of matters relating to employee taxation, including share incentives, executive remuneration, disguised employment and the impact of corporate transactions. Will has a particular focus on employees with an international working pattern and the associated complications which arise with this.
William Holder
William Holder
Will Holder is a partner in the corporate division of our London office and a member of the Firm's TMT Industry Group. Will’s practice focuses on public and private M&A, leveraged buyouts and joint ventures, private equity and portfolio company transactions. His clients include global corporations, asset managers and private equity houses, advising on their strategically important transactions across consumer, sports, media and technology sectors. Will worked for one year in China.
William Jones
William Jones
Will is a senior associate in Baker McKenzie's Dispute Resolution Department based in London. Will acts for clients on a broad range of commercial disputes. In addition to significant experience in conducting commercial litigation, Will has extensive knowledge in the areas of judicial review and public procurement. He is also qualified as a solicitor advocate. Will acts for clients in a wide range of sectors, and has particular knowledge of the life sciences and healthcare; media and technology; and financial services industries. He has spent time on secondment at the pharmaceutical company, AbbVie, where much of his work focused on market access and public procurement issues. The instructions Will works on invariably have an international element to them, and he regularly assists clients with developing dispute resolution strategies with a multijurisdictional dimension. Will is fluent in Spanish, and has previously been seconded to Baker McKenzie’s Madrid office.
William Swan
William Swan
William is an Of Counsel in the Restructuring and Insolvency team within the Firm's Banking and Finance practice group in London and is qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales. William’s practice is centred around financial restructuring and advising on distressed investments, on trading in distressed debt, and on special situations. William has spent the majority of his career assisting buy-side institutions in their capacity as creditors and investors (often acting through ad hoc groups) on complex, cross-border situations, frequently subject to the insolvency and restructuring legal frameworks of the relevant jurisdictions. During the course of his career, William has acted as in-house counsel for two investment managers, in each case as a member of those firms’ distressed investment teams. William has a commercial and operational familiarity with buy-side investors’ investment and trading strategies and processes. In these roles, William advised on financial restructurings and distressed, special situations and event-driven opportunities (including litigation funding and direct lending transactions) and structured, negotiated and drafted documentation for a range of complex transactions and trades spanning multiple asset classes and jurisdictions. Additionally, William has worked as a member of the senior analyst team on the par and distressed trading desk of a US-headquartered global bank. William spent the first eight years of his career as a qualified solicitor in the London office of a large American law firm, working within the restructuring practice. During that period, he spent 18 months in the Tokyo office of that firm, primarily assisting US and European buy-side clients with their investments and finance matters in Japan, including restructuring and bankruptcy-related transactions.
Yindi Gesinde
Yindi Gesinde
Yindi is a partner in the Baker McKenzie Dispute Resolution team based in London, and a member of the Compliance and Investigations group. Yindi’s practice includes a broad spectrum of complex and high-value international and domestic commercial litigation for multinational clients, with specialist expertise in anti-bribery and corruption investigations, compliance and trust disputes.
Zoltán Hegymegi-Barakonyi
Zoltán Hegymegi-Barakonyi
Dr. Zoltán Hegymegi-Barakonyi is a partner in the Antitrust and Competition and IPTech practices of the Budapest office. Benchmark publications consider him as one of the most recognized competition law practitioners in Hungary. Zoltán is the president of the Hungarian Competition Law Association and vice-president of the International League of Competition Law (LIDC). He is a non-governmental advisor to the International Competition Network (ICN), and a member of the Scientific Board of the Competition Law Research Institute at Pázmány Péter Catholic University (PPKE). He regularly speaks on competition law related matters at Firm and third-party conferences and also lectures at postgraduate competition law courses at PPKE and ELTE Universities. Zoltán is highly experienced in competition law, IP law and pharmaceutical regulations, including litigation work in these areas. He represents companies in unfair competition, cartel, dominant position and merger control cases before the Hungarian Competition Office and the European Commission, as well as before Hungarian and EU courts. He regularly advises on antitrust compliance programs. Zoltán also represents clients in trademark registration, as well as IP infringement matters. He works for major international and Hungarian companies in a number of sectors, including the banking, energy, telecommunications, automotive and pharmaceutical industries.

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