Baker McKenzie

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

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 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 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 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.

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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

Jalil Karim

Intellectual Property, Data and Technology

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 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 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 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.

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.

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 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.

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 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 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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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 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.’

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.

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 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 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 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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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 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

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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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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 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 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 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.

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 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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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.

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 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 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.

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 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.

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 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 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.

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 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

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

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 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 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.

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