Author
Sunny Mann
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.
