EU discusses eleventh package of EU sanctions against Russia

Sunny Mann is the global chair of our International Trade Practice Group. He is a partner based in the London office, and has also worked in our Firm's Washington DC, New York, Sydney and Hong Kong offices.
Sunny advises clients (including numerous FTSE 100 and Fortune 100 businesses) on compliance and investigations with respect to export controls, trade sanctions and anti-bribery rules. Sunny is ranked as a Band 1 practitioner by both Legal 500 and Chambers, and was described as "excellent, with a calm and very practical approach”. Legal 500 most recently noted that Baker McKenzie “have a great team led by Sunny Mann, who has a reputation for being a strong and fair leader with fantastic people management skills to complement his undoubted trade controls expertise”.
Sunny also chairs our Geopolitical Risks Taskforce and oversaw our Firm’s support to clients responding to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The team was at the forefront of the market, having advised around one quarter of each of the Fortune 100, FTSE 100, CAC 40 and DAX 30 communities.
Sunny is a Visiting Professor at King’s College, London (teaching sanctions on the LLM course) and was for 15 years a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, the leading institute for post-graduate European studies, where he taught an LLM course on Corporate Compliance.
Sunny has also served as a board member and trustee at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, one of the oldest animal shelters.

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Derk Christiaans is an associate in Baker McKenzie's London office and advises (multi)national companies on EU, competition and trade matters in various industries, including healthcare and life sciences, TMT, and consumer goods and retail.

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Sietske Brinksma joined Baker McKenzie in 2022 and is a junior associate within the Amsterdam competition and trade practice group. She works closely with the competition team in Brussels and is included in the pharmaceutical industry group within EMEA. Before Sietske joined the Firm, she studied Law at Tilburg University from a Dutch, European and International perspective. During her master degree, she specialized in competition law and has considered the topic from a regulatory, as well as from an (international) business perspective. In 2020, she was awarded the Certificate of Excellence on the topic of Competition Law at Tilburg University. As a special interest, she has conducted study into the digital and technological sector, considering topics such as digital platforms, AI and blockchain.

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