Baker McKenzie

Baker McKenzie has ‘a great team that is always responsive, very helpful, and provides very quick turnarounds’. Globally, the firm is an emerging markets powerhouse, given its extensive office network, and many of its key transactions are managed through the London office. It is active across the finance space, though it has particular expertise in trade, export and commodity financings in the emerging markets, and it also has an active practice advising issuers on capital markets transactions in developing countries. Head of London banking and finance Nick Tostivin oversees the firm’s emerging markets work. He handles syndicated lending transactions including in relation to acquisitions. He worked with Luka Lightfoot, who leads the firm’s trade and commodity finance practice, to advise ING Bank and other lenders, agents and export credit agencies on the $300m financing of an upgrade to an existing ammonia plant and the construction of a new urea plant in Turkey Capital markets partner Megan Schellinger frequently advises corporates and investment banks on Rule 144A and SEC-registered offerings and private placements of international debt, equity transactions and compliance. Schellinger and Rob Mathews acted for JP Morgan and other banks in issuance by Dubai-based agribusiness ETC Group.