Australia

Melbourne
Baker & McKenzie
Level 39 Rialto
525 Collins Street
Melbourne, Victoria 3000
Tel: +61 3 9617 4200
Fax: +61 3 9614 2103
Managing Partner: Leigh Duthie

Our Australian team understands the global language of business.

Baker & McKenzie is unique among law firms in our ability to deliver the knowledge, experience and capabilities of our global network to our clients in the local market. Companies benchmark themselves against the best practice in their sectors, globally, not just domestically. We provide our clients with the innovative legal solutions they expect from the global top-tier law firm, together with commercial pragmatism and seasoned experience.  Baker & McKenzie has been an integral part of the Australian legal landscape since 1964.

The results speak the global language of success.

Baker & McKenzie's Australian lawyers have advised on many of the headline Australian transactions of the last four decades – including the capital raising and listing for International Ferro Metals Limited, the first Australian company admitted to the FTSE 250; the A$4 billion KKR joint venture with the Seven Network; and the groundbreaking A$1.85 billion Sims Group merger with the US company Metal Management Inc.

We continue to bring the experience of our global classroom to our clients in Australia through every transaction. We actively ensure that we have harnessed the best legal solution as tested through our global network. Our ability to do this is underlined by our leadership in legal thinking – bringing our experience across legal and regulatory boundaries to clients in their domestic markets. This has been exhibited in our advice to the Australian government on its emissions trading scheme, leading the debate about pharmaceutical counterfeiting and securing international transfer pricing mechanisms.