Baker McKenzie makes up five London partners in 80-strong global round
The international firm has added 31 female partners in its latest round.
June 28, 2017 at 05:27 AM
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Baker McKenzie has promoted five London lawyers to its partnership, in an 80-strong intake of new partners around the world.
The new partners include 31 women, representing almost 40% of the group.
The new City partners are corporate lawyer Susie Davies, employment lawyer Kim Sartin, international trade and commerce lawyer Jennifer Revis, financial services lawyer Mark Simpson and real estate lawyer Ben Farnell.
Global chair Paul Rawlinson said: "As always, I am pleased that we have a good proportion of women joining the partnership, which is reflective of our focus on diversity and inclusion activities across the firm. We have also had a very successful year in attracting new lateral partners to the firm."
Last year, the firm made up six partners in London in an 85-strong global promotions round, of which 40% were female.
By jurisdiction, Europe has received the largest share of the new promotions, with 22, including the new UK partners. Seventeen new partners have been made up across the Asia-Pacific region, with 16 in the US.
By practice, dispute resolution has received the largest share of this year's promotions, with 16 (20%).
Bakers has added a number of lateral partners to its London office during the past 12 months, including a team from King & Wood Mallesons.
Baker McKenzie partner promotions in full:
Antitrust & competition Lerisha Naidu (Johannesburg)
Banking & finance Nick Church (Bahrain) Maxine Ethier (Toronto)* Francisco Fernandez Rostello (Buenos Aires) Ziad Gadalla (Cairo) Mohamed Hassan (Bahrain) Mark Simpson (London) Jozsef Vagi (Budapest) Prashanth Venkatesh (Singapore)
Capital markets Alex Farcas (Toronto)* Kristin Rice-Gonzalez (Chicago )* Heath Trisdale (Houston)*
Compliance Michel Sancovski (Sao Paulo)* ** Camila Steinhoff (Sao Paulo)* **
Dispute resolution Zita Aguilera (Lima) Filip Boras (Vienna) Jo Delaney (Sydney) Marc Prat (Barcelona) John Kosmidis (Washington)* Enrico Mancuso (Milan) Maria Masso (Madrid) Ignacio Naudon (Santiago) Michael Nowina (Toronto)* Callum O'Connor (Johannesburg) Anan Rattanatanawat (Bangkok) Crystal Roberts Jezierski (Washington)* Tarek Saad (Dubai) Derek Soller (New York)* Michelle Wright (Johannesburg)* Andrei Yorsh (Almaty)*
Employment & compensation Kim Sartin (London) Victor Flores (San Francisco)* Lindsay Minnis (New York)* Miriam Geraghty Petrillo (Chicago)* Andrew Shaw (Toronto)*
Energy, mining & infrastructure Ezequiel Artola (Buenos Aires) Su-Fen Chen (Taipei) Zoe Hilson (Sydney) Ines Vazquez (Lima)
Environment Roberto Cursano (Rome)
Intellectual property Valentina Venturelli (Santiago)*
International commercial & trade Brian Cacic (Toronto)* Gregory Lebrun (Brussels) Jenny Revis (London)
IT & communications Amy de La Lama (Chicago)*
M&A Sara Chiang (Taipei) Thanh Son Dang (Hanoi) Susannah Davies (London) Michael Hamilton (Houston)* Nancy Hamzo (Toronto)* Petra Hanselmann (Zurich) Guillaume Nataf (Paris) Anna Orlander (Stockholm) Bima Sarumpaet (Jakarta) Alex Tan (Singapore) Nuchaya Timrat (Bangkok) Charles Veloso (Manila) Sue Wan Wong (Kuala Lumpur) Juan Vera (Bogota)
Private equity Derek Kwan (Singapore) Edwin Wong (Hong Kong)
Real estate Cynthia de Witt Wijnen (Amsterdam) Ben Farnell (London) Mateusz Grabiec (Warsaw) Frenk Huisman (Amsterdam) Yung-Yu Tang (Taipei)
Restructuring & insolvency Hiroshi Kasuya (Tokyo)
Tax Nicola Crispino (Milan) Edouard de Rancher (Paris) Vladimir Efremov (Moscow) Maher Haddad (Chicago)* Cecilia Hassan (Miami)* Miles Hurst (Sydney) Joseph Judkins (Washington)* Tamara Levin (San Francisco)* Erik Lind (Lima) Joseph Myszka (Palo Alto)* David Pope (New York)* Mark Tonkovich (Toronto)*
*Promotions effective 1 January 2017
**In cooperation with Trench Rossi & Watanabe Advogados
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