Baker McKenzie Appoints Sunny Mann As New Global Chair
Mann will take on his four-year term in October, succeeding Milton Cheng
(The Corner Office Journal) -- Baker McKenzie appointed its International Trade Practice Group Head Sunny Mann as the firm’s new global chair, succeeding Milton Cheng.
Mann, who is based in London, will take on his four-year term in October, the global law firm said in a statement. In addition to London, he has also worked in the firm's Washington DC, New York, Sydney and Hong Kong offices, it added.
Baker McKenzie said Mann advises clients, including numerous FTSE 100 and Fortune 100 businesses, on compliance and investigations with respect to trade, sanctions, export controls and anti-bribery rules.
He also chairs Baker McKenzie's Geopolitical Risks Taskforce and oversaw the firm’s support to clients responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, it noted.
Baker McKenzie said Mann, who is also a visiting professor at King’s College, London (teaching sanctions on the LLM course), will sit on the firm's Global Management Committee, effective 1 July.
The committee will also include regional chief executives Alex Chadwick (EMEA), Colin Murray (Americas) and Steven Sieker (Asia Pacific), and partners Scott Brandman (New York), Amar Budarapu (Dallas), Pamela Church (New York), Matthew Dening (Riyadh), Andre Gan (Kuala Lumpur), Karen Guch (London), Isabella Liu (Hong Kong) and Christian Vocke (Frankfurt).
“I very much look forward to working alongside the incoming Global Management Committee,” Mann said, adding that he’s eager to collaborate with more than 13,000 colleagues across over 70 offices globally.
Cheng, the first Asian to hold the chair position in the firm’s history for nearly six years, said he is looking forward to working closely with Mann in the next few months to ensure a seamless transition.
Baker McKenzie said during Cheng’s tenure, the firm’s global annual revenue passed the $3 billion mark for the first time in 2021, and it has continued on a steady growth path since then.
“The next few years are going to be exciting for us, and full of opportunity. I can’t wait to get to work,” Mann noted.
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