‘Seizing new market opportunities’: Bakers gets first joint operation licence to practise Chinese law

Long held at arm’s length by protectionist regulators, Baker & McKenzie has become the first international law firm to get permission to practise local law in China in a joint operation with Chinese firm FenXun Partners.

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