Baker McKenzie’s London managing partner Ed Poulton was elected to London managing partner in June 2021 after first being appointed to the firm’s London management committee in 2018.

He has been at the firm since 2000, and has played a role on a variety of mandates such as acting for a large Eastern European bank in four ICC arbitrations, involving claims and counterclaims for more than $3 billion as well as acting for Kuwait in proceedings brought by Egyptian claimants relating to the development of a major urbanisation project in Kuwait City. He also sits as an arbitrator in ICC and LCIA arbitrations, and chairs the firm’s global international arbitration practice group’s steering committee.