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Abai is the Managing Partner at Dentons Kazakhstan. He has been actively advising clients in Kazakhstan and across the CIS for more than 25 years. He focuses on complex M&A and corporate transactions, including cross-border acquisitions and disposals, as well as the diverse finance transactions. His experience includes advising on the most complex and unique M&A and financing transactions in Kazakhstan. Abai has been the preferred legal counsel to the leading financial institutions and private investment firms in Kazakhstan for many years, including Citibank, Bank of China, ICBC, EBRD, IFC, KAZ Minerals and ERG. Abai is a regular speaker at conferences and is a contributing author to many local and international legal and business publications.

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Adam Mycyk is a partner in Dentons’ Kyiv office. Adam has more than 30 years of experience advising both Ukrainian and international companies, banks, investment banks and a range of other financial institutions and investors on structuring and implementing debt and equity inward investments involving privatizations, mergers and acquisitions or joint ventures and on complex cross-border commercial and financing transactions and transaction on international capital markets. His experience and client base spans financial institutions and services, consumer products, energy, manufacturing, telecommunications, and agriculture sectors. Adam is a US qualified lawyer, admitted to the Bar in the District of Columbia (1993) and in Maryland (1991). Since relocating to Kyiv in 1994, he has led numerous acquisition and joint venture transactions and managed a variety of due diligence projects from different sectors.

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Adrian is Head of Dentons' Competition practice in the UK. He has over 30 years’ experience of advising on a wide range of UK and EU competition law issues, including UK and EU merger control, cartel investigations, market investigations, abuse of dominance, commercial agreements and conduct, competition-related litigation and disputes, compliance training and counselling, state aid and public procurement. Adrian's experience includes six months' secondment to the Financial Conduct Authority, working with the Competition Division and other senior officials.

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Agnieszka Stefanowicz-Barańska heads Dentons’ Competition Practice in Poland. Since 1998, she has represented clients in numerous EU and Polish competition authority proceedings and before Polish courts, in cartel and other antitrust investigations. She has also assisted clients during dawn raids and in over 100 merger control proceedings, before both the European Commission and the Polish competition authority. She works with clients to design and implement their distribution networks and provides practical support to in-house teams in implementing antitrust compliance initiatives with, including risk-mapping and comprehensive antitrust audits. She has extensive experience in day-to-day advice to clients on abuse of dominance and horizontal cooperation issues, as well as antitrust issues related to M&A contracts. She supports clients in many different sectors, including life sciences, automotive, FMCG, food, real estate, TMT, heavy industry, chemicals, energy, utilities, retail trade, transport, banking and insurance.

Agnieszka Wardak is a partner in Dentons' Warsaw office, where she heads Criminal Litigation and Internal Investigation practice along with the Compliance and Sanctions team. With extensive experience in corporate crime matters, she represents both companies and individuals in all types of white collar cases, including mismanagement, bribery and corruption, fraud, mis-selling, insider trading, asset stripping liability for environmental damage, criminal bid rigging and many others. As a seasoned litigator, she conducts internal investigations into whistleblowing complaints or other matters, which may include cooperating with a forensic team and developing an investigation strategy or scenarios for voluntary disclosures and potential penalties. Agnieszka joined Dentons in 2007 and has coordinated large-scale criminal litigation and compliance projects across CEE. She combines litigation and regulatory expertise in advising on corporate compliance policies and procedures, whistleblower programs and EU or local sanctions.

Agnieszka Wojciechowska, counsel and a member of the Dispute Resolution practice group in Dentons' Warsaw office, where she heads the Construction Disputes team. She represents clients in domestic and international proceedings, before both state courts and arbitral tribunals. She handles matters related to a wide range of civil law including commercial and corporate disputes. Agnieszka has unique experience in construction, engineering and infrastructure disputes, including those based on FIDIC contract conditions. She advises private investors, public employers, contract engineers, contractors and subcontractors across the construction industry. In particular, she has experience in complex, high-value disputes across all key sectors: energy, oil and gas, roads, railway and real estate. She specialises in strategic and sensitive infrastructure projects. She has also developed a significant construction dispute avoidance practice.

Ahmed Kamal is a qualified and resourceful professional attorney with diverse experience in private, government and corporate investment. He works on many of the major trade, energy, banking, financial, media and telecommunication projects. With excellent problem-solving skills and extensive marketing experience, he has developed a deep knowledge of Egyptian public policy and regulations.His broad experience includes counseling clients on legal matters concerning procurement fraud, trade regulations, trade finance, banking transactions, acquisitions and mergers, telecommunications, and corporate laws including bankruptcy. In recent years Ahmed has substantially developed his experience and knowledge of banking transactions and related topics including, inter alia, various security packages, perfection and enforcements, and AML/FT rules. He also assists our Litigation team in finding unique theories, ideas and solutions to create effectual case arguments.

Aigoul Kenjebayeva is the Partner for Kazakhstan at Dentons. She has led the practice in Kazakhstan ever since, and also served as Central Asia Managing Partner from 1994 until 2022. Her particular areas of specialization, acquired from over 30 years as a practicing lawyer in Kazakhstan and 11 years as a researcher in the economics of law, include corporate/M&A, energy/natural resources, PPP/infrastructure projects, IP, competition law, and dispute resolution. She is widely considered a top choice for dispute resolution in Kazakhstan. Since 2017, Aigoul serves as the first Kazakhstan lawyer appointed as a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce. Aigoul currently serves for the fourth year as a member of the International Council under the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan. She is also a member of the arbitration panel of the International Arbitration Center at the Astana International Financial Center, a member of the Users’ Committee of the AIFC Court, a member of the Kazakhstan Bar Association Board, a member of the Kazakhstan Petroleum Lawyers Association Board and the Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Norway in Almaty. In 2019, Aigoul was awarded with the Certificate of Honor of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan for merit in public and social activities. In 2020, Aigoul received a prestigious award from the Republic of Kazakhstan Supreme Court “For the Contribution to the Development of International Cooperation”.

Akin specialises in the resolution of engineering and construction disputes, as well as facilities management and PFI-related disputes. His expertise includes all forms of dispute resolution from dispute avoidance and alternative dispute resolution (conciliation, mediation and adjudication) to arbitration (domestic and international) and litigation on issues relating to defective design/workmanship, build quality issues, delay and disruption claims, loss and expense claims, professional negligence, final accounts, service level performance obligations and interpretation of contractual terms. Akin is also experienced in acting as a "project counsel" on live construction and engineering projects in relation to delay or cost overruns, assisting clients or contractors in managing claims, negotiating settlement and avoiding disputes.

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Aldona Kowalczyk is an attorney-at-law, partner, heading Dentons’ Public Procurement and Government Contracts practice in Poland and co-heading the Europe Public Procurement and Government Contracts practice. Aldona has counselled both contracting authorities and bidders/private partners in public procurement and PPP matters in Poland, acting for them in the National Chamber of Appeals and courts since 1998. For years Polish and foreign rankings of law firms have mentioned her as one of the most renowned specialists in the public procurement law in Poland. She is a co-founder and Chair of the Executive Board of the Public Procurement Law Association.

Aleksandra Minkowicz-Flanek is a Partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office. She is the Head of the Employment and Labor practice team. Aleksandra specializes in labor and employment law and also focuses on corporate issues. She has broad experience in individual and collective labor law issues, employment restructuring, collective dismissals, remuneration in the banking sector and employment-related aspects of corporate transactions. She advises clients in the banking, food, automotive and advanced technology sectors. Her experience includes representing clients in negotiations with employee representatives, drafting transactional documentation and advising on cross-border employment relations.

Alessandro Dubini is a partner in Dentons Milan office and co-head of the Corporate M&A practice in Italy. He mainly advises major industry groups, leading financial institutions and private equity funds on both domestic and international extraordinary transactions regarding mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and corporate reorganization. He also gained considerable experience in IPOs, tender offers, corporate and commercial law, banking and finance, as well as on corporate governance matters and commercial contracts.

Alessandro Engst is a partner in the Banking & Finance practice and the Head of the Financial Services area in Italy. Alessandro focuses on financial institutions regulation, derivatives and investment funds.  He has a broad range of experience advising banks, fund managers, broker-dealers, investment firms, insurance companies, payment institutions, fintech companies and pension funds on the establishment and regulation of investment funds (including NPL and private debt funds), on a wide range of derivative transactions and on regulatory matters (including advising on MIFID II, CRR/CRD IV, UCITS V, EMIR, IDD, PSD2 and ELTIF regulation). He is the author of various banking and finance law manuals and scientific articles.

Alessandro Fosco Fagotto is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and Head of the Italian Banking and Finance practice and Europe Head of the Banking and Finance practice. He gained great experience in advising lenders (his clients are almost all the most representative Italian banks, international banks providing financial support in Italy), financial sponsors (private equity and private debt funds), investors, other financial institutions and borrowers, in connection with a very broad range of financing transactions, including acquisition and leveraged finance, structured finance, real estate finance, general corporate lending and refinancing. His experience also covers debt restructuring transactions, in particular, transactions designed to preserve the going concern (i.e. consolidation agreements, restructuring agreements, distressed M&A, sale of bank credits), as well as in all kinds of financing to be granted to distressed companies (bridge finance, interim finance and finance granted in the framework of restructuring plans). He also assists industrial groups interested in investing in distressed companies, in all consolidation path steps. He is broadly acknowledged as one of the leading finance lawyers in Italy for his long-time presence (15 years) in the Italian debt market.

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Alex is a Partner in the Real Estate practice and is based in our London office. He has a broad range of commercial property experience including investment property and portfolio acquisitions and disposals. Alex has acted on development acquisitions and disposals including turnkey development and funding agreements. He is active in asset management for institutional investors and also deals with all aspects of commercial lettings, having had experience acting for high profile occupiers/operators. Alex has experience of dealing with property aspects relating to insolvency, corporate recovery work and other corporate and restructuring transactions and also with investment and development finance transactions relating to real estate.

Alex is the head of Dentons' legacy Tax practice in the UK. He advises on a broad spectrum of corporate, commercial and real estate tax issues for a wide variety of clients across all key industry sectors (Energy, Transport, Infrastructure, Financial Institutions, Real Estate, Retail, Technology, Media, Entertainment and Sports). Alex works on mergers and acquisitions, reorganisations and restructurings, joint ventures, venture capital, fund transactions and real estate transactions (with particular emphasis on SDLT planning). Alex provides international tax planning advice to clients doing business overseas, particularly in jurisdictions where we have overseas offices.

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Alex Skoblo is a partner in Dentons' Moscow office, the head of the firm's CIS Hotel & Hospitality practice and the head of Dentons’ Russian Automotive practice. Alex has represented and advised multinational corporations, international financial institutions and government agencies, both domestic and foreign, on a wide variety of corporate and commercial, real estate (including greenfield and brownfield, real estate financing and real property development), banking and securities issues, including mergers, acquisitions, public and private placements, divestitures, privatisations, and matters of corporate governance. He has also assisted numerous foreign companies and private equity funds in direct and portfolio investments, including investments through Russian joint ventures, off-shore structures and companies of various types. Alex is a seasoned negotiator and has successfully negotiated transactions with government authorities at the municipal, regional and federal levels. Alex was the founder of Dentons’ Moscow Hotel & Hospitality practice and has developed a reputation as one of the few leading experts in this field in Russia, the CIS, and Central Europe. He has also worked closely with the European offices of Dentons as well as those in Asia in representing hotel owners, lenders, developers, contractors and operators on all legal issues pertaining to hotels and hospitality properties, including land acquisition, design, development, financing, construction, management, leasing, and franchising. Alex has represented and advised major Russian and international pharmaceutical companies on all legal aspects of their operations in Russia, in particular on corporate and M&A issues. Among other clients, Alex has successfully represented STADA, A.B. Intelpharm, Makiz Pharma, Scopin Pharm, Mir Pharm, Nizhpharm, Bracco and Pharmstandard in structuring M&A transactions, setting up distribution and supply networks as well as advising on licensing, marketing and regulatory issues (including pricing politics). Alex has extensive experience in the automotive sector. He was and continues to be involved in numerous projects with the Ford Group (Ford, Land Rover, Volvo, Jaguar and Mazda), Hyundai, Toyota, Harley Davidson, Volvo Trucks and others. His clients also include Continental AG and Magna International.

  Alexander Kovalev is a counsel in Dentons’ Moscow office. For 15 years he has advised major multinational and Russian companies on M&A transactions, venture capital transactions, setting up joint ventures, investment and restructuring in various sectors of the economy.Alexander focuses on life sciences M&A. He also has experience supporting projects for localization of manufacturing of products and PPP projects, and advising on commercial aspects of pharmaceutical and other companies.

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Alexei is Dentons’ Russia Managing Partner. He focuses on M&A, joint ventures, corporate finance and leveraged acquisitions. He also has considerable experience in private equity transactions, port/terminal transactions and bank equity deals. Alexei has represented clients in M&A and private equity transactions in a wide range of industries, including energy, transportation, banking, insurance, retail, foods and beverages, construction and automotive.

Alexis is a partner in Dentons’ Glasgow office. She is a member of the Trusts, Estates and Wealth Preservation practice, and has a particular expertise in charity law. Alexis advises high net worth individuals in all aspects of personal estate planning, including wills, powers of attorney, trust formation and administration, succession planning and charity formation. She also advises charity trustees on the ongoing administration of charitable organizations including compliance/regulation and mergers/amalgamations.

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Amanda Lewis is a consultant in the Firm's Technology, Media and Telecoms practice. She is a commercially and strategically minded lawyer with 15 years of experience as a partner in major City firms. Amanda is a renowned expert on outsourcing, with nearly 30 years of experience advising diversified and complex businesses on more than 220 strategic projects, covering IT, telecommunications, service integration, cloud computing, disaster recovery, printing, mailing, training, call center services, customer services, customer experience, human resources, payroll, pensions administration, finance and accounting, audits, fleet management, vehicle supply and vehicle servicing, revenues and benefits, insurance claims processing, credit card processing, lease payments processing, sweeping and pooling services, home remittance services, custody, fund administration, derivative processing, transfer agency, underwriting support, claims management, cash pool, trade finance processing, engineering consultancy, logistics and fulfillment, research, catering, cleaning and various other facilities management services. She also advises on the regulatory implications of outsourcing. She is trusted by household names to advise them on major strategic projects. She has a strong record of delivering pragmatic analysis on risk and governance to boards and senior executive teams. Amanda has also advised on numerous disputes relating to outsourcing/ collaboration or technology projects. She has resolved all disputes without litigation, usually by coming up with innovative solutions to resolve the dispute speedily. She has substantial experience of working with different cultures across the US, Canada, Europe, India, China, Japan, Singapore, the Middle East and Africa.

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András Peisch is a senior associate in Dentons’ Budapest office and a member of the office’s Public Policy and Regulation practice, and advises clients on corporate and commercial, data protection, intellectual property (IP) and life sciences matters. András has been seconded to two major clients during the past two years. He has particular experience in general corporate matters, advising businesses on a variety of commercial agreements, data protection compliance procedures, and has been working with companies operating in various sectors. András has earned the ANSI-accredited Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) credential through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Andrea Fiorelli is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and Head of the Tax practice in Italy. He advises on the tax aspects of corporate and financial transactions. Andrea has extensive experience in advising on: the fiscal treatment of financial products and UCITS (harmonized and non-harmonized); international taxation and planning; tax issues arising in the context of corporate finance and merger and acquisition transactions; the taxation of individual assets; and tax litigation.

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Andrei is a partner in Dentons’ Moscow Banking and Finance practice. He advises on a wide range of banking and finance matters, including bilateral and syndicated lending, trade and project finance, asset finance and debt capital markets. Andrei devotes particular attention to acquisition finance as well as debt restructuring and insolvency. His work has involved advising on multilateral institutional financing, structuring cross-border transactions (including joint venture projects) and foreign investment. A large part of Andrei’s work deals with leasing and purchase structures, aircraft financing and operating leases. He has represented many Russian and foreign entities, bank and prominent individuals for aircraft deliveries. He has represented local, national and international businesses as well as institutional and private lenders in connection with acquisition, investment, lending and restructuring transactions of all kinds.Andrei has also been involved in a number of high-profile restructurings. He has experience in private equity transactions across a variety of industry sectors, including manufacturing, mining, oil and gas and consumer products. 

Andrew provides a full service real estate, corporate real estate and real estate finance function for clients engaged in the real estate, corporate, finance, restructuring, and energy and infrastructure sectors. He has extensive experience in acquisitions and disposals, with joint ventures and with structured investments.

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Andrey is a counsel in Dentons’ Moscow office. He specializes in corporate and commercial law as well as M&A transactions in energy and natural resources and industrial sectors. Andrey has experience advising on energy and subsoil law, maritime and shipping law, corporate law, and licensing, as well as regulatory and commercial law. 

Andy Lucas is a partner in Dentons' Technology, Media and Telecoms  (TMT) practice for the UK, Ireland and Middle East. He specialises in all aspects of non-contentious technology law and large scale public sector outsourcings. Andy has an outstanding track record of advising on some of the largest public sector commercial matters including the Emergency Services Mobile Communications Programme, UK Search and Rescue Helicopters, the Police National Database and ID Cards. Andy has a first-rate client list of major government departments including the Home Office, DfT, the Cabinet Office, and the NPIA, to name a few. Andy also advises cutting edge private sector companies on their technology projects in emerging areas, including advising UiPath, the leading global Robotic Process Automation company, on various corporate, commercial and compliance matters globally.

Anita Horváth is the Head of the Hungarian Energy sector group, as well as being the Co-head of the Corporate and M&A practice group in Hungary. She has extensive experience in advising on complex domestic and cross-border M&A, joint ventures and private equity transactions as well as general corporate matters with a focus on the energy sector.

Anna Gerendás is a senior associate in Dentons’ Budapest office. She focuses on property transactions and is experienced in corporate, real estate and M&A law. Anna’s experience includes advising clients on various M&A and asset transactions including public development agreements with municipalities, as well as assisting clients with the drafting and negotiation of design, construction and other satellite contracts. Anna was involved in many transactions involving the sale and purchase of real property portfolios, including real properties located in Hungary, both on the seller’s and the buyer’s sides. These transactions involved mainly retail and/or office premises in Budapest leased to multinational tenants, and certain transactions were concluded as asset deals while others were conducted as share deals.

Anna Gulińska specializes in Polish and EU competition law, including antitrust, merger control, unfair commercial practices as well as consumer protection issues and competition litigation. She has experience in antitrust advice in the real estate, media and telecommunications, FMCG and consumer products, banking and industry sectors. Her experience includes merger control notifications to the European Commission and the Polish Office for Competition and Consumer Protection, as well as coordination of multijurisdictional filings. She advises on commercial strategy applied by dominant undertakings and antitrust aspects of horizontal and vertical cooperation between undertakings. She conducts antitrust audits, provides behavioral advice, assists during dawn raids, represents clients in proceedings and drafts appeals against decisions of the Polish competition authority. She participated in the legislative process related to the implementation of the Damages Directive in Poland.

Anna is a partner in and Co-head of Dentons' Intellectual Property practice for the UK, Ireland and Middle East. Anna specializes in all aspects of intellectual property law, both contentious and non-contentious. She advises clients on the strategic protection and exploitation of their valuable intellectual property portfolios, managing global brand enforcement programmes for many clients in a wide range of different industries and sectors. Anna acts for clients on a wide range of commercial projects monetising their brands and products such as global franchising, distribution and manufacturing arrangements and also the acquisition and disposal of high value IP portfolios. Anna advises on cutting edge matters involving the deployment of next generation technologies such as digital assets, including NFTs and metaverse issues. On the contentious side, Anna has litigated at all levels of the English courts, often in parallel with litigations conducted by our other global offices. She also regularly works with clients to resolve matters through strategic settlements at an early stage. This year she protected Colin the Caterpillar for M&S in the “cake wars” litigation, and is also defending American Eagle Outfitters in a complex litigation arising out of a trade mark coexistence agreement. Anna heads up our Trade Mark Prosecution team, who work side by side with our litigators and commercial lawyers to give the very best protection for brands across the board.

Anna Pukszto is Poland Co-Managing Partner at Dentons. She also heads both the Litigation and Arbitration practice group and the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice group in the Warsaw office. Anna is a renowned expert in restructuring and insolvency, with extensive experience in managing cross-border bankruptcies and distressed asset acquisitions. She is also a seasoned litigator who specializes in the financial services sector. She was a World Bank consultant in a project involving assessments of the Polish Bankruptcy and Rehabilitation Law and instruments serving to protect creditors’ rights under Polish law. Anna handles class action proceedings and litigations regarding the liability of investment fund companies, custodians, lenders and the validity of banking and investment products. She has represented clients before both the Supreme Court and the Court of Justice of the European Union. She has been involved in high-profile disputes regarding foreign investments in Poland and commercial transactions under LCIA, ICC and VIAC arbitration rules and in related post-arbitration proceedings.

Anna Tkachenko is a counsel in Dentons’ Kyiv office. She concentrates on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, securities, employment and contract issues. She advises multinational companies on the establishment of their subsidiaries and representative offices in Ukraine, on their investment projects in Ukraine and on acquisitions of Ukrainian companies.

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Anton advises clients on the establishment of joint ventures and on M&A transactions (both domestic and cross-border) in the oil and gas, automotive, real estate, transportation and retail (including e-commerce), sectors. Anton also has deep experience advising clients on general corporate, commercial and antimonopoly matters. Anton completed the venture finance program at Oxford University’s Saïd Business School in 2020.

Antonella is a partner in Dentons' Milan office and a member of the global Corporate M&A practice. She advises listed and non-listed companies and professional investors on mergers and acquisitions, private equity and domestic and international corporate transactions, with a particular focus on the equity capital market sector. Antonella’s legal advice includes extraordinary transactions of listed companies in EU and extra EU regulated and non-regulated markets, public offerings, IPOs and takeover bids. Her assistance also covers corporate governance matters as well as capital market aspects of restructuring transactions.

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Áron Károlyi-Szabó is a senior associate of the EU, Competition and Antitrust, Technology, Media and Telecommunications (TMT) and Regulatory practice groups in Dentons’ Budapest office. His practice focuses mainly on EU and competition/antitrust law, as well as regulatory matters. He has extensive experience in cartel cases, internal investigations and data protection matters.

Barbara is a partner in our Rome office and she is a member of the global Corporate M&A group.  

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Bartłomiej is Poland Co-Managing Partner and the Deputy Head of Real Estate practice group at Dentons. He is also a member of the Hotels and Leisure sector team. Bartłomiej is a transactional lawyer with over 15 years of experience in advising clients on their investments in the property sector. He represents real estate investors, private equity or private funds, developers and asset managers on comprehensive real estate law matters including civil, administrative and commercial aspects. Bartłomiej has led or supervised numerous investment transactions (asset, enterprise and share deals) involving all kinds of property types like office buildings, warehouses, shopping malls, hotels as well as residential / student housing / PRS, also under sale and leaseback, forward purchase, forward funding or in joint venture structures. He is also experienced in negotiating agreements with hotel managers as well as hotel lease agreements.

Bartosz Nojek concentrates on banking, financial, commercial and civil law. His main areas of interest focus on corporate financings provided by syndicate banks, acting on both the lenders’ and the borrowers’ side. He has led or participated in numerous finance transactions, including project finance, acquisition finance, asset finance and real estate finance, as well as restructurings. His experience covers drafting and negotiating credit documentation, in particular LMA standard loan documentation, term sheets, intercreditor agreements, as well as security documents. He represents leading Polish and foreign banks and borrowers, including listed companies, private equity funds and private investors. In 2016 Bartosz completed a six months long secondment with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) in London, where he was responsible for cross-border projects, diverse types of financings, including bilateral and syndicated loan agreements, restructurings, re-financings and project finance transactions, mainly concerning renewables, in Cyprus, Romania, Albania, Egypt, Kazakhstan, Jordan, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Ukraine and FYR Macedonia.

Bence Böszörményi is an associate in the Banking and Finance practice group of Dentons’ Budapest office. His practice primarily focuses on corporate, acquisition and project financing matters, as well as restructurings and real estate financing.

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Sandeep is a Partner, Attorney-at-Law in Dentons. He is a member of the Civil Litigation, Banking and Alternative Dispute Resolution practice groups. Sandeep’s focus is on arbitration, especially international arbitration. He has appeared in arbitrations both international and domestic. His focus is also on commercial litigation before the Supreme Court of Mauritius. He is involved on an almost regular basis in the case management process of arbitrations which are currently taking place especially construction disputes and investment arbitrations. He has also been involved in advising local banks in relation to customer due diligence practices and compliance with guidelines of the central bank. Sandeep is also experienced in insurance disputes and insolvency matters including insolvency of banks and insurance companies. He has been advising the liquidator of a local insurance company under liquidation on insolvency proceedings on a regular basis.

Bill is a Corporate partner in our Edinburgh office. He specializes in private M&A, joint ventures and equity funding transactions with a particular focus on the energy and corporate real estate sectors. He has more than 25 years' experience, both in private practice and in-house, and is qualified under both Scots and English law.  Earlier in his career, he was one of two legal counsel in Scottish opto-electronics company, Kymata, where he was responsible for the legal affairs of its overseas subsidiaries in the US, Canada and the Netherlands as well as corporate M&A and financing transactions. He has also spent several months on secondment to the Falklands Business Unit of UK-listed Premier Oil, where he supported its legal, drilling and logistics teams in relation to its Sea Lion project and drilling operations with Noble Energy. In the energy sector his work spans both upstream oil and gas, and renewable energy. He has a particular interest in renewable energy projects and has worked with landowners, developers and industrial operators on a range of projects, including wave and tidal energy, onshore wind developments, anaerobic digestion and biomass, ground- and roof-mounted solar, energy from waste, and onshore aquaculture and hydroponics projects. He regularly advises on private wire electricity supply, feedstock supply and heat offtake arrangements as well as M&A, equity funding and shareholder/corporate governance arrangements.  Bill also provides a broad range of corporate and commercial advice to clients in relation to corporate/joint venture structuring, acquisitions and disposals via a variety of corporate structures (onshore and offshore and through limited companies, LLPs, limited partnerships and community interest companies), joint ventures and corporate governance compliance and risk management.

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Partner Bogdan Papandopol is coordinating the real estate practice and is head of Dentons’ Global Real Estate Group in Bucharest. He has over 20 years of experience advising a large number of Romanian and international investors in various types of sophisticated real estate M&A transactions, as well as in privatization processes, especially with the involvement of local and international banks. He advised major renewable energy companies in local and cross-border transactions, coordinating complex real estate due diligence exercises.

Boris Bruk is a counsel in Dentons’ Russian Tax and Customs practice. He specializes in general corporate and international tax law and has considerable experience in advising on tax aspects of corporate restructurings, private wealth planning, CFC legislation and CbCR regulations. Boris advises clients on tax structuring in connection with financing joint ventures in Russia, cross border transactions, inbound and outbound investments, GAAR, LOB and BO implications and well as all kinds of personal income taxation of individuals. His work has involved the development of tax-efficient personal and corporate holding structures and the structuring of financing and IP holding activities, as well as counselling with regard to the mitigation of identified tax exposures. Boris' background also includes IPO-related tax consulting services. Boris was the official reporter for Is There a Permanent Establishment? for the Russian branch of the IFA in 2009, Tax Treaties and Tax Avoidance: Application of Anti-avoidance Provisions in 2010, Key Practical Issues to Eliminate Double Taxation of Business Income in 2011, The Debt-Equity Conundrum in 2012, and has been appointed the official reporter for Taxation of Foreign Passive Income for Groups of Companies in 2013.

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Candice Chapman, who joined the firm as a trainee solicitor in 1998, is a partner in the Corporate practice of the firm's London office. Candice specialises in public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint venture and capital raising transactions (with particular experience of transactions involving multiple jurisdictions). Candice focuses her practice on four of the Firm's key sectors, Financial Institutions and Funds; Insurance; Technology, Media and Telecommunications and Energy. Candice plays an active role in many of the London office's pro bono activities including advising at a legal clinic in the London borough of Tower Hamlets and representing a variety of charitable organizations on corporate and commercial matters.

Carlo Merisio is a partner in our Milan office and a member of the global Real Estate practice. He assists clients, both Italian and international, in relation to major domestic and cross-border investments. His assistance covers the full spectrum of asset classes and deal structures, including asset and share deals, sale and lease-back, joint ventures, forward-funding structures as well as real estate investment funds schemes. Carlo also regularly advises clients on the negotiation of construction agreements, in the context of new development projects.

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Dr. Carsten Steinhauer, LL.M. is a partner in Dentons’ Rome and Milan offices and Co-Head of Europe Energy Sector Group.  

Catherine is a partner in the Banking and Finance practice and has very broad finance experience. Her practice area covers acquisition and leveraged finance, general corporate lending, workouts and restructuring acting for a mix of financial institutions, sponsors and other corporate borrowers.

Catherine Bingham, partner, has specialized in advising on major technology, infrastructure and outsourcing and technology projects for over 25 years and co-leads our UK government practice.  Typically Catherine's role includes advising on strategy, leading on drafting and negotiating the project contracts and advising on the procurement, tendering and evaluation processes. UK government clients she has worked with include UK Ministry of Defence, (multi-£bn projects for ICT infrastructure and for ships and submarines and naval base support), Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (International Science & Innovation), UK Space Agency, HM Treasury, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Northern Ireland Civil Service and Department for Transport. On the private sector side, she has acted for technology suppliers and for customers in a wide range of industry sectors, including energy, transport and infrastructure, financial services, and retail. She is consistently rated as a leader in the technology and outsourcing fields. She is seen as an "excellent IT lawyer" and as "a calm and pragmatic operator" and wins plaudits for "deliverying professional advice and responding to challenges and deadlines". Catherine is also an intellectual property specialist with over 30 years' experience advising on IP, IT, data, information and security issues for public and private sector clients.  She has negotiated a wide range of commercial agreements for technology, retail, energy transport and infrastructure, healthcare and media clients including research and development agreements, franchise agreements, licenses, distribution and supply and joint venture agreements. She also advises on issues arising in relation to the exploitation of intellectual property rights covering patent, know-how, trade marks, design and copyright and data protection.

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Celia is a banking partner in Dentons' London office. She focuses on debt restructuring and advises on both domestic and cross-border restructuring and insolvency transactions, typically acting for facility agents, security trustees, lender groups or borrowers in financially stressed or distressed situations. Celia also acts for boards and sponsors of distressed companies, insolvency practitioners and other turnaround professionals in business restructurings. Her work covers a wide range of sectors, most recently including telecoms, construction, retail, leisure, mining, energy and infrastructure both at home and abroad.

Cezary Przygodzki is the head of Dentons' Tax team in Poland, where he focuses on international tax planning and M&A structuring. He advises clients on the tax aspects of restructuring and reorganizing their businesses, as well as foreign investors in Poland, particularly with regard to the tax incentives and reliefs offered to investors. In addition, Cezary is available to assist clients with tax-related disputes, litigations, and administrative proceedings. His clients mainly come from the energy, media, technology, and real estate sectors, although he also has experience assisting financial institutions and private equity funds. Cezary has been recognized as the Leader in transactional advisory services in Poland by Rzeczpospolita's XVII Ranking of Tax Advisory Firms 2023. Clients In 2023 Cezary advised such companies as Accor (leading company in the hotel industry), EPAM Systems (a leading digital transformation services and product engineering company), Flextronics International (a global manufacturing partner that provides design, build, and support services for a diverse range of industries), OBI (a multinational home improvement supplies retailing company ), Veolia (a transnational company specializing in water treatment solutions). Work Highlights ‣ Epam Systems: Advising the client on its acquisition of ENGINIETY, a full-service commerce technology delivery firm. Our services included conducting a tax due diligence review, assisting the client with the development of the acquisition structure, and providing tax transaction support regarding the sale agreement. ‣ Globe Trade Centre: Assisting the client in the successful debut of an unsecured green bond issuance for €500 million. ‣ OBI: Tax advice to a multinational home improvement supplies retailing company regarding the status of the company in the context of Polish withholding tax. ‣ Uroda Polska: Assisting Europe's leading manufacturer and distributor of bath and beauty products in development of its manufacturing and sales business.

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Charles is a consultant in the Energy, Transport and Infrastructure department of Dentons' London office. He specializes in the development, financing, and acquisition and disposal of energy and infrastructure assets and businesses. As well as in London, Charles has practised in Abu Dhabi, Singapore and Paris.

Charles specializes in LNG and gas projects and sales, downstream gas and electricity market reform and regulation, and energy and natural resources projects. He is a partner in the Firm's Energy, Transport and Infrastructure practice. His clients include: for market reform and regulation – governments, energy regulators, gas and electricity utilities, and energy trading companies (in the UK and overseas); for LNG and other energy projects – international and national oil companies (IOCs and NOCs), LNG terminal operators, project sponsors, and governments, in the Middle East, Africa and Europe.

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Chris Watkinson is an English law qualified partner based in Prague, Czech Republic, where he co-heads the Corporate group. Chris focuses on cross-border M&A, complex joint venture, private equity and venture capital transactions. He brings a wealth of experience in CEE/CIS, advising on major cross-border deals and providing English Law advice to clients based in the region.

Christel is a senior counsel in Dentons’ Luxembourg office and head of the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice. She is also a member of the Luxembourg Real Estate practice. Having assisted domestic and international companies on complex and major local real estate transactions, Christel focuses on acquisitions, leasing, asset management issues, property management, building renovations, environmental matters, emphyteutic leases, mechanics’ lien claims, lessor/tenant or construction disputes, and real estate security packages. With sound experience in European Insolvency law, Christel also focuses on workouts and turnarounds, corporate and debt restructurings, pre-insolvency issues, directors’ liability, bankruptcy proceedings, voluntary liquidations, COMI shift issues, and complex cross-border insolvencies. She has advised equity investors, secured lenders, unsecured creditors, and renowned real estate groups. In addition, Christel has particular capabilities in assisting clients on contract law, due diligence, and drafting and negotiating numerous types of agreements (such as sale and purchase agreements, distribution agreements, lease agreements, termination agreements, employment contracts, etc.). Named a Fellow of INSOL International, a worldwide federation of national associations for accountants and lawyers who specialize in turnaround and insolvency. This award is in recognition of her experience and skill in cross-border insolvency matters. A Fellow must have successfully completed INSOL International's Global Insolvency Practice Course, an LL.M.-level program that teaches participants the underlying principles, statutes, regulatory frameworks and insolvency restructuring regimes in countries around the globe. Graduates are skilled in the tools needed for recognition of insolvency proceedings in multiple jurisdictions, including the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency, the European Community Regulation on Insolvency Proceedings and Chapter 15 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.  

Chris heads the Corporate and Banking team in Milton Keynes. He leads our team offering a wide range of expertise and experience in mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and financing, with particular strengths in owner-managed businesses, venture technology and emerging growth companies, private equity, automotive retail, insurance, manufacturing, acquisition finance and real estate finance. The team has considerable experience in both domestic and cross-border corporate and finance transactions. The team also includes our Company Secretarial unit which services more than 400 companies, many for household name groups. Chris is a corporate and finance specialist. His own practice includes international mergers and acquisitions, fundraising for venture technology and emerging growth companies, advising on complex corporate governance matters including shareholder rights and finance work for both lender and borrower, with a particular focus on UK real estate finance. Chris has previously worked in Dentons' Budapest office as well as being seconded to The Royal Bank of Scotland plc.

Christopher has 33 years' experience at Dentons, works right across the government, energy, transport and infrastructure sectors, and is co-chair of the Firm's global energy and global government practices. He specializes in public law, the drafting and negotiation of commercial contracts for governments and regulated companies, and in project development, regulation and privatization. He has advised private sector and government clients on the development/procurement of approximately 40 major projects in electricity, nuclear, oil and gas, railways, water and defense industries, in approximately 25 countries, many of which have been project financed and which have an aggregate value in excess of £90 billion. He has particular expertise in relation to carbon capture & storage and related project development. Christopher has advised on UK and international privatizations, regulation and market reform, including forming regulators, writing numerous laws, licenses and industry codes, in seven countries, and making representations and appearing at regulatory hearings. Christopher regularly advises the UK government, including BEIS, the Cabinet Office, HM Treasury, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office, the Ministry of Defence and Low Carbon Contracts Company in relation to diverse matters such as procurement law, very large programs of maritime naval contracts, large-scale energy infrastructure, the UK’s participation in European Research Infrastructure Consortia, the UK government's strategic suppliers and electricity contracts for difference. His work for private sector clients often sees him working opposite government or regulators for household name clients, e.g. in relation to carbon capture & storage project development, bids for approximately 30 passenger rail franchises, several NDA nuclear decommissioning contracts, numerous other government procurement programs and in relation to regulatory actions and price reviews. He has often worked directly with government ministers.

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Christopher Rose is a partner in the Corporate and Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity practices and a member of the Dentons Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies group. He is also the Europe Head of the Dentons Global Private Services (GPS) group, which provides cross-sector and cross-practice services to ultra-high-net-worth individuals and their family offices globally. He specializes in cross-border private equity and venture capital investments and exits, as well as mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures. He regularly advises emerging technology companies and investors on venture and growth capital transactions. An emerging markets specialist, he has extensive experience leading deals in Russia, Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the Middle East, Asia and Africa. His additional industry experience includes retail/FMCG, infrastructure, financial services, healthcare and real estate.

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With more than 25 years of sector experience, partner Claudiu Munteanu-Jipescu leads Dentons’ Energy practice in Bucharest. Highly specialized in renewable energy, Claudiu has led a large number of wind and solar energy projects advising both international and local companies. His expertise encompasses assisting both on the buyers and sellers’ side, as he has also been known for leading numerous oil and gas projects. Claudiu has also significant experience in mergers and acquisitions, and he regularly advises local and international clients on complex regulatory, contractual and corporate matters.

Colin joined Dentons (formerly MMS) as a partner in the Real Estate department in March 2013, based in the Glasgow office. He specialises in shopping Centre acquisitions, disposals and asset management; property development; forward funding and forward commitments and tax efficient structures.

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Craig is a partner and solicitor-advocate in the Litigation and Arbitration practice in Dentons' London office. In addition to his general commercial disputes practice, Craig focuses on financial services litigation and regulation, with his work including High Court litigation, FCA investigations and enforcement proceedings, and advising clients on regulatory developments that impact upon their businesses. He has a particular interest in FinTech and payments law and sits on the advisory panel of the Association of Foreign Exchange and Payment Companies. Craig also has an interest in disputes involving technology more widely, and has acted extensively in litigation involving cyberattacks and data privacy issues, many of which have involved coordinating action across multiple jurisdictions.

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Cristina Daianu is a partner in the Bucharest Corporate Group. She heads the Venture Technology practice in Bucharest and the local German Desk. With more than 20 years’ experience in corporate and M&A, Cristina assisted local and international clients - ranging from entrepreneurs to large multinational companies - in the most complex and important transactions on the Romanian market. During her career, she advised on a variety of asset and share deals, business transfers, joint ventures, greenfield projects, reorganization and restructuring matters. She also coordinated investment transactions, on either investor or founder side. Member of Dentons Venture Beyond, Cristina is also an active player in the emerging Romanian start-up scene, being a mentor and panelist in many business incubators/accelerators and staying very close to the start-up eco-system. She advises both founders of tech companies, from the first phases of their venture to scale-up in other markets, also covering advice on various investment rounds. Cristina has extensive international experience, working for many years in Frankfurt, being qualified as an attorney in Bucharest and Paris. She is fluent in English, French and German.

Dan is a leader in the Technology and Telecoms (TMT) practice, based in London and advising on a broad spectrum of IT and telecoms projects. He has wide experience of leading large-scale strategic technology procurement, business process re-engineering and outsourcing projects, and of supporting IT separation programs to make divested companies self-sufficient of their former group in an accelerated timeframe. Dan is a trusted advisor to his clients and his deep experience of transactions in the energy, technology, transport, retail and FMCG fields ensures that he is uniquely placed to help them realize the full value of their technology investments, even on the most complex and challenging projects. Dan offers strong analytical and commercial skills with wide experience of working with all of the major suppliers working in the marketplace. He has delivered significant projects for ERP implementations, system integration, software development and build/operate/transfer (BOT) arrangements, software and system maintenance and support, AI, cloud migration, integration and management (both as part of wider services and on a standalone basis), software audits, cybersecurity, network procurement and deployment, and a variety of XaaS deals – including PaaS, IaaS, SaaS and DaaS.

Dan specialises in international arbitration for clients in both the energy and construction sectors and technology, media and telecoms sectors. He has wide experience of commercial disputes in these sectors, often relating to issues arising in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. He also advises clients on major projects prior to the commencement of formal proceedings in a strategic risk management role and regularly advises on non-contentious matters on the dispute resolution and liability provisions of a contract.

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Daniel Hurych is Partner and Co-head of the Banking & Finance Practice Group in Dentons' Prague office. Daniel has particular experience in banking & finance advising both lenders and borrowers on a broad range of financing transactions, including acquisition, project, export, real estate and general corporate financing. He also has extensive experience in corporate law and business contracts.

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Dariusz Stolarek is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Tax team. He has led numerous M&A projects involving comprehensive international and domestic transaction tax structuring, tax due diligence and W&I / tax specific risk insurance. His areas of expertise extend to corporate and project finance and business restructuring. He has represented his clients in tax litigations and has assisted in establishing internal tax risk management procedures. Dariusz has broad experience in tax advisory for real estate, financial, renewables, insurance, and IT sectors. Dariusz is a leading tax advisor in the new and rapidly growing Polish tax insurance sector, both in relation to specific tax risk insurance projects and warranty and indemnity insurance accompanying M&A transactions. Dariusz has strong relationships with the major tax insurance players in Poland and Europe.

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David is a partner and leads the Corporate and Commercial team in Perth and has over 20 years’ experience advising some of Australia’s leading energy and resources companies. David has a broad range of corporate experience with particular expertise advising ASX 200 clients on large, complex and innovative transactions. David has expert knowledge of the Corporations Act, ASX Listing Rules, the petroleum legislative regime, the mining legislative regime and foreign investment regulation.

David F. Dixon is a partner in the Real Estate practice team in Dentons’ Warsaw office. Having been in professional practice for more than 25 years, he is a widely recognized and highly respected real estate, M&A, private equity and investment advisor active throughout Europe, with a particular emphasis on Poland, CEE and adjacent emerging markets.

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David is a consultant in the Dentons' Energy and legacy Project Finance practices. He specialises in oil & gas and has wide experience of upstream, midstream and downstream matters. He has worked in the UK, the Middle East, the CIS and throughout Africa, acting for a mixture of host governments and NOCs, IOCs and independent oil & gas companies and industry regulators.

David Cohen is a partner in Dentons' Capital Markets practice. His practice covers a wide range of product areas, including public, listed eurobonds, private placements, EMTN programmes, CP programmes, high-yield bonds, loan participation notes, project bonds and structured products. He acts for a various market participants, including issuers (corporates, financial institutions and sovereigns), underwriters and trustees.

David McGrory is a corporate lawyer with over 20 years of experience. He was previously Head of Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies for Dentons in the UK and joined the Middle East practice in October 2021. David sits on the global leadership team for Venture Technology and Emerging Growth Companies and the firm's China Taskforce. To this end he counsels senior executives, boards and investment principals on a wide range of issues including corporate finance, business strategy and corporate governance. David has advised across a very broad range of sectors but has particular expertise in Fintech, Adtech, Spacetech, Renewables, Oil & Gas Services, Healthcare and Medical Devices, AI, Gaming, Informatics and Aerospace. David has advised a significant number of sports related clients internationally.

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Davide Boffi is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office, Head of the Employment and Labor practice in Italy and Europe Head of Employment and Labor practice. Davide has significant experience in employment and labor law, as well as in agency contracts. He provides judicial and extrajudicial assistance, advising clients on the full range of national and international employment and labor law, including: negotiation with trade unions and individuals, corporate restructurings, individual and collective dismissals, transfers of undertakings, internal audit and due diligence connected to mergers and acquisitions. He also advises on drafting incentive plans, retention plans, stock option plans and bonus schemes for top managers and directors of publicly traded and private companies, as well as on drafting plant-level collective bargaining agreements with unions, employment and self-employment contracts, general settlement agreements. Davide’s assistance includes drafting privacy policies, internal procedures and disciplinary codes (also according to Legislative Decree no. 231 of 2001).

Davide Traina is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the global Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. He gained significant experience in the real estate sector, assisting national and international clients in complex real estate transactions and in the establishment of funds, as well as in the pre-contentious and contentious phases of commercial transactions, also in case of arbitration. Davide frequently deals with real estate and corporate litigations, as well as with post-closing claims and disputes on real estate development transactions.

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Denis Voevodin is a partner in Dentons' Moscow office and the Head of the European Intellectual Property and Technology practice. Denis has over 30 years of experience in a broad spectrum of areas of contentious and non-contentious IP matters and is recognized as one of the top IP practitioners in Russia and the CIS. He has considerable experience of acting in trademark and copyright litigation proceedings as well as advising on anti-counterfeit activity. His work actively concerns acquisition and disposal of companies with valuable intellectual property rights and complex technology as well as copyright, trademark and patent rights. 

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Dennis Montgomery is an English-qualified Counsel to the Dentons Moscow Banking and Finance team with extensive magic circle experience in London, Moscow and the Middle East.

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Dirk-Jan Gondrie MRE is a partner in the Amsterdam office and member of the Real Estate practice group. He specializes in real estate transactions and property development, as well as asset management related matters. Dirk-Jan acts mainly for international and Dutch institutional investors and developers. He is frequently engaged in cross-border real estate acquisition and restructuring work, focusing on Dutch sale and lease aspects. Dirk-Jan lectures at the Amsterdam School of Real Estate (ASRE).

Dmitry is an Associate in Dentons’ Russian Employment and Labor practice. Dmitry has practical experience in all branches of Russian employment law, including the consideration and resolution of labor disputes, the representation of clients in labor litigation and audits conducted by the responsible government agencies (State Labor Inspectorate and Prosecutor’s office), lending legal support during problematic dismissals of top managers and mass lay-offs. He also has extensive experience advising clients on interacting with trade unions, assisting with health and safety matters, including investigation of work place accidents, drafting policies, reviewing personnel documents and corporate procedures (both within the scope of M&A transactions and individual verifications of a company’s compliance with applicable employment law), and assisting with employment issues arising in the course of an employer’s restructuring.

Dominic is a consultant (formerly a partner for 20 years) whose experience primarily lies in PPP and concession-based project finance (with a specific focus on infrastructure and energy). He has advised clients, including banks, sponsors/borrowers, investors and the public sector, on all aspects of project financing, on both project-related documentation and finance documents (debt and capital market solutions). In recent years he has advised on a large number of international PFI/PPP sector projects, including the airport sector. He also spent nine months on secondment to the in-house legal department of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, advising the bank on its debt and equity investments in Eastern Europe. He also focuses on developing the Firm's project finance in Africa and has been working on African infrastructure projects in Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Nigeria. He has also advised on two projects in the Caribbean – in Antigua and Jamaica.

Dominic is an arbitration specialist with particular experience of acting in disputes involving Russian and CIS parties, in London and other European seats. Dominic is English-qualified but has lived and worked in Paris and Moscow, and is a fluent French and Russian speaker. He acts both as counsel and arbitrator. His work normally focuses on high value disputes under English law-governed contracts, such as shareholder agreements, construction contracts, loans and other financing documentation. These disputes have a strong international element and often require consideration of different systems of law and conflicts of laws. Dominic is an experienced advocate and cross-examiner and has conducted more than twenty hearings as first chair. His clients come from a variety of industry sectors, including banking and finance, construction, oil and gas, and telecommunications. He has experience in particular of LCIA, ICC and SCC arbitrations, as well as of ad hoc arbitration under UNCITRAL rules. Although his primary focus is on commercial arbitration he has also acted in investment treaty disputes, both as counsel and arbitrator. 

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Douglas is a Partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in the Glasgow office. He is a Solicitor Advocate (with extended rights of audience) and has extensive experience of all manner of commercial disputes before courts and tribunals of all levels in Scotland. Douglas has particular expertise in the following areas: Corporate and Contractual Disputes – in particular warranty and covenant claims, frauds, shareholder and partner disputes and title issues. Recent highlights include: AMA (New Town) Limited v. Law 2013 SC 608 (confirming that a vendor in a property sale is entitled to insist upon payment from a purchaser who fails to purchase timeously, in breach of missives). Public Law and Judicial Review – in particular public procurement challenges. Recent highlights include: Healthcare at Home Limited v. CSA 2014 SC (UKSC) 247 (understood to be the first case under the Public Contracts (Scotland) Act 2006 to be considered by the UK Supreme Court). BT plc v. CSA (a challenge of the procurement process relative to the SWAN IT infrastructure for public services in Scotland). HFD Construction Limited v. Aberdeen City Council [2013] CSOH 125 (a judicial review of a decision by Aberdeen City Council relative to the manner of disposal of its former headquarter site). Insolvency – with experience in all contentious aspects of both corporate and personal insolvencies. Recent highlights include: Joint Administrators of Heritable Bank plc v. Winding Up Board of Landsbanki Islands HF 2013 SC (UKSC) 201 (a Supreme Court appeal relative to the impact of a foreign determination of a claim in an insolvency upon the ability to claim set-off). Contentious Trusts & Executries – having advised on a wide variety of disputes concerning wills and trusts, including: challenges in respect of the capacity of the deceased applications to reduce transactions made in breach of trust applications to establish the formal validity of testamentary writings negligence claims advice in connection with executor and trustee duties Debt Recovery – considerable experience of pursuing the recovery of bulk debts, both in the UK and further afield. Douglas also has an avid interest in Sports Law and has most recently defended a substantial claim by a former coach of one of the oldest rugby clubs in Scotland. He is a SFA certified football referee. Douglas is also a former vice convenor of the Strathclyde University Ethics Committee and a former member of the lay advisory board to the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons in Glasgow.

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Dzhangar is a partner in Dentons’ Moscow office and head of Russia Tax and Customs practice. He primarily focuses on tax litigation. Between 2007-2018 Dzhangar handled over 1000 court cases including before the Supreme Arbitration Court. In addition, he provided full support in a considerable number of tax disputes settled at pre-trial stages. Dzhangar also advises on various aspects of taxation, including drafting internal policies to prevent tax risks (regarding suppliers, marketing, and others), analyzing contracts for tax risks, and verifying tax accounting in order to reveal potential tax assessments and overpayments.

Edward Hickman is a leading structured finance partner, with expertise in all types of securitisation (ABS, CMBS, CDOs and WBS), loan portfolio sales, project bonds, structured utility bonds, covered bonds, commercial real estate, multi-source intercreditor arrangements, derivatives and regulatory capital. Edward has worked on European, US, GCC and Asian transactions, acting for arrangers, originators, investors and rating agencies. Several of his transactions are pathfinder deals, being the first in a particular jurisdiction or the first for a particular asset class. During the financial crisis, Edward has advised on a number of divestments by banks as they deleverage, either on the sell side or the buy side. He has also been the lead partner on successful new debt issuances and refinancings, both in the capital markets and in the bank market, helping banks and corporate borrowers access new funding solutions. He has also advised corporates on how to use structured finance principles to help reduce their pension scheme deficits.

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Eldor Mannopov is the Managing Partner of Dentons’ Tashkent office. He specializes in corporate, contract, commercial, construction and tax law.  Eldor assists clients in the energy, chemical and petrochemical, oil and gas, infrastructure and transportation, corporate, and investment sectors. Eldor has experience advising Uzbek and foreign clients on the incorporation of limited liability companies, litigation and dispute resolution, due diligence, M&A transactions, purchase of immovable assets and privatization of state-owned property. Eldor also advises on taxation regulations affecting local and foreign corporations, permanent establishments, tax optimization structures, licensing of design, construction and operation activities in various fields (EPC, FIDIC contracts). Recognized as a leading lawyer in projects and construction, Eldor assists clients in drafting commercial agreements including EPC, procurement, construction, services and/or works agreements (according to both Asian Development Bank or World Bank standards).  Eldor also advises companies in the oil and gas sector on exploration service agreements, agreements under Clean Development Mechanism (Kyoto Protocol), investment agreements, EPC contracts, and production sharing agreements.

Eleanor is a Partner in the Trusts, Estates and Wealth Preservation practice, based in the Glasgow office. She specialises in all aspects of inheritance tax and capital gains tax planning (including formation and administration of trusts), as well as the preparation of wills, administration of executries and the Scottish law relating to charities.

Elmer Doonan is a partner and head of pensions group with over 25 years experience in pensions matters. He has dealt with some of the most complex restructuring and insolvency related pensions issues over the years on behalf of employers, insolvency practitioners and pension trustees. He has acted in numerous court applications on pensions matters and on behalf of both trustees and employers and in matters involving the exercise of the Pension Regulator's moral hazard powers, most notably the recent Lehman FSD case where he acted for 28 Lehman companies.

Emmanuelle van den Broucke is a Partner in Competition Law and Distribution Law. In Competition Law, Emmanuelle van den Broucke assists and advises clients on merger controls (France, the European Commission, Morocco and the coordination of multi-jurisdictional notifications), anti-competitive practices (both in counseling and in defending clients in proceedings before the French Competition Authority, the European Commission and the French and European Courts) or for State aid. She also conducts competition audits, implements compliance programs at her clients' premises and works closely with other Dentons lawyers on compliance or risk issues. She has an excellent knowledge of the life sciences and pharmaceutical sector, as well as the luxury and food sectors. Emmanuelle has thorough expertise in the French regulation of restrictive practices, advising clients on the negotiation and implementation of annual framework agreements and conditions of sale as well as compliance of their business practices in accordance with their commercial practices with regard to the provisions of the French Commercial Code or specific regulations to certain products. She is also regularly consulted for the establishment of distribution networks (exclusive/selective/franchise/sales agents/other), including the drafting and negotiation of distribution agreements of all types as well as assisting clients in the event of their violation.

Emőke Kovács is a Counsel in Dentons’ Budapest office. She is an energy lawyer whose practice focuses on advising electricity and gas industry clients in connection with regulatory as well as other issues in relation to various areas within the energy sector. She has considerable experience in electricity and gas trading as well as energy and heat distribution. Over the years she has also accumulated substantial experience in negotiating complex contracts in M&A transactions as well as in assisting clients in their power plant projects in Hungary.

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Evan Z. Lazar is Co-Chairman of the Global Real Estate Group at Dentons. He also is a Member of the Global Board and Global Vice Chair of Dentons around the world. Evan is widely recognized as a top tier real estate lawyer specializing in multi-country property investment, joint ventures, and finance matters. He has over 30 years of experience acting as lead partner on major institutional real estate transactions involving from single assets to large portfolios in Europe and globally in the logistics, data center, residential, office, retail and hotel sectors. He has built an excellent, institutional client base, which includes major leading investors, Private Equity and pension funds, insurance companies, borrowers and developers. His clients include Corebridge Real Estate Investors (formerly AIG Global Real Estate), Blackstone, GIC, Harrison Street, Heimstaden Bostad, Heitman International, Round Hill Capital and Starwood Capital Group, to name a few.

Evgenia focuses on structuring and full transaction support of local and cross-border M&A deals, including legal due diligence and antimonopoly matters. Evgenia also advises on corporate restructurings and joint-ventures, as well as corporate law issues such as corporate compliance, corporate governance and liability of directors. In addition, Evgenia advises on various legal issues related to the establishment, protection and liquidation of business in Russia and handles commercial contracts, including cross-border commercial arrangements.For more than 15 years, Evgenia has represented the interests of Russian and foreign companies across various sectors, including banks, insurance organizations, manufacturing, real estate development and pharmaceutical companies and companies operating in the area of retail trade.

Evgenia Laurson is a partner in Dentons’ London and Moscow offices and a member of the Global Banking & Finance and Energy Practices. She focuses on energy, infrastructure and finance transactions. Evgenia’s experience and reputation have attracted major domestic and international banks and corporations seeking assistance with complex, cross-border financing transactions. She has unique experience and market recognition, particularly with respect to project financings in Russia and the CIS region. Evgenia’s significant transactional experience makes her particularly adept at developing and negotiating intricately structured cross-border deals.  Evgenia’s innovative transactional approach has contributed to the successful completion of a number of pioneering deals, such as the award-winning €750 million financing of a PVC plant in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod, that was hailed by Trade Finance Magazine as having established a new “Russian project finance template.”  

Ewa Rutkowska-Subocz is a Partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office. She also co-heads Dentons’ Environmental Protection Practice in Europe. With more than 24 years of professional experience, Ewa covers all aspects of business operations from the angle of environmental protection law and climate change regulations. She advises Polish and foreign companies (top players, mainly from the manufacturing, energy, real estate, and industrials sectors) and public bodies on issues regarding Polish and EU environmental protection law. Her professional experience includes advising on environmental protection in construction projects, environmental litigation, Environmental Impact Assessment and IPPC procedures (including litigating against NGO participation aimed at blocking investments), climate change issues, compliance / non-compliance, emissions trading, land remediation, regulations governing geological and mining activities, oil and gas (upstream and downstream). Ewa is one of co-founders and co-organizers of Dentons’ European Environmental Law Academy (DEELA), established in 2015 as a platform for developing and strengthening the core of legal knowledge in environmental law matters across all our offices in Europe and the UK, to enable our specialist environmental teams in Europe and UK to deliver seamless advice of unparalleled quality.

Fabrizio Capponi is a partner in Dentons' Italian offices, the head of International Tax in Italy and a member of the global Tax practice. Fabrizio specializes in corporate and tax law, assisting companies and large groups in complex financial transactions, corporate reorganizations and debt restructuring (reorganization agreements relating to distressed loans), as well as on private equity and M&A transactions. He also assists investment banks and securities firms, with a specific focus on taxation of financial products, and provides sellers and buyers with advice on tax due diligence. Fabrizio has handled some of the most important tax settlement and transfer pricing cases in Italy over the last few years. In August 2023, he was appointed as a member of the Technical Committee established by the Italian Ministry of Economy and Finance for the implementation of the Tax Reform.

Faye is a partner at Dentons' Milton Keynes office. She is a member of the Corporate practice. Faye has experience of advising all types of businesses on a wide range of corporate transactions, including acquisitions and disposals, restructurings and reorganizations, corporate governance and joint ventures. She also regularly works on cross-border transactions and has particular experience in the W&I insurance sector. Faye is also very experienced advising both lenders and borrowers on a variety of finance matters, including leveraged, acquisition and real estate financing transactions. She also works closely with the Dentons Automotive team in relation to credit facilities made available to leading UK motor dealers.

Federico Sutti is Chairman of Dentons’ Europe Board and Italy Managing Partner. Federico has extensive experience in M&A transactions, particularly in the real estate sector, advising Italian and international clients on the acquisition of assets and portfolios, as well as relevant, complex developments. These include, in particular, some of the most prominent development transactions in the residential/office/retail (Aree Falck) as well as in the logistic sectors (Piacenza). In addition, he has carried out various brownfield transactions advising international investors operating in the hotel and/or office sectors. Federico has also advised the lenders in the context of the most relevant development projects in Italy, including the Citylife and Varesine projects, among others. His experience extends to the PFI/PPP sectors, where he has been pioneering the use of project finance techniques in the Italian and international infrastructure markets, with specific reference to the healthcare sector. In particular, he assisted the Veneto Region for several years. In addition, he advised the Ministry of Infrastructures in Turkey in relation to the development of the PFI structure model for hospitals. During the last several years he has assisted leading banks, Italian companies and multinationals in various restructuring and refinancing matters. Among the largest the turnaround of Mezzaroma Group, as well as of Parnasi Group. In November 2014, under the Prodi Law, Federico was appointed Commissionaire of Infocontact (a company with 1,800 employees operating in Southern Italy) by the Ministry of Industry.

Felicity is the co-head of Dentons UK Core Disputes practice which includes financial and commercial litigation.  Alongside litigation expertise, the group offers strategic risk management advice and investigations skills.  The group is particularly known for its strength in the financial services sector, having represented clients on a number of leading cases in the period since the last financial crisis. The focus of Felicity's own practice is complex, strategic or high-value disputes, often for financial services clients and involving regulatory issues, but also across other sectors including energy, transport and infrastructure.  She has represented clients in capital markets, PFI, and derivatives litigation; on mis-selling claims; group claims; and in M&A disputes.  Clients value the strategic insight Felicity provides and her role regularly involves advising clients at executive level, including pre-litigation and on litigation risk arising in transactions. Felicity has spent time on secondment to the litigation and regulatory teams of major banking clients, including at partner level.  She is experienced in proceedings in the High Court and the Court of Appeal and has significant mediation expertise.

Fernando Jiménez de Aréchaga (Jr) is a Partner in the Montevideo office. He is a member of the Project Finance, Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Law practice groups. Fernando’s focus is on project financings, particularly in the renewable energy and transport infrastructure sectors. He has advised in relation to project financings and refinancings of wind and solar plants, as well as of Public-Private Partnerships for highway, railway and social infrastructure projects. He also focuses on mergers and acquisitions, particularly in relation to infrastructure projects, but also in the natural resources’ sector. His practice also includes Corporate law advice to local and multinational clients that span several industries.

Filipp is a counsel at Dentons Russian Capital Markets and Derivatives practice. He specialises in debt and equity capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, and derivatives and has in-depth experience in advising a broad range of issuers, underwriters, financial institutions and corporates on debt and capital markets transactions, financial restructurings and financial regulatory matters. Filipp regularly acts for clients on eurobond, eurocommercial paper issuances, establishments and updates of programmes for the issuance of loan participation notes and eurocommercial papers, financial regulatory issues, liability management exercises, block trades and accelerated bookbuild (ABB) exercises, SPOs, JV establishments, cross border and domestic securitisations. He is praised by the clients for his broad legal skillset, problem solving approach and commercial insight.

Florian is a partner in Dentons' Moscow office. He specializes in M&A transactions (both cross-border and domestic) and the establishment of joint ventures in a number of sectors, including the automotive, chemicals, railway, retail, food, real estate development and construction sectors. Florian also has experience advising clients on general corporate, commercial and real estate law matters. He also specializes in advising clients on cybersecurity issues, and has obtained a certificate in management of cybersecurity risks at Harvard University in 2020. Florian has vast experience in advising international companies on their investment projects not only in Russia, but also worldwide, including in China, USA, Canada, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan. He serves as lead legal counsel for a number of international clients. He manages teams that assist clients on various practices and coordinates offices at several locations globally.   Florian participates in German trade delegations and speaks frequently on Russian corporate, M&A, Russian and German contract law and related matters. In addition to his responsibilities as the Chairman of the Cybersecurity Working Group of the Russian-German Chamber of Commerce in the Russian Federation, Florian is a member of the Best Lawyers Advisory Board for the Russian Federation, a member of the Association of European Businesses in the Russian Federation and a member of the Bar Association in Germany.

Francesca is a corporate lawyer and Counsel in the Milton Keynes Corporate team. She has the benefit of two years' working in industry as well as her time in private practice in London, Dubai and Milton Keynes. Her practice area covers establishing and reorganizing businesses, acquisitions and disposals, mergers and joint ventures. She has considerable experience in both domestic and cross-border corporate transactions. Francesca specializes in the retail automotive sector and has more than 20 years' experience of advising automotive retailers on the sale and purchase of dealership businesses and other corporate matters. Francesca also manages our Company Secretarial team which services more than 500 companies, many for household name groups.

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Frédérique Meslay Caloni, Partner and Co-Head of Dentons Paris Employment Group, is a litigation expert with a 20-year track record in employment, and contract/commercial law, advising French and multinational businesses on risk prevention in the pre-litigation, negotiation, litigation and post-litigation phases. In employment, Frédérique advises companies and handles individual and collective litigation before the French Labor Courts related to restructuring, redundancy plans, voluntary plans, departure of executives, transactions, sexual and workplace harassment, discrimination, safety and health issues, covenant restrictions. Her transversal expertise in contractual/commercial law allows her to provide complete service regarding issues combining both corporate and employment law (risks relating to abusive termination of services agreement, with consequences under criminal law, and recharacterization into an employment contract of a relationship with a service provider's employees, unfair competition, poaching of employees, departure of executives with an employment contract and a corporate office, etc.).

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Gábor is leading the Banking and Finance practice group at Dentons’ Budapest office. He is also the Managing Officer of Dentons in Hungary. Gábor is a senior Hungarian law-qualified banking and finance lawyer, with more than 30 years of experience gained from working on matters in Hungary and across the Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and Southeastern Europe (SEE) regions. His practice focuses on regulatory and complex restructuring matters but can be relied on in almost any other areas of banking law. His experience includes acting for governmental agencies, lenders, borrowers and sponsors. He has advised on debt and equity transactions across multiple jurisdictions and has provided general advice on a wide range of banking, project finance, regulatory and derivative/treasury matters. Gábor has also been involved in a large number of distressed debt-related transactions. He has experience in working across a number of business sectors, including energy, pharmaceuticals, oil and gas (including petrochemicals), infrastructure, real estate, hotels and leisure and telecommunications.

Gabriella Pataki is a senior associate in the Banking and Finance practice group in Dentons’ Budapest office. She has extensive experience in advising on matters relating to acquisition and project finance, financial restructuring and insolvency, as well as financial regulatory issues.

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Georgy Pchelintsev is a partner in Dentons' Russia IP, IT and Telecommunications practice. He focuses on preparing and supporting transactions for the creation or acquisition of software systems, databases and other intellectual property in IT, and advises on compliance with regulatory requirements applicable to IT companies and Internet projects. In this context, Georgy notably has experience advising on IT outsourcing projects; advising online shops on compliance with consumer protection laws, cash register and advertising laws; and advising Fintech projects on how to structure their operations in compliance with the national payment systems laws. Among IT outsourcing projects, Georgy’s work includes, in particular, advising Russian and foreign cloud service providers on drafting agreements governing hosting and data processing services, e.g., Service Conditions and Service-Level Agreements.The second major area in which Georgy has acquired significant experience is advising on venture-capital investment, mergers & acquisitions, and foreign investment in the establishment of joint ventures, e.g., opening joint manufacturing ventures involving foreign capital and foreign investment in Russian IT companies.Georgy graduated from St. Petersburg State University (Law Degree, 2003). In 2014, Georgy also obtained a Master of Laws degree at King’s College London. He speaks fluent English.

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Gilla has experience covering all aspects of commercial litigation and specialises in employment and regulatory issues. She has extensive High Court, Court of Appeal and House of Lords experience in addition to tribunal experience. Gilla has also been involved in a number of pan-European and worldwide restructurings.

Giovanni is a partner in Dentons’ Rome office and a member of the Project, Energy and Infrastructure business unit in Italy. He is also part of the global Banking and Finance practice. He focuses on project finance matters, particularly in relation to infrastructure, transportation, energy, telecommunication and water sectors. He is also experienced in export finance, acquisition finance, public utilities, bond issues, as well as debt restructuring and distressed assets. During his career, Giovanni has been involved in several benchmark deals, including a number of "first-of-a-kind” products/structures in Italy.

Glenn Kolleeny is a senior partner resident in Dentons Moscow office. He has been resident in Russia since 1999, but also works actively in the other states of the former Soviet Union, particularly Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Georgia. Glenn concentrates on mergers and acquisitions, trade and commodities finance, private equity and venture capital. He has been recognized as a leading corporate and M&A specialist in Russia. Glenn heads the Agribusiness and Forestry Sector Group and is the Pro Bono Coordinator for Russia. He was described by Legal 500 as a lawyer who "makes transactions happen" according to his clients. In 2013, Glenn was among the first non-Russian lawyers to qualify as a Russian Advokat. Glenn has completed more than US$6 billion of M&A transactions in the past 10 years. His clients include financial institutions, private equity funds, international and Russian multinational corporations. Glenn is fluent in Russian and French and has a good knowledge of German, Spanish and Ukrainian.

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Greg Thwaites is a consultant in Dentons’ London office. He is a member of the Real Estate group, which is one of the largest cross-border real estate teams among top international law firms. With over 500 real estate lawyers committed to an integrated approach, our team gives you the comfort of a global presence with a deep understanding of the local real estate terrain. Greg is an expert in UK real estate matters including, real estate finance, investment, M&A, landlord and tenant, restructuring and insolvency and development. His sector experience includes healthcare, retail (including motor retail), industrial, office, leisure and ultra-high value residential. He acts for institutional clients, including banks, large owner occupiers and capital providers.The Legal 500 states that Greg shows “tenacity, responsiveness and reliability”.

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Hector B. Viana is the Managing partner in the Montevideo office. He is responsible for handling matters of leading multinational companies, such as, General Electric, Disney (Fox Group), Google, Hidrovias, Dole, Linde, Marfrig, and other internationally first rated companies. His main practice areas are corporate/finance, real estate, technology related, agribusiness and restructurings.

Heico Reinoud is a partner and a co-head of the Tax practice group in Amsterdam. Heico has a broad advisory experience in Dutch corporate income tax and dividend withholding tax planning, European tax law and international tax aspects of cross border transactions. He advises real estate and private equity firms with respect to fund location and formation, structuring their investments and financing of their acquisitions. He assists pension funds and insurance companies with respect to Dutch dividend withholding tax refund procedures. Heico also advises multinationals with regard to mergers and acquisitions and internal reorganizations. He further assists his clients with obtaining advance tax rulings (ATR) and advance pricing agreements (APA) and negotiates on their behalf in tax disputes. More recently, he has advised on matters concerning OECD's Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS), EU State Aid and Country by Country Reporting (CbCR).

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Helen is a partner in the market-leading Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) team at Dentons. She advises clients on all aspects of environmental, climate change, societal and human rights issues, across a wide range of sectors including energy, manufacturing, industrial and chemicals. Her practice is varied and includes transactional work as well as advisory and litigation, including Environment Agency and HSE investigations and prosecutions, judicial reviews and statutory appeals. She advises on environmental permitting, pollution liability, waste law, climate change, health and safety law, and product liability. Helen has an international practice, having worked in Dubai and South Africa, and regularly advises on environmental risk in cross-border transactions.

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Henriett Fekete is a senior associate and a member of the Energy practice group of Dentons’ Budapest office. Her practice mainly focuses on advising renewable industry clients in connection with regulatory matters and other various commercial matters in the energy sector.

Humphrey is an energy partner in Dentons' London office with over 20 years' experience throughout the energy value chain. He previously acted as General Counsel for a Middle Eastern state energy company. Humphrey specializes in international acquisitions and disposals (both asset and corporate deals) and in oil, gas, conventional power and renewables. He also advises on energy joint ventures, restructuring, commercial contracts and regulation.

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Ian is a partner in the Restructuring and Insolvency practice, focusing on all areas of contentious insolvency and asset recovery work (including major commercial litigation). He also has significant experience in restructuring and non-contentious insolvency work, and has advised insolvency practitioners, lenders, governments, corporates and directors in relation to insolvency issues in sectors including infrastructure, construction, energy, real estate, retail and sport. Ian has a particular interest in cross-border and international insolvencies and in April 2018 he graduated as a Fellow of INSOL International. He is also closely involved with representative organizations in the UK insolvency market, as a member of the City of London Law Society Insolvency Law committee, and the R3 education and courses committee.

Igor Davydenko is a partner in Dentons' Kyiv office. He has proven experience in legal practice, including the coaordination of legal issues in major financial and commercial organizations. Igor has been working in the Kyiv office for the last 30 years. During this period he was involved in more than 300 multimillion complex transactions in different areas in Ukraine. He concentrates on matters of Ukrainian tax, civil and corporate law.

Igor Svitlyk is a counsel in Dentons’ Kyiv office. He is a member of Dentons’ Corporate Practice Group. Specifically, Igor specializes in the Life Sciences, Privacy, and Anti-Corruption Compliance. Igor regularly advises foreign pharmaceutical companies and contract research organizations with respect to various legal issues and represents their interests before Ukrainian state authorities.

Ihor V. Mehedynyuk is a partner in Dentons' Kyiv office. He advises clients on various matters of Ukrainian securities law, land and real estate law, corporate law, M&A and transaction structuring, secured transactions, tax law and employment law, as well as on matters of Ukrainian law governing specific Ukrainian industries and sectors, including specifically the mining of mineral resources, telecommunications, TV and radio broadcasting, agriculture and industrial construction.

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Isabelle Leroux is a Senior Counsel in Dentons' Paris office. She concentrates on intellectual property law and advises her clients on any issues relating to intellectual property (patents, trademarks, designs and models, copyright, domain names). She also has extensive experience in coordinating international IP litigation in Europe, in the Middle East countries and worldwide. Her experience also includes counselling (licensing including know how, trade secrets and R&D, trademark and domain name clearances, trademark and design filing programme, IP due diligence/audit, IP rights financial evaluation and tax issues, copyright issues, unfair competition, comparative advertising, labelling, etc.). Isabelle also is an expert in the implementation of worldwide trademark and design registration strategies and programs. Finally, Isabelle is panellist/arbitrator appointed by the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) for resolving domain names arbitrations.

István Réczicza is Senior Partner at Dentons Budapest. István is a trusted strategic advisor to his clients who brings more than 30 years of experience. His practice focuses on highly complex mergers and acquisitions and regulatory matters. István has advised on many high profile acquisitions and landmark cases, including many matters related to foreign investment. István also has an outstanding reputation and extensive experience in regulated sectors such as energy, real estate, tourism and IT. He focuses on the areas of telecommunications, energy, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), and intellectual property regulation, particularly as these relate to transactions involving foreign investment. In the course of representing clients in these fields, István has become one of Hungary's leading figures in the analysis of industry regulation and the drafting of proposed amendments in connection with such legislation. István has a significant track record advising on litigation and domestic and international arbitration matters, as well as white collar matters. Over the years he has represented numerous clients before the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), including recently the Republic of Hungary in a significant victory following an arbitration tribunal’s rejection of all claims brought by the plaintiff. He also represented a client in the first ever case brought before the Hungarian Energy Arbitration Court. Furthermore István has significant white collar experience, having conducted several internal corporate investigations. Widely recognized as a leading M&A lawyer, István has advised on a number of landmark transactions. For example, he advised a UK leading airport operator in the US$2.2 billion privatization of a Central European airport operator, in relation to the acquisition of the said airport operator by a Spanish construction group, and a newly formed entity in its sale of the airport operator's majority stake in the above mentioned Central European airport operator to a leading German construction company for €1.9 billion. István also advised the airport operator on the restructuring of approximately €1.6 billion of its debt. One of Hungary’s leading figures in the field of TMT regulation, István has advised the government and state agencies on issues including the revision of national communications and media legislation, and has also helped to prepare Hungary’s implementation of EU directives on electronic communications.

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Jakub Celinski, PhD, heads Dentons' Europe Equity Capital Markets Practice. He focuses his practice on equity and debt instrument offerings, securitization transactions and public M&A deals. He has vast experience in cross-border transactions, especially in IPOs of foreign companies with listing on the Warsaw Stock Exchange and dual listing deals. He frequently represents Polish and multinational companies actively engaged in capital markets. His areas of expertise also include financial services regulatory matters, employee equity incentive plans and private banking.

James is a partner in the Milton Keynes office Commercial Dispute team. He represents clients in all forms of commercial dispute resolution. He has experience in contract disputes, product liability, company law and shareholder claims, trusts, banking, professional negligence and construction disputes. He acts for many blue-chip companies, banks, financial institutions and individuals. As well as one-off unique cases, James assists clients with portfolios of cases and has developed bespoke case management systems and solutions. He has a particular interest in cost issues and uses cost management systems to keep costs proportionate to case value, which is particularly important with lower-value claims. James has higher advocacy rights of audience and has made many appearances in the High Court as well as in other tribunals and when representing clients in arbitration cases. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and a member of the Professional Negligence Lawyers Association, the Technology and Construction Solicitors’ Association and the Society of Construction Law.

James is a multi-specialist corporate finance lawyer with emphasis on real estate finance (including hotels), restructuring, general banking and asset based lending.  James now acts primarily for banks, other financial institutions and borrowers on a range of mainstream transactions and he has both transactional and general advisory experience.

James is a partner in the Banking and Finance team based in Edinburgh. He has extensive experience of advising lenders and borrowers in relation to a broad range of complex financing transactions, including in relation to property finance, acquisition finance, corporate/plc lending, funds finance and restructuring transactions.

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Jane Tarassova is a Counsel in Dentons’ Moscow office. She specializes in mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, joint venture work, bankruptcies, and commercial contracts. She has extensive experience advising on natural resources matters, including upstream and downstream oil & gas, oil pipeline and maritime transportation, oil and gas trading, power generation, M&A projects in the natural resources and energy sector, environmental protection, and other aspects of the natural resources and energy sector. Her experience includes oil and gas majors, corporations developing and processing natural resources, independent and integrated energy companies, transportation and service companies, investment groups and financial institutions.

János Csáki is a senior associate in the Corporate/M&A, Private Equity and Energy practice groups of Dentons’ Budapest office. His practice mainly focuses on advising corporates, private equity firms, financial and strategic investors, family offices and founders on acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, and restructurings. While János’ practice tends to focus on general private M&A transactions in Hungary, his recent works include advising significant local and foreign market players acting in the renewables sector in connection with the due diligence and acquisitions of mid- to large-scale PV projects and other energy projects in Hungary.

Jarosław Bełdowski, PhD, is a lawyer with extensive background in financial sector who specializes in regulatory and transactional affairs. His experience encompasses advising clients on various banking regulatory matters, e.g. CRR, CRD IV, AML/CFT, AIFMD, UCITS IV and EuVECA. He combines his professional and academic career as an assistant professor at the Warsaw School of Economics. Co-author of many scientific publications in the field of financial law.

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Jason is a real estate specialist with extensive experience in investment, real estate finance, hotel disposals and acquisitions, corporate real estate, development work and landlord and tenant matters - he acts for high net worth individuals, banks, investors, developers, hotel operators, landlords and tenants. He also specialises in the real estate aspects of restructuring and insolvency work and has advised insolvency practitioners and banks on a number of high-profile transactions.

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Jean-Marc Grosperrin, a Partner in Dentons’ Paris office, is primarily involved in French and cross-border acquisitions, private equity transactions and industrial M&A transactions. Jean-Marc regularly advises major international groups as well as mid-sized companies in a variety of sectors. Besides advising French and foreign companies on their acquisitions or divestitures in France and abroad, he also represents investment funds and managers in leveraged transactions. Jean-Marc is Global Chair of Dentons’ Life Science & Healthcare group and Co-head of the Europe and Paris Life Sciences groups. He also serves as a member of Dentons Europe Board.

Jean-Marc Allix, partner in Dentons' Paris office, is primarily active in project finance, public-private partnerships (PPPs), acquisition finance and real estate finance.

Jeeshna is an Attorney-at-Law in Dentons. She is a member of the litigation team.   Jeeshna’s core activities include civil and commercial litigation before the Intermediate and Supreme Court of Mauritius (including before the Commercial and Bankruptcy Division). She has also instructed Counsel in cases before the Family Division of the Supreme Court of Mauritius, as well as before the Judge in Chambers of the Supreme Court of Mauritius. Her client portfolio includes banking and financial institutions, real estate companies, construction and development companies and individuals.   Jeeshna has experience in corporate advisory and has advised on matters relating to competition law, the Law of Trusts and Equity, banking law and financial services. Jeeshna also drafts pleadings pertaining to and handles proceedings before the Tribunals and Courts of Mauritius, as well as before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. She also has experience in domestic arbitration proceedings.

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Jiří Tomola is Partner and Co-Head of the Banking and Finance Group and Head of the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy team in Dentons’ Prague office. He focuses his practice on financing, insolvency, restructuring, and legal services for financial institutions. He has acted as lead counsel in numerous complex acquisition, project, trade, export, and real estate financing transactions and bond issues. He also has experience in complex loan structures, including revolving credit facilities and mezzanine financing, and in debt and bond restructuring. He advises mostly Czech and international financial institutions, alternative lenders, borrowers and private equity sponsors. He is one of the pioneers in the field of mezzanine financings and its regulatory framework in the Czech Republic. In the area of restructuring and insolvency, Jiří has a sizable portfolio of high-end restructuring and insolvency matters handled for leading financial institutions and corporations in the Czech Republic and Central and Eastern Europe. In some such insolvency proceedings, complex financing arrangements were tested before the Czech courts for the first time, and the concepts of syndicated lending and security agents’ rights (including parallel debt arrangements) were successfully defended for the first time in the Czech Republic. Jiří also advises corporate entities in insolvency and restructuring proceedings. He has prepared and implemented pre-packed reorganization solutions and has been successful in negotiating such arrangements with creditors.

Jiří Stržínek is the Czech Republic Co-Managing Partner. He is Partner and Co-Head of the Real Estate Practice Group in Dentons’ Prague office. Jiří has almost 20 years of transactional experience and is recognized as one of the top M&A Real Estate lawyers in the Czech Republic. He focuses on real estate acquisitions and disposals as well as real estate financing. Jiří has also extensive experience in real estate development, asset management and leasing work, as well as hotel management agreements. He has worked as a lead lawyer on a number of transactions in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary and Russia.

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Judit Kővári is a partner and head of the Real Estate practice group of Dentons’ Budapest office. She is one of Hungary’s leading real estate practitioners advising global and regional clients in a broad range of real estate transactions, including greenfield investments, infrastructure development, zoning and permitting issues, as well as construction matters and leases, in the office, retail and industrial real estate sectors. She is the legal advisor of major real estate investors and developers.

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Julie Caussade is a Partner and co-Head of Dentons' Employment Law group in Paris. She regularly advises her clients on a wide range of issues related notably to the creation and implementation of their French subsidiaries as well as during the various stages of growth of these entities. Julie also assists in the more sensitive phases of the corporate life cycle, such as the implementation of turnaround, restructuring or bankruptcy plans. She advises clients operating around the world in the context of secondment procedures to France and expatriation processes from France. In addition, Julie assists her clients in areas of criminal labor law, for instance, during inspections by the French authorities concerning the fight against concealed work. She also advises clients in their negotiations of collective agreements with work councils or unions. She represents her clients before the courts in both individual litigation (relating to dismissal, harassment, discrimination claims) or collective litigation (profit-sharing, strikes, job safeguard plans…). Julie's clients range from start-ups to medium-sized companies and large French and international groups and include major players in sectors as diverse as hospitality, retail, banking, technology and other industries. Finally, Julie works closely with Dentons' various practice groups, both in France and around the world, and in particular with the Corporate M&A group in the context of audits or restructuring operations. In addition, Julie co-coordinates the Pro Bono initiative of Dentons’ Paris office and works pro bono for various associations.

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Julien Le Guyader, Partner and co-Head of the Paris Life Sciences group of Dentons, concentrates on pharmaceutical law, corporate, and French and international tax law. Julien is a tax lawyer with particular expertise in the pharmaceutical, biotech as well as the medtech sectors. He provides tax advice to a number of major pharmaceutical companies in almost every field, including mergers and acquisitions and reorganizations, with a particular emphasis on transfer pricing and specific pharmaceutical taxes. Julien focuses on regulatory, market access, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations and private equity matters. He assists clients with international taxation matters, whether tax planning, during tax audits and French authorities audits or during litigation.

Junyi Bai is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office, Head of Italy-China Collaboration Group and a member of the global Corporate M&A practice. His practice focuses on Italian corporate and commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investments, as well as on the legal system of the People's Republic of China. In particular, Mr. Bai provides clients, including listed and/or state-owned companies, with legal advice on cross-border M&A transactions. Junyi is experienced in a number of different sectors, including automotive, machinery, medical and pharmaceutical, aerospace, luxury, food and beverage, transportation, real estate and e-commerce.

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Kamran Pirani is a dual, English and Canadian qualified solicitor in Dentons’ Corporate/M&A and Private Equity groups. Based in Budapest, Kamran advises corporates, private equity firms, sovereign wealth funds, infrastructure funds, financial sponsors, family offices, founders and corporate management teams on acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, restructurings and management incentive arrangements. Kamran’s practice tends to focus on private, English governed transactions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and South-Eastern Europe (SEE).

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Karina Chichkanova has worked in Dentons’ St. Petersburg office since it was founded in 1993. She is a leading real estate, construction and infrastructure expert and has gained a high standing among clients and the professional community. Karina Chichkanova also has extensive experience as an advisor to leading Russian and international corporate clients with regard to general corporate, civil and commercial law, foreign investment, M&A, structuring of real estate transactions, acquiring ownership of and leasing properties. Karina has led a team of lawyers in a number of international investment projects implemented in Russia, including strategic investment projects in St. Petersburg and the Northwest Region, as well as PPP projects for the construction/reconstruction of multifunctional shopping centers, office buildings, hotels, major industrial facilities and residential developments. During the implementation of these projects, Karina has taken an active role in negotiations with the administrative authorities of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region and with the representatives of municipal authorities.Since 2010, Karina has been co-chair of the Executive Committee of the St. Petersburg International Business Association (SPIBA). Karina has authored various articles and given numerous presentations on PPP, real estate, construction, privatization and investment issues.

Karol Laskowski is a partner at Dentons’ Warsaw office, the Head of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice team and the Co-Head of Europe TMT Sector Group. He is a high-profile media and telecommunications professional, with years of experience in advising major television broadcasters, satellite and cable operators, music publishers, telecom operators and film producers. As Head of the IP/TMT practice team he runs one of the largest and most experienced intellectual property, technology, media and telecommunications practices in Poland. The award-winning members of his practice are top-class practitioners with experience in delivering projects for international clients. The team is responsible primarily for advisory to Telecommunication, Media and Technology clients, but also provides comprehensive support in IP, Trademarks, IT, Data Protection & Regulatory matters to clients from other sectors. Together, they address complex legal requests with advice tailored to specific business needs and provide practical and insightful guidance on protecting IP rights, data security issues, technology licensing and sourcing strategies. His key focus is advisory to international Media, Technology and Telecom groups on key areas of their business activities in Poland and elsewhere − Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas.

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Katell Déniel-Allioux is a Partner and co-heads the Paris Employment and Labor group. Katell assists French and international clients from various economic sectors, handling all aspects of the companies' existence. She deals primarily with the following aspects of employment law: implementation of new businesses (employment contracts, remuneration and incentive policies, internal rules and policies), acquisition, restructuring, relations with worker representatives and unions (negotiation of collective agreements, elections, harmonization of the collective status, etc.), TUPE, remuneration and social coverage of top management, as well as secondment/expatriation, negotiation of services agreements, etc.

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Keith is Managing Partner and head of Litigation and Dispute Resolution group of Dentons Hong Kong. He has more than 37 years’ experience in heavyweight dispute resolution, including high court/commercial court litigation, domestic and international arbitration, expert determinations, alternative dispute resolution, and mediations with particular focus on the energy, construction and financial services sectors. Keith has been widely recognised by various legal publications. He has been named one of the Top 15 Litigators in Asia by Asian Legal Business. Chambers Greater China 2022 and Legal 500 Asia Pacific ranked Keith as a leading individual in Dispute Resolution: Litigation for China/Hong Kong. Keith has a varied client base with an international background operating in a diversified number of jurisdictions, with particular experience in Asia Pacific including Hong Kong, mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Middle East, including the Indian sub-continent.

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Dual-qualified in Scotland and England, Kirsti is a construction dispute resolution lawyer with 24 years' PQE. She is Head of our Edinburgh office.   Kirsti deals with multi-million-pound construction disputes arising out of the transport sector (rail and roads), energy-related projects (rig construction and refurbishment, offshore decommissioning and renewables) as well as regularly advising and representing parties in PFI/PPP projects (schools, hospitals, prisons and roads) throughout the UK. Key clients include Bouygues E&S Solutions Limited, Taylor Wimpey, Jacobs, Capita and Network Rail. Kirsti has an LLM (with Distinction) in Construction Law. She has extensive experience of all forms of dispute resolution including court proceedings, arbitration, adjudication and mediation. She is a Member of the Society of Construction Law and the Scottish Arbitration Centre and an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. Kirsti was the Chair of Oil and Gas UK's Decommissioning Working Group, which drafted the first LOGIC standard form decommissioning contract for the North Sea oil industry. She lectures on decommissioning at Aberdeen University.

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Ladislav Smejkal is the Czech Republic Co-Managing Partner. He is Partner and Head of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice that covers also the Criminal law practice of Dentons’ Prague office. Ladislav has more than 20 years’ experience advising clients on litigation and criminal law cases. In litigation, Ladislav advises and represents clients in particular in the area of commercial disputes, unfair dismissal claims and other employees-related litigation cases as well as in construction litigation. In criminal law matters, he represents clients in criminal cases as defense counsel or advises clients in the areas including white collar crime, anti-corruption, criminal compliance, and both internal and governmental investigations. Ladislav is licensed as attorney (advokát) both in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Ladislav provides legal advice to both individual and corporate clients from a wide range of sectors, with a focus on the manufacturing, construction, IT/media, financial services, automotive, health care and pharmaceutical sectors.

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Lilla Király is of counsel and member of the Dispute Resolution practice group in Dentons’ Budapest office. Her practice primarily focuses on civil procedure cases, including Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) and court proceedings. She has extensive experience in securing and managing scientific project grants from Hungary and the EU. She received numerous scholarships from the EU to carry out research, teaching activities in the context of the Erasmus Mobility in EU Law and to organize and establish a network of higher education institutions.

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Liz is head of Dentons' International Arbitration practice in the UK. She has extensive experience in international commercial litigation and arbitration, especially in the energy sectors, and engineering and construction. She also has experience of rail, IT and disputes arising out of M&A transactions. Liz advises a number of major oil and gas companies on arbitration, litigation, expert determination and mediation on a range of matters, including the price of oil, gas and LNG, pre-emption, issues under production sharing contracts and concession agreements, cost sharing, JOA disputes, sales, transportation and trading agreements. She has experience of international arbitration around the globe and under the ICC, LCIA, UNCITRAL Rules, as well as ICSCD.

Luca Pocobelli is a partner in Dentons' Milan and Rome offices and a member of the global Corporate and M&A practice. Luca has a comprehensive expertise including M&A and private equity, general corporate representation and real estate, advising clients on the participation to competitive bids, spin-offs and de-merger proceedings, drafting and negotiating, on either seller or buyer side, sale and purchase, joint venture and shareholders agreements, transfer of going concerns and commercial contracts. He has also extensive experience in advising major Italian and international operators in connection with all aspects of deals in the Life Sciences and Healthcare sector, ranging from corporate, to regulatory and litigation issues. Furthermore, he has advised several major clients in real estate transactions, including the purchase or sale of real estate portfolios, the establishment of real estate funds or joint ventures in connection with real estate deals and the negotiation of real estate commercial contracts, and has also gained considerable experience in restructuring and debt rescheduling transactions.

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Lucille De Silva is a partner in Dentons' Energy, Transport and Infrastructure practice, based in London. She focuses on solar, and has over 24 years’ international energy, projects, regulation and privatization experience. Lucille has developed the Firm’s UK solar practice and has led and closed over 200 large-scale solar projects amounting to more than 1.5 GWp and worth in excess of £2 billion.

Madeleine is a partner in the Real Estate practice with particular expertise in development work including projects relating to the Energy sector. She acts for utilities and statutory undertakers as well as major corporates and Middle Eastern investors. Her practice also includes expertise in hotel and leisure acquisitions, disposals and operators' agreements both in the UK and internationally.

Maksym Sysoiev is a partner in Dentons’ Kyiv office. He is a member of Dentons’ Global Energy Group. Maksym regularly advises foreign and local companies with respect to various legal issues and advises clients on their local and cross-border transactions and represents their interests before Ukrainian State authorities as well as support energy clients and their projects worldwide. He is a recognized legal expect in the sphere of energy and possess a considerable experience in advising regarding conventional and renewable energy sources. Maksym is a board member of the Ukrainian Bioenergy Association, and a legal expert at the Ukrainian Wind Energy Association. He actively participates on behalf of the Firm in many public organizations, including the European Business Association and American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine.

Manon is a Senior Attorney in Dentons. He was admitted to practice as an Attorney/Solicitor before the Supreme Court of Mauritius in 1971, made Commander of the Star and Key (C.S.K) by His Excellency the President of the Republic of Mauritius in 2003 and made Senior Attorney in 2004.   Manon’s focus is in the civil and administrative practice. He represents several high profile personalities on the island. He has been the Chair of the Mauritius Law Society for two years and during his mandate, he discussed and sealed an association between the Law Society for England and Wales and that of Mauritius.

For over 20 years, Marat has advised clients on Russian antimonopoly regulation, advertising, trade, state procurement, antimonopoly compliance matters and strategic investments law. In particular, he represents clients in antimonopoly investigations and disputes against the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) relating to abuse of dominance, anticompetitive agreements, unfair competition practices and other violations. He also advises clients on product distribution structures and commercial contracts. He develops internal antimonopoly compliance systems and various external policies and procedures relating primarily to relationships with business partners. Marat regularly conducts internal audits and investigations for his clients aimed at revealing, assessing and curing antimonopoly risks. His experience covers a broad range of industry sectors, including pharmaceuticals, medical products and equipment, automotive, fashion and entertainment, transportation, technological products, consumer products and retail.

Marc Fornacciari is a Partner at the Dentons Paris office. He specializes in public law and in particular in Public Business Law. He is a member of the Transportation and Infrastructures, Public Policy and Regulation, Public Procurement and Government groups. Marc has developed a recognized expertise in the infrastructure sector, in particular in project finance. He advises investors, banks and public entities on infrastructure projects (highways, railway projects, subways) or social infrastructure projects (the new Ministry of Defence in Paris, the new Justice Palace in Paris, La Santé prison, numerous universities and schools). He also advises stakeholders in the transport law practice, in toll prices and in new mobilities. Former representative of a major European electric utility company for France, Marc Fornacciari has an extensive experience in energy law, both conventional and renewable energy (solar, wind-powered, floating offshore wind energies). He also practices environmental law. Marc’s team is also very active in general public law, public domain law and in public procurement law (contracts and concessions), both in consulting and litigation. Overall, the team covers all aspects of regulatory law. Honorary judge of the Conseil d’État, the French High Court for administrative law, he has acquired a renowned expertise in public law and jurisprudence. Marc Fornacciari has rendered conclusions as an advocate general on cases that abide to be leading contract law and concession law cases. Marc also benefits from operational skills acquired in his previous professional experience. In particular, he was the operational manager of water, electricity and sanitation companies in Europe and the Middle East and was in charge of business development in these areas. Within this framework, he has extensive experience in project structuring and financing.

Marcell Szőnyi is a partner in Dentons’ Budapest office. He primarily focuses on the areas of real estate, corporate and financing transactional work, and commercial contracts. He has been involved in numerous acquisitions and disposals and high-value commercial contracts.

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Maria Oleinik is a partner at Dentons’ Moscow office and a member of the Global Corporate and Energy practice. Her corporate experience spans a wide range of industries, including the oil and gas, mining and heavy industry sectors. Maria focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, disposals and financings. Qualified in Russia, the UK and the US, Maria has represented financial institutions, media companies and state corporations. Maria leads clients through the various stages of a transaction from planning and structuring right through to completion. She helps clients navigate the challenges of what can be highly detailed matters, while remaining focused on securing the best possible results. Maria is a partner in the Firm’s Energy practice and has gained extensive experience and knowledge of the Russian market through involvement in major transactions for some of the largest companies in this sector. She is frequently called upon to advise leading Russian corporations engaged in the energy and natural resources sector on their investments in Russia and abroad. As well as working with domestic clients, Maria has also advised international companies making acquisitions in Russia, including an international oil and gas company and a leading European energy concern.

Maria focuses on Russian procedural law and handles dispute resolution in various areas, such as bankruptcy, contractual (works and supply) and corporate law, disputes with governmental bodies and inspections and investigations, consumer rights, real estate and banking. Maria has significant pre-trial and judicial settlement experience and an extensive practice of litigation which includes case processing in various Russian, foreign and international courts, as well as criminal defense and representation for different types of offenses. Maria has also represented numerous organizations and individuals before a variety of governmental bodies in different administrative proceedings within inspections and administrative offense proceedings.

Maria Sole Insinga is a partner in our Milan office and a member of the global Real Estate practice since the firm opened in Italy. Since the early 2000s, Maria Sole Insinga has been working in the real estate sector, providing assistance to leading Italian and international operators (asset management companies, investors, real estate funds, AIFM passports, credit funds and banks) in relation to a wide range of transactions, including acquisitions and disposals (assets and share deals), bid procedures, structuring of new investments in Italy, real estate portfolio reorganizations, redevelopment and development projects, repossessment and post-acquisition management of real estate portfolios. In particular, she has extensive experience in the office, retail and hotel sectors.

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Marina Ryzhkova is a partner in Dentons' Moscow office and the Head of the Russian Employment Practice. She specializes in labor law and in the last 18 years has established a successful labor law/employment practice in Russia. She has experience of advising clients on all the complexities of Russian employment law, including for newly-opened branches and representative offices of foreign companies and subsidiaries, problematic individual dismissals and mass lay-offs, State Labor Inspectorate and Prosecutor’s office issues, and representing employers in labor litigation. She is experienced in the successful resolution of all kinds of employment issues arising in connection with employer restructuring or ceasing activities and subsequently going into liquidation. Marina is a regular speaker at human resources and labor law conferences in Russia. She is also the author of numerous labor law publications in major Russian periodicals.  

Mark is an English qualified corporate partner based in Dentons’ Moscow office. He has a broad-ranging corporate practice, advising on mergers & acquisitions (private and public), private equity, joint ventures, equity capital markets, corporate reorganisations and general corporate law matters. Mark has advised on transactions across a wide range of jurisdictions and industry sectors. He has also spent time on secondment in London with Rothschild and what was Nomura Code Securities. Mark has been based in Russia since early 2014.

Mark is a partner in Dentons' Employment and Labor practice. He has specialised in employment law since 1995. He advises on all aspects of employment law including Executive contracts and severances, TUPE transfers, collective employee relations, large restructuring and redundancy programmes, negotiation and termination of contracts and unfair dismissals. He is recognized as having both top class technical legal knowledge and an extremely pragmatic approach whether he is providing strategic advice or guiding clients through a complex dispute. He has nurtured long standing relationships with a number of significant clients of the Firm in a wide variety of sectors, both public and private, with a particular focus on the Food & Beverage and Finance sectors. This is a testament not only to this knowledge but also to his ability to understand their businesses and to give clear, practical and effective advice which focuses on achieving the client’s objectives. In employment matters he strives to achieve the client’s aims with the minimum of disruption but also represents them in both the Employment Tribunal and the EAT when required, whether in Scotland or England. Over the years he has dealt with hundreds of unfair/constructive dismissal and wrongful dismissal claims. Mark combines his employment law practice with an ever growing practice in employment related pensions advice such as steering clients through updating their pension scheme’s governing documentation and advising and negotiating pensions claims. He also advises on pensions aspects of TUPE transfers, severance arrangements and public sector outsourcing arrangements. Mark has advised on many different restructuring arrangements, including several in the public sector which involved voluntary severance arrangements and enhanced benefits under public sector pension schemes (such as the LGPS and Scottish Teachers Superannuation Scheme).

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Mark is a partner in the Energy and Finance team of the Firm's London office.He specializes in the acquisition, development and financing of energy and infrastructure assets, with a particular focus on thermal and renewable power generation assets, and in structured commodity trading arrangements.

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Markéta Tvrdá is Partner and Co-Head of the Real Estate Practice Group in Dentons' Prague office. She focuses her practice on real estate acquisitions and disposals as well as corporate M&A and commercial law. She has extensive experience advising major institutional investors and developers on a number of complex transactions in commercial, office space and logistics sectors. She also advises private equity clients on different M&A transactions.

Martin Mendel is a managing counsel in Dentons’ Bratislava office and a Co-Head of the Real Estate practice in Dentons’ Bratislava office. He focuses his practice on real estate law, commercial law and also works on commercial litigation. Martin has extensive experience in real estate transactions, mainly assisting clients with (i) negotiating preliminary/non-binding documents, (ii) preparing legal due diligence reports, (iii) drafting and negotiating transaction documents and (iv) completing post-closing matters. He also provides legal advice to companies from various types of industries in connection with their business activities in the Slovak Republic, in particular in connection with the protection of their rights in administrative and court proceedings (including preliminary court protection), as well as in arbitration proceedings. Martin has worked as a lead lawyer on several real estate transactions in the Slovak Republic. He is an active speaker at conferences, primarily focusing on real estate issues.

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Martin works in the Energy, Transport and Infrastructure practice. He specializes in the development and implementation of infrastructure projects, and related regulatory issues. He has negotiated and drafted numerous commercial contracts for participants in regulated industries, and advises in the rail, energy, and defense and sectors. He advises both bidders and government on infrastructure development and financing contracts, and regularly advises on regulatory and procurement issues.

Martin is a Technology & Data Partner, based in Dentons' London office. Martin also serves as Dentons' Clients and Markets Partner and sits on the UKIME region's Executive Leadership Team with a focus on client delivery, innovation and wider strategy. Martin has advised public bodies, financial institutions and other large corporates on a wide range of complex information technology, intellectual property and data protection matters for over 15 years. He advises regularly on business process and IT outsourcings and cross-border sourcing and procurement arrangements for major FTSE and Fortune businesses. He also has a significant advisory practice across a wide range of non-contentious areas, including IT, cloud and SaaS arrangements; digital content; IP licensing and development arrangements; and e-commerce and advertising compliance matters. Martin is also a member of Dentons' Global Data Privacy team and advises on a range of business-critical data protection matters from BAU compliance to complex international transfer, BCRs and data audit projects.

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Martine Gerber-Lemaire is the managing partner of Dentons’ Luxembourg office and head of the Luxembourg Real Estate practice. Having assisted a clientele of domestic and international companies including institutional investors, promoters and sellers, Martine focuses on all types of real estate transactions for Luxembourg based properties including acquisitions, disposals, financings, developments, building renovations, property management and leasing, amongst others. She has particular experience with acquisitions and disposals, funding and investment and advising on regulated and unregulated real estate investment vehicles. Martine is recognized as a deal maker and for her deep knowledge of the Luxembourg real estate market. With sound experience in European Insolvency law, Martine also focuses on workouts and turnarounds, corporate and debt restructurings, pre-insolvency issues, directors’ liability, bankruptcy proceedings, and complex cross-border insolvencies. In addition, Martine has particular capabilities in assisting on issues related to shift of the Center of Main Interests (COMI).

Mateusz Toczyski specializes in banking law, project finance and financial restructuring, including in particular financing transactions in the sectors of infrastructure, energy and renewables, real estate, manufacturing, FMCG, and oil and gas. He acts for both financial institutions as well as borrowers, and has led numerous complex financing projects in Poland and across the CEE region. He participated, as an expert, in the legislative processes related to regulatory changes in Poland, including the implementation of the bankruptcy law and the Act on registered pledges.

Mathieu focuses on corporate law, M&A and general commercial law. He has specialized in Eastern European and CIS transactions since 1990 and has been based in Moscow since 1993. He represents clients from market entry to expansion, restructuring and disposal. Mathieu is advising on some of the most complicated and challenging M&A, joint venture and corporate finance transactions in the Russian market, including oil & gas and agribusiness sectors. For more than 25 years, Mathieu has been advising global luxury goods companies owning some of the most iconic brands in the world on their market entry and development in Russia. In recent years, Mathieu has been increasingly involved in corporate and commercial disputes, focusing on international commercial arbitration and litigation. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the world’s leading association of arbitration and mediation professionals.

Matteo Vizzardi is a partner in Dentons' Milan office and a member of the global Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. He is part of the white-collar crime team in Italy. He specializes in corporate criminal law, bankruptcy law, financial markets, corporate criminal liability, cybercrime, criminal tax law, environmental criminal law, and workers’ health and safety. Matteo advises several Italian and multinational groups in many sectors (chemicals, energy, pharmaceuticals, luxury goods, telecommunications, distribution, industrial production, etc.) both with regard to compliance issues and in criminal proceedings, assisting both the company and its representatives as defendants or civil parties in complex criminal proceedings. He is a member of Supervisory Boards pursuant to Italian Legislative Decree 231/2001 in companies belonging to Italian and multinational groups.

Matthew is a specialist in transport, and a recognised leader in the field. He has nearly 20 years experience in the sector and has been involved in a range of projects across the world. He has particular expertise in the rail industry, infrastructure project development and economic regulation. He is legacy co-Head of the London Energy, Infrastructure and Project Finance Department.

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Matthew Sapte is a partner in the firm's Banking and Finance department and specialises in debt capital markets and derivatives.Matthew regularly advises bank and corporate clients on a wide range of matters, covering bond financings (including Eurobonds, sukuk issues, exchangeables and MTN programmes), asset backed securitisations, receivables financings (including power supply contract monetisations) and derivative transactions (whether OTC, credit linked or finance related).

Matthew Tinger is a partner in the Corporate department of the firm's London office, specialising in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity transactions. Matthew has particular experience in corporate real estate transactions and heads up the firm's corporate real estate practice. He regularly advises clients on acquisitions and disposals of properties within corporate structures, property joint ventures and on sale and leaseback transactions.

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Maxime Simonnet is a Real Estate Partner in the Dentons' Paris office and advises his clients on both transactional and litigation issues. He advises an international clientele of investors (investment funds, real estate companies, and operators), in the context of real estate transactions: due diligence and negotiation of sale and purchase agreements. Maxime also works alongside his clients, notably major users, on their complex negotiations regarding commercial leases and construction contracts. He assists on a wider scale his clients in the context of their discussions on legal measures allowing risk anticipation, costs and incomes optimization related to their real estate assets. In addition, Maxime has a specific and sustained practice in real estate litigation: commercial leases, construction law, sales litigation, co-ownership, and environment. He is a member of the Institut Français de l'Expertise Immobilière.

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Partner specialising in all aspects of corporate, financial services banking and insurance regulation. Advised Prudential on the acquisition of Royal London’s annuity book, Mellon on the acquisition of Walter Scott & Partners, Lloyds on various banking business transfer schemes, Chesnara on various insurance business transfer scheme, BoS on its cross-border merger with BOSI and HBOS and BOS on their capital reduction schemes. A reporter to the Court of Session.

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Michał Turczyk, PhD, is a partner in the Dentons’ Warsaw Tax team, where he heads the Development, Innovation Grants and Incentives Practice. Michał has more than a decade of consulting experience in advising on foreign direct investments in Poland and Central Europe, investment incentives and tax reliefs, as well as innovations and state aid. He specializes in investment and R&D activities funding, including R&D from non-commercial sources (such as EU funds, government grants, tax reliefs and other). He has set up and managed cross-border and cross-functional project teams across Central Europe and globally. He has assisted clients on major investment and R&D projects in Poland as regards using subsidies, tax benefits and investment tax allowances, including in Special Economic Zones and Polish Investment Zone, for businesses from the manufacturing, food processing, energy, new technologies, outsourcing and other sectors. Michał has supported major multinationals in developing investment strategies, site selection, implementing and managing the investment process as well as further development based on innovative activities in Poland. As part of his advisory, he conducts negotiations with central and local government administration and investment support agencies. Michał has experience in the scope of state aid and competition law proceedings, including state aid notifications to the European Commission and representing clients before the Court of Justice of the European Union. He advises clients on identification and optimization of non-commercial sources of financing investments, R&D works and innovations. Michał undertakes projects aimed at identifying and defining R&D activities of enterprises in a range of industries by creating and coordinating dedicated teams staffed with researchers, theoreticians and business practitioners. He has advised clients with regard to amended state aid and tax benefits regulations in Poland, Slovakia, Romania, Croatia and Canada. He co-authored a report for the Ministry of Science and Higher Education on the new model tax incentives system to foster R&D activities in Poland. He has acted as an expert adviser to the Ministry of Economy on creating a new tax relief for R&D in Poland and assisted in developing the system in Slovakia.

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Michele Carpagnano is a partner in Dentons’ Rome office and Head of the Competition and Antitrust practice in Italy. Michele provides national and multinational companies with legal advice and judicial assistance in all aspects of Italian, Spanish and EU competition law, consumer law, state aid law, merger control, public procurement and regulatory issues. He represents national and multinational companies as well as public institutions in administrative proceedings before the Italian Competition Authority and administrative courts. He also represents clients in competition/consumer laws litigation - both single and class actions claims - before Italian courts. He advised local, national and EU institutions on legislative/regulatory proposals related to competition and consumer laws. Michele assists clients in the design and implementation of tailored antitrust and consumer law compliance programs.

Michele is a member of the Planning and Public Law team. She focuses on negotiating and drafting planning and highways agreements, town center regeneration and redevelopment schemes, urban extensions, compulsory purchase orders, road closure orders, highways issues, judicial review, public inquiry work and enforcement issues.

Mihály Czesznak is an associate and a member of the Dispute Resolution practice group of the Budapest office. His practice primarily focuses on advising clients in connection with administrative, commercial and civil law litigation matters, as well as complex international and domestic arbitration cases.

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Mikhail Ivanov is a partner and Head of Dentons’ Russian Litigation and Arbitration practice. He specializes in the resolution of disputes between foreign investors and major Russian companies. Over the past 20 years, Mikhail has represented the Firm’s clients in litigations before the Russian commercial courts and general courts of law, participated in international commercial arbitrations in Russia and abroad under UNCITRAL, ICC, SCC and ICAC Rules, and represented foreign clients in recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards in Russia. After graduating from the international law department of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations in 1984, Mikhail went on to complete post-graduate studies in 1987, earning a Candidate of Science degree in International Law. He is fluent in English and German.  

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Miriam is a real estate partner specializing in property development, acting for both developers and occupiers, with a particular emphasis on the retail sector. She has extensive experience of leading the negotiation of agreements for lease and development, and forward funding agreements, especially of mixed-use schemes with a residential element. Miriam also works in the transport and logistics sectors, with particular experience of rail-connected facilities.

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Monika is a Real Estate partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office. She serves as the Deputy Head of Real Estate in Poland. She is a transactional lawyer with 18 years of experience in advising Polish and international clients on their investments in the commercial property sector. Monika handles matters related to the acquisitions and disposals (asset and share deals), especially in the office, warehouse and retail sectors. She has been involved in the financing and refinancing of real estate investments as well as portfolio transactions in Poland and across CEE. She has also supervised and coordinated major multi-location due diligence projects.

Moy Ching is an Partner, Attorney-at-Law in the Dentons Mauritius Office. She forms part of the litigation group. She is responsible for litigation cases involving civil, commercial, administrative, banking and financial, as well as seizure proceedings. Moy Ching has acted for well established banking institutions in financial disputes, as well as in enforcement of security interest and in the recovery of debts. She has also had the opportunity to represent major companies in civil and commercial matters before the Mauritian jurisdictions.

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Nadiya Shylienkova is a counsel in Dentons’ Kyiv office. Nadiya has extensive experience in finance transactions with focus on advising foreign and local clients on cross-border financings, debt restructuring and distressed asset acquisitions, export finance, transactions with securities, banking regulatory issues and debt capital markets transactions, structured finance and derivatives. In addition, Nadiya elaborates legal solutions for the clients on various issues relating to FinTech and other innovative technologies in finance sector. Recently Nadiya is actively involved in financing and restructuring transactions by IFIs.

Natalia Selyakova is a partner in Dentons’ Kyiv office and Head of Dentons’ Banking and Finance, Restructuring and Insolvency practices in Ukraine. Natalia has in-depth knowledge of Ukrainian and international law and practice, complex international transactions and instruments. She has acted as lead counsel in numerous transactions involving syndicated finance, project finance, trade finance, Eurobonds issues, FinTech, M&A and settlements, debt restructuring and insolvency matters.

Natalia Levchuk is a senior associate in Dentons' Kyiv office. Natalia has more than 15 years’ experience in legal matters related to real estate, environment, land, agriculture, energy and natural resources, as well as privatization. She advises international and local companies, including energy companies, natural resources producers, international developers, FMCG companies, and financial institutions on the acquisition of real estate and land, lease and preliminary lease agreements, and transaction structuring. She provides legal support to the construction sector, including drafting and negotiating agreements and providing legal advice on regulatory and other issues.

Neil is a Senior Legal Advisor specialising in project and infrastructure financings in Dentons' Dubai office. He has been based in Dubai since 2001. He has over 40 years' experience advising banks, governments, borrowers, sponsors and others in project financing transactions covering a wide of range industries, including oil and gas, electricity, water, mining, leisure, transportation and telecommunications. He also has a general banking practice that includes advising banks, borrowers and others on a wide range of banking products, including, lending, structured finance, derivatives, trade finance, development finance and restructurings. He has lectured extensively on a wide range of banking subjects including at the Euromoney Winter and Summer Schools of Project Finance. He is the author of the firm's Standard Introduction to Project Finance and is a past leader of its International Projects Group. Neil was head of the Dubai office from 2001 to 2010. He was Managing Partner of the firm's Middle East offices from 2005 to 2011 and was the Senior Partner of the firm's Middle East offices. He was also a member of the Policy and Planning Board of Dentons UKMEA LLP and sat on the General Advisory Committee of Dentons. He was a member of the Global Board of Dentons from 2011 to 2015.

Neil co-heads the Dentons UK and Middle East Restructuring and Insolvency Group, and has focused in all aspects of insolvency for over 30 years, in particular contentious and litigious work, including major international fraud and asset tracing work. He is named as a Leading Individual in Restructuring in Who's Who Legal 2019 and is regularly ranked in the leading directories in which he has been described as "very astute" and "tough opposition".

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Neill is a senior associate in the Real Estate team.  He specialises in property finance having acted for major lenders including Standard Chartered, UBS and Citibank. Neill has experience of acting for both borrowers and lenders on a wide variety of matters from complex developments to managing a team delivering commoditised products.  He has helped banks to establish new financial products at inception through to successful implementation and continuous improvement. Neill is also an expert in Islamic financing of properties.  He has acted for a number of Middle Eastern banks on murabaha, ijara and diminishing musharaka facilities.

Nichola has been in the Dentons' Real Estate team for over 30 years and her practice covers all aspects of commercial real estate work. Over the last 10 years, Nichola has mainly focussed on significant investment transactions for overseas investors, particularly from the Middle East. In that role, Nichola has represented many leading corporates/families and works very closely with Dentons' international tax team. These investor clients have either bought for their own account, in joint venture or as participants/promoters of funds which means Nichola has a good understanding and experience of all forms of investment. Nichola has also been involved in a number of high-profile developments acting for investors, developers or anchor tenants. For example, Nichola worked for Aviva and its co-investors on the award winning Paddington Central scheme in London (covering its acquisition, development, letting and ultimate sale after nearly 14 years from first instruction). She also represented Al Jazeera when it became one of the first office tenants in The Shard.

Nicholas is co-leader of Dentons' global private equity practice. He has more than 20 years' experience advising on both domestic and cross-border leveraged buyouts and has led over £10 billion of LBOs in the last five years. Nicholas has worked extensively for some of the leading private equity houses, including Apax, Blackstone, Centerbridge, CVC Capital Partners, Duke Street Capital, European Capital, Graphite Capital, Investcorp, Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners and ZQ Capital.

Nick is the Chair of Dentons' Global Aviation group. His main areas of practice are cross-border aircraft finance and leasing structures with tax-based elements, ECA-supported financings and aircraft operating leasing.He has been recognised as a Legal Expert for Aviation Finance and Asset Finance and Leasing by Legal Business, The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners guides to the legal profession for over 20 years and is listed in the Who's Who Legal for Aviation. He has spent time working in France and, in particular, spent 18 months on secondment with Airbus working on manufacturer-supported financings in the early 1990s.Over the last 30 years, Nick has been involved in all manner of aircraft financings, leasing and purchase structures. In this time he has represented many of the major European, American and Japanese banks for aircraft deliveries to some of the world's leading airlines. More recently, Nick has worked with some of the most active European airlines in their fleet development programs and with a number of the leading aircraft leasing companies on portfolio acquisitions and sales.

Nick is the founding partner of Dentons' Global Privacy and Cybersecurity Group. Recognized as a leading practitioner, he specializes in data privacy, cybersecurity and information governance, advising across all sectors, including retail, telecoms, energy, manufacturing, banking, insurance, transport, technology and digital media. Nick has more than 25 years’ experience in data protection and has been advising since the days of the Data Protection Act 1984/1998 and the early enforcement activities of the FTC. He advises on all aspects of data privacy including global compliance strategy and control frameworks, data privacy impact assessments, data breach and incident response, group litigation claims, international data transfers, customer data exploitation and data retention. Most recently, he has advised on AI and privacy compliance, consumer tracking, biometrics, data sovereignty, conflicts of data laws and transfers post-Schrems II/Brexit.

Nick is a partner in Dentons' Capital Markets practice. He focuses on a wide range of securities work, including advising underwriters and issuers in connection with issues of debt (listed eurobonds, private placements, medium-term note programs, loan participation notes), equity, equity-related and Islamic Finance securities in international markets. Nick has particular experience in the emerging markets, especially in Central and Eastern Europe and Africa, where he is forging a reputation for executing difficult deals to demanding timetables.

Nick de Rooij is an associate in the Corporate and M&A practice at the Amsterdam office of Dentons. Nick focuses on complex M&A transactions, private equity and joint ventures. Many of the deals on which Nick works are cross-border and involve a broad range of sectors. Nick’s client portfolio includes both national and international public and private companies, including private equity firms, leading service providers, industrial and financial organizations. A results-driven lawyer, Nick is renowned for his calm approach and responsiveness, using his social skills, and so being a tremendous asset in his day-to-day transactions with clients. In 2019, Nick was seconded to Eurus Energy Group, a leading Japanese renewable company, as legal counsel to support their European transactions.

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Nigel has been a partner in the Firm's London Corporate practice for over 15 years. In that time he has worked on a wide range of transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, incorporated and unincorporated joint ventures, and reorganizations both in the UK and internationally. His work has covered a number of sectors but with particular focus on public and private transactions in the energy and natural resources sectors. His recent experience covers deals in upstream oil and gas as well as deals in the onshore and offshore renewables markets in the UK. His work internationally has covered the CIS, Africa and the Gulf. He has also done a lot of work in the real estate and services sectors in the UK, in which he supports clients on real estate and corporate-led transactions, as well as UK-based and international corporate group reorganisations. As well as working in London, Nigel has spent a number of years working in Hong Kong and regularly travels to work on matters internationally. He has also spent time on secondment with Shell working in their Chemicals and Gas and Power teams.

Nigel Barnett is legacy co-head of the Global Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice. He has extensive experience in all aspects of insolvency.Nigel became a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in 1991. Having started as a finance litigator Nigel became one the founding partners of the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice. Whilst he now has a broad based insolvency practice he retains a keen interest in the litigation aspects of corporate insolvency.Nigel is a well known industry figure. He is a current council member of the Insolvency Lawyers' Association and a Deputy Bankruptcy Registrar of the High Court. Between 1999 and 2004 he served as the Lay Observer to the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants. He is also a CEDR accredited mediator. He is recognised as a leader in his field by The Legal 500, Chambers Legal Directory and the International Who's Who of Insolvency and Restructuring Lawyers. He is a regular lecturer at conferences on insolvency issues.Nigel regularly acts for Insolvency Office Holders, Financial Institutions, Distressed Companies and Directors on insolvency matters. Most recently Nigel acted for the Greek Telecom holding company, Hellas Telecommunications (Luxembourg) II S.C.A. on the largest ever "pre-pack" administration sale in English history.

Oksana Horban is a counsel at Dentons’ Kyiv office, and a registered patent attorney of Ukraine. Oksana has considerable experience (more than 15 years) in providing the full range of IP-related services. Oksana advises clients from a broad range of sectors on all aspects of the IP protection, specifically, she does trademark and patent filing and prosecution, drafts IP-related agreements, conducts IP due-diligence, represents clients before the Chamber of Appeals of the Ukrainian Patent and Trademark Office and Ukrainian courts.

Oleg Batyuk is the Ukraine Managing Partner and Head of the Ukrainian Corporate Practice in Dentons’ Kyiv office. Oleg is one of the leading lawyers in Ukraine. He has substantial experience advising international and domestic clients on foreign investments in Ukraine, joint ventures, loan arrangements, banking regulations and transactions on international capital markets. Oleg has advised major international companies and financial institutions on key infrastructure projects in Ukraine. He has been engaged as an expert witness on Ukrainian legal matters in several high-profile litigation and arbitration proceedings in England, USA, Canada and Sweden.

Oleg Kuchanskyy is a counsel in Dentons' Kyiv office. As a member of the Global Real Estate Group, Oleg has extensive experience advising on the development projects of international companies in Ukraine. He also specialises in general corporate and commercial law. Oleg has gained considerable experience in mergers and acquisitions, participating in a number of deals involving international banks.

Olga Rogozhina is a counsel in Dentons' Moscow office. She focuses on commercial transactions, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, retail, pharmaceutical and hotel projects, and has experience in litigation. Olga also advises on antimonopoly law, share transfer and finance. Olga has experience advising foreign clients on acquisition of assets in Russia, advising on corporate structuring in Russia and on various legal aspects of financing and doing business in Russia.

Olga is a Counsel in Dentons’ Moscow office and has been practicing since 2000. She specializes in Russian real estate law, and works on buildings and land plots acquisitions and lease transactions, as well as on matters relating to the construction of real estate. Olga has extensive experience with transactions involving retail, warehouse and office real estate. Olga has worked on complex due diligence of immovable properties (buildings, land plots and hydraulic facilities), both for acquisition and sale of the properties. Olga advises companies on expansion and, in particular, on projects related to the acquisition of properties for a new construction in Russia, and the implementation of projects for the construction and reconstruction of manufacturing, office and other commercial properties. Olga is an advocate advises in the field of retail on day-to-day business.

Olivia Guéguen, Partner in Dentons’ Paris office, is co-Head of Dentons Europe's Private Equity and Venture Capital Group and also Head of the Corporate M&A Group in Paris. Olivia is involved in mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, primarily in the field of life sciences (pharmaceutical laboratories, medical device manufacturers, biotechnology companies, health facilities). She advises international groups and innovative companies in France and abroad, in their acquisitions, divestitures, equity investments, joint ventures and strategic alliances. Olivia also regularly assists investment funds and management teams in the context of leveraged investments and exits.

Olivier Genevois has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions; reorganization and joint-ventures and is specialized in leading multi-jurisdictional operations for global players. His expertise includes significant experience in (a) cross-border transactions, whether on the sell side or on the buy-side, from structuring and inception of the transaction through completion and post-closing aspects, including integration, (b) post-closing disputes (handling of earn-out discussions, claims, triggering W&I, repositioning of certain R&W liabilities through the implementation of original schemes such as the fiducie, etc.), (c) post-closing or independent reorganizations (simplification of the corporate chart, reorganization of businesses, carve-out for further disposals, etc.), through mergers, demergers, contribution of assets, etc., (d) the setup of joint-venture, platform agreements, groupements d’intérêt économique, especially in connection with industrial projects and operations. In doing so, Olivier partners with his colleagues in employment, bankruptcy, IP, public, real estate and tax laws, benefiting from Dentons Paris and Europe full-practice platform. He has also been advising for 25 years private equity firms in their LBO transactions, including in connection with follow-on investments and build-ups when these add-ons present a cross-border aspect. Private equity firms, financial advisers and founders come for his expertise as they recognize his ability to structure complex and tailor-made LBOs, benefiting from his strong financial skills. In these transactions, Olivier usually handles the transaction from inception to closing, including through the delivery of single and harmonized multi-jurisdictions vendor due diligences report (when on the sell-side), the structuring of management packages and incentives (when on the buy-side), and the handling of task forces involving several offices at Dentons, towards a swift and timely closing. Olivier is especially active in the digitalization, cloud and data storage sectors. Olivier has also 25 years of experience in the fund structuring industry and his expertise includes significant experience in (a) the formation and fundraising of private equity investment funds and the creation of asset management companies, and (b) secondary transactions, including sales of portfolio interests but also GP-led secondary transactions.

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Pascal Jouannic, a Partner in the Capital Markets department of Dentons' Paris office, specializes in structured finance. His expertise covers securitization, both in the context of Asset Backed Commercial Paper transactions and Asset Backed Securitization transactions with specific experience in trade receivables and automotive assets. Pascal also advises on factoring transactions, especially in the context of pan-European transactions, and on asset financing transactions, in particular for ships and aircraft. He advises both arrangers/lenders and borrowers.

Pascal Schmitz is a Partner and heads the Paris Real Estate group. As a renowned property investment lawyer, Pascal has developed a strategic expertise in corporate real estate and in investment transactions (acquisitions and disposals, M&A) as well as in acquisition financing, joint ventures and in structuring investments including negotiating financing, partnership agreements and structuring funds. In addition, he also has extensive experience in all areas of property management, such as commercial leases, development agreements and construction law. Pascal advises German, French, European and US investment funds on transactions throughout France and Europe.

Pascale Poupelin, Senior Counsel at Dentons' Paris Office, is recognized for her excellent skills in Life Sciences and Healthcare, but also praised by clients for being very pragmatic and collaborative. She focuses on judicial and administrative litigation, contractual and regulatory issues as well as market access, pricing, reimbursement, data protection, e-Health compliance, clinical trials, advertising, structuring of operational companies, manufacturing, distribution, marketing and licensing, public’s health product tenders, defective products and recall. With more than 30 years of experience as a Life Sciences and Healthcare lawyer, as a counsel and a litigator, Pascale advises major international pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, biological and generic companies, biotech, research centers, cosmetic companies, and food manufacturers on major legal, contractual, judicial and regulatory issues, such as health product regulations, consumer protection, market access, compliance, anti-gift law, transparency law, data protection, contracts/agreements in the life sciences and healthcare sectors. In addition, Pascale also handles related constitutional, administrative, European, criminal and consumer law aspects. She is also specialized in issues including negotiations/litigation proceedings before national and EU regulatory authorities.

Patricia Gossányiová is a counsel and a Co-Head of the Banking & Finance Practice Group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. Patricia has over 20 years of experience in advising on a wide range of financing issues. She focuses on syndicated lending transactions, debt instruments (including covered bonds), debt restructuring (both court and out-of-court), private equity (funds) and derivatives/treasury transactions. She also has a strong track record in financial market regulatory matters, including advising on mergers of financial institutions (first in 1998) and the first ever EU-passported Slovak branch of an EU bank (2005). She also co-drafted the Slovak netting legislation (2004) and the first Slovak netting opinion for ISDA. Patricia has represented financial institutions in proceedings before the regulator and in litigations at court.

Patrick Radzimierski is a partner in the Litigation and Arbitration practice group and head of Pro Bono at Dentons in Poland. He has extensive experience as a former judge and an expert in the field of civil law procedure. His main areas of expertise are civil and commercial litigation, product liability and healthcare disputes, IP litigation, unfair competition, personal rights protection, insurance disputes, bank guarantee disputes, capital markets and public listed company investment disputes, public procurement litigation, commercial arbitration, employment law litigation and real estate litigation. Patrick has represented clients before arbitration courts, common courts, including the Supreme Court, the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland, as well as administrative authorities and administrative courts. As head of Pro bono at Dentons, he handles precedential pro bono litigations, with a focus on anti-discrimination projects. He regularly acts as defense attorney for Polish judges in disciplinary proceedings and has been involved in many projects related to the judicial system in Poland. Patrick is an expert in class actions and co-authored a leading commentary on Polish class action law. He also regularly lectures on civil procedure and the court system in Poland.

Paul is a consultant in the Corporate practice of the firm's London office. He has over 30 years' experience in acting for public and private companies and concentrates on mergers and acquisitions, company and business disposals, takeovers, flotations, issues of securities and joint ventures. Paul has lectured on the AIM Market in both London and overseas.

Paul Holland is based in London but has spent many years working in the Middle East and much of his work continues to be linked with the area with which he maintains close ties.Paul is a partner in the Asset Finance department, where he principally deals with the financing of aircraft. He acts for a range of clients including export credit agencies, commercial banks, operating lessors and airlines. He has wide experience of the various structures used commonly to finance aircraft, including both US Exim and European ECA supported transactions.Due to the time Paul spent in the Middle East, he also has great interest and experience in Islamic finance and used to be head of the firm's Islamic Finance practice. Paul retains a great interest in Islamic finance and is a frequent speaker at conferences and other events.

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Paweł Grabowski is a partner in Dentons' Warsaw office and a member of the M&A and Private Equity practice groups. Paweł's focus is on M&A, private equity as well as real estate projects. He advises clients on all types of share and asset acquisitions (in both the public and private sectors), mergers, leveraged and management buyouts and other forms of corporate restructurings. Paweł also specialises in structuring complex joint ventures and has a wealth of knowledge with regard to setting up both domestic and cross border joint ventures. Before coming to Warsaw, Paweł worked in New York office of legacy firm Salans where his practice involved advising on matters related to corporate governance, securities offerings, and mergers and acquisitions.

Peter Kubina is the Managing Partner of Dentons’ Bratislava office and Head of the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Criminal law Practice in Dentons’ Bratislava office. In his practice, he focuses on dispute resolution matters in various areas ranging from criminal law and civil, employment and commercial litigation to constitutional matters and strategic litigation, as well as performing the function of an arbitrator in domestic and international arbitrations. Peter occasionally lectures at Comenius University on topics related to constitutional law. He speaks Slovak and English. Peter was the Adviser to the President of the Slovak Republic for Law, justice and matters of constitutional law .  Currently, he is legal counsel to the President of the Slovak Republic in constitutional litigation proceedings before the Constitutional Court of the Slovak Republic and other formal legal proceedings before other justice and law enforcement bodies.

Peter is a leading securitization and structured finance practitioner and partner in the firm's Banking and Finance practice. He co-heads the firm's securitization and structured finance practice.He advises originators, arrangers and other market participants, both within the UK and internationally, on a broad range of public and private securitization and warehousing transactions, covering many asset classes, including residential mortgages, consumer loans, auto loans, commercial mortgages, NPLs, trade receivables, corporate and leverage loans, equity release and home reversion plans, as well as on the acquisition, financing and disposal of portfolios of assets, both performing and non-performing, in the whole loan market. He also advises on supply chain financing and factoring programs, and on cash and synthetic structures of all kinds.Peter's experience includes advising on many RMBS, CMBS, ABS and CLO programs, and also on bank-sponsored conduit programs; he also has extensive experience of real estate finance transactions, including those financed by capital markets issues.He also has extensive experience of the establishment of, and issues under, covered bond programs, including for banks and other financial institutions in the UK, continental Europe and globally. He also advises on capital market programs, including secured and unsecured programs. He is a frequent speaker at conferences, and author of articles, on topics concerning developments in the securitization and covered bond markets, and a member of industry bodies, including AFME and ECBC.

Petr Kotáb is a honorary member in Dentons' Prague office. He focuses on financial and tax law, securities and financial markets, banking, foreign investments, corporate and commercial law, including mergers and acquisitions. Petr is also active in the academic field, as a member of the Department of Financial Law of the Charles University School of Law in Prague and a lecturer at multiple universities (including previously Economic University in Prague, Metropolitan University in Prague and the University of Connecticut and Central-European University) on taxation, banking and financial markets. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 professional books, university textbooks, articles in periodicals and other publications on tax law and financial law.

Petr Zákoucký is Partner and Head of the Energy practice and Co-Head of the Corporate/M&A practice in Dentons’ Prague office. He has over 15 years’ experience advising on M&A transactions, regulatory and litigation matters, primarily in the energy, chemicals and infrastructure sectors. Petr has been involved in several top global M&A and regulatory cases. His experience encompasses advising on regulatory issues and representing before national and EU regulators; drafting and negotiating commercial arrangements, including SPAs and JV agreements, long-term supply agreements or auction documentation; drafting merger filings and submissions in antitrust investigations before Czech, Slovak and EU competition authorities; representing in state aid proceedings and complaints before the EU Commission; advising on environmental matters and public procurement; and representing in litigation before Czech and EU courts; and advising on investment protection (BITs) structuring. Petr´s work involves also a number of jurisdictions outside Europe, including Africa, Australia/Asia and the US.

Philip Nunn is a litigation and disputes lawyer based in Hong Kong. He has worked in the region for more than 40 years. Philip handles an extensive range of general commercial litigation and arbitration. His arbitration experience includes both domestic and international arbitration. Clients he has represented include government organizations, Hong Kong listed companies and professional services organizations. In addition to his commercial litigation practice, he has a special focus on construction litigation and arbitration for clients which variously include government departments, statutory bodies, employers, engineers, architects, contractors and subcontractors. Philip also represents clients in construction-related criminal investigations and prosecutions. He is experienced in handling both contentious and non-contentious construction matters. Philip is also a very experienced arbitrator and has been appointed as arbitrator in over a hundred cases over the last two decades, mainly in construction related cases.

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Philippe Max, a Partner in Dentons’ Paris Office, works on domestic and international banking and finance transactions. He is specialized in structured finance and acquisition finance, and has deep knowledge of funds finance, advising both lenders and borrowers on a variety of fund finance transactions. He also focuses on real estate finance and securitization.

Pier Francesco Faggiano is one of the founding partners of Dentons in Italy and co-head of the Corporate M&A practice in Italy.  

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Piotr Dulewicz is the Head of the Warsaw M&A and Private Equity groups. He also co-heads Dentons Europe Private Equity group. Piotr specializes in private equity funds, corporate law, mergers & acquisitions and corporate restructuring. He has 25 years of transactional experience. He has advised leading private equity funds and a number of international corporations on acquisitions and disposals of assets/companies. He has conducted many corporate restructurings in various sectors of the economy. Piotr has also advised on the formation of complex joint venture projects.

Piotr is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office heading the Real Estate practice in Poland and in Central and Eastern Europe. Piotr has specialized in real estate since 1995, his main focus being on investment, development and finance work. He has led and negotiated multiple single asset and portfolio transactions (notably in sale-and-leaseback, forward purchase and funding structures), primarily in the retail, logistics and office sectors. During his career, he has been involved in a number of institutional and landmark projects, like acquisitions of the largest retail assets in the CEE region, and advanced revitalization schemes regarding historic buildings and town planning. Piotr regularly advises on forming joint venture structures.

Piotr is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office, a member of the Real Estate team and Co-Head of the Construction Practice Group. He focuses on real estate, corporate and commercial law. Piotr is experienced in advising domestic and international investors on development and re-development of real properties in the retail, office, logistics and residential sectors. Piotr advises clients with respect to construction planning and permitting as well as on negotiation and enforcement of construction contracts. Piotr is also involved in real estate transactions and lease projects, including office and industrial investments and shopping mall developments. Piotr has acted for international financial institutions in the context of financing real estate investments. As a Board Member of the Polish Council of Shopping Centers (“PCSC”), he supports its member companies (landlords and tenants) in the rapidly changing legal environment.

Piotr has broad experience in acting as both lender’s counsel and borrower’s counsel at all stages of domestic and cross-border financings. He has closed a number of key financing transactions, including project finance, real estate finance and acquisition finance projects. He also specializes in financing of renewable energy sources, including the ones with awarded auction support. He advised on financing of some of the biggest onshore wind farms and portfolios of PV power plants. In 2019-2020, he advised on several RES projects with a total capacity exceeding 700 MW. His clients include banks and international investors as well as international financial institutions, such as European Investment Bank, Danish Export Finance Agency and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). In 2015 and 2016 Piotr completed two six months long secondments with the EBRD in London, where he worked on transactions of financing projects in the SEE, CEE and CIS regions.

Prof. Piotr Machnikowski is of counsel in the Litigation and Arbitration practice group at Dentons in Poland. With civil and business law as his areas of focus, he advises clients on complex litigation matters. He has extensive experience as an arbitrator in both permanent courts and ad hoc arbitrations. He has chaired arbitral tribunals and participated in the resolution of numerous international and domestic disputes. Piotr is also the head of the Department of Civil Law and Private International Law at the Faculty of Law, Administration and Economics at the University of Wrocław. He authored more than a hundred publications on Polish, European and comparative private law. His expertise is highly regarded, and he is known for his prominent commentary to the Polish civil code, monographs on the law of obligations, as well as many other books and articles. Additionally, Piotr has served as a member of the Civil Law Codification Committee of the Republic of Poland, contributing to legislative work in his field.

Priscilla is a Senior Partner in the Dentons Mauritius office. She specialises in corporate, finance and tax law She also regularly advises or acts on behalf of commercial and investment banks, private equity and venture capital firms. Over the years, she has been involved in a number of M&As and IPOs, many of them involving companies in the global business sector or foreign companies investing in Mauritius. Priscilla has a keen interest for Fintech matters and keeps herself abreast of all developments in that field. She has practised at the Mauritian Bar since 1999 and has appeared before all the courts of Mauritius, as well as before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the United Kingdom.  She has also sat for numerous years as a member of the Public Bodies Appeal Tribunal, a Tribunal set up to hear appeals on appointment decisions made by the Public Service Commission and Local Government Service Commission in Mauritius.

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Radmila focuses on competition and commercial law. She has extensive experience advising Russian and foreign clients on the application of legislation on cartels, abuse of dominance, distribution agreements, public procurement, unfair competition and merger control.Radmila represents clients before the FAS and in the commercial courts in cases related to the application of competition and commercial law.Radmila’s professional experience includes projects for companies from different sectors of the economy, including pharmaceuticals, FCMG, retail, telecommunications, energy, aviation, transport and financial markets.

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Raj is a senior corporate/commercial lawyer at Dentons. His 30-year legal career has covered a wide range of transactions in various sectors including financial services, private equity, venture capital, media and technology, real estate, energy (including renewables, and oil and gas), transport (road and rail), utilities (water and waste) and other infrastructure. He has built a world-class network and practice, by being not just a legal advisor but also a connector who is approachable, commercial, enthusiastic, cheerful, humorous, open, practical and collaborative. He aims to add value to all clients and contacts with whom he engages. Raj was born, raised and educated in Malaysia until he came to the UK for his university and professional legal education (Warwick University and Inns of Court School of Law where he qualified as a Barrister at Gray’s Inn). He has spent the better part of the last 30 years advising on transactions in the UK, Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East. He works with Dentons teams and offices across the globe in originating and advising on transactions in numerous sectors and is an active member of Dentons' Global Africa Group. He is both passionate and optimistic about the future of the continent. He enjoys public speaking and interacting with people at all levels and is a frequent speaker on a variety of subjects in which he has an interest/experience, from energy and infrastructure to private equity and venture capital/angel investing. In his spare time, Raj is an active angel investor, advisor and mentor with a portfolio of more than 30 companies (in Europe, Africa and South East Asia), four VC funds and a tech accelerator (with 34 portfolio companies).

Raul Mihu, partner, heads the competition and life sciences practices of Dentons’ Bucharest office. His expertise in the competition sector includes assessing and reforming clients’ business practices and franchise systems, assisting them in investigations by competition regulators and devising novel approaches to client needs in this field, both in Romania and at the European level. Raul is also specialized in the pharma sector, where he has advised several major drugs companies and distributors on competition and regulatory matters. He also has experience in advising clients in connection with clinical studies made on patients, including on related data protection matters. He is an initiator of CSR and pro-bono programs and has championed several initiatives aimed at streamlining lawyer efficiency by increasing computer literacy and leveraging new technologies.

Richard Cowie is a partner and a member of Dentons Corporate and Arbitration practices. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and private equity as well corporate disputes. He has led high profile transactions in a wide range of sectors, including technology, media and telecom, energy, FMCG, retail, real estate and construction and financial institutions and has a focus on Russia and CIS, the Nordics and Europe. Richard is consistently ranked by legal directories.

Richard is a partner in Dentons' London Corporate department. He has particular experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate governance and privatisations. He also advises regularly on establishing and reorganising companies and businesses (both solvent and insolvent), other commercial agreements and associated regulatory issues. Richard works across a number of sectors.  In particular he advises on transactions in the transportation sector (rail, road and air including a three-year period working on the UK rail privatisation), and the financial sector (such as a bank's own M&A; and debt-equity restructurings of bank customers). He heads our sports practice, focusing on M&A, financings and commercial agreements.  He also regularly advises public sector clients, including the UK Government. Most of the transactions in which he is involved are cross-border; and he has worked on deals involving 100+ jurisdictions.  In particular, Richard has advised on numerous matters in Russia and the CIS, the Middle East and Africa.  More recently he has worked on a number of transactions involving China, Japan and India. Chambers feedback acknowledges that "working with Richard is a pleasure"; he is described as "calm, extremely knowledgeable" and having "an ability to defuse the confrontation inevitable in negotiations".  Legal 500 have recognised Richard as having "huge corporate law experience".

Richard is a highly experienced partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in London. He acts for a range of financial institutions and other commercial organisations.  His recent experience includes a number of high-profile banking trials. Richard has considerable experience of public law work in the financial services arena, including a number of heavyweight judicial reviews. He is also experienced in conducting internal investigations and advising on regulatory matters generally.

Richard chairs the Dentons global Construction and Development group and co-chairs the UK Development and Regeneration practice, focusing on issues relevant to developers, landowners and funders active in delivering change to the built environment. Richard specializes in all aspects of real estate development through structures including joint venture corporate vehicles, contractual joint ventures, project agreements, development management agreements and funding documents, direct and indirect. He has extensive experience over a number of years in relation to large-scale development projects and the assembling and management of investment portfolios.

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Rita Várnagy is a senior associate in the Real Estate practice group of Dentons’ Budapest office. Her practice primarily focuses on general corporate, M&A and real estate matters. She has been assisting on various transactions relating to acquisitions and corporate restructuring processes.

Ritesh is a Counsel in Dentons. He is a member of white collar and government investigations, employment and labor, litigation and dispute resolution groups.   Ritesh`s main area of practice is white collar crimes and assisting client investigations. He is also a criminal lawyer with much experience in criminal litigation and investigations.   He has also been legal adviser of several local companies, such as Stag Beverages Limited and Universal Breweries Limited. He has represented those companies before the Industrial Courts in litigations with employees and dealt with dispute resolution between sub-contractors.

Rob is a partner in Dentons' Real Estate group. He specialises in investment and development work, complex corporate real estate and real estate finance transactions both in the UK and abroad, advising in the office, retail, high end residential, hotel, student housing and logistics sectors. Rob acts for a range of clients including UK and international property companies (listed and private), private equity houses, real estate funds, private family offices (both in the UK and overseas), banks and large corporates.

Rob Irving is an experienced M&A and private equity partner and co-head of Dentons’ Europe Corporate/M&A group. He has worked on landmark transactions throughout Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and South-Eastern Europe (SEE) as well as Turkey since 1991.

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Robert is the Milton Keynes Office Managing Partner and a member of our Real Estate department. Robert handles a wide range of commercial property transactions specializing in the acquisition and development of land and buildings. In addition to housebuilders and other investors, developers and public authorities, Robert also acts for lenders in both securing and recovering their funding of acquisitions and development.

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Roberta Moscaroli is a partner in Dentons’ Rome office and a member of the global Tax practice. Roberta has extensive experience advising national and international companies and groups, financial institutions and investment funds in relation to M&A, deal structuring, banking and private equity transactions, covering a wide range of sectors, including IT, communications, media, fashion, design, medical and paramedical sector, energy, water, transportation, shipping, banking and insurance. She serves as a Member of the Board of Statutory Auditors of several Italian companies.

Roberto Lipari is a partner in Dentons’ Rome office and a member of the global Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. Roberto has extensive experience in litigation and international arbitration and regularly represents sovereign entities, as well as domestic and foreign clients in a broad range of disputes involving corporate, commercial, white-collar crime, investigation, investment and financial matters across different industries and jurisdictions. He has served as legal counsel for companies and sovereign states in numerous international commercial and investment arbitrations, under various procedural rules (e.g., UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules, ICC Arbitration Rules, Arbitration Rules of the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce, Arbitration Rules of the Netherlands Arbitration Institute).

Robyn is an intellectual property and information technology partner whose practice covers franchising and distribution, commercial contracts and concession agreements, information technology and communications law, e-commerce law, data protection/privacy and all forms of new technology and IP such as artificial intelligence, payment platforms and crypto currencies, augmented reality and virtual reality. Robyn has advised many companies behind the world's leading brands.Robyn has particular expertise in the hotel, leisure, retail, education and healthcare sectors. She is recognised as a leading expert in retail, education, hotel and leisure franchising. She is a member of the firm's franchise group, hotel sector group and the firm’s retail group. Robyn’s clients include multi-national corporations, financial institutions, start-ups such as games developers and public authorities. Robyn works with them on matters such as franchise agreements and master developer agreements (and their related contracts and disclosure documents), strategic outsourcing agreements, major commercial contracts and software licensing, outsourcing and development agreements.Robyn also has a specialty in international licensing, particularly in retail, hospitality and healthcare sectors, and advises on data protection law impacts in respect of international transfers and customer relationship management, and IP driven joint venture agreements. Her practice has included both contentious and non-contentious matters.

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Roman Kozlov is a partner in Dentons’ Moscow office, advocate, since 2002 he advises clients on complex real estate investment, construction and development projects in Russia. Roman has developed particular expertise in all aspects of industrial construction and modernization projects, as well as construction of other real estate types, including offices, warehouses, retail centers, medical facilities, apartment buildings, mixed-use facilities and infrastructure. Roman has represented and advised numerous international and domestic industrial companies, developers, retailers as well as engineering and construction companies on a wide variety of real estate and construction issues, including the following: real estate acquisitions, including greenfield and brownfield, mergers, joint-ventures and privatisations; structuring construction projects, drafting and negotiating construction and engineering contracts; drafting and negotiating credit agreements, collaterals and other finance agreements with a special focus on real estate and project financing; structuring joint ventures and joint venture structures in the field of real estate investment, construction and development; drafting and negotiating equipment supply and installation contracts connected with engineering, construction, commissioning and maintenance of production facilities; dispute resolution both in litigation and out-of-court proceedings.

  Roman Zaitsev is a partner in Dentons’ Moscow office and head of Moscow Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. He focuses on Russian procedural, civil and bankruptcy law and enforcement proceedings. He has significant experience representing client interests in state commercial courts, where he has successfully represented major multinational corporations, individuals and various organizations, including commercial banks, energy companies, car manufacturers, state and municipal authorities and major defense enterprises. Roman has acted successfully in major commercial disputes, bankruptcy proceedings and disputes with state authorities as well as in cases involving the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments in the Russian Federation. He has also represented clients in general enforcement proceedings, due diligence investigations, alternative dispute resolution and various other commercial, civil, procedural, general corporate and administrative matters.

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Roy is a partner in the Planning and Public Law team, bringing his experience of working on regeneration projects within local government and as a consultant to his legal practice. He advises on all aspects of contentious and non-contentious planning for complex housing, fracking and mixed-uses development, including environmental assessment, highways law and judicial review. He is also a Solicitor Advocate with higher rights of audience, and a specialist in Community Infrastructure Levy, EIA/ SEA, viability, Local Plans and related hearings and examinations.

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Sam focuses on UK and EU environmental and safety law, and has been practicing in these fields for over 15 years. He is one of the few lawyers in the UK to be individually ranked in Chambers & Partners for both environmental and health and safety expertise. His practice area includes waste management, producer responsibility, product liability, pollution liability, environmental permitting, water and drainage, land contamination and health and safety. Sam assists clients with all areas of environmental and safety regulation, including in relation to regulatory investigations, prosecutions, compliance issues, liability concerns, and contractual drafting to cover environmental and safety issues. Sam is a member of the UK Environmental Law Association (UKELA) and is also a member of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management (CIWM). He speaks regularly at industry events and writes a regular legal column on environmental law in the waste industry's main trade journal, CIWM. According to Chambers & Partners 2017, clients are "impressed with his ability to think ahead and analyse the business needs," and describe him as "exceptionally knowledgeable and helpful."

Sandra Hazan is a Partner in Dentons’ Paris Tax group. Sandra is involved in restructuring and tax planning issues. She has extensive experience in assisting clients on tax audits and litigation, particularly in the area of transfer pricing and international structuring. She advises clients in many sectors of activity, such as food and hotels, and has particular expertise in the luxury, fashion and cosmetics industry. Sandra is the founder of the “Cercle du Luxe”, a think tank dedicated to tax-related issues applying to the luxury sector. Additionally, she has extensive experience in dealing with complex tax issues related to the digital economy. She is solicited by the OECD in particular for her expertise on taxation of intangibles.

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Sara Biglieri is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office, Head of the Italian Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice and Head of Europe Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group. Sara provides high level legal assistance to large multinational groups and primary commercial and financial companies in Italy, dealing mostly with dispute resolution, arbitration and compliance issues, and supports clients on building the most suitable defence solutions to solve or mitigate business issues. She represents clients in litigated disputes before courts of any degree throughout Italy and before the Supreme Court and in commercial arbitrations. She is also an experienced arbitrator in ad hoc and institutional arbitrations and she has been appointed by the Chamber of Arbitration of Milan in several arbitrations under its rules. Her areas of focus include a broad range of sectors including life science, large scale retail and fast moving consumer goods industries, real estate, banking and insurance. Sara assists clients in multifaceted corporate, commercial, real estate and banking disputes. Praised by clients for her practical approach, whilst focusing on the company’s interests, she also handles complex torts, product liability litigations and cases of unfair competition. Sara advises on all aspects of corporate compliance in accordance with Legislative Decree 231/2001, and she is an active member of Dentons’ European Compliance Product Group. She serves as either the president of or as a member on the Vigilance Committee (under Legislative Decree 231/2001) of several major Italian companies.

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Sarah Dyke is a partner in the Banking and Finance department of the firm's London office specialising in asset finance. Sarah has broad domestic and cross-border asset finance experience and acts for UK and overseas financiers, banks, leasing companies, lessees, airlines, borrowers and high net worth individuals and family offices. Sarah specialises in: all types of leasing and financing involving assets in transport, infrastructure, energy, medical equipment, plant and machinery, equipment, media, IT and telecommunications; general asset finance work including receivables financing, invoice discounting, trade facilities and factoring; financing and leasing of commercial aircraft, corporate jets and helicopters as well as advising on defaulting borrowers and lessees, repossession of aircraft and restructuring of deals; construction and delivery financing and sale and purchase of super yachts involving a variety of jurisdictions; structured financing transactions involving films, computer games and intellectual property rights; financing and sale and purchase of assets such as aircraft, super yachts and property for high net worth individuals.

Sarah is a partner and head of the Firm's tier one ranked People, Reward and Mobility practice in Milton Keynes. A very experienced employment lawyer, she undertakes a full range of employment work for a wide variety of clients in the private and public sectors, including many leading companies and household names. Sarah's work includes advising on large-scale redundancy and restructuring exercises, TUPE transfers and complex outsourcing arrangements, as well as advising on the employment aspects of large corporate transactions, having worked on numerous multi-million pound transactions for an impressive portfolio of clients. She has particular experience of large-scale employee consultation processes, having advised extensively on collective consultation with unions and employee representatives on changes to terms and conditions, including pensions changes, and the application of collective agreements to terms and conditions. Sarah also advises on trade union recognition, negotiations and industrial relations issues. She acts as a “sounding board” on employment issues and strategy for HR teams, in-house counsel and boards, advising on executive terminations and employee competition issues.  An accomplished advocate, Sarah has conducted numerous employment tribunal claims and employment appeals on the full range of employment issues. She regularly advises multi-national companies and manages global and European HR projects. Legal 500 stated: "The ‘outstanding’ Sarah Beeby leads Dentons’ practice, which is noted for its ‘excellent level of service’ and for its ability to advise a global client base on multi-jurisdictional matters." Sarah Beeby "'understands the pressures placed upon employers’ and ‘has an excellent grasp of the law and its application’." Chambers UK stated: "Sarah Beeby receives praise from clients, one of whom comments: 'I thoroughly enjoy working with Sarah, she is truly an extension of my team. She is patient and considered and always gives practical advice that works well in the context of our business.' She is recognised for her 'in-depth knowledge' and 'can-do attitude'."

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Scott is the Head of Dentons' Corporate and Commercial division. He focuses on commercial contracts, IT and data privacy law and is directory-ranked in all of these areas. Scott is particularly well known for his work in the retail sector, where he advises a number of the UK's best known names on the high street. Scott is ranked in Chambers 2017 as a leading practitioner for commercial contracts, which recognizes he "has considerable experience across a range of commercial matters. He has a reputation for handling strategically significant large-scale agreements for market-leading and brand-name clients." Scott has acted for many household names on large-scale commercial deals involving supply of goods and services, joint ventures, distribution agreements, transportation, logistics, marketing agreements, design and manufacturing agreements and consultancy agreements. Scott is a member of Dentons' Band 1-ranked IT and Telecoms team, with an emphasis on IT, outsourcing, payments transactions, software law and the exploitation of databases. He was previously a computer programmer and draws on this background alongside 20 years' experience advising in this field to enable him to share with his clients not just technical knowledge but also insight into what is contractually achievable in the market. Scott focuses especially closely on deals involving payments, cloud services, Software as a Service (SaaS), agile development and deals with major technology vendors and has a keen understanding of current market positions. He is also very experienced in deals for major projects and IT outsourcings. Scott has particular capabilities in data privacy law and is one of the partners in Dentons' Band 1-ranked team. He has advised numerous data controllers and data subjects on all aspects of data privacy, including GDPR compliance, data breach, cyber risk, global data transfers, customer data and consents, data sharing, sale and purchase of databases, subject access rights, employee monitoring and data protection policies. Scott is recognized in directories "for his focus on practical solutions" (Legal 500 2017).

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Serge Sergiou specialises in all areas of asset finance and leasing with a particular emphasis on aircraft transactions. He advises lenders, lessors, manufacturers and operators of aircraft, rolling stock and other assets in respect of all aspects of acquisition, sale, financing (including pre-delivery financing), tax-based leasing and operating leasing.

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Sergey Trakhtenberg is a partner in Dentons’ Moscow office and Head of Russian Real Estate and Construction practice. Sergey is a transactional partner who focuses on structuring and supporting complex real estate M&A transactions and establishing joint ventures to invest in the construction of new real estate or acquisition of existing properties. He also has significant experience advising banks and borrowers on real estate financings. Sergey conducted numerous full and limited-scope due diligence reviews, and coordinated due diligence exercises by offshore counsel in multi-jurisdictional transactions.Sergey has almost 20 years of real estate experience, during which he has successfully implemented hundreds of transactions involving virtually all types of commercial property (offices, shopping centers, warehouses, industrial objects), many of which have been landmark deals on the Russian market. He provides clients with comprehensive solutions that include strategic planning, project structuring, handling difficult negotiations and supporting clients at all stages of the transactions to successful signing and completion. Sergey advises major Western and Russian investment funds, developers, management companies and family offices on all matters related to investments in or operation of real estate. 

Sergey specializes in corporate law with a primary focus on national and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures. Sergey’s experience includes advising Russian companies and individuals as well as multinational corporations on various aspects of acquiring businesses and forming joint ventures, including deal structuring advice, drafting and negotiating share purchase agreements, asset purchase agreements, shareholders’ agreements, option agreements and performing due diligence of companies operating in various industry sectors.

Sergey is a partner in Dentons Moscow office and the head of Russian Life Sciences practice. He has extensive experience in supporting companies in the industry throughout the complete life cycle of the product, including pre-clinical and clinical studies, marketing authorisation, manufacturing, promotion and distribution, etc. Sergey also advises on legal aspects of accessing the Russian market, interaction with the professional society, regulatory and commercial aspects of M&A transaction in the industry, governmental control and PPP in the industry. Sergey supports his clients on the regulatory and commercial matters relating to interacting with the governing authorities in such sectors as agriculture and FMCG.

Séverine Hotellier is the Managing Partner of Dentons’ Paris office where she also heads the Insurance practice. Séverine focuses on insurance litigation. She deals with complex, high-stake matters for insurance companies and industrial clients both in France and globally. For nearly 25 years, she has assisted clients with claims management, litigations and disputes and has advised on insurance-related technical, financial and legal issues. Séverine also advises on insurance claims regulations and helps with the drafting, distribution and adaptation of insurance policies to cover evolving risks. She also consults on cyber risk in the insurance sector. Séverine advises insurers and insured parties on pre-contentious or contentious issues. Her activity includes providing legal advice before judicial, commercial and administrative courts.

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Shaun is a counsel in the construction and engineering law group and is based in our Milton Keynes Office. He specialises in non-contentious construction law. In this context he advises clients in connection with procurements, drafting and negotiating building contracts (such as JCT and NEC), professional appointments, sub-contracts, and ancillary documentation such as collateral warranties, bonds and guarantees. He advises on the construction aspects of related contract documentation such as development agreements/agreements for leases, licences for works and funding agreements. He acts for developers, funders and contractors as well as owners and end users. He is familiar with the range of procurement methods including design and build, traditional and construction management. He advises in connection with one-off contracts as well as framework and call-off contracts and partnering arrangements. He also advises clients with regard to the management of contentious or potentially contentious issues which arise during or after projects.

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Simon is a partner in and Head of Dentons' Data Privacy and Cybersecurity practice for the UK, Ireland and Middle East. He has more than 15 years' experience advising clients on the full range of data privacy and information governance matters, including leading large-scale projects for clients in designing and implementing protocols and procedures for complying with GDPR and designing global data protection compliance, including global data transfer solutions, data processor engagement, marketing and CRM strategies and data incident responses. Simon also regularly assists major global multinationals and UK businesses with regulatory investigations and enforcement actions, major data breaches and media enquiries focusing on privacy practices. He has also led multiple Binding Corporate Rules applications – for both data controllers and data processors – and Privacy Shield applications. Simon regularly advises on innovative first-of-a-kind matters and projects in relation to emerging technologies and technological advancements, including artificial intelligence (AI), autonomous vehicles, blockchain and DLT, and adtech. Simon was identified as a "Next Generation Partner" by Legal 500 for data protection, privacy and cybersecurity. He previously sat on the Executive Committee of the Data Protection Forum and regularly speaks on data protection topics. According to Legal 500, clients say that "Simon's work is great" and describe him as "very flexible with his time and always available". They also reported that "the advice provided is incredibly commercial and operational" and that he is "always on hand to answer queries and provide practical and user-friendly advice". Simon also regularly advises clients on complex commercial and technology contracts, including vendor procurement, outsourcing and commercial partnership arrangements.

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Simon is a litigation partner who is qualified in England and Scotland and has been practicing in London since 1990.Simon has handled a wide range of commercial disputes for clients, ranging from substantial financial institutions to private individuals, with a particular focus on areas such as insolvency, professional negligence and fraud. Simon has represented substantial manufacturing, construction, engineering and retail enterprises in a wide range of commercial disputes in the English High Court, as well as in arbitrations and mediations.Simon is a member of the London Litigation Solicitors Association, the Professional Negligence Lawyers Association and R3, the Association of Business Recovery Professionals and has been recognized as a notable practitioner by Chambers for dispute resolution and litigation in London. Client testimonials and accolades in Chambers include: "a highly client focused and commercially acute lawyer"; “very personable and professional”; and “skilled in contentious insolvency, professional negligence and fraud matters”. Simon is included in the worldwide Acritas database as a Star lawyer based on client nomination from in-house general counsel.

Stéphane Hadet is a partner in Dentons’ Luxembourg office and the head of the Luxembourg Banking and Finance practice group. Having advised financial institutions, multinational companies and private equity houses, Stéphane focuses on Luxembourg finance, leveraged finance, securitization, financial sector regulatory matters, listing of high yield bonds, bridge financing for investment funds, and aircraft finance. Stéphane also has sound experience advising clients on debt and equity financing, enforcement of security interests, financing arrangements for groups facing financial difficulties including negotiations with lenders. His experience includes advice on both financing and restructuring activities.

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Stephen is a senior corporate partner and specialises in UK and international M&A and private equity transactions. He also advises on joint ventures and other corporate matters. Stephen has also led the legal input into a number of high-profile stressed and distressed M&A situations. Invariably these involve complex issues and many stakeholders with differing interests demanding rapid and creative solutions. He has advised many leading UK and overseas companies and private equity houses, including Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, H.I.G. Capital, Montagu Private Equity, Peel Group and Landis+ Gyr. Stephen also advises entrepreneurially driven and other growth businesses.

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Steven joined Dentons in 2016 and co-heads the Banking Litigation practice outside of London. Steven’s work covers disputes involving investment products, mis-selling, derivatives, fraud and asset recoveries, breach of mandate, breach of trust, misrepresentation, breach of contract, mortgages, guarantees and other security issues, insolvency, secured and unsecured recoveries, trade finance, consumer credit, leasing finance, FOS investigations, professional indemnity, compliance and regulatory reviews.

Stewart M. Middleman is the head of cross-border transactions for Dentons’ Global Real Estate Group. He is a senior commercial real estate lawyer who brings with him over 25 years' experience in this specialised field. A prominent member of GREG, Stewart focuses on cross-border transactions, representing global and regional clients in connection with real estate related transactions throughout Europe, where he draws on his extensive experience in real estate acquisitions, real estate financing and restructuring (representing lenders as well as borrowers), development, construction and title insurance.

Stuart is a partner in the Banking & Finance practice, advising on transactions across the UK and internationally. He has specific experience in advising on all types of corporate banking transactions including International Acquisition/Leveraged Finance, Oil & Gas Financing, Renewable Energy Financing, Project Finance, Technology and Growth Finance, Real Estate Investment and Development Financing, Joint Venture Funding, and General Corporate Debt. Stuart's experience in acting for a wide range of banks, other funders and investors, and corporate borrowers, as well as having completed secondments in the banking industry, gives him a detailed knowledge of clients' preferred requirements and an ability to provide clear, commercial and proactive advice. Stuart has recently acted for Aviva, Bank of America, Bank of Scotland, Barclays Bank, Clydesdale Bank, DVB Bank, HSBC Bank, Lloyds Bank, a leading international bank, Santander, The Scottish Loan Fund, Silicon Valley Bank, Aberdeen Asset Management plc, Aberdeen Private Equity Fund, AGR Group, Baxters Food Group, Biofilm Limited, British Polythene Industries plc, Burn Stewart Distillers, The Combination of Rothes Distillers, Devro plc, Edinburgh Investment Trust plc, The Edinburgh Woollen Mill Group, The Edrington Group, Maven Capital Partners, Muirden Energy, Robert Wiseman Dairies, Robertson Group, Scottish Equity Partners, and Scottish Enterprise.

Tamer heads the capital markets and derivative practice in Russia. His practice focuses on all aspects of debt and equity capital markets, including standalone debt issuances; establishment of, and issuances under, EMTN and ECP programmes; Tier 1 and Tier 2 subordinated bond offerings; liability management exercises as well as initial and secondary equity offerings, block trades and issuances of exchangeable and convertible securities. He has over 20 years of experience acting for issuers and underwriters, financial institutions, corporates and sovereigns and quasi-sovereigns in the context of debt and equity capital markets transactions. Tamer is recognised as a leading capital markets practitioner by principal legal directories. In addition, Tamer coordinates the capital markets practice in other Dentons CIS offices, including Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Georgia and Azerbaijan. Prior to joining Dentons, for over 10 years Tamer headed the Russian debt capital markets practice in the Moscow office of a magic circle firm.

Tatiana is legacy head of the Intellectual Property and Technology and Communications practices and is now Of Counsel in the Firm's London office, having retired from the partnership. She has decades of experience advising on commercial contracts, in particular, involving technology and intellectual property. She has advised on all the main types of transactions involving software, outsourcing and the protection and exploitation of trade marks, copyright, database rights and other intellectual property. She also has particular expertise in data protection, including compliance and trouble-shooting. She leads the Dentons Privacy Community, a forum for privacy practitioners from Dentons and its clients, which meets periodically to exchange views on privacy issues in a safe and open way. She also organises bi-weekly update sessions for Dentons' privacy lawyers in the UK and Europe. Her clients are in the UK, US, EU, Russia and other countries around the world.  They operate in the retail, financial services and media sectors.

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Thomas is a partner in our London Disputes practice. He has particular expertise in high-value, high-profile High Court disputes across a broad range of industries. Thomas has particular expertise acting for banks and other financial services institutions. Thomas also has significant experience of legal process outsourcing and has coordinated major, cross-border, document review exercises. As such, he also has a particular interest in electronic disclosure and the outsourcing of document review. He has spoken at national events on these topics. Thomas is a member of the highly regarded Commercial Litigation team that was commended for Commercial Litigation Team of the Year by Legal Business Awards 2018.

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Tiberiu Csaki is a partner and head of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group based in Dentons' Bucharest office. He concentrates his long standing practice primarily in commercial litigation and international arbitration (including alternative dispute resolution), and also has extensive experience in labor litigation, restructuring and insolvency, mergers and acquisitions, securities and privatizations. Tiberiu has represented major international clients from various industries, such as energy, oil and gas, maritime salvage, chemical industry, insurance, cement and FMCG.

Tim is a geographic lead of the Commercial Dispute Resolution practice and is based in the Milton Keynes office. As a commercial litigator, Tim resolves complex commercial disputes by negotiation, mediation, arbitration or litigation. He focuses on disputes involving commercial contracts, franchising, professional indemnity, commercial fraud, sales of goods, product liability, corporate disputes and commercial agency related matters. He also has extensive experience in freezing injunctions and search and seizure orders. Most of his cases involve an international element. Tim is a CEDR accredited mediator and well-known mediation advocate, having advised in more than 100 mediations. He has written in the business press, including The Financial Times and InterContinental Finance & Law magazine, and regularly lectures in the UK and the Republic of Ireland on mediation, bribery and lender professional indemnity claims. Tim is qualified to practice in England, Scotland and the Republic of Ireland.

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Tímea Bana is a Partner in Dentons’ Budapest office and a member of the TMT, IP and Data Protection practice groups. She has extensive experience in TMT, intellectual property, regulatory, mergers and acquisitions (M&A), data protection, environmental law and general corporate matters.

Tim is a partner in Dentons’ Moscow and London offices. He has worked on Russia- and CIS-related transactions for more than 29 years and has developed a reputation as a leading expert among his peers and clients. He specialises in cross-border transactions and financings of all types, including bilateral and syndicated lending, real estate finance and project finance. Tim has a thorough understanding of the peculiarities of working with Russian international financial institutions and restructurings. This includes his two years of experience working in the Office of General Counsel of EBRD in London, on a working sabbatical (2001-2002). In addition to his banking and finance capabilities, Tim has significant corporate experience, including M&A and joint ventures. He devotes particular attention to direct foreign investment projects including the structuring and implementation of greenfield projects, as well as debt restructurings and insolvencies. Tim is the author of the Russia chapter of the Collier International Business Insolvency Guide. Also he frequently travels to St. Petersburg, where he was based for 6½ years (1993-1999), during much of which period he acted as the office's Managing Partner.

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Tomáš Bílek is Partner and Head of Employment and Labor practice in Dentons’ Prague office. He focuses primarily on employment, general corporate, M&A, competition and commercial. He has broad experience in individual and collective dismissals, employment litigations (including unfair dismissals, damage claims arising from work injury or occupational diseases discrimination and harassment) as well as employment and managers’ contracts. He also advises on collective bargaining, employee secondments and outsourcing via employment agencies, remuneration schemes, benefits, incentive programs and data privacy. As to sectors, he focuses on pharmaceuticals & chemicals, food and pet food, automotive and other machinery manufacturing, technology and retail.

As Chief Executive Officer of Dentons Europe and a member of the Global Management Committee and Global Board, Tomasz Dąbrowski is responsible for developing and overseeing Dentons’ strategy for continental Europe and Central Asia. Working out of the Prague office, he leads the Firm’s operations across 26 offices in 19 countries as well as the Firm’s Prague based central administration. Under his leadership, Dentons has experienced unprecedented growth in Europe and Central Asia, almost doubling revenue, attracting top talent, and opening seven new offices in key European markets. Before taking the role of the Europe CEO in 2014, he co-chaired the Europe Corporate group and managed the Central and Eastern Europe region. In addition to his leadership role, Tomasz Dabrowski is a leading Polish M&A and transactional lawyer in Central and Eastern Europe. He has more than 25 years’ experience representing international companies, private equity funds, banks and other institutional clients in acquisitions, equity investments, corporate restructurings, privatizations, real estate, greenfield projects, structured finance and large asset finance transactions.

Tomasz Zwoliński specializes in banking and finance transactions with particular focus on project finance, export finance (with or without official support from export credit agencies), financing of PPP projects, financing of infrastructure, energy, international trade and factoring, general corporate lending, leveraged/acquisition finance and financial restructuring. He was engaged in key transactions financing Polish exports, highway construction in Poland and Ukraine, hotels and office buildings, as well as many industrial projects (some worth in excess of PLN 5 billion) service and residential developments. He also handles financing of renewable energy schemes in the auction support system.

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Trisha is an Attorney-at-Law at Dentons with fifteen years’ experience. She studied law in France and completed her professional exams in Mauritius. She has acquired a wide range of experience during her 15-year practice. She advises clients in civil, commercial and contractual matters. She handles preparation of cases before the Mauritian Courts and has also assisted in the preparation of cases before the Judicial Committee of Privy Council. Trisha’s focus is on litigation and dispute resolution before the Mauritian Courts and Tribunals and/or in domestic arbitration and on advisory. She is also experienced in recovery of debts under banking/credit agreements under the civil law, banking act and the borrower protection act, industrial disputes under the labour law and bankruptcy/insolvency procedures. Trisha handles a wide range of civil work which includes succession and land law, family law, law of contract, labour law, and she appears regularly before all the Courts in Mauritius. She also deals with challenges to compulsory land acquisitions before the Supreme Court. She regularly appears before the Environment and Land Use Appeal Tribunal and has assisted in the preparation of statement of cases before the said Tribunal. She assists in arbitration matters. She has also recently assisted in an appeal case before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. During her internship at Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport, Trisha assisted in reviewing internal regulations, drafted contracts and dealt with administrative contracts.

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Vasilii is a partner in Dentons’ Russia Tax and Customs practice. Vasilii has implemented a wide range of projects for integrated tax advising for companies from various sectors on international and Russian tax law, including on corporate taxation, restructuring and improving a group’s tax efficiency, applying the laws on CFCs and tax residency. As a tax expert, he has participated in advising the Russian Federation and regional governments on the introduction of new tax regulations. Vasilii has 11 years of experience in one of the Big4 firms, where he held various senior positions in tax advisory.

Verity is a senior member of the People, Reward and Mobility team and is experienced in all aspects of employment law and corporate immigration matters. She deals mostly with corporate clients advising on contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Verity's contentious practice includes defending claims in the Employment Tribunal and experience of Employment Appeal Tribunal litigation. She defends claims in relation to unfair dismissal, wrongful dismissal, discrimination, equal pay and whistleblowing. She also advises individuals at a senior level on negotiating exits. Verity's non-contentious work includes reviewing and drafting all forms of employment documentation, including employment contracts, executive service agreements and employee handbooks consisting of extensive policies and procedures. She also advises on employment matters, on share and business acquisitions, and disposals. Verity's immigration work extends to all aspects of global employee mobility for corporate clients. She advises on applications to join the Register of Sponsors, Leave to Remain and Leave to Enter and Entry Clearance applications, various settlement applications, British citizenship applications, and appeals to the First Tier Tribunal. Verity contributes employment and immigration insights to the People, Reward and Mobility blog found at ukemploymenthub.com.

Véronique Lagarde is a Partner in Dentons' Paris Real Estate group. She assists both French and international investors in purchasing real estate properties, directly or through securities as well as in projects developments. Her expertise  includes notably off-plan investment transactions (forward sales/built-to-suit leases/turnkey construction contracts) for all kind of assets such as offices, logistics and hospitality projects.

Victor Naumov has been advising government authorities and leading Russian and global companies for more than 23 years on a wide range of legal issues, including intellectual property protection and the management of intangible assets; regulation of Internet and e-commerce; IT and data security; regulation of video games, mass media and telecommunications, artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, Legal Tech, Big Data, Fintech, 3D printing, robotics and quantum technologies. He also has unique experience providing legal support and successfully settling IT, IP, telecommunications, media and Internet litigation. As part of implementing the Digital Economy of the Russian Federation program (ANO Digital Economy), Victor is a member of the main Statutory Regulation working group and also heads the Cyber-Physical Systems working group (an expert community at the Statutory Regulation competency center operating at Skolkovo Foundation). He is a member of the Russian Federation State Duma Expert Council on the Digital Economy and Blockchain Technologies under the Committee on Economic Policy, Industry, Innovative Development and Entrepreneurship. He is also a member of the Federal Antimonopoly Service Advisory Board on Competition in Information Technology. Since 1999, Victor has participated actively in developing processes for business to regulate itself, in the development of draft legislation on IP, innovation, the Internet and the “new economy.” He is the author of the Recommendations for E-Commerce in the Russian Federation (2000), the CIS’ first Recommendations for E-Commerce for the Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Federal Assembly (2001), Organizational and Legal Recommendations on the Presentation of a Russian Federation Government and Administrative Authority Website (2003), co-author of the Concept for Using IT Technologies and E-Documents in the Activities of the Commercial (Arbitrazh) Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region (2006). Victor’s most recent initiatives include the creation of the first robotics draft law in Russia—commissioned by Grishin Robotics—and the development of the draft of the world’s first international robotics convention, the Model Convention on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence commissioned by Skolkovo Foundation. The Convention is a major study unique for Russia and devoted to the development of legislation on robotics and cyberphysical systems. Victor has also prepared a unique international study to identify the scope of information covered, respectively, by banking secrecy, communication secrecy, doctor-patient confidentiality, trade secrets and other types of secrecy, and how to transfer them to third parties. The team led by Victor participated in creating a knowledge management system implemented by Rosatom State Corporation. In June 2017 Dentons and Rosatom co-founded a unique consortium whose participants act as joint experts, provide information support and popularize the culture of knowledge management. Also, under Victor’s leadership, Dentons lawyers were the first in Russia to develop a concept for regulating the Internet of Things and continue to work in this area, handling this topic in the Association of the Internet of Things. In October 2018 Victor initiated the opening of—and became the curator of—a unique subdivision, the Dentons Russia Legal Innovations Laboratory. The Laboratory is oriented toward developing and implementing innovative technologies in the legal field. Victor Naumov is a co-author of the first online course in Russia on Internet regulation in Russia (Coursera Open Education platform). Victor was awarded a St. Petersburg Government prize for outstanding achievements in higher education (in 2018). He is a senior researcher of the information law and global information security sector of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ISL RAS) and an associate professor of the St. Petersburg State University, where he lectures in the Economics and Law Faculties. In 2004 he received a state medal for the 300th Anniversary of St. Petersburg for his academic work, and in 2007 he received a state medal for his contribution to the computerization of society in Russia. He is the holder of the Justice law award for achievements in developing the practice of law (in 2017). He has received two grants from the Russian Foundation for Fundamental Research (RFFI) to conduct: (1) integrated research of the legal and ethical aspects of developing and using artificial intelligence and robotics systems and (2) research of conceptual approaches to shaping a system for the legal regulation of information security considering the major challenges in a global information society (in 2018). Victor is the creator and leader of the Preserved Culture project which has released more than 30 books and DVDs and three documentary films on various cultural heritage sites of the country and cultural and educational figures. Victor authored the first monographs in Russia and the CIS on the legal regulation of the Internet and telemedicine (in 2002). He won the Rambler search engine’s “Person of the Year 2002” competition in the Legislation category (in 2003). Since 2010 he has been top ranked by Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, Best Lawyers, IAM Patent 1000, Kommersant and Managing IP in IP and IT in Russia.

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Vladimir specializes in corporate, M&A, commercial, antitrust and real estate. During his professional career of over 20 years Vladimir has handled major M&A projects and has successfully participated in numerous corporate litigations as instructed by well-known transnational and Russian companies. He has extensive experience in life sciences, but also advises clients in natural resources, retail, automotive, real estate development and other sectors. Vladimir was highly ranked in corporate/M&A, competition law and life sciences in Russia by Chambers Europe, The Legal 500 and IFLR 1000. He has authored numerous articles on legal issues, participated in legislative drafting projects and is a member of the Russian Bar Association.

Volodymyr Monastyrskyy is a partner in Dentons' Kyiv office and a member of Dentons’ global corporate, real estate, antitrust, employment, energy, infrastructure, and life sciences groups. He has a vast experience in international and local M&A transactions, setting up joint ventures, development of real estate, infrastructure, and energy projects, agribusiness, pharmaceuticals, commercial and trade, financing, taxation and operation of financial institutions. Volodymyr also heads the firm’s employment practice in Ukraine.

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Zsófia Lascsik is an associate in the Real Estate practice group of Dentons’ Budapest office. She focuses on property transactions and is experienced in corporate and real estate law.

Zuzana is Consultant and Co-Head of Europe Life Sciences groupCo. She coordinates activities relating to the organization and development of the group, its cooperation with other sector and practice groups within the firm, knowledge management, and is also involved in designing training programs for life sciences law practitioners and others. She also has experience in mentoring younger colleagues.  She has more than 15 years of experience advising clients in the pharmaceutical sector in CEE and Europe on a variety of regulatory issues, including clinical trials, market access, pricing and reimbursement, compliance, distribution and sales models, promotion and advertising of medicines and medical devices, setting up and coordinating international compliance programs, as well as representing clients before regulators. Zuzana has also extensive experience in life sciences, regulatory aspects of M&A and corporate transactions. Zuzana has also advised on a wide range of competition law issues arising out of commercial agreements, and on cases concerning abuse of a dominant position, cartels and leniency, inspections by competition authorities, and concentrations. Zuzana has experience designing antitrust compliance programs and training programs for a number of major international companies. She is a member of the Slovak Bar Association since 2006 and speaks Slovak, English and French