Baker McKenzie has elected International Trade, Compliance and Investigations partner Sunny Mann has been elected as the Firm’s new Global Chair, succeeding Milton Cheng in the role. Mann will take on his four-year term in October.
Based in London, Mann is the 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.
He advises on compliance and investigations on trade, sanctions, export controls and anti-bribery rules. He also chairs the firm’s Geopolitical Risks Taskforce, and oversaw the Firm’s team supporting numerous top global companies on geopolitical disruption, including responding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the ongoing trade and tariff wars.
Mann 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.
He will sit on the Firm’s Global Management Committee, which, effective July 1, 2025, will also include regional Chief Executives Alex Chadwick (EMEA), Colin Murray (Americas) and Steven Sieker (Asia Pacific), and partners Scott Brandman (New York), Amar Budarapu (Dallas), Pamela Church (New York), Matthew Dening (Riyadh), Andre Gan (Kuala Lumpur), Karen Guch (London), Isabella Liu (Hong Kong) and Christian Vocke (Frankfurt).
“It is an immense privilege to have been elected by my fellow partners to the role of Global Chair in our great Firm. Over its 75 years’ history, our Firm made its name supporting clients to navigate cross-border complexity. Given the levels of change and market disruption we are now witnessing around the world, I am confident that with our unparalleled international reach, there is no firm better placed to support clients navigate the complex and turbulent demands of our current global climate,” said Sunny Mann, Baker McKenzie Global Chair-Elect.
