Baker Botts’ partner-in-charge change

Baker Botts has announced that effective January 1, 2014, senior partner, JOHN LONSBERG, will assume the post of partner-in-charge for the Baker Botts Middle East offices. 

Lonsberg follows partner-in-charge BOB JORDAN, who spent the past four years leading Baker Botts’ Middle East offices. The firm expects Bob Jordan to return to the Dallas, US office of the firm after a transition period. 

Jordan was instrumental in helping to bring John Lonsberg and his team of lawyers from Norton Rose Fulbright to the firm in 2013. Lonsberg’s team that joined Baker Botts specialised primarily on corporate and commercial transactions, regulatory and compliance, project finance, international arbitration and dispute resolution matters across a range of industries. 

Lonsberg will continue to advise clients on the regulation of business activities, including the satisfaction of foreign investment and fiscal requirements. Lonsberg had previously established Fulbright & Jaworski’s presence in the Middle East when he joined Fulbright in 2005 and served as the partner-in-charge of its Middle East practice.