Baker McKenzie's Dispute Resolution Practice has been highly ranked in Benchmark Litigation’s 2021 Asia Pacific rankings, with 25 lawyers ranked across the region. In addition, six lawyers have been named to the Benchmark Asia-Pacific's Top 100 Women in Litigation list.
The "Top 100 Women in Litigation" list recognizes leading women litigators in the region for their participation in some of the most impactful recent litigation matters. The honorees were selected based on Benchmark Asia-Pacific’s review of their recent case work, consideration of how lawyers at peer law firms rank them and client feedback.
The six leading women litigators from the Firm are:
Hong Kong / China
- Mini vandePol for white collar crime
Malaysia (Wong & Partners)
- Kherk Ying Chew for Commercial & Transactions and Intellectual Property
Philippines (Quisumbing Torres)
- Divina Ilas-Panganiban for Intellectual Property
Singapore (Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow)
- Celeste Ang for Labor and employment
Taiwan
- Tiffany Huang for Commercial & Transactions and Construction
- Grace Shao for Intellectual Property
Separately, the Firm received top-tier rankings across 10 jurisdictions, including a total of 25 Tier one and Tier two rankings. The Firm was also ranked as a "recommended" firm for international arbitration, labor and employment, private client, white collar crime, and tax.
Hong Kong
- Intellectual Property - Tier 1
- International Arbitration (international firms) - Recommended
China
- International Arbitration (international firms) - Recommended
Indonesia (HHP Law Firm)
- Commercial Transactions - Tier 1
- Intellectual Property - Tier 1
- Insolvency - Tier 1
Japan
- Intellectual Property (International firms) - Tier 2
Malaysia (Wong & Partners)
- Construction - Tier 2
- Tax - Tier 1
- Intellectual Property - Tier 2
- White Collar Crime - Recommended
Philippines (Quisumbing Torres)
- Commercial and transactions - Tier 2
- Intellectual Property - Tier 1
- Labor and Employment - Tier 1
- International Arbitration - Recommended
- Tax - Recommended
Singapore (Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow)
- Intellectual Property - Tier 2
- International Arbitration - Recommended/ Private Client - Recommended
- International Arbitration (domestic firms) - Tier 2
- Labor and employment - Tier 2
Taiwan
- Commercial and transactions - Tier 1
- Intellectual Property - Tier 2
- Labor and employment - Tier 1
- White Collar Crime - recommended
Thailand
- Commercial and transactions - Tier 1
- Government and regulatory - Tier 1
- Labor and employment - Tier 1
- Intellectual Property - Tier 1
- Trade and Customs - Tier 1
Vietnam
- Labor and employment (foreign firms) - Recommended
- Commercial and transactions (foreign firms) - Tier 1
- Energy and construction (foreign firms) - Tier 1
- Intellectual Property - Tier 1
In addition to the firm rankings, the 25 lawyers in the Asia Pacific region who have been recognized by Benchmark Asia-Pacific as outstanding practitioners are:
Hong Kong
- Shih Yann Loo - Litigation Star
- Loke-Khoon Tan - Litigation Star
- Mini vandePol - Litigation Star
Indonesia (HHP Law Firm)
- Andi Kadir - Litigation Star
- Timur Sukirno - Litigation Star
Japan
- Yoshiaki Muto - Litigation Star
- Kensaku Takase - Litigation Star
Malaysia (Wong & Partners)
- Kherk Ying Chew - Litigation Star
- Eddie Chuah - Future Star
- Janice Tay - Future Star
Philippines (Quisumbing Torres)
- Donemark Calimon - Litigation Star
- Kenneth Chua - Litigation Star
- Divina Ilas-Panganiban - Litigation Star
- Bienvenido Marquez III - Litigation Star
- Ramon Quisumbing - Litigation Star
- Gil Roberto Zerrudo - Litigation Star
- Eliseo Zuniga- Litigation Star
Singapore (Baker McKenzie Wong & Leow)
- Celeste Ang - Litigation Star
- Andy Leck - Litigation Star
- Kumar Ponniya - Litigation Star
Taiwan
- Tiffany Huang - Litigation Star
- Grace Shao - Litigation Star
Thailand
- Piya Krootdaecha - Litigation Star
- Wynn Pakdeejit - Litigation Star
Vietnam
- Thuy Hang Nguyen - Future Star