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Awards and recognition

General

  • Golden Trophy Real Estate Transactions, Trophées du Droit, 2011
  • Banking & Finance Law Firm of the Year, Finance Monthly Law Awards, 2011
  • Band 1: Telecoms, Medias & Technology, Chambers Europe, 2011
  • One of the Top 10 Law Firms in Securitisation, Magazine des Affaires, 2011
  • 15 partners from Baker & McKenzie in Paris are recognized as "Best Lawyers" in France in 2011, Best Lawyers, 2011 
  • Most Admired Law Firms, Corporate Board Member/FTI Consulting surveys, 2010
  • Band 1: IT, Internet & Telecom, Option Droit & Affaires, 2010
  • Law Firm of the Year: Asia, PLC Which lawyer? Awards, 2005-2009
  • Law Firm of the Year: Middle-East, PLC Which lawyer? Awards, 2008-2009
  • Law Firm of the Year: Latin America, PLC Which lawyer? Awards, 2008-2009
  • Law Firm of the Year: Central & Eastern Europe, PLC Which lawyer? Awards, 2008
  • Law Firm of the Year: International, PLC Which lawyer? Awards, 2008

Banking & Finance

  • Banking & Finance Law Firm of the Year, Finance Monthly France - Law Awards, 2011
  • Top 10 Law Firms (Securitisation Rankings, France), Magazine des Affaires, 2011
  • Highly recommended: Michael Foundethakis, Legal Experts EMEA, 2011
  • Client choice: Michael Foundethakis (Banking & Finance), ILO Client Choice Indivudual Winners, 2011

Competition & Distribution

  • Band 1: Competition, Décideurs Stratégie Finance & Droit, 2010

Employment

  • Band 1: Employment, Chambers Global, 2011
  • Band 1: Immigration, Chambers Global, 2011
  • Band 1: Employment, Chambers Global, 2010
  • Band 1: Immigration, Chambers Global, 2010

Environment

  • Band 1 : Climate Change, Chambers Global, 2011
  • Highly recommended: Arnaud Cabanes (Environment), Legal Experts EMEA, 2011
  • Band 2: Environment, Chambers Europe, 2010
  • Recommended: Environment, Legal 500 EMEA, 2010
  • Recommended Lawyers: Arnaud Cabanes & Emmanuel Guillaume (Environment), PLC Which lawyer?, 2010

Information Technologies/Communications

  • Band 1: Telecoms, Medias & Technology, Chambers Europe, 2011
  • Band 1: Outsourcing, Data Protection & Information Technologies, Chambers Global, 2010 & 2011
  • Band 1: IT and Internet, Option Droit & Affaires, 2010

Intellectual Property

  • Band1: Intellectual Property: Global (One of only two firms with a Band 1 rating for intellectual property: global), Chambers Global, 2010 & 2011
  • Global Anti-Counterfeiting Firm of the Year 2010, Managing IP, 2010
  • Most mentions in annual Top Patent & Trade Mark Firms Survey, Managing IP, 2004-2010

Litigation & Arbitration

  • Band 2: Dispute Resolution, Chambers Global, 2011
  • Highly recommended: Jean-Dominique Touraille, Legal Experts EMEA, 2011

Mergers & Acquisitions / Corporate / Private Equity

  • Recommended: Capital Market, Legal 500 Europe, 2010
  • Recommended: Private Equity, Legal 500 Europe, 2010

Pharmaceuticals & Healthcare

  • Highly Recommended: Life Sciences: Corporate, PLC Which Lawyer?, 2011
  • Recommended: Life Sciences, PLC Which Lawyer?, 2011
  • Recommended: Life Sciences: regulatory, PLC Which Lawyer?, 2011
  • Band 2: Health & Life Sciences, Legal 500 EMEA, 2010
  • Band 2: Life Sciences, Chambers Global, 2010

Public Law

  • Highly recommended: Arnaud Cabanes and Emmanuel Guillaume (Public/Administrative), Legal Experts EMEA, 2011
  • Band 2: Public Law, Chambers Europe, 2010

Real Estate

  • Golden Trophy: Real Estate Transactions, Trophées du Droit, 2011
  • Highly recommended: Christine Daric, Marc Mariani, Olivier Mesmin, Legal Experts EMEA, 2011
  • Band 2: Investment Funds: Real Estate, Chambers Global, 2011
  • Band 1: Real Estate, Chambers Global, 2010

Tax

  • Highly recommended: Pierre-Yves Bourtourault, Olivier Mesmin, Véronique Millischer, Legal Experts EMEA, 2011
  • Band 2: Tax, Chambers Global, 2011
  • Band 2: Investment Funds: Real Estate, Chambers Global, 2011
  • Band 2: Tax, Legal 500 EMEA, 2010
  • Band 2: Tax, Legal 500 Paris, 2010


We discuss creditors' new obligations under Victoria’s Farm Debt Mediation Act 2011, which requires creditors to provide farmers the option to mediate before carrying out enforcement action with respect to farm mortgages. The act comes into effect on 1 July 2012.
In this one-of-a-kind handbook, Baker & McKenzie partner H. Stephen Harris Jr. explains how to navigate China’s antitrust and competition laws under the new systems enacted in August 2008. The handbook includes insights on fulfilling compliance obligations and possible applications of the law given China’s unique economic and regulatory framework.
We have now published our Collecting Societies Handbook 2012 which was launched in the UK on 27 February 2012 at the Future of Copyright lecture at the Charlotte Street Hotel. If you would like a copy (available in hardback or USB) please contact .
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