Baker McKenzie, Corporate/M&A (International Firms)

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Chambers Review

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Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded (International Firms) - China

Band 1

What the Team is Known For

Baker McKenzie’s M&A team is well known for its longstanding activity in real estate deals, and also maintains a busy practice in the life sciences, retail, finance and technology industries. The team assists an impressive array of domestic and multinational clients on both inbound and outbound transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, restructurings and joint ventures. The team regularly leverages its regional and global presence to handle multi-jurisdictional mandates.

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Work Highlights

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Baker McKenzie advised HSBC as financial adviser on the sale of the Vinda’s shares to Isola Castle in a voluntary cash general offer valued at approximately HKD26 billion.

Strengths

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Their legal teams are very well prepared to handle complex transactions and business cases. Our experience with them has been excellent, with timely meeting of deadlines and quality advice.

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Baker McKenzie is able to synthesise the issues with a commercial angle and is effective in driving to an outcome. The team is very responsive and easy to work with.

Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded (International Firms) respondent
Global

Their legal teams are very well prepared to handle complex transactions and business cases. Our experience with them has been excellent, with timely meeting of deadlines and quality advice.

Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded (International Firms) respondent
Global

Baker McKenzie is able to synthesise the issues with a commercial angle and is effective in driving to an outcome. The team is very responsive and easy to work with.

Corporate/M&A: Highly Regarded (International Firms) respondent
Global

Notable Practitioners

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Tracy Wut

Band 4

Tracy Wut is the head of the M&A department at Baker McKenzie, acting for clients in the TMT and pharmaceutical sectors. She is well placed to handle cross-border mandates, including acquisitions, investments and joint ventures.

Tracy is very responsive and professional, offering spot-on legal advice with strong commercial acumen to navigate and resolve complex matters in a great variety of transactions.

She is one of the few partners in Asia who marries both deep global industry expertise in consumer products with corporate M&A advisory. She's hands-on and provides high-quality commercial advice.

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Christina Lee

Band 5

Christina Lee is adept at handling private and public takeovers and privatisations. She has additional expertise in capital markets and regulatory compliance.

Christina is a very knowledgeable and capable partner who offers commercial and practical solutions to our business issues. She has demonstrated great leadership skills in our work together.

She is always a great help and is our default go-to person.

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Robert Wright

Band 5

Robert Wright has a strong track record of handling corporate transactions, including M&A deals, strategic investments and PE/VC matters. He is a popular choice among corporate clients from the technology, education and logistics sectors.

Rob's responsiveness, work ethic, proactivity and technical skills are all second to none. I don't know how he does it!

Rob is an outstanding lawyer. He displays very high work ethic, integrity and dedication to excellence, delivering outstanding results for clients. I would highly recommend Rob.

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Christian Atzler

Expertise Based Abroad

Christian Atzler is based in Frankfurt. He draws on his experience working in the firm's Shanghai and Hong Kong offices to advise on China-related transactions.

His international network is a key strength. You can always ask him and he knows someone he can contact quickly.

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Marco Marazzi

Expertise Based Abroad

Marco Marazzi is based in Baker McKenzie's Italian office. Leveraging his nearly two decades of experience in China and his trilingual language ability in English, Italian and Mandarin, he ably assists financial firms and manufacturers in cross-border transactions.

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Thomas Gilles

Expertise Based Abroad

Thomas Gilles is noted for advising Chinese clients on investments and acquisitions involving German interests from his base in Frankfurt. His wide-ranging transactional practice spans joint ventures, M&A and private equity transactions.

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