Max Baird-Smith is a partner in the Corporate Department. Max advises on a broad mixture of corporate and commercial transactions, including acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, private-equity investments and fund raisings.
He has represented major groups across a range of sectors, as well as family offices, high-net-worth individuals and alternative investment funds. He has extensive experience handling complex cross-border matters, regularly working across Europe, the US and Africa.
Max is recommended in The Legal 500 UK 2024.
Max is a graduate of Oxford University and qualified into a corporate team at Slaughter and May in 2005.
Max speaks French and English and is qualified in England and Wales (solicitor) and France (avocat).