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5 unusual facts about Baker & McKenzie


Camisea Gas Project

The key legal advisors in the transaction were Jaime Malagón, Jerome Jakubik, Paul Slocomb, and Víctor M. Marroquín of Baker & McKenzie, the international law firm retained by the Peruvian Government to advise on all privatization processes.

Edward Shenderovich

He graduated from University of California at Berkeley and clerked at Baker & McKenzie in St. Petersburg, Russia, and San Francisco, California.

Nigel Carrington

He graduated with a law degree from St John's College, Oxford, in 1978 and worked as an international lawyer with Baker & McKenzie from 1979 to 2000.

Víctor M. Marroquín

Following his work at the International Monetary Fund, Marroquín joined Baker & McKenzie as a member of its Latin America Practice Group.

Zia Mody

She worked for five years with Baker & McKenzie in New York City, before returning to India in harmony with the request of her husband.


Charles E. McKenzie

He volunteered for service in the Louisiana National Guard and was stationed on the Mexican border in 1916, when U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent General John J. Pershing in an unsuccessful attempt to capture the bandit Pancho Villa.

Coudert Brothers

One reason for the decline of Coudert Brothers was the rise of other competitive multinational law firms in the 1990s and 2000s, such as Clifford Chance, White & Case and Baker & McKenzie.

Edgar Odell Lovett

After returning to Houston he joined the law firm of Baker & Botts (Baker, Botts, Parker & Garwood, now Baker Botts) in 1924 (with James A. Baker, Jr., father of James Addison Baker, III), and served as chairman of the Rice University board of trustees 1967 to 1973.

Energy in South Australia

Already the federal government has spent AUD 1 million dollars to hire Macquarie Capital, WorleyParsons and Baker & McKenzie to investigate the state’s electricity transmission capacity and project plans for the expansion of renewable energy in South Australia.

Iranian American Bar Association

Currently, IABA's board and an advisory board includes lawyers from several American Lawyer 100 firms, including Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, Perkins Coie, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Morrison & Foerster, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, Baker & McKenzie, and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

James A. McKenzie

McKenzie later was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fifth, Forty-sixth, and Forty-seventh United States Congresses (March 4, 1877–March 3, 1883).

John C. McKenzie

Mckenzie was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-second and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1911-March 3, 1925).

Born on a farm near Elizabeth, Woodbine Township, Illinois, Mckenzie attended the common schools, and the normal school at Valparaiso, Indiana.

He served as chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs (Sixty-eighth Congress).

John D. McKenzie

He was born in Gilby, North Dakota, the son of Alexander McKenzie and Isabella Douglas.

Lionel W. McKenzie

"Turnpike Theory", The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 1987, v. 4, pp.

McKenzie has been the recipient of numerous professional awards, including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1973, election to the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1978, the Order of the Rising Sun in 1995 and honorary doctorates from Keio University in 1998 and Kyoto University in 2004.

Nagatachō, Tokyo

A number of foreign firms have their Japanese offices in Nagatachō, including Baker & McKenzie, Citibank, and Dow Jones.

Ross H. McKenzie

Ross H. McKenzie is a Professor in Physics at the University of Queensland.


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David R. Macdonald

Macdonald practiced law at Baker & McKenzie until 1974, when he left the firm upon being appointed Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (Enforcement, Operations, and Tariff Affairs).

Edward Shenderovich

In 1998, he left Baker & McKenzie to co-found Reasonance, an early blogging/RSS management company, ran a small web development/Internet strategy consulting practice, and later joined Silicon Valley Bank, as its industry analyst for communications and online services.