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	Business Crime Defence
	3

	Insolvency & Restructuring
	1

	Project Finance
	2

	Real Estate
	5

	Aviation
	2

	Life Sciences
	1

	Oil & Gas
	4

	Competition
	12

	Trademarks
	10

	Private funds
	1

	Patents
	3

	Mergers & Acquisitions
	5

	Corporate Tax
	12

	Construction
	2

	Commercial Litigation
	2

	Management Labour & Employment
	10

	Environment
	6

	Insurance & Reinsurance
	1

	Management Labour & Employment
	10

	Banking
	3

	Mining
	6

	Internet & e-Commerce
	11

	Corporate Immigration
	4

	Trade & Customs
	8

	Franchise
	4

	Arbitration
	4

	Public Procurement
	3

	Capital Markets
	4

	Regulatory Communications
	6

	Mediation
	2

Thanks to a diversely talented team of “first-rate” professionals and the geographical spread granted by numerous regional associations under its Swiss verein structure, Baker & McKenzie is one of the best recognised most highly regarded legal brands in the world. The firm enjoys a presence in 27 of the following chapters, achieving an impressive total of 144 listings.

The largest complement of Baker & McKenzie talent appears in the corporate tax section, where 14 lawyers from 12 offices feature prominently. John Peterson is a “superb name” in international tax planning and chairs the global tax practice group out of the Palo Alto office where current head of the northern California tax team and planning, controversies and e-commerce expert Gary Sprague is also recognised. In Chicago, John McLees is considered a “leading authority” on Latin America-focused tax work, and former IRS advisory council member Richard Lipton is lauded by peers for his tax planning work. The New York, Washington and Dallas offices also field prominent individuals. Jorge Narváez-Hasfura leads the Latin America value added tax team out of the Mexico City office, where he is a noted adviser on income tax, transfer pricing and corporate reorganisation matters. Simone Dias Musa represents Baker & McKenzie’s Brazilian partnership Trench Rossi e Watanabe Advogados in São Paulo, where her tax litigation expertise is considered “world-class”. Imke Gerdes is head of the tax practice in Vienna, where the firm works in association with Diwok Hermann Petsche Rechtsanwälte GmbH. Gerdes is hailed as “one of Europe’s brightest stars” for tax advice in complex M&A and reorganisation transactions and counts Bristol Myers Squibb and IDEX Corporation among her clients. Further listings in Amsterdam and Madrid add to the firm’s presence in Europe while Michael Olesnicky in Hong Kong and Yoko Watanabe at GJBJ Tokyo Aoyama Aoki Koma Law Office in Japan illustrate the firm’s strength in Asia.

Baker & McKenzie is ranked in Global Competition Review’s list of 20 “elite” competition firms, and the antitrust team is suitably well represented in these pages, having acted for the likes of BBC Trust, ICI and Hewlett-Packard in the past year. The “first-rate” Samantha Mobley leads the firm-wide competition team as well as the London office’s EU, competition and trade practice and counts Rio Tinto and Royal Dutch Shell among her recent clients. Of counsel Lynda Martin Alegi is also highly regarded in London, while further listings in Brussels, Vienna, Budapest and Warsaw speak to the firm’s strength in Europe. As well as Mary Azcuenaga, Baker & McKenzie fields three prominent US lawyers from the Chicago office. Senior counsel Thomas Campbell is noted for his antitrust disputes work, particularly in the health-care sector where he has been involved in numerous landmark decisions, while Roxane Busey is praised for her “leading” transactional expertise. William Linklater completes the Illinois listings in this chapter and earns further recognition as one of three Baker & McKenzie lawyers in the business crime defence chapter. The firm’s offices in Sydney and Brasília are also represented in this section.

Baker & McKenzie’s IP team contributes a significant number of lawyers to this publication. Nine lawyers from seven international offices are recognised in the trademarks section, three of whom earn supplementary listings in the patents chapter. Eugene Arievich leads the firm’s CIS IP team out of the Moscow office where he has acted for Grande Group, Yandex and Intel in recent patent and trademark proceedings. Say Sujintaya co-heads the IP group in Thailand and frequently acts in patent and trademark prosecution matters on behalf of clients in the fashion, pharma and media sectors. Alvaro Correa Ordoñez leads the Bogotá IP team and is known for his “cutting edge” work on protection strategies and unfair competition matters. The firm’s IP team sees a significant crossover with the pharmaceuticals and health care and IT and communications groups, and the high number of Baker & McKenzie lawyers listed in the internet, franchise, regulatory communications and life sciences chapters attest to the quality of these practices.

The excellence of Baker & McKenzie’s corporate, financial, natural resources, property and disputes resolution teams is also evidenced by the firm’s prominent listings in a further 18 of the following chapters.