Baker McKenzie Announces Partner Promotions for 2026

Leading global law firm Baker McKenzie today announced the promotion of 47 lawyers to partner¹, effective 1 July, 2026 (with the exception of some locations in the Americas (including North America), where promotions took effect earlier this year).

This year's partner promotions reflect the Firm's continued investment in talent and its strategic focus on building the capabilities needed to advise multinational clients on their most complex, cross-border matters.

Alongside 44 lateral partner hires during financial year 2026, Baker McKenzie has welcomed a total of 91 new partners globally, further strengthening its ability to deliver a seamless client experience across markets.

The Firm's Transactional practice saw the largest number of promotions this year, with Dispute Resolution, Commercial and Tax welcoming the second and joint third largest number of promoted partners. Women represent 43% of this year's partner promotions.

Sunny Mann, Global Chair, Baker McKenzie, commented:

"Our 2026 partner promotions reflect our consistent focus on ensuring that we continue to be a high-performing, inclusive Firm that can deliver for our multinational clients on their most critical work. We are investing in exceptional talent across our global practice groups - colleagues who combine local expertise with global insight and collaboration in service of our clients. Our new partners will be instrumental in shaping the future growth of our Firm and I am excited about the heights to which they will take the Firm in the years to come. A huge and heartfelt congratulations to them all."

The newly promoted partners are:

Antitrust & Competition
Bram Hoorelbeke (Brussels)
Nina Lenhard (Vienna)
Byron Tuyay (Los Angeles)*

Banking & Finance
Monica Cubillos (Bogota)*

Capital Markets
Katarzyna Grodziewicz (Warsaw)

Data, Technology, Privacy & Cybersecurity
Jarrod Bayliss-McCulloch (Melbourne)
Cristina Messerschmidt (Chicago)*
Johanna Moesch (Zurich)

Dispute Resolution
Rami Bou Raad (Riyadh)
Sjef Janssen (Amsterdam)
Laura Kelly (Chicago)*
Ben Ko (London)
Juan Pablo Labbé Arocca (Santiago)
Alicja Szczęśniak (Warsaw)
Pasu Na Songkhla (Bangkok)

Employment & Compensation
Lois Caeiro (Madrid)
Matthew Gorman (Washington D.C.)*
Humberto Ruiz-Correa (Monterrey)*
Trishelea Sandosam (Kuala Lumpur)
Michael Starkey (Sydney)

Energy & Infrastructure
Carlos Maass-Porras (Juarez)*

Intellectual Property
Alysha Preston (New York)*

International Commercial & Trade
Sarah Mavula (Toronto)*
Andrea Tovar (San Francisco)*

Investigations, Compliance & Ethics
Michael Hidalgo (Los Angeles)*

Mergers & Acquisitions
Satoshi Abe (Tokyo)
Elizabeth Barber (Chicago)*
Charlotte Chang (Taipei)
Bryan Koorstad (Los Angeles)*
Chiara Marinozzi (Milan)
Patrick McGregor (Abu Dhabi)
Sarah Rosales (Houston)*
Ben Saraci (London)
Sophie Schubert (Vienna)
Jonathan Yeo (New York)*

Private Equity
Jens Carle (Singapore)**

Real Estate
Maria Batlouni (Paris)
Shinn-Yih Ho (Taipei)
Benjamin Pirlet (Brussels)
Sarah Swain (San Francisco)*

Restructuring & Insolvency
Artur Swierczok (Frankfurt)

Tax
Isabelle Bronzwaer (Amsterdam)
Daniel Chou (Taipei)
Pamela Floriani (Milan)
Dmitrii Gabrielov (Los Angeles)*
Thomas Kukanza (Brussels)
Lionel Ochs (Paris)

¹ Promotions made across Baker McKenzie's Member Firms. References to "partner" means a person who is a partner or partner equivalent in a Member Firm, and references to an "office" means an office of any such Member Firm.

*Promotions effective 1 January 2026
**Principal