Sunny Mann
Biography
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 also one of the longest serving members of our Global Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Committee. He was one of the co-founders of our global Firm’s very first affinity group, BakerEthnicity. He was also a board member and trustee at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, one of the oldest animal shelters.
He 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 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 also one of the longest serving members of our Global Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Committee. He was one of the co-founders of our global Firm’s very first affinity group, BakerEthnicity. He was also a board member and trustee at Battersea Dogs and Cats Home, one of the oldest animal shelters.
He 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.
Professional Associations and Memberships
Admissions
- England & Wales~United Kingdom (2002)
Education
- College of Europe, Bruges (LL.M in European Legal Studies) (1999)
- King's College London (LL.B in Law) (1997)
- University of Paris I (Pantheon-Sorbonne) (Maîtrise en droit) (1997)
Languages
- English
- French
- German
- Punjabi
Previous Offices
- New York
- Sydney
- Washington, DC
Baker & McKenzie LLP, an English partnership, is a member of Baker & McKenzie International, a Swiss Verein.