Sydney, Australia, 15 October 2008 – Baker & McKenzie has been awarded Law Firm / Tax Advisor of the Year at Pacific Prospect's 2008 Australian Structured Products Yearbook Awards presented in Sydney on Thursday 9th October. Partners Bill Fuggle and Astrid Raetze, in the Financial Services practice group, collected the award on behalf of the Firm.

Baker & McKenzie were advisers to all of the product winners at the awards: JP Morgan's award for equity structured product of the year and award for innovation of the year for their ASX20+ product; and ABN AMRO's award for non-equity structured product of the year for the Conquistador product.

Commenting on the Firm's achievement, Bill Fuggle said, "We are delighted that the innovative structures we helped put in place for our clients have been recognised by the industry as leading the field. The award is also a public recognition of the great team that we have in place at Baker & McKenzie."