TOPICS & NEWS
2010/9/3 Middle East Expert Mina Arai-Ito Returns from the Cairo Office
2010/9/1 International Trade and Commerce Expert Junko Suetomi Joins Baker & McKenzie in Tokyo
2010/9/1 We currently have an opening in Tokyo for IT Assistant.
2010/8/30 Mina Arai-Ito returned to the Tokyo office of Baker & McKenzie after working in the firm's Cairo office.
2010/8/30 Junko Suetomi joins our office as a counsel.
TOPICS & NEWS
2010/9/30 Baker & McKenzie will be sponsoring a seminar with the Nikkei entitled "Cross-Border Infrastructure Projects and PPP" on September 30, 2010 at the Nikkei Hall in Otemachi.
Naoaki Eguchi (Tokyo) and Gavin Raftery (Tokyo) will participate as panelists while Paul Elliott (Singapore) and Michael Smith (Chicago) will be speakers at the event.

Please note that the invitation is available in Japanese only. However, the seminar will be held in Japanese and English with simultaneous translation.

To register for the event, please click here (only Japanese site available) .
SEMINARS
2010/9/2-3 Tokyo partner, Edwin Whatley, will appear as a panelist at the "15th Annual International Tax & Trusts Training Course"hosted by Baker & McKenzie's Singapore office on September 2 and 3, 2010.
TOPICS & NEWS
2010/8/25 Baker & McKenzie was named as one of ALB's Leading Arbitration & Dispute Resolution Firms in Japan (Issue 10.8).
2010/6/28 Managing Intellectual Property's 2010 Global Awards named Baker & McKenzie "Anti-counterfeiting IP Firm of the Year."
2010/6/23 Global Finance Magazine Survey, "Best Investment Banks 2010": Baker & McKenzie was voted "Best Legal Adviser in Asia"
2010/5/10 Baker & McKenzie was ranked number two in International Tax Review's “World's leading planning practices.”
2010/5/6 Baker & McKenzie earns top tier rankings in PLC's Which Lawyer? 2010:
(Leading Firm)
Banking and finance
Corporate/M&A
(Highly Recommended Firm)
Environment
Intellectual Property
Labor and employee benefits
Private equity and venture capital
Restructuring and insolvency
2010/4/2 Baker & McKenzie was ranked number two in Bloomberg's 2009 Samurai Bond Advisor League Tables.
2010/3/17 Baker & McKenzie Ranked Number One in PLC's "Which Lawyer? Environment Super League 2009".
2010/3/2 Baker & McKenzie earns a high ranking spot in the International Tax Review's "Global Tax Transactional Survey".
NEWSLETTERS
2010/9/3 U.S. Treasury Department Issues New Iranian Financial Sanctions Regulations
2010/7/15 Changes to Japan's Transfer Pricing Guidelines
2010/6/4 New Supervisory Guidelines for Derivatives Transactions
2010/6/3 Hong Kong Stock Exchange implements new Listing Rule to attract mining company listings in Hong Kong
2010/5/28 Substantial Changes to Japanfs Transfer Pricing Documentation Rules
2010/5/11 Australian Resource Super Profits Tax
2010/4/1 Soil Contamination Prevention Law amendments - Do they solve the brownfield problem in real estate transactions?
2010/4/1 Baker & McKenzie Advising FedEx in Relation to Flight 80's Crash at Narita Airport
2010/2/10 Japanfs National Tax Tribunal Reverses \14.1 Billion Transfer Pricing Assessment Against TDK Corporation
2010/2/5 Potential Changes to Australiafs Mining Tax Regime
2010/2/4 The U.S. Shale Gas Industry and Associated Legal Issues
PUBLICATIONS
2010/8/11 Christoph Rademacher authored the book, "Die gerichtliche Durchsetzung von Patent- und Markenrechten in Deutschland, Japan und den USA " Nomos (2010).
2010/8/5 Ken Okawara co-authored, "Transfer Pricing in Japan" CCH Japan Limited. (2010).
PRESS RELEASE
2010/7/16 3 new partners and 4 counsel members promoted in the Tokyo office, effective July 1st, 2010
2010/7/12 Baker & Mckenzie advises Prospect Reit Investment Corporation on its merger with Japan Rental Housing Investments Inc.
2010/6/4 Baker & McKenzie elects Eduardo Leite of Brazil as next chairman
2010/5/31 Baker & McKenzie Tokyo wins three awards at the 2010 ALB Law Awards - Debt Market, TMT and M&A Deals of the Year
2010/4/15 Baker & McKenzie receives eight finalist nominations in six categories for this year's 2010 ALB Japan Law Awards
2010/2/15 Real estate expert Haruhiko Ogasawara joins Baker & McKenzie in Tokyo