Baker McKenzie announces 80 partnership promotions, including one partner from the Tokyo office

Combining this year’s promotions and new lateral talent, the Firm added 139 partners.

Global, 3 July 2017 – Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie has today announced the election of 80 new partners. This latest investment in the Firm’s expertise grows the total number of partners worldwide to nearly 1,600. Over 400 of these are women — the most of any law firm.

Nearly 40% or 31 of the new promotions are women; a market-leading number for any law firm. Across the Firm’s practice groups globally, Dispute Resolution saw the largest intake of new partners with Tax and Mergers & Acquisitions, significantly bolstering their ranks. Promotions are effective from July 1.

During Financial Year 2017 Baker McKenzie added 59 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 139 partners to its ranks.

In the Tokyo Office, Hiroshi Kasuya (Restructuring & Insolvency) was promoted to partner effective 1 July 2017.

Jeremy Pitts, Managing Partner of Baker McKenzie Tokyo, had the following statement on the promotion of Hiroshi. "I am delighted to announce the election of Hiroshi as a new partner. As Japanese companies continue to globalize rapidly, complex structuring and counterparty issues will inevitably emerge.  Hiroshi is a qualified bengoshi, but also well versed in US and international insolvency law and experienced in cross-border transactions.  As a leading international firm, we are dedicated to providing our clients with valuable advice that helps them navigate an increasingly competitive and complex global market."

The newly elected partners are:

Antitrust & Competition
Lerisha Naidu (Johannesburg)
Jenny Revis (London)

Banking & Finance
Nick Church (Bahrain)
Maxine Ethier (Toronto)*
Francisco Fernandez Rostello (Buenos Aires)
Ziad Gadalla (Cairo)
Mohamed Hassan (Bahrain)
Mark Simpson (London)
Joszef Vagi (Budapest)
Prashanth Venkatesh (Singapore)

Capital Markets
Alex Farcas (Toronto)*
Kristin E. Rice-Gonzalez (Chicago )*
Heath C. Trisdale (Houston)*

コンプライアンス
Michel Sancovski（サンパウロ）* **
Camila S. Steinhoff（サンパウロ）* **

Dispute Resolution
Zita Aguilera (Lima)
Filip Boras (Vienna)
Jo Delaney (Sydney)
Marc Prat (Barcelona)
John F. 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 A. Soller (New York)*
Michelle Wright (Johannesburg)*
Andrei Yorsh (Almaty)*

Employment & Compensation
Kim Sartin (London)
Victor A. Flores (San Francisco)*
Lindsay A. 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)

IT & Communications
Amy C. de La Lama (Chicago)*

Mergers & Acquisitions
Sara Chiang (Taipei)
Thanh Son Dang (Hanoi)
Susannah Davies (London)
Michael S. 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 B. Judkins (Washington)*
Tamara A. Levin (San Francisco)*
Erik Lind (Lima)
Joseph A. Myszka (Palo Alto)*
David Pope (New York)*
Mark Tonkovich (Toronto)*

* Promotions effective January 1, 2017
** In cooperation with Trench, Rossi e Watanabe Advogados, a Brazilian law firm