Bakers eyes Brisbane launch with hires from Allens and Clayton Utz
Baker & McKenzie is to open an office in Brisbane Australia with the hire of partners from Allens and Clayton Utz.
April 24, 2014 at 01:27 AM
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Baker & McKenzie is to open an office in Brisbane Australia with the hire of partners from Allens and Clayton Utz.
The US firm, long rumoured to have been eyeing a base in the city, hinted at plans to Legal Week last year but gave no timeframe for a launch.
The office will be Bakers' third in Australia alongside Sydney and Melbourne, giving it a broader reach in the Australian market which has attracted significant interest from international firms in the last three years.
Based in Brisbane already, Clayton Utz projects partner Darren Fooks has joined to help launch the base, alongside government, competition and regulatory partner Jo Daniels – from the Brisbane office of Allens.
Fooks was previously senior legal counsel at Arco Coal Australia Inc Education, while Daniels joined Allens from Middletons and before that also did a stint at Clayton Utz.
Baker & McKenzie has expanded significantly in Asia in the last year, also setting up shop in South Korean capital Seoul and in Myanmar commercial centre Yangon.
In Seoul it relocated veteran transactional lawyer Nam Hung Paik to be office chief representative, while in Yangon it moved over former Sydney-based infrastructure and corporate partner Chris Hughes.
In Australia it also made several appointments last year, hiring two from King & Wood Mallesons in Sydney and Melbourne, making up four new lawyers to partner and also adding a team from DLA Piper's Asia Pacific life sciences head.
It now has 17 offices in the Asia Pacific region and seventy-fifth globally, with over 4,000 lawyers.
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