As 2015 Closes, Dentons Wraps Up Transformative Year

From the start of 2015, it was clear that Dentons’ leadership wanted to have a transformative year.

In January, it announced a swiss-verein combination with China’s largest firm Dacheng that added roughly 4,000 lawyers. But that was only the start.

In October, it announced a merger with McKenna Long & Aldridge and that it had hired 21 lawyers in a new Milan, Italy office. The following month, it announced tie-ups with Rodyk & Davidson in Singapore and Australian firm Gadens and had plans to merge with Luxembourg firm OPF Partners. By December, the firm expanded into Mexico and Colombia as the partnership voted to combine ...