Dentons, London Office, USA

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Global CEO: Elliott Portnoy

Global Chairman: Nick Park

Dentons US Region Managing Partner: Chris Carson

Dentons Bingham Greenebaum Managing Partner: Keith Bice

Dentons Cohen & Grigsby President and CEO: Christie Tillapaugh

Dentons Davis Brown President: John Pietila

Dentons Durham Jones Pinegar President and Chairman: Joshua Little

Dentons Sirote President: Kyle Smith

Dentons US CEO: Sonia Martin

Dentons US Global Vice Chair: Mary Wilson

Number of lawyers: 5,900+ lawyers and professionals in over 80 countries

Website: www.dentons.com

Firm Overview:

Dentons, the world’s largest law firm, with more than 5,900 people in over 80 countries, advises many of the world’s 200 largest companies on their most complex and sophisticated legal matters. The firm’s success is due, in large part, to its commitment to having high-quality legal talent everywhere to serve clients anywhere.

Diversity and inclusion are key aspects of Dentons’ culture and core values. Dentons has long been an advocate of increasing diversity within the firm and throughout the wider legal industry. The firm recognizes that diversity must be integral to Dentons’ DNA since having the best people is necessary for delivering exemplary results to clients.

In early 2022, the firm’s partnership made an important statement about the strength of its commitment to diversity when partner Sonia Martin was appointed CEO of Dentons US. Sonia joins US Managing Partner Mary Wilson as the second woman currently serving in a senior management role. Additionally, Dentons has more women lawyers globally than any other law firms.

With the goal of serving clients in a seamless fashion across the 100 largest legal markets in the US, Dentons has expanded its US reach by adding offices in Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Utah, bringing the Dentons’ offices in the US to 44, including locations on both coasts, in the Midwest and South, Hawaii, and in nine of the top 10, and 14 of the top 20, US markets.

Clients benefit from Dentons’ polycentric approach. The firm has no single headquarters or dominant national culture, allowing lawyers to bring their in-depth understanding of the local business environment and legal system when delivering legal counsel and business solutions. Dentons’ lawyers reflect the race, religion, gender, sexual orientation and nationality of their global clientele.

Dentons embraces change and helps clients grow, protect, operate and finance their organizations. This is why the firm is organized to offer more than legal insight; Dentons helps clients find business solutions, in a seamless fashion, across the globe.

The firm leverages new technology and innovative processes to help clients solve business problems. Through its Nextlaw operations, Dentons developed the industry’s largest Referral Network, providing clients instant access to extraordinary legal and business talent anywhere on the planet. It also created In-House Solutions, which brings together former General Counsels and in-house legal counsel, along with legal technology and legal operations professionals, to help clients modernize and optimize their law departments as they respond to increasing and complex operational demands.

Most recently, the firm launched Dentons Global Advisors, providing clients integrated and strategic counsel on complex opportunities and challenges spanning commercial, reputational, financial, regulatory and governance dimensions.

Recognition.

In its Global Brand Elite Law Firm Index 2022, Thomson Reuters ranked Dentons among the top four strongest global brands. Dentons is also a BTI Client Service 30 Award winner, and numerous business and legal publications have recognized the firm’s innovative client service initiatives that are revolutionizing the profession, such as its founding of a legal technology accelerator.

While Dentons is consistently honored with prestigious legal awards, the most meaningful recognition comes from clients. Legal decision makers at Fortune 500 companies and startups, financial institutions and insurance companies, government entities and tribal nations, and family offices and nonprofit organizations have described Dentons as “best in class,” “innovative,” “the gold standard in terms of client service,” and “always giving clear and practical advice.”

Recent accolades include:

Received more than 2,800 rankings across 73 countries in Chambers and The Legal 500 directories in 2022
Received more than 540 rankings in Chambers Global 2022
Won International Pro Bono Firm of the Year at the IFLR Women in Business Law Americas Awards
Won National Law Journal’s ESG and Community Impact Leaders award
Won Beacon of Justice Award from The National Legal Aid & Defender Association for pro bono work
Prefect score on Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s 2022 Corporate Equality Index
Winner of Law360’s 2022 Practice Group of the Year award for Structured Finance
Recognized for excellence in client service by 2023 BTI Client Service A-Team report
Awarded “Innovation in the Business of Law: New Solutions North America” by FT Innovative Lawyers North America awards – 2021
Named Top 20 Most Innovative Law Firms in North America – Practice of Law – FT Innovative Lawyers North America awards – 2021
Listed in Law360’s 2022 Diversity Snapshot and Social Impact Leaders reports
Ranked by Juristat as a Top Patent Firm including the top spot for biotechnology and organic patents and IP (USPTO Technology Center 1600)
Recognized as a leading global law firm for corporate investigations in the 2022 edition of the Global Investigations Review (GIR) 100
Ranked among the top 20 international arbitration law firms in the world in Global Arbitration Review’s annual GAR 30 list.