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Aaron Goodman

Aaron Goodman is a partner in Baker McKenzie's Litigation & Government Enforcement, Global Compliance & Investigations, and Securities Litigation groups. He has broad experience litigating complex local, national and international matters from inception to trial. Aaron is a thought-leader in identifying and achieving strategic client goals, bringing disputes to resolution quickly and efficiently. · Litigation

Abdulrahman AlAjlan

Abdulrahman has 17 years of litigation and commercial experience. He represents clients at the Sharia Courts, the Board of Grievance, the SAMA Committee, Labor Committee, Committee for Negotiable Instruments and all other courts and tribunals. He has extensive arbitration experience, both as an arbitrator and also representing clients in arbitration proceedings. · Litigation

Abe Sun

Partner · Intellectual Property

Abeer Jarrar

Abeer Jarrar is a partner at Baker McKenzie based in Dubai. Abeer has over 20 years' experience in the Middle East. Having advised in recent years on some of the most high profile regional and international M&A and capital markets transactions, Abeer combines profound understanding of the legal environment and the distinct business culture of the Middle East and their interaction with international market practice. She is recognised for her ability to communicate effectively with the different stakeholders and to deliver cross border transactions of the highest quality and complexity in different sectors, including banking. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie in 2021, Abeer spent the last ten years at two magic circle firms. Abeer is a Fulbright scholar and holds a doctorate degree in law from Georgetown University in Washington DC. She serves as a board member of the MENA Advisory Board of Georgetown University School of Law. Abeer focuses on advising financial institutions, investment banking, local, regional and international corporate, private equity and family offices on cross border private and public mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, restructurings, public takeovers and equity capital markets transactions in the Middle East. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Adam Aft

Adam Aft helps global companies navigate the complex issues regarding intellectual property, data, and technology in M&A and technology transactions. He is the lead of the Firm's North America Technology Transactions group and co-leads the group globally. Adam also served as a law clerk to the Honorable Leslie H. Southwick of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and the Honorable Theresa L. Springmann of the US District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. · Intellectual Property

Adam Milgrom

Senior Associate · Energy

Addy Herg

Partner · Mergers & Acquisitions

Adeline Wong

Principal · Corporate Tax

Adil Hussain

Adil Hussain is a partner and the Global Head of Islamic finance at Baker McKenzie. He is based in Dubai and also leads the Firm’s Banking and Finance practice in the Middle East. Prior to joining the Firm, he worked for an international law firm in Dubai. Adil focuses particularly on conventional, Shariah compliant and multi-sourced financing matters and has been involved in a number of leading financing transactions in the Middle East region and internationally. He has also advised on the structuring and development of a number of first-of-their-kind financing products. Adil has built up a wealth of regional experience having previously worked in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia for a number of years. Adil is regularly cited in legal directories as being a leading banking lawyer and draws particular praise for his Islamic finance knowledge. · Banking & Finance

Adnan Doha

Corporate and M&A

Adolfo Durañona

Partner · Energy & Natural Resources

Adrian Lawrence

Partner · Media

Adriana Gonçalves

Adriana has more than 15 years of experience in comprehensive corporate counseling and international operations. She has been a member of Baker McKenzie since 2014, developing her practice in Corporate Law (M&A/PE), Healthcare & Life Sciences, Compliance, and Competition & Antitrust. Adriana is one of the five lawyers in the country who were shortlisted as “Venezuela Lawyer of the Year” in the Chambers Women in Law Awards: Latin America 2018, and she has been ranked as Associate to watch for two consecutive years by the 2023 and 2024 Chambers Latin America Legal Guide. She is also a member of the Firm’s LA Healthcare & Life Sciences Steering Committee, the LA M&A Steering Committee and the LA Inclusion Diversity & Equity Steering Committee. · Corporate Law (M&A/PE)

Adriana Ibarra

Adriana has over twenty years of experience in customs and foreign trade matters. She joined Baker McKenzie in 2001, became National Partner in 2005 and a Principal in 2018. She has prior experience working as legal director of Rules of Origin, Customs Procedures and Safeguards in the Mexican Ministry of Economy where she participated in the negotiation of several free trade agreements (FTAs) and in the first dispute settlement resolution cases initiated by Mexico against the US under the NAFTA. Adriana has been ranked a leading practitioner by Chambers and Partners at Chambers Global and Chambers Latin America as well as Legal 500 for eleven consecutive years. She was an associate in our Guadalajara and Washington, D.C. offices and currently Heads the Firm’s North America International Commercial Practice Group in Mexico City. · Customs

Agustín del Río

Associate · Labor & Employment

Ahmed Shehata

Ahmed Shehata is a senior associate at Helmy, Hamza & Partners, Baker McKenzie Cairo. He practices in banking, finance and projects, with a special focus on various forms of debt finance, loan facilities and debt capital markets. He has experience in drafting facility agreements, security documents and other finance and project development documents (including offtake and grid arrangements). Ahmed has advises lenders, commercial banks, multilateral financial institutions and export credit agencies, as well as developers and sponsors, during all stages of the structuring, development and financing of major projects. · Banking and Finance

Ai Leen Tang

Partner · Real Estate

Airi Hammalov

Airi Hammalov is a partner in the New York office of Baker McKenzie and a member of the Firm's Transactions practice. Prior to joining the Firm, Airi practiced at top international firms in Europe.

Ajanthana Anandarajah

Ajanthana Anandarajah is a member of Baker McKenzie’s Employment & Compensation Law Practice Group in Toronto. She joined Baker McKenzie in 2019, after completing her summer and articling term with the Ministry of the Attorney General, Ministry of Labour. Ajanthana advises employers in a wide range of labour and employment law matters, providing practical legal and business advice to both domestic and international private and public sector clients. Ajanthana has appeared before administrative tribunals and the Ontario Court of Justice in Ontario. · Employment Law

Akira Inoue

Partner · Antitrust

Akos Fehérváry

Ákos Fehérváry serves as managing partner of the Firm’s Budapest office, while heading the M&A/Corporate Practice Group and the Employment Practice Group in Budapest. Ákos brings three decades of distinguished experience in complex corporate transactions and employment law. As a trusted advisor on mergers and acquisitions, he has guided both domestic and international clients through sophisticated deals spanning privatizations, private equity investments, and greenfield ventures. His transaction portfolio includes notable work in energy, automotive, banking, technology, and transportation sectors. As Head of Employment, Ákos leads strategic workforce initiatives for multinational corporations, skillfully managing business transfers, restructurings, and sensitive employment matters. His integrated expertise in both M&A and employment law provides clients with comprehensive guidance through complex corporate transformations. Ákos is particularly noted for his work on cross-border transactions and corporate reorganizations, including mergers and spin-offs. His counsel extends beyond traditional deal execution to encompass the critical employment considerations that shape successful business transitions. A respected voice in the legal community, he regularly shares insights at various forums and conferences. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Alain Charles Veloso

Partner · Corporate & Commercial

Alain Huyghe

Alain Huyghe is a partner in the Tax Practice Group of the Brussels office. He joined Baker McKenzie in 1986 and became partner in 1994. Alain advises clients on a broad range of domestic corporate tax and international tax issues. He also has extensive experience in tax controversy work (including transfer pricing audits and disputes, mutual agreement procedures, and the representation of clients before the European Court of Justice and the Constitutional Court) and has successfully handled a number of major cases. He also focuses on advisory and tax controversy work for insurance companies on specific tax matters inherent to the insurance sector. · Corporate Tax

Alan Zoccolillo

Alan Zoccolillo is the Chair of the North American Transactional practices, the past Chair of the North American Healthcare group and co-managing partner of the New York office. Mr. Zoccolillo was honored as a 2023 "Dealmaker of the Year" by the New York Law Journal and named by Chambers & Partners, the Legal 500 and Acritas as one of the leading lawyers in the US for mergers and acquisitions. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Alberto Fornari

Banking & Finance

Alberto González Torres

Partner · Employment

Alberto Maturana

Partner. · Tax

Alejandra Bugna

Partner · Corporate Law

Alejandra Heredia-Martinez

Alejandra Heredia Martínez has been a member of the Corporate/M&A Practice Group in the Firm’s Ciudad Juarez office since 2012. Her practice covers general corporate law, advising multinational clients in their establishment, development and operation in Mexico, foreign investment, and participation in corporate reorganization projects. · Corporate Law

Alejandra Muriel Vizcaino

Alejandra joined the Firm in 2012. She is an associate in the Banking Finance and Major Projects group in Mexico. She has experience in real estate and infrastructure, urban development and environmental matters since 2010. · Banking Finance

Alejandro Mesa

Partner · Energy & Natural Resources

Alessandra Machado

Consultant · Tax Planning

Alex Chiang

Special Senior Consultant · Capital Markets

Alex Wolff

Partner · Dispute Resolution

Alexander Fischer

Alexander Fischer chairs Baker McKenzie Switzerland’s Transaction Group consisting of the Mergers & Acquisitions, Private Equity, Real Estate, Capital Markets and Corporate Reorganizations Practice Groups. Alexander routinely represents clients on a wide range of areas of law ancillary to the Firm’s Private Equity and Mergers & Acquisitions practices. Alexander advises listed and non-listed clients in the areas of cross-border and domestic mergers and acquisitions, private equity and transactions generally. He also provides sound and insightful counsel on general corporate and commercial matters. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Alexander Gong

Partner · Real Estate

Alexander Hofmann

Alexander advises international and domestic clients in the area of intellectual property and related litigation, including, in particular, trademark, copyright and unfair competition. · Intellectual Property

Alexander Korobeinikov

Alexander Korobeinikov is a partner at the Kazakhstan office of Baker McKenzie. He specializes in dispute resolution, energy and natural resources, and antitrust and competition issues. Alexander has wide experience participating in litigation in Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Central Asia, as well as in international arbitration cases in accordance with the arbitration rules of the ICAC, UNCITRAL, ICC, SCC, LCIA and other arbitration institutions, as both a party counsel and arbitrator. Alexander is ranked as a leading individual in dispute resolution by Chambers and Legal 500 reporting, "He's enriching their team immensely; he has a lot of experience in arbitration." He is also recommended by Who's Who Arbitration 2018 as Expert. Alexander focuses on international arbitration, commercial litigation, power, oil and gas, mining and metals, subsoil use, antitrust and competition advisory, and antitrust and competition litigation. He acts for and against states and state bodies, with particular experience in the energy sector and large infrastructure projects. · Dispute Resolution

Alexander Stathopoulos

Principal · Capital Markets

Alexander Wolff

Alexander Wolff heads the Labor Law Practice Group in the Firm’s Berlin office. He co-authored the German section of Baker McKenzie’s Worldwide Guide to Termination, Employment Discrimination, and Workplace Harassment Laws and Global Employer. He is also a regular contributor to other labor law journals, and is a frequent speaker on employment law issues in seminars and conferences. Dr. Wolff routinely advises clients on employment matters relating to reorganizations and restructurings, transfer of businesses (TUPE), negotiations with works councils and unions, as well as general employment advice. He also advises on executive compensation and employee benefits, mass dismissals and employment litigation. In addition, he provides sound counsel on issues arising from data protection and discrimination, pension funds and harassment issues. He also handles employment litigation, employer-work council relations and the mandatory representation of employees in companies’ supervisory boards. · Labor and Employment

Alexander Wyss

Alexander Wyss is a seasoned business lawyer with a special focus on real estate transactions, private equity & venture capital, mergers & acquisitions and fund structuring. He is a member of the Management Committee of Baker McKenzie Zurich, co-heads the Swiss Real Estate Transaction Practice Group and is a former member of the Firm’s European Real Estate Steering Committee. He is ranked among the leading lawyers in his areas of practice by various publications, including Chambers Europe and Legal500. Alexander Wyss acts as trusted advisor for his clients and serves as a member of the board of directors in selected companies. He is a lecturer at the University of Zurich in the CUREM master and executive classes. Alexander advises domestic and international clients in cross-border and national real estate and corporate transactions, private equity & venture capital, mergers & acquisitions as well as fund structuring. · Real Estate Transactions

Alexandr César

Alexandr César serves as head of the Competition Practice Group and co-head of the Mergers & Acquisitions Practice Group in the Firm’s Prague office. Mr. César has extensive experience handling privatizations and acquisitions in the Czech Republic, particularly in the telecommunications, heavy industry, banking and finance, as well as oil, gas and energy sectors. He regularly counsels clients on legal issues involving takeover regulations, business assets and share transactions. Mr. César is likewise actively engaged in the restructuring of bad asset portfolios of bank loan facilities, acquisition and mezzanine financing, as well as other corporate structures of multinationals. He also counsels on foreign trade-related procedures and international trade agreements, including foreign trade with military materials. · Competition

Alexandra Cavazos

Alexandra Cavazos de la Rosa joined Baker McKenzie in 2016 and it is part of the Transactional Practice Group in the Monterrey office. Her practice includes major projects, corporate and commercial law, real estate and infrastructure law, mergers and acquisitions, liquidations, spin-offs, compliance and general corporate matters. · Major Projects

Alexandra Glad

Alexandra Glad is an associate and member of Baker McKenzie’s Intellectual Property Practice Group in Stockholm. Her main practice areas are trademark law and copyright law. Prior to joining the Firm in October 2013, Alexandra worked as a lawyer at a branding agency. Before that, she was an associate at another law firm specialized in intellectual property rights and media law. Alexandra practices mainly within the field of intellectual property rights. She assists companies from various industries with IP protection, licensing and infringement situations. She especially advises international and Swedish companies on how to create, build and safeguard strong trademark portfolios. Alexandra also has qualified experience in issues related to marketing and media law. · Intellectual Property

Alexandra Minkovich

Alexandra Minkovich is a partner in Baker McKenzie's North American Tax Practice with more than twenty years of experience handling a variety of tax, tax controversy, and legislative and regulatory matters. She also brings significant experience representing clients with respect to domestic tax issues, particularly in the life sciences, pharmaceutical, retail, and manufacturing industries, and is well versed in administrative law. Immediately prior to joining the Firm, Ms. Minkovich served as Associate Tax Legislative Counsel with the US Department of Treasury, Office of Tax Policy. In that role, Ms. Minkovich advised the Assistant Secretary (Tax Policy) and General Counsel regarding tax policy considerations in regulations and Internal Revenue Bulletin guidance, provided advice on tax legislative proposals, and provided litigation advice regarding the validity of Treasury and IRS guidance. She also provided technical comments on tax legislation to the Senate Committee on Finance and the House Ways & Means Committee, as well as to individual members’ offices. Ms. Minkovich speaks regularly at seminars and writes on a variety of topics related to legislative and regulatory developments, and administrative law. · Tax

Alexandre Jabra

Senior Associate · Consumer Law

Alfonso Cortez-Fernández

Alfonso Cortez is a member of the Litigation and Government Enforcement Steering Committee for North America and Chair of that practice at the five Mexican offices. He has over 25 years of experience. Also he is highly regarded in a wide range of litigation and arbitration matters. He has been a professor in the law department of the Universidad Cervantina, and is a member of the international law fraternity Phi Delta Phi. He has been first vice president of the National Association of Corporate Lawyers (ANADE-NL), was coordinator of the Constitutional Rights Commission of the Mexican Bar Association, Nuevo Leon Section (BMA – NL), as well as counselor in the steering committee of the BMA – NL. · Litigation

Alfonso Curiel-Valtierra

Alfonso Curiel Valtierra has more than 10 years of experience in commercial litigation, often representing public entities and private companies. He was granted with specialization diplomas in financial law and civil and commercial procedural law by Universidad Panamericana. Also, Mr. Curiel-Valtierra has written and published several articles regarding relevant legal provisions in commercial and public law and participated in diverse forums in connection with commercial and financial law as well as insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings. · Civil Litigation

Alfonso García Lozano

Alfonso García Lozano has more than 25 years of experience practicing in the area of labor and employment law. His practice includes corporate employment advice and employment litigation involving complex transactions, as well as individual and collective matters. Mr. García Lozano has a strong knowledge on the tax implications of labor matters, including outsourcing. · Labor and Employment Law

Alfonso Martínez Bejarano

Alfonso focuses his practice on financial technology (Fintech), regulatory compliance and real estate finance (including syndicated loan facilities). He regularly advises Fintech companies (local as well as multinationals) on regulatory and transactional matters, including e-wallet platforms, crowdfunding entities, online lending B2B platforms, digital banks, card payment processors (aggregators and acquirers), cryptocurrency exchanges and comparison product and services platforms. He also works on the negotiation of loan facilities, and their security interest documents. · Fintech

Ali Selim Demirel

Ali Selim Demirel focuses his practice on domestic and international mergers and acquisitions and energy and concessions. He drafts and negotiates corporate transaction documents, including share purchase, asset purchase, merger and shareholders’ agreements. In addition, he advises companies on general corporate, business and energy law matters and assists companies in the coordination and implementation of multi-jurisdictional restructuring transactions. He also focuses his practice on the resolution of commercial disputes, particularly regarding post-M&A disputes and particularly through arbitration. He represents clients before arbitral tribunals and before all levels of domestic courts, including the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards. · Mergers and Acquisitions

Alicia Franch

Alicia Franch is Team Leader in both the Dispute Resolution, Corporate Crime area and Compliance area at Baker McKenzie since September 2015. Previously, Alicia also worked in her same areas of expertise in other law firms. She has also worked as a professor in different law firms and colleges as well. Working as a lawyer on many types of proceedings (extraditions, European Arrest Warrants, proceedings before the European Public Prosecutor's Office and Spanish criminal proceedings) and undertaking work regarding corporate compliance. Experience in drafting and filing all sorts of criminal complaints and appeals, cross-examination of witnesses and defendants and attendance to oral trials and expert ratifications. Specialized in White Collar Crimes, such as crimes against the Public Treasury and Social Security, European Union subsidies fraud, crimes against the property, misappropriation, fraud, unlawful administration, bribery, fraudulent insolvencies, crimes against the environment, crimes against historical heritage, labor accidents, and felonies against the Public Administration, among others. Within Baker McKenzie's Criminal Law department, Alicia Franch plays a key role in handling complex and high-profile cases, particularly in the area of economic and corporate crime. Her practice encompasses a wide range of criminal proceedings, including extraditions, European Arrest Warrants, and domestic litigation, where she is known for her strategic litigation skills and procedural precision. Alicia frequently advises on corporate compliance frameworks, helping clients mitigate legal risks and align with regulatory standards. Her work is especially focused on offenses such as tax evasion, subsidy fraud, and crimes involving public administration and corporate governance. She is also deeply involved in trial advocacy, from drafting and filing criminal complaints to conducting cross-examinations and managing expert witness testimony. Her practice reflects a strong integration of legal rigor and practical insight, particularly in cases involving environmental liability, labor-related offenses, and protection of cultural heritage. · White Collar Crime

Alina de la Luz

Alina de la Luz is an associate in the Firm's Antitrust Practice Group in Mexico. Prior to joining the Antitrust Practice Group at the Firm, she was part of the Mexican competition authority (Federal Economic Competition Commission), as part of the investigating authority. With more than 8 years of experience in economic competition, mainly in abuse of dominance and analysis of competition conditions, she has conducted investigations in several markets: financial, energy, ports, digital, telecommunications, and transportation, among others. Likewise, she was head of the economic competition subject at UNAM and has taught about competition in several forums. · Antitrust

Alison Stafford Powell

Alison Stafford Powell chairs the North America Trade Compliance team. She has considerable experience counseling US and non-US companies on managing trade compliance in the areas of export controls, trade and financial sanctions and US anti-boycott laws. As a dual-qualified lawyer, she provides practical advice to help non-US companies reconcile US and foreign trade regulations and on the extra-territorial impact of US trade restrictions. Chambers USA quotes clients' praise for her being "extremely knowledgeable, responsive, commercially strong and understanding complex issues well." Legal 500 describes here as an "outstanding specialist." She has worked in the Firm's London, Washington, DC and Palo Alto offices since 1996. · Export Controls

Alissa Inshakova

Allen Ng

Partner · Banking & Finance

Allen Tan

Principal · Corporate Tax

Allison Manvell

Special Counsel · Technology

Alysha Preston

Alysha Preston is an associate in the Firm’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. Alysha counsels domestic and multinational companies in navigating complex issues involving intellectual property and technology transactions, including complex license and collaboration agreements, joint ventures, spin outs, commercial contracts, and mergers and acquisitions. Alysha has been recognized by Super Lawyers and selected to the 2020-2023 New York Metro Rising Star lists for Intellectual Property. · Intellectual Property

Amar Hamouche

Amar Hamouche is a Principal within the Tax practice group of Baker McKenzie's Luxembourg office. He has over 20 years of experience. Prior to joining the Firm's Tax team in 2011, Amar was Senior Tax Manager at Ernst & Young Luxembourg for over seven years and a member of the Financial Services Organization tax group, which focuses on Financial Institutions. Amar has significant knowledge in the field of financial services, within which he solves corporate tax matters on behalf of international clients, such as investment funds and asset managers, as well as holding companies and private equity structures. He has experience in all areas of Luxembourg income tax law, with an emphasis on corporate taxation. In addition, Amar has significant experience in real estate tax and wealth management. Amar's practice focuses mainly on corporate and international taxation (including both inbound and outbound tax planning), as well as on M&A and real estate transactions. He has experience in all areas of Luxembourg income tax law, with an emphasis on corporate taxation. Amar also regularly advises on structured capital market transactions as well as fund, carried interest and management incentive plans structuring. He is also very active within the private wealth sector, notably advising numerous family offices, HNWI and private bankers in the tax structuring of investments and estates, as well as in succession planning. · Corporate Taxation