Political journalist Annabel Crabb was the inaugural speaker at Baker & McKenzie’s latest initiative to address the lack of women in senior roles within the legal profession: The Kathleen Thornton Memorial Conversation.

King & Spalding and Baker & McKenzie have advised on a US$27bn real estate development in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

In a growing trend of sophisticated transactions involving Vietnamese corporations, Freshfields and Baker & McKenzie have advised on TH Milk’s acquisition of a sugar refinery owned by UK-based food producer Tate & Lyle.

Allen & Gledhill and Baker & Mckenzie have acted on the acquisition of Temasek's entire stake in Fraser and Neave – a leading food and beverage company in Singapore and Malaysia – by Kirin, worth US$987m. The acquisition marks Kirin's first major investment in Singapore.

Baker & McKenzie International has strengthened its Asia-Pacific practice with new elections to partnership and making recent lateral hires to its member firms in Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia.

Baker & McKenzie, Freehills and TransAsia Lawyers are advising Melbourne-based copper and gold producer Indophil on a A$545m approach for the company from China’s Zijin Mining Group