Baker McKenzie

Offering a pan-European and global service to a range of international clients, Baker McKenzie demonstrates a high level of expertise acting on complex, long-term cross border commercial contracts, including bespoke collaboration agreements, joint ventures in the tech sector, and business critical Transitional Services Agreements. The firm has established strength in the telecoms, healthcare, financial services and retail sector, leveraging its full-service capabilities to act on e-commerce, cyber-security and data privacy issues entrenched in its clients’ commercial agreements. Furthermore, the team are able to help companies draft framework agreements and launch platforms regarding novel asset classes, such as NFTs. Duncan Reid-Thomas fronts the commercial group, advising on a wide-range of contractual mandates with a particular focus on the healthcare sector, whilst Helen Brown is a go-to for consumer brands in the retail fashion sphere, regularly joined by Julia Hemmings, a consumer marketing and e-commerce expert. Sue McLean specialises in helping financial services and fintech clients construct outsourcing, distribution and strategic ancillary agreements. Associate Maulik Mittal utilises his experience seconded to both Google and Three’s commercial legal teams to advise on matters pertaining to the tech and telecoms industry, as well as complex outsourcing deals.