About Our History

Baker McKenna is a global law firm with lawyers, positioning us to help companies with their legal needs anywhere in the world.

We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality and value to our clients. We achieve this through practical and innovative legal solutions that help our clients succeed. We deliver consistent services across our platform of practices and sectors in all matters we undertake.

Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies. They include more than half of the Fortune 250 and nearly half of the FTSE 350 or their subsidiaries. We also advise governments, public sector bodies and individual clients.

The work here embraces all aspects of domestic and international trade, business, commerce and finance. Barristers at Baker McKenna are recognised specialist counsel in the many diverse fields of commercial law, inheritance law and also regularly accepting nominations as arbitrators, mediators and experts.

The principal areas of practice are arbitration, banking and financial services, commercial litigation, civil fraud and investigations, company and insolvency, competition and EU law, energy and natural resources, insurance and reinsurance, intellectual property, media, entertainment and broadcasting, professional liability, public law, sports, inheritance law, gaming and licensing and tax and revenue law.