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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.
In International Commerce and Trade

Upcoming Event: LATAM Trade Day in Sao Paulo

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Trench Rossi Watanabe* is delighted to host an in-person conference: LATAM Trade Day: 100 Days of the Trump Administration – New Trends For International Trade. Along with the Brazilian team, the panels will feature guest speakers from Baker McKenzie from across the US, Europe, Asia and of course Latin America – including colleagues from Colombia, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Chile and Venezuela.

In Corporate Compliance

United States: Sanctions Enforcement in 2024: A Fireside Chat with OFAC Associate Director, Lawrence Scheinert (Webinar)

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Please join Baker McKenzie and ICPA for a fireside chat with Lawrence Scheinert, Associate Director for Enforcement, Compliance, and Analysis at the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC). 

During the discussion, Lawrence will outline OFAC’s enforcement program and priorities. He will also share his insights on enforcement actions, multilateral coordination and cooperation with other US regulators such as BIS, FinCEN, and the DOJ, impact of enforcement actions on non-US companies, among other topics. 

Please join us on 18 and 19 June 2024 for this informative briefing to gain up-to-date insights that could significantly impact your company’s compliance strategies and operations.

In UK

United Kingdom: Economic Crime Update: Introduction to the Failure to Prevent Fraud Offence and Corporate Criminal Liability Reforms

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The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 received Royal Assent on 26 October 2023. The Act is a landmark development in the UK Government’s long-standing efforts to enhance the UK’s economic crime enforcement framework, and the Act introduces a number of important measures designed to improve corporate transparency and tackle economic crime in the UK
and abroad.

In Sanctions

Global: Five Eyes Partners agree to coordinate enforcement on export controls

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Baker McKenzie’s Sanctions Blog published the alert titled  Blog Series: Sanctions Enforcement Around the World – Five Eyes Partners agree to coordinate enforcement on export controls on 11 July 2023. Read the article via the link here. Please also visit our Sanctions Blog for the most recent updates.  

In

United Kingdom: Introduction of corporate failure to prevent fraud offence

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On 11 April 2023, the UK government announced in a Factsheet the introduction of a new criminal offence of failure to prevent fraud for organisations profiting from fraud committed by their employees or agents acting on their behalf. Violations can result in unlimited fines for organisations involved. Introduced as an amendment to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill 2022, the new offence will come into force on the day the Act is passed.

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