Baker McKenzie has added leading transactional lawyer Chris Milliken as a partner, based in Ho Chi Minh City. Milliken has a broad corporate and finance practice, including M&A, private equity, joint ventures, financing and capital markets transactions in Vietnam and across the Asia Pacific. He has extensive experience representing banks, private equity firms, private buyers and sellers in public deals and large-scale M&A and complex, cross-border structured investments. Milliken joins from Freshfields. He is an active figure within the Vietnam business community, serving as a vice-chair of the British Chamber of Commerce Vietnam and participating in several professional associations. These include the Vietnam Business Forum’s Capital Markets Working Group, the Power and Energy Working Group, and the Investment and Trade Working Group; the European Chamber of Commerce Vietnam’s Green Growth Sector Committee; and the British Chamber of Commerce Vietnam’s Energy Working Group. Milliken is admitted to practice in England and Wales, and is registered as a foreign legal practitioner in Vietnam. He graduated from BPP University Law School and the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.
