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Combining this year's promotions and new lateral talent, the Firm added 150 partners.
Dubai, UAE - Premier global law firm Baker & McKenzie today announced the election of 85 new partners. This latest investment in the Firm's expertise grows the total number of partners worldwide to 1,580. Over 400 of these are women - the most of any law firm.
Regionally, 43 percent of the promotions are in Asia Pacific; 19 percent are in Europe, Middle East and Africa; 8 percent in Latin America; and 30 percent in North America.
In the UAE, Dispute Resolution counsel Mohammad Al Shraideh has been promoted to the partnership. Admitted in Jordan, he has over 16 years of experience in civil and commercial litigation in the Middle East, with a particular focus on the banking, real estate and construction sectors. His appointment comes on top of the hires of partners Charlotte Bijlani (Dispute Resolution) and Omar Momany (Corporate/Dispute Resolution) from other international law firms in the UAE to Baker & McKenzie Habib Al Mulla's UAE practice in the last 12 months. This will bring the total number of partners based in the UAE to 16.
Forty percent or 34 of the new global promotions are women; matching the Firm's own record set in 2015 and a market-leading number for any law firm. Across the Firm's practice groups globally, Tax saw the largest intake of new partners with Banking & Finance, Dispute Resolution and Mergers & Acquisitions, significantly bolstering their ranks. Save as indicated below, the promotions are effective 1 July 2016.
During Financial Year 2016 Baker & McKenzie added 65 lateral hires, bolstering the Firm's already strong client service capabilities in key practice areas such as Mergers & Acquisitions, Dispute Resolution, Banking & Finance and Tax, among others. A third of the lateral hires are women. Combining this year's promotions and new lateral talent, the Firm added 151 partners.
Eduardo Leite, Chairman of Baker & McKenzie, said: "I am pleased to welcome all of our new partners from across the world. Our promotions demonstrate our broad diversity of talent across numerous countries and practice groups. I am particularly proud that we continue to promote a high number of women. Few professional services firms, especially one as large as ours, can say that they consistently promote a partner class of nearly half women as we have done again this year. However, although much has been done, we have more to do."
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The newly elected partners are:
Banking & Finance
Pierre Chiasson (Tokyo)
Tsutomu Kobayashi (Tokyo)
Chuong Nguyen (Melbourne)
Kathryn Johnstone (Chicago)*
Davinia Martens (Belgium)
Esther Chik (Kuala Lumpur)
Kirana Sastrawijaya (Jakarta)
Kim Hock Ang (Singapore)
Matthew Hopkinson (Yangon)
Mahardikha Sardjana (Jakarta)
Boonyaporn Donnapee (Bangkok)
Capital Markets
Wang Hang (Beijing)
Compliance
Sophia Man (Hong Kong)
Dispute Resolution
Weiyi Tan (Singapore)
Elaine Yap (Kuala Lumpur)
Emran Arifin (Kuala Lumpur)
Soo Khim Keoy (Hong Kong)
Chien-hung Lai (Taipei)
Piyapong Panyachiva (Bangkok)
Magdalena Berg (Stockholm)
Kate Corby (London)
Widaad Ebrahim (Johannesburg)
Justin Marlles (Houston)*
Francesca Richmond (London)
Mohammad Al Shraideh (Dubai)
Itse Oosterhoff (Amsterdam)
Giuliana Schunck (Sao Paulo)**
Teresa Michaud (San Francisco)*
Tiago Zapater (Sao Paulo)**
Employment
Nicole Calabro (San Francisco)*
Emily Harbison (Houston)*
Benjamin Ho (San Francisco)*
Zheng Lu (Shanghai)
Julia Wilson (London)
Matias Herrero (Buenos Aires)**
Energy & Mining
Ina Maria Drago (Lima)
Healthcare
Toby Patten (Melbourne)
Intellectual Property
Ren Jun Lim (Singapore)
Minh Tri Quach (Hanoi)
Paolo Sbuttoni (Hong Kong)
Alvaro Gutierrez (Lima)
Mackenzie Martin (Dallas)*
Justin Welch (Dallas)*
International Commercial
Alison Stafford Powell (Palo Alto)*
Marcos Basso (Houston)*
Michael Egan (Washington, D.C.)*
IT & Communications
Magalie Dansac (Paris)
Mergers & Acquisitions
Manuel Meyer (Zurich)
Louis Liu (Taipei)
Noriko Sakamoto (Bangkok)
Grace Tso (Hong Kong)
Weronika Achramowicz (Warsaw)
David Monnier (Riyadh)
David Scott (London)
Mauricio Pacheco (Sao Paulo)**
Darcy Down (Chicago)*
Jeffrey Curtis (Houston)*
David Palumbo (Toronto)*
William Rose (Chicago)*
Andrew Warmus (Chicago)*
Luisa Fernandez-Guina (Manila)
Ross Taylor (Yangon)
Riza Buditomo (Jakarta)
Daniel Pardede (Jakarta)0
Wei Kwang Woo (Kuala Lumpur)
Rick Troiano (Melbourne)
Real Estate
Alex Gong (Shanghai)
Dora Stilianos (Melbourne)
Securities
Mark Tu (Taipei)
Tax
Yvonne Beh (Kuala Lumpur)
Nopporn Charoenkitraj (Bangkok)
Mounia Benabdallah (Amsterdam)
Alistair Craig (London)
Reinaldo Ravelli (Sao Paulo)**
Gwen Hulsey (Houston)*
Paula Levy (Palo Alto)*
Colleen Romero (Chicago)*
Julia Skubis Weber (Chicago)*
Brian Arthur (New York)*
Kai Kramer (Houston)*
Michael Liu (Palo Alto)*
Stephen Long (Dallas)*
Daniel Stern (Washington, D.C.)*
Phillip Taylor (Washington, D.C.)*
Trade & Commerce
Tristan Grimmer (London)
*Promotions effective January 1, 2016
**In cooperation with Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Advogados, a Brazilian law firm
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About Baker & McKenzie
Founded in 1949, Baker & McKenzie advises many of the world's most dynamic and successful business organizations through more than 11,000 people in 77 offices in 47 countries. The Firm is known for its global perspective, deep understanding of the local language and culture of business, uncompromising commitment to excellence, and world-class fluency in its client service. Global revenues for the fiscal year ended 30 June 2015 were US $2.43 billion. Eduardo Leite is Chairman of the Executive Committee. (www.bakermckenzie.com)
Baker & McKenzie Habib Al Mulla brings over 30 years' local know-how, extensive global resources, and one of the largest litigation teams in the UAE with full rights of audience before all UAE and DIFC courts. As the first international law firm to fully merge with a UAE firm, we deliver unmatched on the ground support that reflects a deep understanding of local legal, regulatory and commercial practices. Our multidisciplinary team of nearly 60 lawyers offers a full range of local and international legal advice across our three offices in Dubai and Abu Dhabi, in both English and Arabic.
Baker & McKenzie International is a Swiss Verein with member law firms around the world. In accordance with the common terminology used in professional service organizations, reference to a "partner" means a person who is a partner, or equivalent, in such a law firm. Similarly, reference to an "office" means an office of any such law firm.
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