Baker McKenzie

Baker McKenzie draws on its global platform and full-service capabilities to advise private equity sponsors, pension and sovereign wealth funds and portfolio companies on multi-jurisdictional investments, divestments and other transactions across the PE life cycle. The team, which is noted for its ‘efficiency’ and ’professionalism’, is led by Derek Poon, valued for his ‘exceptional’ knowledge and commercial acumen in pan-Asian public and private M&A and private equity transactions. Robert Wright advises multinationals and financial sponsors on leveraged M&A, co-investments, exists, restructurings and portfolio company matters across the APAC region, while Xinxing Chen specialises in cross-border acquisitions for China-based GPs and clients.