Sunny Mann

Sunny Mann is Baker McKenzie’s Global Chair. Based in London, he is the former global chair of the Firm’s market-leading International Trade Practice Group. In addition to London, he has also worked in the Firm's Washington DC, New York, Sydney and Hong Kong offices.

In his role as Global Chair, Sunny takes great pride in representing, advocating, and championing the Firm that he has called home for 25 years. His primary focus is on developing and strengthening the Firm's relationships with its numerous top-tier clients, and he spends a large proportion of his time on the road. He regularly appears across global media and can be found speaking at major global events. He also continues to play a meaningful role in the direction and custody of the Firm's culture – an area of passion for him for over two decades.

Through his practice, Sunny advises clients (including numerous FTSE 100 and Fortune 100 businesses) on compliance and investigations with respect to export controls, trade sanctions and anti-bribery rules. Sunny is ranked as a Band 1 practitioner by both Legal 500 and Chambers, and was described as "excellent, with a calm and very practical approach”. Legal 500 most recently noted that Baker McKenzie “have a great team led by Sunny Mann, who has a reputation for being a strong and fair leader with fantastic people management skills to complement his undoubted trade controls expertise”.

Sunny also chairs our Geopolitical Risks Taskforce and oversaw our Firm’s support to clients responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The team was at the forefront of the market, having advised around one quarter of each of the Fortune 100, FTSE 100, CAC 40 and DAX 30 communities.

Sunny is a Visiting Professor at King’s College, London (teaching sanctions on the LLM course) and was for 15 years a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, the leading institute for post-graduate European studies, where he taught an LLM course on Corporate Compliance.

Sunny has also served as a board member and trustee at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, one of the oldest animal shelters.