Baker & McKenzie has announced the appointment of energy & resources partner Mathieu Hanaut from Jones Day.

A French national with Australian citizenship, Hanaut is a commercial, resources and mining lawyer with 15 years' experience in France and Australia and has developed a particular expertise in New Caledonian nickel mining and resources projects. He will also concentrate on projects in the emerging African energy market, and will work closely with the firm's recently opened Johannesburg office.

Hanaut is the third projects partner to join Baker & McKenzie in the past 12 months, after the lateral arrivals of international project finance specialist Sean Rush and PPP expert Roy Weitzman, in addition to the promotion of construction specialist Dan Middleton to partner.