Wake Up Call: Dentons Announces Three-Way Merger

• Dentons’announcement Monday of a three-way mega-merger with firms in Australia and Singapore, combined with its pending tie-up with China’s Dacheng, signals the firm’s continued confidence in the business merits of unfettered global expansion, but it also highlights uncertainties of the firm’s aggressive growth strategy , practitioners said.(The American Lawyer)

• The Chinese Ministry of Commerce has completed its first review of its two-year old legal panel. Along with 25 Chinese firms, 35 foreign firms won spots, including five new ones: Covington & Burling, Goodwin Procter, Morgan Lewis & Bockius, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, Shearman & Sterling, and Vinson & Elkins. Dechert, Herbert Smith Freehills, ...