Main international regulation agency, Baker McKenzie, has employed Helen Johnson as a companion in its M&A workforce in London, additional strengthening the Agency’s international transactional experience and capabilities.
Helen joins Baker McKenzie from CMS, the place she heads up the agency’s Retail Observe and has robust and broad transactional experience, advising each corporates and monetary sponsors. Along with the Retail sector, Helen is lively in monetary providers, insurance coverage and expertise, and has good expertise working with Japanese shoppers in search of outward investments and acquisitions within the UK and Europe.
Baker McKenzie’s London Head of M&A, David Scott, commented: “I’m thrilled to be welcoming Helen to the Agency and our Transactional follow. Whereas Helen has broad expertise and experience, her deep partnering with shoppers within the retail sector particularly can be an ideal match for our market-leading Shopper Transactional follow. Her arrival additional helps our Transactional progress technique in London and globally.”
The Agency’s London Managing Associate, Ed Poulton, added: “Our London workplace is in a interval of strategic acceleration and our Transactional practices are enjoying a key position in our progress story within the Metropolis. Helen’s improbable expertise and credentials means she is properly positioned to assist drive the additional growth of our cross-border Transactional follow and assist our shoppers on their most advanced transactions. I stay up for welcoming Helen to the Agency.”
Helen joins the Agency later within the yr and can be based mostly in its London workplace.
Baker McKenzie continues to speed up aggressively its lateral progress technique so as to add senior expertise to its transactional bench. Most not too long ago, this has included Tamás Szkiba (Budapest), Jenny Liu (New York), Mark Thompson (London), Nick Benson (London), Todd Beauchamp and Charles Weinstein (Washington, DC), Kevin Heverin (London), Jan Schubert (Frankfurt), Alexander Stathopolous (Singapore), Michal Berkner (London), Miju Damodar (New York) and James Wyatt (London).
With greater than 2,700 deal practitioners in 45 jurisdictions, Baker McKenzie is a transactional powerhouse. The Agency excels in advanced, cross-border transactions; over 65% of our offers are multi-jurisdictional. Baker McKenzie has been constantly acknowledged as a top-three agency for cross-border M&A by quantity over the previous decade. The groups are a hybrid of ‘native’ and ‘international,’ combining money-market sophistication with native excellence.
