Global law firm Baker McKenzie has received 64 practice area and 102 lawyer rankings in the recently published 2027 edition of The Legal 500 UK
Practice areas that earned a Tier 1 ranking include:
- Corporate and Commercial: Customs and Excise
- Corporate and Commercial: EU and Competition: Trade, WTO Anti-dumping, Customs, and Sanctions
- Corporate and Commercial: International Business Reorganisations
- Corporate and Commercial: VAT and Indirect Tax
- Crime, Fraud and Licensing: Fraud: Civil
- Employment: Employers
- Industry Focus: Emerging Markets
- Industry Focus: TMT
- Insurance: Product Liability: Defendant
- Private Client: Contentious Trusts and Probate
- Risk Advisory: Corporate Governance
- TMT (Technology, Media and Telecoms): IT and Telecoms
- TMT (Technology, Media and Telecoms): Media: Digital Content & Social
Among the Firm’s 102 individual rankings, the following lawyers were newly ranked:
Corporate and Commercial: Equity Capital Markets – Mid-Large Cap
- Simon Bullock (Leading Partner)
Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration
- Kartik Singh (Leading Associate)
Employment: Employers
- Rob Marsh (Leading Associate)
Industry Focus: TMT
- Cara Heaslip (Leading Associate)
Private Client: Contentious Trusts and Probate
- Gareth Roberts (Leading Associate)
Private Client: Personal Tax, Trusts and Probate
- Christopher Cook (Leading Associate)
Projects, Energy and Natural Resources: Infrastructure: Project Finance
- Philip Thomson (Leading Partner)
Risk Advisory: Corporate Governance
- James Thompson (Leading Partner)
Risk Advisory: Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime (Advice to Corporates)
- Yindi Gesinde (Next Generation Partner)
Risk Advisory: Regulatory Investigations and Corporate Crime (Advice to Corporates)
- Henry Garfield (Next Generation Partner)
TMT (Technology, Media and Telecoms): Media: Digital Content & Social
- John Groom (Next Generation Partner)
The Legal 500 rankings are based on a series of criteria, including work conducted by law firms over the past 12 months, experience and depth of teams and areas of specialisation.