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Aleksandra Rutkowska is a counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Tax team. She heads the Tax Litigation practice. She specialises in tax controversy and litigation matters and has more than 15 years' experience in assisting clients in tax, customs and fiscal inspections and in tax proceedings before the National Revenue Administration and administrative courts. As part of her litigation practice, she represents clients in disputes relating to corporate income tax, including transfer pricing and withholding tax, VAT, real estate tax and excise duty. She has represented the Republic of Poland on many occasions (as an employee of the Office of the Committee for European Integration between 2006 and 2010) and has represented clients before the Court of Justice of the European Union and the Constitutional Tribunal. She has experience in tax risk assessment, including personal liability risk, and tax risk management. She assists clients in the development and implementation of tax procedures. Aleksandra acts as defence counsel for clients in penal fiscal proceedings against them. She represents clients in disputes concerning joint and several liability of board members for tax liabilities (arrears) of the companies. She also has extensive experience in providing day-to-day advice on excise duty.

Christina Jiwon Park

Senior Attorney

Dalimir Alen Gondek

Alen Gondek is an associate and a member of the Real Estate practice group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. He focuses his practice on real estate law, corporate and commercial law. He has experience with legal due diligence procedures in connection with acquisition of Slovak real estate or an equity interest in Slovak companies, together with the review and preparation of relevant documentation related to real estate projects and various acquisition transactions.

Fiona S MacGregor

Fiona is a counsel in Dentons' Glasgow office. She is a member of the Disputes, Regulatory and Investigations practice group. Fiona is also a Solicitor Advocate with extended rights of audience in Scotland's civil courts and has represented clients before the Court of Session, Sheriff Appeal Court, Sheriff Court, Scottish Land Court, Lands Tribunal for Scotland and also at public hearings and inquiries. Fiona’s focus is on property disputes and she has a strong track record in complex property litigation. Her practice spans a wide range of issues including: recovery of arrears; rent reviews; termination of leases; recovery of possession; notice disputes; keep open obligations; dilapidations; consent not to be unreasonably withheld; insolvent tenants; disputes concerning issues of construction/interpretation; rectification; title disputes; variation and discharge of title conditions; encroachment; servitudes; wayleaves; nuisance; electronic communications code; and schemes for development under crofting legislation. Fiona is also experienced in planning and environmental disputes. She regularly represents clients in hearings and inquiries before the Department of Planning and Environmental Appeals and in subsequent statutory appeals and judicial review. Fiona has advised on various aspects of compulsory purchase. In addition to her knowledge of the law and court process, Fiona regularly advises clients on alternative forms of dispute resolution, including the use of expert determinations, arbitration and mediation.

Marcin Czajkowski

Marcin Czajkowski is a counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and member of the Tax team. He specializes in corporate tax advisory (VAT, CIT and transfer tax) in particular for the real estate, hospitality, banking and oil & gas sectors. He has broad experience in tax planning and the implementation of Polish and international tax structures. For over 10 years he has regularly advised clients on tax insurance matters, financing, acquisition, construction and use of real estate as well as exit scenarios for corporate investors. Marcin also supports clients in tax structuring of M&A transactions and provides comprehensive transaction support and assistance with foreign investments in Poland. Moreover, he handles tax disputes with the authorities at the stage of inspections and proceedings in the jurisdictional phase, and in the administrative courts.

Sarah Rutnah

Sarah is a senior associate in the Commercial Dispute Resolution practice and is based in the Milton Keynes office. Sarah is an experienced litigator whose practice area covers all aspects of commercial and corporate litigation. She is technically accomplished and commercially focused. Sarah has particular expertise in contractual disputes, commercial fraud, professional negligence claims and claims with an international element. She has dealt with matters in the High Court, First-Tier Property Tribunal and Court of Appeal and also has wide-ranging experience in both domestic and international arbitrations. Sarah's clients range from high net worth individuals to large global companies. She acts regularly for a number of large financial institutions on professional indemnity claims against surveyors and solicitors, and complex possession and forfeiture matters. Sarah is also often instructed to issue or defend commercial injunctions (i.e. freezing orders and search and seizure orders) and is therefore well practiced at working effectively under pressure.

Steph Innes

Steph is a partner in the Technology, Media and Telecoms practice based in the Firm's Glasgow office. She advises UK and international clients on commercial contracts, intellectual property transactions and strategy, technology projects and data privacy matters across various sectors, including engineering, technology, retail, financial services, food and drink, and life sciences. Having trained at the Firm, Steph spent more than 10 years in the TMT team before taking up a role with a FTSE-250 global engineering company for five years. Her in-house experience as Head of Group Legal allows her to bring a commercial view, pragmatism and a solid understanding of the client's perspective to her advice. Steph is qualified in Scotland and has also passed the New York Bar Exam. She has been a member of the Law Society's Technology Law and Practice Committee, and tutors in Commercial Contracts at the University of Glasgow. She has been recognized as a rising star by Legal 500 and as most notable by Managing IP.

Abai Shaikenov

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.

Abdullah Alsulaimi

Abdullah Alsulaimi is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice at Dentons' Riyadh office. He is a highly experienced lawyer with more than 13 years of experience in Saudi law. Abdullah has served in prominent government positions, including Deputy Minister for Laws and International Cooperation at the Ministry of Justice, Advisor to the Minister of Justice and Assistant Deputy Minister for Property Registration. He has also held the prestigious role of judge in commercial courts and as a Committee for Resolution of Securities Disputes member. In these capacities, Abdullah successfully resolved complex disputes in the commercial and real estate sectors. He was the arbitrator in several major arbitration cases, with disputes exceeding SAR 2 billion. In addition to his judicial work, Abdullah has been instrumental in addressing several critical regulatory issues. Notably, he played a vital role in reviewing and reforming the real estate registration procedures and resolving its challenges, which led to restructuring the Real Estate Registration System. Abdullah also oversaw establishing a specialized legislative department within the Ministry of Justice that focused on drafting laws and regulations. Moreover, he contributed to developing regulations governing the presence of foreign law firms in Saudi Arabia, culminating in the issue of the specific regulatory framework. Abdullah has also played a significant role in regulatory development. He has been actively involved in drafting several vital legislations, including the Civil Transactions Law, the Evidence Law, the Commercial Courts Law, the Judicial Costs Law and the Regulation of Foreign Law Firms. Additionally, Abdullah has served on the board of directors of several vital entities, such as the Real Estate General Authority and the National Competitiveness Center, alongside prominent other councils and committees.

Adam Přerovský

Adam Přerovský is a senior associate in Dentons’ Prague office. Adam is a member of the Competition, Life Science, IP/T and Commercial Law practice. He focuses his practice on all areas of competition and antitrust law, contract law and consumer protection, the life science/pharma industry, and intellectual property law and technology. Adam’s experience encompasses merger control proceedings before the European Commission, Czech and Slovak Competition Authorities, representing clients in antitrust proceedings and investigations including proceedings on cartels, abuse of dominance and significant market power, advising on state aid proceedings before the European Commission, as well as in cases of private enforcement of competition law. Adam also regularly advices our clients in competition law aspects of M&A, distribution, franchise, JV and other commercial matters. Adam has also experience in the pharmaceutical and life science sector, advising clients mostly on commercial and regulatory matters under both Czech and European law, including EU product regulation, clinical trials, pricing regulation, data privacy and supply agreements. Adam also regularly advises clients on various matters relating to intellectual property, including trademarks, copyrights and industrial designs, and he represents clients before the Czech Industrial Property Office. With regard to industry sectors, he mostly concentrates on the life science/ pharma industry, FMCG, automotive, energy, media, the tobacco and e-cigarette industry, new technologies, IT and e-commerce.

Adam Mycyk

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.

Ádám Kulcsár

Ádám Kulcsár is an associate in the Litigation and Commercial practice group of Dentons’ Budapest office. With nearly nine years of litigation practice, Clients appreciate his extensive experience in the major segments of the profession. Adam’s more recent practice focuses on advising clients in connection with commercial and civil law litigation matters, with substantial experience advising financial institutions and leading energy players.

Adam S. Goodman

Partner

Adrian Hodis

Adrian Hodis is a Romanian and US qualified lawyer with extensive experience in litigation, dispute resolution, and arbitration matters. He has provided assistance and representation to both domestic and international clients, with a particular focus on construction and infrastructure projects, as well as the oil and gas and renewable energy industries. Adrian's international exposure, gained through his work in the UK and Switzerland, has afforded him valuable opportunities to be part of legal teams representing clients before prestigious international arbitration bodies such as the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and the ICC International Court of Arbitration.

Adrian Magnus

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.

Agnieszka Stefanowicz-Barańska

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 Gilowska

Agnieszka Gilowska is a counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Public Procurement and Government Contracts practice team. She specializes in public procurement law. Agnieszka has experience in legal advisory to bidders and awarding entities in public procurement proceedings. She also has experience in appeal proceedings before the National Chamber of Appeals at the Public Procurement Office. Agnieszka focuses on advising on the preparation of tender documentation in all forms of public procedure.

Agnieszka Wardak

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

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

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.

Ahmed El-Bayouk

Ahmed El-Bayouk is a senior associate in Dentons' Middle East Construction practice. He has a wealth of experience working on a wide range of high-value construction, development and infrastructure projects in both contentious and non-contentious capacities. Ahmed's experience spans a range of different sectors including energy, transport and infrastructure, and he has assisted clients in obtaining successful outcomes in numerous international disputes and projects of strategic and national significance. Ahmed combines his international training and experience with a strong knowledge of Middle Eastern legal systems (including UAE and Saudi law) to develop compelling legal arguments and assist clients in identifying region-specific commercial solutions. He has a fast-growing reputation for his tactical approach and commitment to obtaining the best possible outcome for clients. Ahmed has spent time working in-house and places a particular emphasis on understanding client needs and delivering commercial and practical solutions. Ahmed is qualified in England and Wales and is a Registered Practitioner (Part 1) in the DIFC Courts. He is a native English speaker who also speaks conversational Arabic.

Akin Akinbode

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.

Ala" George Musleh

Ala' joined Dentons’ Amman office as a partner in May 2019. He specialises in advising both Jordanian and international clients on a wide range of leading corporate and commercial, energy, finance, aviation and litigation matters. Ala’ has specific expertise within the energy sector focusing on power generation, renewables, oil and gas and other natural resources. He advises clients on negotiations, project agreements and approvals, as well as finance documents. He regularly drafts commercial contracts on energy and aviation related transactions, for commercial agencies, intellectual property and franchise arrangements. In relation to corporate matters, Ala has particular experience in documenting and negotiating joint ventures, together with the formation and restructuring of companies, conducting extensive due diligence and advising national and multinational corporations on all aspects of foreign investment. He also advises on commercial transactions, employment issues and on various disputes and regulatory matters in connection with the Companies Law, Commercial Law, Labour Law, Civil Law and Intellectual Property Law.

Aldona Kowalczyk

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 Politańska-Kunicka

Aleksandra Politańska-Kunicka, advocate and patent attorney, is a counsel at the Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of Intellectual Property and Technology practice team. For over 15 years Aleksandra has been advising clients on matters related to intellectual and industrial property law. She specializes in disputes related to copyright law, trademarks, industrial designs, patents, unfair competition (including advertising) and protection of personal interests. She represents clients in civil and administrative courts of all instances as well as in disputes and matters pending before the Polish Patent Office, EUIPO and WIPO. Her particular areas of expertise encompass legal assistance for entities operating in the food industry, in particular with respect to similarity of packaging, advertising law and trademark portfolios. She also cooperates with clothing and cosmetic industries and advises film producers and broadcasters. For several years Aleksandra advised a major Polish press publisher and a leading daily newspaper publisher.

Aleksandra Danielewicz

Aleksandra Danielewicz, advocate, LL.M., senior associate at Dentons' Warsaw Office, is a member of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice team. She specializes in personal data protection, privacy and data security. Aleksandra has broad experience in providing legal advice on privacy to global clients. She has specialized in personal data protection breaches. She has conducted a range of initiatives and programs concerning implementation of the GDPR and CCPA, managed global privacy teams and advised local data protection officers on issues concerning data protection, such as data transfers, broad compliance programs in various jurisdictions, implementation of company rules, retention policies and data security audits. She has participated in the creation and implementation of innovative technological solutions, in particular involving solutions for managing incidents related to data security and personal data protection.

Aleksandra Minkowicz-Flanek

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

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

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

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.

Alex Farcas

Partner

Alex Eckler

Senior Associate

Alex Coulter

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 Thomas

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.

Alex G. MacWilliam

Counsel

Alexander Odle

Partner

Alexander Von Bergwelt

Dr. Alexander von Bergwelt is a Partner at Dentons’ Munich office and Co-Head of the German Corporate/M&A practice group. In more than three decades, he has gained extensive experience in corporate law matters, M&A transactions, joint ventures, cooperations and private equity. Alexander has advised on numerous international and cross-border transactions and restructurings of companies and corporations. Global listed corporations count among his clients as well as medium-sized German companies from different sectors, inter alia IT, financial institutions and companies from the media and automotive industries. He led the Munich office as Office Managing Partner from 2016-2021. Alexander speaks German, English, Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese.

Alexander Rees

Alex is a counsel in the Technology, Media and Telecoms practice. He is a highly experienced patent attorney and has been working both in-house and in private practice for over 25 years since qualifying. He has experience in most aspects of the patent profession, including supervising and training more junior staff.

Alexandre Michorczyk

Alexandre Michorczyk is an associate in Dentons’ Luxembourg office and a member of the Tax practice group. Before joining Dentons, Alexandre gained experience in investment management at a Luxembourg law firm. Prior to that he focused on corporate taxation while working as a senior tax advisor for a leading Luxembourg-based consulting firm.

Alexis Graham

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.

Alfredo Arocena

Senior Associate

Ali Al Assaad

Ali Al Assaad is a legal manager in Dentons’ Dubai office. He is a member of the Corporate, Employment and Dispute Resolution practice groups and has more than 12 years of legal experience. Ali’s primary focus is in relation to employment advisory but specialises in advising on employment disputes before the local courts, conducting negotiations and reaching amicable settlements. His practice includes advising corporates on employment contracts, policies and various employment disputes. He also advises on real estate disputes, debts default, breach of contracts and abuse of rights. Ali has participated in drafting the DIFC Presidential Directive No. 4 of 2020 in respect of COVID-19 emergency employment measures, and the DMCC Employment Guidelines during the COVID-19 Precautionary Measures Period. Ali is trilingual (English, Arabic and French) and is therefore able to provide advice to a wide range of clients, based on his first-hand litigation before the local courts. He is also experienced in drafting and negotiating in both English and Arabic.

Alin Roca

Alin Roca is an Associate in the Capital Markets group at the Bucharest office. His active involvement in recent capital markets endeavors, including initial public offerings, private placements, and merger and acquisition transactions, highlights his expertise. Alin possesses comprehensive training in conducting due diligence exercises, skillfully drafting prospectuses, and conducting thorough research on regulatory matters.

Almudena Gurpegui

Lawyer

Alwyn Mathew

Alwyn Mathew is a legal consultant in the Corporate and Commercial practice in Dentons' Abu Dhabi office. He has extensive and in-depth experience in private practice at leading law firms in the UAE and in advising clients on legal aspects in corporate structuring/restructuring, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, liquidations, winding up, deregistration and local corporate regulatory issues. Alwyn has more than 10 years' experience working as a corporate and commercial lawyer, eight of which were spent in the UAE. His experience covers a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including advice on general corporate and commercial matters with a focus on mergers and acquisitions from both buy-side and sell-side. He has advised on sales and acquisitions in a wide range of sectors including medical, financial services, infrastructure, FMCG, insurance, and oil and gas. Alwyn has also advised underwriters on UAE law aspects in relation to the listing of a social media networking app that was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. He regularly advises on shareholder disputes and corporate governance matters. Alwyn has previous projects and banking and finance experience in the UAE which involved advising a number of IPPs and IWPPs in the infrastructure sector. He has advised them on a variety of aspects including lender-related advice, procurer-related concerns, shareholder disputes, board-related matters and potential conflicts with operators, as well as with day-to-day matters. Alwyn's previous banking experience included working on high-profile insolvency and restructuring cases in the UAE. He also regularly advised entities practicing or seeking to practice licensed financial activities (being regulated by the Securities and Commodities Authority) in the UAE. Alwyn advises on regulatory matters and banking documentation, and provides legal opinions on a variety of financing matters (including project finance transactions), as well as valuable transactional and advisory services to a number of IWPP and IPP project clients. Alwyn works with teams in both the Abu Dhabi and Dubai offices.

Alžběta Böhmová

Alžběta Böhmová is a junior associate in Dentons’ Prague office. She focuses her practice primarily on insolvency and restructuring, financial transactions as well as corporate and litigation.

Amanda Lewis

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.

Amandeep Khara

Associate

Amberley James

Senior Associate

András Peisch

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

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.

Andreas Haak

Andreas Haak is Düsseldorf Managing Partner and Co-Head of the German Public Sector practice group in Germany. Andreas advises clients on all issues of EU, public procurement and state aid law as well as trade compliance (export controls, sanctions). His practice also includes protecting clients’ rights before national and European courts, the European Commission and procurement review bodies. He has extensive project experience with public-private partnerships (PPP) and privatization projects. In addition, he advises clients on compliance issues. He has experience in project management and in-depth knowledge of the following sectors: Defense and Security, Energy and Utilities, Healthcare, High Technology and Communications, Public Sector/Infrastructure projects. Andreas studied law and business administration. He worked in the European Parliament and for an international law firm in Brussels and Düsseldorf. Prior to assuming the role of Managing Partner of Dentons' Düsseldorf branch in January 2019, he was a partner at an international law firm in Düsseldorf (since 2003), for which he was local managing partner (2013 to 2015) and head of the practice area Competition, EU and Trade (2009 to 2013 and 2014 to 2018) and the industry group Life Sciences and Healthcare (2013 to 2014). Andreas is a member of the Committee Europe of the Federal Bar Association and the Advisory Board of the European Doctorate for Law and Economics Program. He is one of the authors of a respected commentary to public procurement law; he regularly publishes articles in specialist journals and presents lectures on his main topics. Andreas is security checked according to the SÜG (Sicherheitsüberprüfungsgesetz “Security Screening Act”).

Andreas Ziegenhagen

Andreas Ziegenhagen is Germany Managing Partner and European Head of the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy group. He covers the areas of Mergers and Acquisitions (legal and tax advice), Corporate Recovery and Insolvency Law, Corporate and Tax Law as well as Banking and Finance. Andreas regularly acts as representative of bondholders and promissory note loan creditors (Schuldscheindarlehensgläubiger). He also acts regularly as a double-sided trustee in distressed situations. In debtor-in-possession insolvency proceedings Andreas acts as a fully authorized representative (Chief Insolvency Officer) for restructuring by insolvency plan proceedings. He is one of the few German lawyers who is both a qualified accountant and a tax consultant. Andreas is a Partner at Dentons in Frankfurt/Berlin and Director of Dentons GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft Steuerberatungsgesellschaft. Prior to joining Dentons in 2006, Andreas spent his entire career at Haarmann Hemmelrath & Partner, where he became partner in 2001 and head of the Corporate Recovery and Insolvency practice group in 2004. He is member of the Global and European Board of Dentons. Andreas is also the editor-in-chief of the insolvency law magazine with the highest circulation in Germany, ZInsO FOKUS Sanierung, Wolters Kluwer Verlag and a member of the Executive Committee of the Insolvency and Restructuring Working Group of the German Bar Association (DAV).

Andreas Berberich

Dr. Andreas Berberich is a Partner in the Munich office. He is a member of the Tax practice. He focuses on tax advice in connection with mergers and acquisitions, asset finance and tax compliance-related issues. Andreas has extensive experience in the insurance and financial institutions sector as well as in the real estate and transport sector (in particular aviation). He also represents clients in connection with tax audits and tax court proceedings. Andreas regularly publishes on domestic and international tax law matters. Prior to joining Dentons, he worked as senior associate at another international law firm. Andreas has gained his doctorate on European tax law issues. Andreas is admitted in Germany as lawyer and certified tax advisor.

Andreas Kloppenborg

Partner

Andrei Vartires

Andrei Vartires is Senior Associate and a core member of the TMT group in Dentons Bucharest. He has extensive experience in high-profile regional and international media regulatory matters, telecom and technology regulatory as well as compliance aspects. Andrei has advised some of biggest clients in the world active in the media, telecommunications or technology sectors and gained significant experience as a result. He also gained significant experience in interacting with relevant TMT regulatory bodies, as well as in advising on litigation disputes, administrative and commercial disputes and court procedures.

Andrei Orbesteanu

Andrei is a senior associate with Dentons’ Litigation and Dispute Resolution group. He specializes in litigation and alternative dispute resolution and has also extensive experience in the area of restructuring and insolvency/bankruptcy as well as tax litigation, advising on intricate or sensitive matters that requires a high degree of litigation expertise in different sectors such as energy, real estate, fintech, aviation. Andrei has experience in working with both governmental and private entities and has represented clients in front of local and international arbitration bodies in investment arbitration, commercial arbitration and litigation, with a focus on disputes related to Bilateral Investment Treaties.

Andrés Tiscornia

Andrés Tiscornia is a Senior Associate in the Montevideo office and a member of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution team. He assists clients in varied litigation practices that includes commercial, civil and penalty litigation matters as well as arbitration procedures.

Andrew Muckian

Partner / Head of Real Estate Dublin

Andrew Baker

Patent Attorney and Director

Andrew Orr

Andrew is a partner in the Firm’s Infrastructure and PPP department. Andrew specializes in project finance and major projects. He has considerable experience of infrastructure finance transactions, including PFI/PPP and energy projects, and has advised on many of the UK's significant and pathfinder PPP projects. He regularly advises the public sector, sponsors, funders and contractors on infrastructure projects across a broad range of sectors, including education, energy, health, housing, transport and waste. Andrew is rated as a leading individual for Projects in The Legal 500.

Andrew Henderson

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.

Andy Pushalik

Partner

Anita Horváth

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 Crevon-Tarassova

Anna Crevon is a Partner in Dentons’ Paris office and Global Co-Head of Dentons’ International Arbitration Group. She focuses on contentious and advisory work for corporate clients, States and State-owned entities on issues of international law, including in investor-State and commercial arbitration proceedings. Anna has worked as counsel on numerous international arbitration cases conducted under the auspices of ICSID, SCC, ICC and LCIA, as well as ad hoc arbitrations. These matters include some of the landmark cases of the past decade and relate to high-value complex multi-jurisdictional disputes involving a wide range of applicable laws and sectors, such as oil & gas, mining, infrastructure, construction, intellectual property and pharmaceuticals. Anna also regularly advises companies and State-owned entities in respect of their investments, in particular in Eastern Europe, the CIS and other emerging markets. Her work also includes advising clients on recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards, state immunity issues, compliance with international treaties and customary international law. Anna also serves as an arbitrator and has been appointed as sole arbitrator or co-arbitrator in ICC, SCC and ad hoc proceedings.

Anna Brown

Anna is a senior trade mark attorney in Dentons' London office. She is a member of the Intellectual Property practice and advises clients on all aspects of trade mark and design prosecution, including overarching advice on portfolio management, developing bespoke filing strategies, carrying out pre-filing clearance work, filing and prosecuting intellectual property rights directly through the UK, EU and World Intellectual Property Offices, as well as working closely with Dentons' offices and preferred agents throughout the world to secure trade marks further afield. Anna also advises clients on matters of validity and infringement, and prosecutes opposition and cancellation actions at the UK and EU level, whilst working alongside other Dentons offices and our network of trusted agents to manage similar challenges globally. Anna has more than 13 years of experience working with a vast array of companies from small startups and medium-sized enterprises to long-established multinational corporations. Her work covers all manner of industries, including retail, entertainment, publishing and software design and development, although she has a personal interest in fashion and luxury goods and has worked with a number of fashion brands, helping them protect and manage their valuable trade mark and design portfolios. Anna graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a first class degree in Biological Sciences with Honours in Neuroscience, for which she was awarded the Class Prize. She was also awarded the John Parker Memorial Award for obtaining the highest mark in her Trade Mark practice paper, whilst qualifying as a UK and EU trade mark attorney. Anna's natural aptitude for science means she has an affinity for (and importantly enjoys) legal research, helping her stay abreast of the ever-developing body of trade mark case law.

Anna Szymańska

Dr. Anna Szymańska is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a Head of Defense and Security practice, within the Public Procurement and Government Contracts practice team. She specializes in public procurement law and PPP commercial and civil law, including contracts law since 2005. She is highly experienced in representing bidders as well as awarding entities in the course of public procurement proceedings and in dealings before the National Chamber of Appeals and courts. Among others, Anna has focused on infrastructure, energy, construction, railways, waste treatment, transportation, financial services, defense & security, medical & pharmaceutical, revitalization and telecommunications projects. Anna is a member of the Poland Public Procurement Council and a lecturer in Postgraduate Studies in Public Procurement at Warsaw University.

Anna Gerendás

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

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 Copeman

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

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

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.

Anna Terrizzi

Anna Terrizzi is a senior associate in Dentons' Corporate practice and has been with the firm since September 2007. During her time with the firm in London she was seconded to Royal Dutch Shell Plc. Anna is based in the firm's Dubai office where she advises on mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures as well as company establishments, restructurings and directors duties.

Annabel Cox

Annabel is a senior associate in Dentons' market-leading Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) team. Based in London, her focus is on outsourcing, commercial contracts and information technology projects. She also has experience advising on data protection issues and has obtained the IAPP CIPP/E certification. Annabel has advised clients in a variety of sectors including retail, financial services, food, technology and energy. She has assisted with a range of commercial issues, with a strong focus on drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, including large-scale outsourcing agreements, pensions administration agreements, hotel and property management agreements, complex services agreements, consultancy agreements, manufacturing and distribution agreements, software license agreements and franchise agreements. Annabel has completed successful client secondments in various industries (oil and gas services, financial services, entertainment, sport and fashion management, and fast-moving consumer goods). Annabel is actively involved in pro bono and acts as an advisor for the PopLaw Legal Advice Clinic, as well as for a number of the Firm's pro bono clients.

Annabel Vincent

Annabel Vincent is a senior associate in the Banking and Finance practice in Dentons' Dubai office. She has over ten years' of experience working on a on a wide range of banking and finance matters including advising clients, both local and international financiers and borrowers, on export credit supported finance, acquisition finance, contractor finance, corporate finance, Islamic finance, project finance, real estate finance and general banking and finance matters. In 2017 she completed a nine month secondment with HSBC Bank Middle East Limited in Dubai, assisting and supporting the export credit agency and specialised finance team on a number of key export credit supported financings of projects in the UAE.

Annalisa Feliciani

Annalisa Feliciani is a debt capital markets partner in Dentons’ Rome office and a member of the global Banking and Finance practice. She provides legal assistance to major Italian and international banks, financial institutions and companies in connection with the structuring, offering and listing of a wide range of financial instruments for both retail and institutional investors. These include: fixed income products (Eurobonds and domestic bonds); structured notes, warrants and certificates; credit and fund-linked securities; mini-bonds and commercial papers (including STEP compliant); and ESG products (social, sustainability and green bonds). She assists in the establishment and update of issuance programs and stand-alone issuances (public deals and private placements); retail public offers in Italy; debt capital markets and liability management transactions. Annalisa is experienced in the structuring of transactions and related regulatory issues. She provides high level transactional and regulatory advice vis-à-vis financial regulators (Consob, Bank of Italy, CSSF, Central Bank of Ireland), the main financial market lobbies, as well as Stock Exchanges and MTFs in Italy and in other European countries (e.g. Luxembourg and Ireland).

Anne-Laure Marcerou

Anne-Laure Marcerou focuses on mergers and acquisitions and assists her clients in their investments, joint-ventures, and reorganizations as well as in the negotiation of strategic alliances and partnerships. Anne-Laure’s practice is focused on the life sciences and healthcare sector and she co-heads Dentons’ Paris-based Life Sciences Group. Anne-Laure advises pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers and biotech companies, as well as investment funds on their Life Sciences transactions.

Antonella Brambilla

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.

Antonio Legrottaglie

Antonio Legrottaglie is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the global Corporate M&A practice. With a proven track record in M&A transactions, Antonio supports clients on a variety of matters, including acquisitions, divestitures and joint ventures. He mainly supports Italian and foreign private equity funds and club deals. Clients appreciate his proficiency in assisting founders and financial sponsors of build-up projects—supporting them both in the creation of the initial corporate structure and in the multiple acquisitions that are included in the project pipeline. Also active in the venture capital and start-up sector, Antonio regularly assists Italian and foreign investors in all types of investment rounds and in providing assistance to startups and scale-ups marked by strong technological development. In addition, he has many years of experience supporting clients in the healthcare and life sciences sectors.

Antonis Patrikios

Antonis is a partner and co-head of Dentons’ Global Privacy and Cybersecurity group, based in London. A UK and EU data privacy and cybersecurity law specialist, Antonis advises a wide range of UK, EU, US and Asian clients across various sectors, including technology, adtech, healthtech, fintech, media, telecoms, and fast-moving consumer goods. Antonis advises on all aspects of EU data privacy and cybersecurity law. Most of his work has an international element, and he regularly leads on multi-jurisdictional projects. He has spent time working in Silicon Valley, which helped him develop a deep understanding of transatlantic data privacy and cybersecurity issues. His specialisms include complex cross-jurisdictional matters; global compliance programs; new legal regime (including GDPR and e-privacy regulation) readiness; new projects compliance; privacy impact assessments; risk assessments; data protection audits; commercial deal support; corporate deal support; international data transfers; data sharing and monetization activities; big data; digital marketing and online advertising; cybersecurity compliance, incident response preparedness, incident management and breach notification; data subject requests, complaints and claims; regulatory liaison; and cooperation with law enforcement authorities. Antonis particularly enjoys providing strategic advice and helping clients engineer business solutions to legal problems, optimize risk and unlock the value of their data. He has an extensive track record of helping clients steer through crises, such as data and cybersecurity breaches and regulatory investigations.

Aparicio Howard

Aparicio Howard is a Senior Associate in the Montevideo office. He is member of the Corporate and Litigation groups. His daily practice focuses in Civil Law, Commercial Law and Real Estate.

April Kosten

Partner

Argentina Rafail

Argentina Rafail is a Counsel in Dentons' Bucharest office. She focuses on employment and corporate matters. Argentina has worked on transactions involving employment matters (collective bargaining agreements, individual labour agreements, companies’ internal regulations, disciplinary procedures and EU and non-EU citizens’ immigration formalities in Romania), commercial agreements and operation authorizations for local and international clients in the automotive, engineering, construction and infrastructure sectors.

Argy Kemerlis

Argy is a technology and data protection lawyer in the Technology, Media and Telecoms practice, based in our Glasgow office. His main focus is on data protection, information technology and commercial matters. Drawing on his extensive in-house experience as a solicitor for a publicly-listed commercial Public Service Broadcaster, Argy has been advising confidently on intricate data privacy and technology projects, involving GDPR compliance, data processor engagement, adtech, cookie compliance, social media, direct marketing, measurement and attribution arrangements, international data transfers, SaaS and licensing arrangements. Argy has been commended for his ability to identify the impact a matter may have on the wider picture, considering every permutation.

Arianne Bouchard

Partner

Arnaldo Bernardi

Arnaldo Bernardi 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 regularly advises clients in the oil and gas, luxury, retail, telecommunications, and financial sectors on internal investigations, corporate compliance and business and human rights.

Arne Klüwer

Dr. Arne Klüwer is a partner in the Frankfurt office and Head of Banking and Finance Germany as well as Head of Structured Finance Europe. He provides legal advice on a broad range of transactions from the structuring and implementation of a variety of structured finance transactions over workouts and complex restructurings to loan trading transactions. Arne’s experience includes advising market participants in various roles and functions in the context of arranging and securitisation of loans (including CMBS), over the securitisation of trade and consumer receivables, inflation-indexed hereditary building rights and to the structuring and implementation of complex portfolio transactions, including advising various transaction parties on the sale, the acquisition and the financing of NPLs and other non-core assets to various restructurings and debt recovery advice (in and outside of insolvency proceedings). In this context, Arne has also advised on various bank rescue measures during and following the financial crisis of 2007/2008 covering total asset volumes well in excess of €50 billion.

Arne Friel

Dr. Arne Friel is a partner in Dentons’ Berlin office and Co-Head of the German Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice group. He advises national and international clients on all aspects of corporate law, in particular in connection with M&A transactions and corporate reorganizations. His practice focuses on restructuring and insolvency, particularly distressed M&A. Arne also acts as a notary public.

Arnon A. Dachner

Partner

Áron Károlyi-Szabó

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.

Artur Utarbayev

Counsel at Dentons's Almaty office. Artur has over 16 years of practical experience in advising clients on a wide variety of legal issues in Kazakhstan. He has extensive experience in representing various categories of cases in several practice areas, including commercial, corporate, construction, real estate, land use, environmental and anti-monopoly disputes. Since 2004, Artur has prepared and published more than 15 scientific articles in legal journals on various criminal procedural issues, as well as several chapters in a book on criminal proceedings.

Attila Tatár

Attila Tatár is an associate and a member of the Energy and Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) practice groups of Dentons’ Budapest office. He specializes in energy law, with a focus on advising renewable industry clients in connection with regulatory matters and other various commercial matters. Attila also has extensive experience in matters related to TMT, copyright and IT law.

Aurore Ancion

Associate

Axel Schlieter

Dr. Axel Schlieter, MBA (Durham / EBS), is a Partner in Dentons’ Dusseldorf office. He is a member of the Banking & Finance practice group and specializes in corporate lending, project and acquisition financing transactions with a particular focus on real estate and infrastructure finance. Axel also advises clients on structured corporate loans, as well as hybrid financing structures comprising bank facilities, promissory loans, bonds and notes. He is a member of the Real Estate, Energy and Infrastructure sector groups of Dentons and has longstanding experience advising banks, institutional investors, funds and sponsors on all types of debt instruments. In addition, he is a core team member of the Global Sustainable Finance Group of Dentons and regularly advises in relation to ESG-linked financing transactions. Axel holds a double degree Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Durham Business School and EBS Business School, which additionally qualifies him to consult with clients on commercial and economic matters. Axel is recognized by Best Lawyers (in cooperation with Handelsblatt) as one of the leading lawyers in structured finance and real estate finance in Germany and has been assigned with authorship of the reputable commentary C.H. Beck Münchener Kommentar HGB, Band 6 banking contract law (Bankvertragsrecht) for trade finance document LCs and collection arrangements.

Barbara Urselli

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

Barbora Obračajová

Barbora Obračajová is an associate, innovation ambassador, and a member of the Energy and Corporate practice at Dentons Prague office. Her focus is energy and environmental regulation, M&A, administrative and civil proceedings, as well as compliance, including environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters. Barbora has strong track record in cross-border M&A transactions, especially helping Czech businesses heading abroad and coordinating multinational teams. She also has significant experience with complex regulatory and technical issues (such as IPPC and emission trading under the EU ETS). Barbora regularly presents at conferences and other business events.

Barry Zalmanowitz KC

Senior Counsel

Bartłomiej Kordeczka

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 Dobkowski

Bartosz Dobkowski, attorney-at-law, senior associate at Dentons’ Warsaw office, is a member of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice team. Bartosz has extensive expertise in advising foreign and domestic clients on a wide range of TMT and IP matters. In his day-to-day practice, he focuses on telecommunications (electronic communications), media and IP law. Over the years, he has been supporting clients in various innovative projects, including projects concerning online and A2P (application-to-person) SMS messaging, permanent roaming, telematic and connected car technologies, satellite communications or asset tracking. He also regularly advises on issues related to the implementation of the European Electronic Communications Code (EECC) and assists clients in ensuring compliance with regulatory obligations. Bartosz also has hands-on experience in advising on various issues in the area of media and advertising law, as well as gambling regulations. He has advised clients, among others, on broadcasting licensing, regulatory aspects of the provision of audiovisual media services, personalized commercials using Dynamic Ad Insertion technology, financial obligations towards the Polish Film Institute (PISF) and royalties payable to collecting societies. He also advises on intellectual property matters, in particular trademarks and copyrights. His experience includes advising on the registrability of trademarks, developing brand protection strategies, representing and advising clients in proceedings before the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO), the Polish Patent Office and the common courts, and handling anti-counterfeiting cases. In addition, Bartosz has vast transactional experience, regularly conducts complex IP due diligence analyses and assists clients in drafting and negotiating IP transfer, licensing and co-existence agreements.

Bartosz Nojek

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.

Bas van der Reep

Associate

Bence Böszörményi

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.

Benjamin Iscoe

Partner

Bennett Wong

Partner

Bernard J. Roth KC

Partner

Bhomitrajeet (Sandeep) Ramlochund

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.

Bianca Böhmová

Bianca Böhmová is an associate and a member of the Banking & Finance Practice Group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. She focuses her practice primarily on banking and finance transactions and certain corporate matters. Bianca has been involved in various financing transactions representing both borrowers and lenders, as well as in few real estate and commercial acquisition transactions. Her experience within the field of banking and finance encompasses the drafting of various security documentation, contracts and legal opinions, as well as supervising fulfilment of conditions precedent and conditions subsequent. Bianca’s experience also covers legal due diligence procedures and the drafting of various memoranda and legal analyses.

Bianca Chiara Sinisi

Bianca Chiara Sinisi is a senior associate in our Rome office and a member of the global Banking and Finance practice. Specialized in structured finance and debt issuances, her main activities include legal advice in securitization transactions, covered bond programs, bond issuances, repos, securities lending, structured financial products and factoring. Furthermore, she assists clients in relation to debt restructuring and liability management transactions, with regard to both banks’ and financial intermediaries’ debt issuances and public entities’ debt. Bianca has also experience in ESG products (i.e. social, sustainable and green bonds, ESG securitisations and sustainability linked repo and securities lending transactions). She also provides advice on banking and financial regulation, with particular reference to the issues concerning BRRD, CRR, MiFID 2, ESG-products, securitisations and derivative instruments. Furthermore, Bianca assists both local and regional authorities and potential or existing investors in the field of public finance, as well as in the context of structured finance transactions involving public debt or other claims vis-à-vis public authorities and administrations.

Bill Fowler

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.

Bill G. Gilliland

Partner

Bob Tarantino

Counsel

Bobur Shamsiev

Bobur Shamsiev is a Partner in Dentons’ Tashkent office. He provides legal advice to foreign and local clients on various aspects, including gaining subsoil use rights, leading negotiations in relation to the contracts, procurement and turnkey construction, privatization, PPP, public procurement, licensing and dispute settlement. Bobur advises on major projects in the energy, mining and construction sectors in Uzbekistan. Bobur has worked in multiple jurisdictions on various matters ranging from employment disputes to the negotiation of a multimillion dollar EPC contracts. Having worked alongside Uzbek state agencies in a number of legal and regulatory reforms, he has a deep understanding of Uzbekistan’s legal, regulatory and policy framework as well as significant experience in drafting and reviewing legal documents.

Bogdan Papandopol

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 Tregler

Boris Tregler is a senior associate in Dentons' Prague office. He focuses on financial and tax law, securities law, bill of exchange and promissory note law, civil, commercial and corporate law, law of bankruptcy, and labour law. He further specialises in dispute resolution, including litigation and arbitration.

Counsel

Partner

Counsel

Brian is a partner in Dentons’ Glasgow office. He is a member of the Real Estate practice group. Brian deals with all aspects of real estate work within Scotland. His main areas of practice are estate management, acquisitions and disposals, development and regeneration, leasing and real estate finance, including bridging finance. Brian has developed a particular expertise in student accommodation, BTR/multifamily, and retail and logistics. In the context of estate management, Brian has experience of acting for a broad spectrum of clients as diverse as airports, postal organizations and offshore investment funds. He acts for both public and private sector organizations. Brian is the current chair of the Investment Property Forum (IPF) in Scotland.

Brian Hugh Moore

Brian is a Corporate partner in the Firm's Edinburgh office and has been with the Firm since 1997. He has broad experience of a wide range of UK and international corporate and commercial work, and specialises in public and private M&A and equity capital markets transactions. He is also a Reporter to the Court of Session in Scotland in respect of company schemes of arrangement and reduction schemes, cross-border mergers, Part VII insurance, and banking business and ring-fencing transfer schemes. Brian is dual qualified in Scotland and in England and Wales, and is particularly active in the food and beverage, industrials and real estate sectors.

Brigitta Kovács

Brigitta Kovács is an associate in the Corporate and M&A practice group of Dentons’ Budapest office. Her practice primarily focuses on general corporate and contract law, employment matters, as well as M&A including acquisitions and dispositions. She is also regularly involved in drafting/negotiating corporate (including virtual) PPAs.

Bruce Bernachhi

Partner

Bruno Steneri

Bruno Steneri is a Senior Associate in the Montevideo office. He is a member of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution group, in addition to the Insurance and Reinsurance area and the Antitrust team. One of Bruno's main focuses is the daily advice to Banco Itaú Uruguay in the implementation of loans to the Bank's clients, in the enforcement and recovery of assets in bankruptcy proceedings and debt restructuring, assisting Banco Itaú Uruguay in numerous litigations. He has advised Banco Itaú with respect to asset recovery, obtaining a high recovery rate in several proceedings. He also participates in the restructuring of debts of the bank's clients. In antitrust matters, he participates in complaints as either a plaintiff or defendant, prepares for investigations, assists with merger notifications, and advises both sellers and buyers. In the Insurance and Reinsurance area, he advises Zurich Santander Seguros Uruguay S.A. in its daily operations in the different products offered in the market and in the drafting of the different policies so that they are adapted to the current insurance regulations and also in compliance with the provisions on consumer protection. Since 2022, he has been a member of the Lawyers' Committee of the Uruguayan Association of Insurance Companies ("AUDEA"). Additionally, he advises and defends Zurich against policyholder claims. Between 2014 and 2018, he served as an assistant to Professor Camilo Martínez Blanco in the Insolvency Law department at the University of Montevideo. In 2022, he returned to the same department as an assistant professor, and starting in 2023, he has been granted a dedicated section in the "Legal Industry Review" magazine where he writes articles on a range of insolvency-related topics. For seven years, he was a member of the "Litigation and Arbitration" team at Ferrere Abogados. During this time, he provided counsel to companies and organizations in pre-litigation negotiations and complex litigation. His responsibilities included analyzing and selecting strategies, planning, preparing legal briefs, and executing agreements. Additionally, he has been involved in various arbitration proceedings, such as those related to commercial, construction, engineering, and energy issues.

Bryan Johnston

Bryan is a partner and deals with all aspects of property litigation. He liaises extensively with colleagues across the firm in the Real Estate, Planning, Environment, Construction, Restructuring and Insolvency, Energy, Corporate and Banking and Finance. Bryan is experienced in dealing with all of the unique aspects of real estate litigation in a contentious and advisory context. Bryan has built a specialist rights of light practice and is an expert in that field. Bryan is also highly experienced in dealing with the RE aspects of major insolvencies, the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954, tenant default, party walls, easement and covenant disputes, business rates, neighbourly disputes, service charge disputes, dilapidations disputes, professional negligence in the property context (including legal and surveying professional negligence), document construction, title disputes, negligence and nuisance.

Camilla Rosi

Camilla Rosi is a senior associate in our Milan office and a member of the global Intellectual Property, Data and Technology practice. She assists national and international clients in relation to both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property and copyright-related matters, with a focus on trademarks, patents, design, copyright, software and trade secrets. Camilla gained extensive experience in negotiating commercial arrangements pertaining to intellectual property rights, including license agreements, co-existence agreements, supply and distribution agreements, IP rights assignment agreements and in the assistance of both private clients and corporate institutions in the context of extraordinary transactions and IP related asset deal. She also advises clients on a broad range of IP-related judicial cases, including trademark, design and copyright infringement and unfair competition.

Candice Chapman

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

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.

Carolina Bianchi

Carolina Bianchi is an associate in the Montevideo office. She is a member of the Corporate, Banking and Project Finance practice groups. Her focus is on Infrastructure and PPP projects, particularly those involving the construction of new railroads in Uruguay. She has advised in relation to the administrative procedures regarding the vial PPP's and the negotiation of the project contracts, and structuring the financing of said operations. She also deals with various corporate issues as well as administrative matters in the corporate assessment area.

Carsten Steinhauer

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

Casper Haket

Partner

Catherine Joffroy

Catherine Joffroy is a Corporate M&A Partner in Dentons’ Paris office. She has been advising French companies for more than 30 years on their cross-border transactions and their investments in emerging markets such as Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Uzbekistan, as well as in Central and Eastern Europe. She also advises her clients on French business law (commercial and civil). A native French speaker, she is also bilingual in Russian and speaks fluent English which positions her ideally to advise on restructuring, M&A, joint ventures, setting up subsidiaries, project finance, investments and international contracts in the CIS countries and in Ukraine. A member of Dentons’ Russian Desk, she is available to assist international companies with the challenges related to their investments, subsidiaries or supply chains in Russia and in Ukraine. Catherine has been decorated with the award of “Knight of the Legion of Honor of France”, a distinction which reflects the importance of her practice and skills in facilitating the development of commercial relations between France and Russia and, more generally, between France and the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). A French Foreign Trade Advisor (Conseiller du commerce extérieur de la France - CCE) since 2008, she was reappointed from January, 2024 by a decree signed by the Prime Minister of France. Advisors are appointed for three years based on their experience in assisting companies and individuals in their international projects. She was then elected Vice-President of the Eurasia Commission of Foreign Trade Advisors of France. In this context, Catherine voluntarily provides recommendations to the French government and sponsors students. Recognized as an emerging markets expert, Catherine has given numerous presentations about Russia, Ukraine and the CIS countries at international conferences since the beginning of her legal practice. She has also written various articles covering legal aspects of investing in Russia and in Ukraine.

Catherine Astruc

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

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.

Catriona Munro

Before joining the Firm in 1998, Catriona worked in Brussels and London. She is qualified as a solicitor both in England & Wales and in Scotland. Although she has a wide-ranging practice, her particular areas of expertise are cartels and contentious competition proceedings. She has acted in a number of major EU and UK cases, including several successful leniency applications. She has extensive experience of private damages cases in England & Wales, Scotland and other jurisdictions, acting for both claimants and defendants, and in the Competition Appeal Tribunal and in the ordinary courts. She was recently described as an opponent in litigation as “someone to have on your side, not against you". Her practice also includes advising on merger clearances, competition complaints, state aids and public procurement as well as other areas of European and competition law. Catriona has experience of anti-dumping proceedings and European Court challenges. Catriona has for a number of years contributed to Getting the Deal Through's publication Private Antitrust Litigation and contributed the Scotland chapter to a major textbook on International Competition Litigation.

Catriona Grover

Partner

Celia Hayward

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

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.

Charles July

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 Wood

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.

Charles Bardou

Partner

Chengkai Wang

Chengkai Wang is a senior partner at Dentons Taiwan, specializing in corporate and M&A, cross-border transactions, labor and employment, and commercial disputes. Chengkai’s clientele spans multiple industries, including TMT (Technology, Media, and Telecommunications), oil and energy, chemicals, aviation, automotive, and biotechnology. He has a wealth of experience assisting both multinational and local enterprises with cross-border investments and transactions in Taiwan, China, South Korea, Southeast Asia, India, the United States, and Europe. Chengkai offers comprehensive legal counsel across various stages of business development, including fundraising for startups and mature companies, offshore company setup, transaction structuring, drafting transaction documents, and participating in negotiations. He is well-versed in employment matters, frequently assisting multinational and local enterprises with drafting and revising employment contracts, senior management mandate agreements, work rules and regulations, occupational safety and health regulations, global mobility of talent, employee data protection compliance, working hours and overtime disputes, trade secret protection, and post-employment non-compete and non-solicitation agreements. He also represents clients in labor disputes, labor mediation, layoffs, mass redundancy, labor inspections, sexual harassment and workplace bullying investigations. Chengkai is also experienced in commercial arbitration. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (MCIArb) and currently serves as an ICC YAAF Reginal Representative for North Asia (International Chamber of Commerce Young and ADR Forum), where he continues to contribute to the field with dedication. Chengkai is qualified to practice law in Taiwan and New York State. He holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School and both an LL.M. and a double bachelor’s degree in law and economics from National Taiwan University. As a native Mandarin speaker, Chengkai is also fluent in English and Taiwanese, enabling him to effectively communicate and navigate complex legal environments to help clients achieve their business objectives.

Chiara Bocchi

Chiara Bocchi is a counsel based in Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the global Intellectual Property, Data and Technology. Chiara assists national and multinational clients active in a number of different sectors including ICT, fashion, retail, e-commerce, advertising, media and telecommunications, as well as banking and insurance, in both contentious and non-contentious matters. She advises on commercial contracts (B2B and B2C) and on various legal issues concerning technology, media and telecommunications, focusing also on digital transformation and artificial intelligence. She is also experienced in data protection and holds the Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) certificate through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). The activities in this field range from the drafting of compliance documents (e.g. privacy policies, organizational procedures, joint controllership and data processing agreements) and the organization of dedicated training on privacy matters, to the provision of strategic advice on complex issues and multi-jurisdictional projects (e.g. behavioral advertising, processing of biometric data, automatic individual decision-making processes, data transfers).

Chinyen Ho

Deputy Secretary-General, Chinese Intellectual Property Protection Association Vice Secretary-General, Chinese Intellectual Property Protection Association Legal Advisor, Han Kuang Education Foundation Legal Advisor, Ling Jiou Mountain Buddhist Society Legal Advisor, Chinese Martial Arts Exchange Association Legal Advisor, World Religious Museum

Chris Parke

Partner

Chris Watkinson

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.

Chris Brennan

Chris is a partner in Dentons’ London office. He is a member of the Disputes division. Chris has more than 20 years’ experience in helping clients to solve regulatory problems and manage difficult interactions with regulators and law enforcement. His practice is focused on financial markets where he acts for both institutions and individuals. He is experienced in all aspects of regulatory enforcement and interventions in both retail and wholesale markets. Chris also regularly advises listed entities on issues related to inside information and market disclosures. Chris advises clients on the management of both internal and external investigations of alleged misconduct. He also advises on customer and counterparty disputes where there is a regulatory angle to the dispute. Chris also uses his experience as a former criminal barrister to assist clients facing criminal investigation or prosecution.

Christel Dumont

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.

Christian Miercke

Dr. Christian Miercke, LL.M. is a partner in Dentons' Frankfurt office. He is a member of the Regulation and Public Procurement practice groups. He focuses on advising bidders and contracting authorities on public procurement law in complex procurement procedures and represents them before national courts, public procurement tribunals and the relevant authorities. Christian Miercke has extensive industry knowledge primarily in the regulated telecommunications and information technology sectors as well as in the healthcare sector. He also specializes in national and European state aid, as well as subsidies and grants law. In addition, Christian has many years of experience in drafting contracts and negotiating national and international infrastructure projects, in particular in the field of sensitive infrastructure. A particular focus of Christian’s work are the legal, regulatory, and strategic matters relevant to network operators, municipal companies, and joint ventures in fibre optic roll-out. This includes the negotiation of operational telecommunications contracts as well as conducting regulatory proceedings, including representing companies in proceedings before the Federal Network Agency and before administrative courts.

Christian Schnell

Christian Schnell is a partner, Head of the Energy & Natural Resources practice team in Dentons’ Warsaw office and Co-Head of the Europe Energy group. He also practices in the Firm’s Munich office. Christian has more than 20 years of experience in advising on developments, acquisitions, disposals, EPCs, PPAs and heat supply agreements in the renewable energy sector in Poland, Central-Eastern and Southeast Europe. Christian has a varied client base, advising direct investors, renewable energy and infrastructure funds, private equity and private debt, international developers and financial institutions in respect of development, construction and operational projects. Christian has been leading transactions on numerous energy projects and has broad experience of premium support schemes, but also non-subsidy renewable energy projects, mainly onshore wind and ground-mounted solar PV projects. He has a profound knowledge about energy markets, strategic market forecasts and sector integration technologies. Christian has also longstanding experience with offshore project development and advises since many years on heat investments and heat supply contracts.

Christian Lau

Partner

Christiane Zedelius

Dr. Christiane Zedelius is a Partner in Dentons’ Munich office. She has many years of experience in the areas of distribution and commercial law, with a special focus on advising consumer goods companies in the development of international multichannel systems, including online distribution. Her practice includes franchise, agency and licensing agreements as well as sourcing and quality agreements. Christiane Zedelius has considerable experience in setting up selective distribution systems for luxury brands, including the management of European brands in Asia.

Christine Seiz

Christine Seiz is a lawyer at Dentons' Munich office. She focuses on intellectual property and corporate. She provides legal advice in particular regarding commercial contracts such as distribution agreements, supply agreements, license agreements, (software) development agreements, service agreements (e.g. SaaS agreements). Besides, she gives advice regarding franchising, M&A transactions, IP related transactions as well as competition law and regulatory aspects. Christine Seiz also sets a special emphasis on the protection of intellectual property, especially of trade secrets. Her clients come in particular from the information technology (IT), consumer goods, life sciences and automotive industries.

Christoph Zieger

Christoph Zieger is a partner in the Munich office. He focuses on litigation as well as commercial and IT law. Christoph has years of experience advising and representing his clients on all contentious matters and in litigation. Besides assisting in legal disputes, he advises his clients among other things on all questions of general commercial and IT law, including German and European privacy legislation. He acts for clients in the insurance and technology sectors mainly. Christoph holds a law degree from Ludwig Maximilians University Munich where he graduated in 2005. Before joining the practice, he worked as an Of Counsel at another global law firm in Munich. Christoph is admitted as a German lawyer and as a specialist lawyer for employment law. He is a German native speaker and fluent in English.

Christophe Renaudin

Christophe is a counsel in Dentons’ Luxembourg office and a member of the Banking and Finance group. He assists banks, financial institutions, as well as domestic and international companies on acquisition finance, leveraged finance, cross-border financings, funds financing in connection with the setting up of bridge and capital commitment facilities, securitizations, as well as capital markets matters. He represents both borrowers (including private equity and hedge funds) and lenders on lending operations and all secured transactions, advising in particular on the setting up of security packages and issues surrounding collateral in the context of debt restructuring transactions.

Christopher Colclough

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 Mayston

Christopher Mayston is an attorney and partner in the Munich office of Dentons. His main areas of experience include venture capital, private equity, M&A, banking and capital markets law, finance and general corporate law. Christopher advises on transactions involving international investors as well as start-ups and other (privately held or listed) companies, in particular in the health care, life sciences and technology sectors. He also advises banks and financial service providers on aspects of banking and capital markets law. His work includes advising fund managers on matters of investment law, including fund formation and compliance with regulatory requirements Christopher also works in the areas of corporate finance transactions and general corporate law and has broad litigation experience in particular regarding corporate disputes and claims against board members. Before joining Dentons, Christopher Mayston worked for several years at international law firms in Munich in the field of capital markets.

Christopher McGee-Osborne

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.

Chun Ying Ng

Chun Ying is a Senior Partner in the Tax and Trusts, Estates and Wealth Preservation Practice of Dentons Rodyk. Chun Ying is a tax lawyer based in Singapore with more than a decade of experience advising and representing multinational corporations and individuals on a broad range of cross-border tax issues, as well as tax disputes. Chun Ying's practice covers all aspects of Singapore taxes including income tax, stamp duty, goods and services tax, and transfer pricing. She is also well-versed in regional and global tax issues, having worked on many multijurisdictional tax matters. Chun Ying is recognised as a Next Generation Partner for Tax by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific and has been awarded Lawyer of the Year for Tax by Women in Business Law Awards APAC for her expertise. Chun Ying has worked with a diverse range of clients, ranging from large Fortune 500 and listed corporations to startups, blockchain companies, real estate developers, funds, family offices, and high net worth individuals. Her non-contentious experience includes corporate restructuring, IP restructuring, M&A, tax incentives, blockchain and ICOs, fund structuring, startup ESOPs/founder shares planning and many others. On the contentious side, Chun Ying has appeared before administrative tribunals and has represented many taxpayers in audits and objections before the tax authorities. Controversy issues she has handled include tax incentive disputes, IP writing-down allowances, taxation of revenue/capital gains, sourcing of income, deduction of R&D expenses, tax residency, payment characterisation issues, foreign tax credit claims, transfer pricing, GST registration obligations and many others. Prior to joining Dentons' practice, Chun Ying was a partner at a tier-one tax practice of an international law firm, where she built a career advising and representing clients in a range of highly complex tax matters. She also has a unique background having served as the APAC Senior Tax Counsel of Visa Worldwide Pte. Ltd., a top Fortune 500 company that operates in more than 200 countries globally. Chun Ying was shortlisted "Tax Dispute Lawyer of the Year" in the Women in Business Law Awards APAC 2022, amongst other senior tax practitioners in the region.

Clark Kassian

Partner

Claude Morency

Partner

Claudiu Munteanu-Jipescu

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.

Clémence Personne

Clémence Personne is a counsel in Dentons’ Corporate and M&A practice in Luxembourg. Clémence’s principal fields of activity are corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, real estate, joint ventures, structuring, and financing. She has also profound knowledge of unregulated investment funds. She regularly advises private equity clients in relation to the acquisition and structuring of their vehicles and is active in the field of joint ventures as well as in investment structuring. She further advises major international groups of companies and local clients for corporate reorganizations, financing and re-financing as well as on-going general corporate matters. Her field of activity also includes the structuring and setting-up of management incentive schemes. She also assists institutional investors, promoters and sellers on all types of real estate transactions.

Clemens Maschke

Dr. Clemens Maschke is an emerging markets specialist, as such using an established network helping clients capitalize on evolving trends in the marketplace—whether on domestic markets or frontier markets such as Africa, China, India, the Middle East or elsewhere by making sure client’s perspective to a deal is adequately reflected, both in terms of legal implications always bearing cultural nuances in mind. Legal 500 recognizes such expertise at the “intersection with M&A transactions and joint ventures.” Clemens is part of Dentons' Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions and Private Equity practices. He is also a member of Dentons’ global Venture Technology group and the Dentons Iran team. Rendering advice in a pragmatic and collaborative manner Clemens is contributing to the venture technology ecosystems both in terms of pro bono work, e.g. when partnering with Sigma Squared Society and accelerators in support of founders tackling legal and commercial issues on their way building a successful start-up / scale-up, and as trusted advisor for VC funds and start-ups / scale-ups. Clemens has advised on numerus domestic and cross-border transactions, the structuring of joint ventures, complex restructurings and venture technology deals, with a strong industry focus on automotive and TMT. Further, Clemens has extensive experience with international integration and compliance projects. He has worked across a wide range of industries, in particular, for global clients relating to their post-merger integration and subsidiary management, including, performing worldwide integrity checks followed by rectifications relating to the non-compliance matters / discrepancies observed and conducting business partners due diligences. Before joining Dentons, Clemens worked at other leading global law firms where he led governance, risk and compliance practices and the Iran desk. He holds a doctorate from Heidelberg University.

Colin Keenan

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.

Cornélie Arnouts

Partner

Craig Neilson

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.

Cristian Popescu

Cristian Popescu is a partner with the Corporate group in Bucharest, advising clients on complex domestic and cross-border M&A, joint ventures and private equity transactions as well as general corporate matters. Also, Cristian has been actively involved in real estate transactions with a particular focus on agribusiness projects and EU financing. Cristian has extensive experience in intellectual property and copyright, assisting local and international clients in a broad range of issues related to the registration and protection of trademarks, patents and domain names with a focus on technology, media and digitization.

Cristina Marcu

Cristina Marcu is a Counsel and a member of the corporate practice groups of Dentons’ Bucharest office. Cristina’s practice mainly focuses on advising local and international clients on complex domestic and cross-border M&A, joint ventures and private equity transactions as well as general corporate matters. She has broad experience on real estate maters covering significant real estate acquisitions, real estate developments and financing, with particular focus on agribusiness. Cristina has been actively involved on specific IP work and assisted on important TMT transactions on the local market.

Daan Overwater

Associate

Daan Bruins

Associate

Dagmara Cisowska

Dagmara Cisowska is a tax advisor and counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Tax team. She leads the Transfer Pricing practice. Dagmara is highly experienced in transfer pricing and has taken part in a number of projects involving intercompany financial arrangements in corporate groups, transfer pricing documentation, benchmarking studies, and requests for advance pricing agreements. Her project experience includes transfer pricing policy creation, verification and implementation in corporate groups, as well as business restructuring. She specializes in representing clients during tax audits, transfer pricing proceedings and disputes, including the Mutual Agreement Procedure (MAP). Dagmara is an active member of the Transfer Pricing Forum, an advisory body to the Polish Ministry of Finance, which aims to prepare recommendations, opinions, analyses, conclusions and proposals to simplify and tighten the functioning of the tax system in the field of transfer pricing.

Dan Lund

Daniel holds the position of Counsel in Dentons' London office. He is a member of the Firm's International Trade group, and a member of the Trade, Regulatory and Government Affairs practice and the Financial Crime team. Daniel's practice focuses on all aspects of international trade, national security concerns arising from foreign direct investment, as well as financial crime matters. This encompasses compliance with export and cyber controls, financial and trade sanctions, anti-corruption and anti-money laundering regulation, as well as other aspects of international trade, including customs and excise, trade remedies, free trade agreements and wider trade policy. Daniel has a strong reputation within both the US and European trade compliance communities and advises across all industry sectors. His practice ranges from advisory, strategic, contractual and compliance advice, through to investigations and contentious advice. Daniel was awarded the City of London Solicitors' Company Prize, recognizing him as the most promising solicitor in the City of London.

Dan Burge

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 Bodle

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.

Dan Collins

Partner

Daniel Neudecker

Dr. Daniel Neudecker is a counsel in Dentons’ Berlin office and a member of the M&A / Corporate and Energy / Infrastructure practice groups. Daniel is experienced in M&A transactions, joint ventures and projects with a focus on regulated industries, namely the energy and infrastructure sector, including fiber networks and waste management systems. He advises domestic and foreign enterprises, sponsors, banks and financial investors with respect to M&A, joint ventures, projects and related financings.

Daniel Hurych

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.

Daniel Friedemann Fritz

Daniel Friedemann Fritz is a partner in Dentons’ Frankfurt office. He is a member of the Restructuring practice and focuses on restructuring and insolvency law related matters, incl. European and international insolvency law. Daniel has extensive experience in insolvency administration and representing enterprises, management and creditors in restructuring, debtor-in-possession and regular insolvency proceedings, where he acts as a legal counsel or Office Holder (Chief Insolvency Officer). Daniel regularly advises in (distressed) M&A transactions. He represents his clients in and out of court in commercial and insolvency matters related to the resolutions or defense of claims by negotiation and litigation and arbitration. Daniel’s industrial focus includes the automotive, retail and healthcare sectors. Daniel F. Fritz serves as Private Expert to the European Commission in relation to the introduction of a preventive restructuring framework and as speaker of the Working Group Europe of the German Bar Association’s (DAV) restructuring and insolvency wing. He regularly publishes and comments on German and European insolvency law.

Danny Wakeling

Partner

Dariusz Stolarek

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.

Darya Vologodskaya

Darya is a Tax Advisor in Dentons’ Almaty office. Darya specializes in providing tax services to large international and local clients of various industries. Darya’s main areas of work are provision of consultations on corporate income tax, VAT, customs legislation, international taxation, tax planning and structuring, assistance in M&A deals from a tax perspective, tax review and due diligence. Darya also specializes in supporting clients during tax and customs audits, as well as appealing the results of such audits. Experience Assistance during tax disputes, cameral control, tax audits; preparation of appeals and claims to the Ministry of Finance and Courts; Corporate tax consulting services (high-level tax reviews and assistance with tax reporting); Customs consulting services and assistance with appealing the results of customs control and customs audit procedures; Consulting services on matters related to international taxation (i.e., analysis of Kazakhstan tax implications upon restructuring of Multinational group, tax matters related to profit repatriation taking into account changes introduced in Kazakhstan tax legislation starting 1 January 2023); Consulting services on applicability of Multilateral Agreement (MLI); Consulting services on tax liabilities of a resident due to existence of a foreign controlled company («CFC»); Tax consulting services of a SPA under the sale of a participation interest in a Kazakhstan resident.

David Payton

David is a property litigator, acting for landowners, landlords, investors, corporate tenants and retailers. His work ranges from litigation over option agreements and issues such as applications for consent and easements, to property insolvency and all kinds of landlord and tenant dispute.

David Zafra Carollo

David Zafra Carollo is a partner in Dentons’ Dusseldorf office. He is a member of the Real Estate practice and focuses on transactions in the real estate industry in Germany and Europe. David is also highly experienced in the restructuring of industrial sites, in real estate financings and in the representation of clients in out-of-court settlements and litigation before state courts with respect to complex real estate matters. He conferences with respect to real estate related topics and is a lecturer at Beck Akademie.

David Lewis

Partner

David Ireland

Partner

David Slim

David Slim is a senior associate in the Compliance and Investigations practice in Dentons' Dubai office. He has nine years of experience working on a wide range of regulatory matters and investigations in the US, EU and Middle East. He is also a member of Dentons' International Trade and Regulatory groups. David assists multinational corporations and financial institutions on various cross-border regulatory proceedings, internal investigations and crisis management issues. He has advised clients from various sectors and industries on US sanctions, export controls and financial crime issues, including money laundering, financing terrorism, bribery and corruption. In addition, David has assisted clients in designing and implementing robust compliance procedures, retail conduct practices, risk mitigation strategies and screening solutions in response to US, UAE, DFSA and ADGM financial policies and international sanctions regimes. In particular, David has represented clients in enforcement actions by the US Department of Commerce and Treasury, as well as by the DFSA and the Central Bank of the UAE, into alleged violations of sanctions, export controls, anti-boycott, AML and CTF regulations. Prior to joining Dentons, David worked for US international law firms in Washington, DC and Dubai. He is trilingual and experienced in drafting and negotiating in English, Arabic and French.

David Paiva

David Paiva is a Counsel in the Corporate and M&A Practice of Dentons’ Luxembourg office. David specializes in general corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, joint ventures, structuring, as well as financings ancillary to such matters. He regularly works for numerous private equity clients comprising international groups in relation to international and national acquisitions and other structures, including in the field of joint ventures and investment structures. His field of activity also includes the structuring and setting-up of leadership equity plans and management option plans. Furthermore, he also has experience in the setting-up of structures and advising on general corporate matters for Family Offices and High Net Worth Individuals. David graduated from the Paris-Descartes University in Paris (France) with a major in international law. During his studies, David did 5 internships at leading national and international law firms in Luxembourg. Before joining Dentons, he worked as a senior associate in the Corporate, Banking and Finance department of a leading independent law firm in Luxembourg for 7 years.

David Dixon

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.

David Steinberg

Partner

David Tennant

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

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

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.

Dávid Stanek

Dávid Stanek is an associate and a member of the Finance Practice Group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. He focuses his practice primarily on banking and finance transactions and certain corporate matters. David has gained extensive experience while working on projects related to M&A and corporate law issues, financings and banking, and capital markets related matters, and several due diligence reviews.

David Pang

David Pang is a senior legal consultant based in Dentons’ Dubai office and is a member of the Corporate and Commercial practice. In addition, David is an adjunct lecturer in company law at Middlesex University (Dubai), a compliance practitioner with the International Compliance Association, and author of various technical know-how and practice notes of a number of prominent legal publications. David has more than 15 years of experience advising clients on complex, high-value and cross-border M&A transactions, general commercial contracts, corporate structuring/restructuring, and corporate governance and compliance related issues. He regularly advises on private equity and venture capital investments, share and/or asset acquisitions/disposals, joint venture arrangements, legal due diligence, and commercial contracts throughout the Middle East, with a particular focus on advising clients from APAC. He has represented a range of clients, including private and listed companies, entrepreneurs and start-ups, ultra-high net worth individuals and family offices, sovereign wealth funds, private equity and venture capital funds, banking and financial institutions involving transactions across all industry sectors. Recognised by Legal 500 as a key lawyer for commercial, corporate and M&A work in the UAE, David brings a clear understanding of the synergies between commercial acumen, risk mitigation and practical solutions as demanded by in-house general counsel and legal teams having been seconded to a national oil company, a renewable energy private equity fund and an ultra-high net worth Hong Kong family office.

Davide Boffi

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

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.

Dean Ryburn

Dean Ryburn is a Partner and co-head of the Middle East Construction and Dispute Resolution practice. He has more than 15 years' experience advising clients on risk management and dispute avoidance and resolution. He regularly acts for clients in all common forms of dispute resolution (including litigation, arbitration and mediation) to protect and enforce their legal rights in relation to their most important projects and transactions. He has an in-depth understanding of local laws, practices and dispute resolution frameworks having been based in the region full-time for more than 12 years. Dean brings a commercial background and understanding to disputes from previous roles as senior inhouse counsel for a leading regional power developer and a secondment to a Government-owned company to advise on negotiating the close-out and resolution of disputes for a US$ 4 billion project. Dean has been named as one of 10 consultants in the 2022 and 2023 Construction Week Power 100 ranking of the Middle East's most influential construction leaders in recognition of his particular expertise in complex and high-value construction arbitrations. Dean is also ranked in Chambers and as a leading individual in Legal 500. He regularly acts for clients in resolving disputes relating to variations, delay and disruption, early termination, defective works and related issues. He is noted for his ability to quickly grasp and distil complex technical and legal issues and provide and deliver on a clear strategy to achieve clients' commercial objectives in a cost-efficient manner. He acts for all project participants but has particular expertise advising Main Contractors on resolving complex interconnected disputes with Employers and Subcontractors.

Debby Lim

Debby Lim is a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk's Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group. She is the deputy head of the Firm's Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice group. She has a broad commercial practice with overlapping strengths in banking and finance disputes, insolvency and restructuring, domestic and international arbitrations. She has also acted in construction and property-related disputes, shareholder disputes. She focuses on all areas of contentious insolvency, asset recovery work (including major commercial disputes), fraud and investigations. These often involve complex and multifaceted litigation in the aftermath of cross-border corporate collapses. Debby has represented debtors, creditors and officeholders in myriad insolvency-related litigation, including contested scheme of arrangement applications, creditor disputes, security enforcement and antecedent transactions. She has acted in some of the most prominent and complex cross-border insolvency and restructuring matters in the Asia Pacific region. Debby is gaining a strong reputation for appellate advocacy. She has appeared before the Singapore Court of Appeal (with a full bench of five Judges) in a trifecta of jurisprudentially significant insolvency-related appeals to confront the Singapore courts. Debby also has significant experience in restructuring and non-contentious insolvency work, including advising on the first “pre-packaged” scheme of arrangement and the first judicial management involving a foreign-incorporated entity. These are precedent-setting matters which impact the way the industry handles similar matters moving forward. She is also one of the first three Singapore-qualified practitioners to be bestowed the prestigious fellowship from INSOL International. As a thought leader in the area of restructuring and insolvency, Debby writes frequently on the topic and recently contributed to the LexisNexis's Annotated Laws of Singapore. Debby recently also participated in the recent session of UNCITRAL Working Group V which debates and considers issues in relation to international and cross-border insolvency law. Debby concurrently serves as the Co-Chair of the Law Society of Singapore's Publications Committee and Vice-Chair of the Insolvency Practice Committee. Apart from work, Debby is engaged in diversity and inclusion as well as pro bono causes. She is currently a Director At Large of the International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation. Debby was previously Co-Chair of the Singapore Network. She is also a founding member of the Law Society of Singapore’s Women in Practice Task Force. Debby is a member of her firm's Inclusion Advisory Council.

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Diego Viana is a partner of the Montevideo office. He is the leader of the Labor team in Uruguay, having a vast experience in labor litigation and collective bargaining (both at company and sector levels).

Diego Carrera

Lawyer

Dirk Schoene

Dirk Schoene is a partner in Dentons’ Berlin office. He advises on restructuring, insolvency law, banking and finance, securities and litigation. In restructuring matters, Dirk advises companies, directors and shareholders in restructuring processes of distressed companies to avoid insolvency proceedings and to prevent personal liability risks for directors. This includes legal advice and administration of trusteeships (double-sided trusteeships). If insolvency cannot be avoided, he has strong experience advising on the successful restructuring in the context of a protective shield proceeding (Schutzschirmverfahren) as well as debtor-in-possession proceedings (Eigenverwaltungsverfahren) with a focus on restructuring by means of an insolvency plan. His capabilities extend to advising hospitals in debtor-in-possession proceedings. Dirk is also fully experienced in representing potential investors and sellers (including insolvency administrators) in the M&A process regarding the sale or acquisition of companies in distressed situations or in insolvency proceedings. He also regularly advises banks, institutional investors and other secured creditors (including suppliers) on the implementation, administration and realization of securities in distressed situations or insolvency proceedings. In insolvency proceedings, Dirk supports and represents creditors and has particular insight in developing a defense against Paulian actions, and in creditors’ committees (Gläubigerausschüsse). He regularly advises Dentons GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft Steuerberatungsgesellschaft as a common representative (Gemeinsamer Vertreter von Anleihegläubigern) in insolvency proceedings. The main focus of his publications is distressed M&As and debtor-in-possession proceedings under German Insolvency law.

Dirk-Jan Gondrie

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).

Domien Kriger

Associate

Dominic Spacie

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 Pellew

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.

Dominik Thomer

Dr. Dominik Thomer is a Partner in Dentons’ Dusseldorf office. He is a member of the Tax and Real Estate practice and focuses on tax issues arising from national and international mergers and acquisitions and aspects of domestic and international transactions. Dominik has extensive experience in real estate and leasing funds as well as in real estate transactions and tax litigation matters. He also represents clients in preliminary investigations by tax investigators and prosecution authorities in respect of suspected fiscal offences.

Doru Postelnicu

Doru Postelnicu is a Counsel in Dentons’ Bucharest office. Doru has a strong track record advising clients from energy, agribusiness, real estate and life sciences sectors and private equity funds on their M&A deals covering all necessary stages: from drafting, negotiation to closing and post-closing. He also focuses on banking, finance, and trade finance (factoring and reverse factoring). He has also gained significant experience in construction law, including contracting, subcontracting issues, insurance and performance security.

Douglas Blyth

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 insolvency disputes, having acted in connection with some of the largest and highest profile insolvencies in Scotland, including several with significant cross-border elements. He also has significant experience of acting on both sides of shareholder and boardroom disputes. Public procurement disputes also form a particularly noteworthy part of Douglas's practice, having pursued a large number of such challenges on behalf of a wide range of businesses, including the first challenge to be considered by the Supreme Court under the Scottish Regulations.

Douglas Blyth

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.

Douglas B. B. Stewart

Partner

Drahomír Široký

Drahomír Široký is senior associate in Dentons’ Bratislava office. In his practice, he specializes in M&A, corporate and real estate matters. He has been involved in several cross-border and domestic M&A transactions in various sectors and industries. He has extensive experience in leading and managing due diligence teams and in negotiating transaction documents for both buyers and sellers. Drahomír also advises clients on real estate transactions, including sales and purchases of properties, real estate due diligence and commercial lease negotiations.

Eavan Saunders

Office Managing Partner

Edmund Leow

Edmund is a senior partner heading up the firm’s Tax practice with three decades of experience in advising multinational organisations on cross-border tax planning, transfer pricing and tax disputes. He also advises on international trade issues such as customs, WTO and free-trade agreements. Edmund also leads the firm’s Trust, Estates and Wealth Preservation practice and advises high net worth individuals, private banks and trust companies in personal tax, as well as in trust and estate planning matters. Edmund was invited by the government to serve as a Judicial Commissioner at the Supreme Court and served from 2013 to 2016. On stepping down, he was appointed Senior Counsel in 2017, making him the first and only Tax and Trust lawyer to be given this accolade nationwide. Prior to his appointment to the Singapore judiciary in 2013, Edmund was named a Tier 1 lawyer by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific for Tax in 2012. His views on tax and wealth management were widely sought and publicised in the media, such as Bloomberg, BBC, Channel NewsAsia, Reuters, The Financial Times and The Straits Times. He was also a founding partner of a Singapore law firm that was associated with an international law firm, where he headed up the Tax and Wealth Management practices in Singapore. Edmund is the President and an honorary member of the Singapore Trustees Association (STA). He is a co-founder of the STA, and previously served as its President from 2004 to 2008, then as Vice President from 2008 to 2013. The STA represents the interests of trust companies in Singapore. In addition, he has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Income Tax Board of Review, which is a statutory tribunal which hears income tax disputes between the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore and taxpayers.

Edward Hickman

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.

Edward Borovikov

Managing Partner

Eldor Mannopov

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 Kerr

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.

Elena Vlasceanu

Elena Vlasceanu has over 15 years of experience in advising domestic and international clients on corporate, mergers and acquisitions, energy, construction, real estate, regulatory and compliance matters. Elena has advised on post-privatization matters arising from the sale purchase agreements concluded between the authorities of the Romanian state and private investors, and on various M&A transactions with a focus on renewable energy, transport and logistics and real estate. She has guided clients through every stage of transactions from due diligence and structuring, to negotiation and preparation of legal documentation, to post-transaction transition and post-merger integration. In addition to her M&A expertise, Elena has extensive experience in the energy sector, advising clients on the successful development (including real estate and construction aspects), commissioning and operation of renewable energy projects. She has also been a member of the working group in charge of providing the amendments to the Law 220/2008 regarding the promotion system of energy from renewable energy sources. As far as her experience in compliance matters is concerned, Elena has advised on and participated in industry-civil society working groups on legislation, and liaised with the Government on the National Anti-Corruption Strategy for 2016-2020. Since giving back to the community is an important aspect of her work, Elena has become a legal volunteer for Code4Romania, where she has provided support on various contractual aspects.

Eleni Kassaris

Partner

Elisabeth Lauwerier

Elisabeth Lauwerier is a senior associate in the Real Estate and Litigation practice. Elisabeth is experienced in all areas of Real Estate in Luxembourg—including office and commercial lease contracts, property acquisitions, town planning, urban planning law, construction contracts, land use development and environmental issues for numerous financial and commercial companies. She also assists clients on contract law, due diligence as well as in the drafting and negotiating for numerous types of agreements. In addition, Elisabeth focuses on Real Estate dispute resolution and support during pre-litigation.

Elmer Doonan

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.

Emma Irving

Partner

Emmanuelle van den Broucke

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.

Enrico Troianiello

Enrico Troianiello is a partner in our Milan office and a member of the global Corporate M&A practice.

Eric Lung

Partner

Erica Shadeed

Partner

Erik Kožúrik

Erik Kožúrik is a junior associate and a member of the Corporate practice group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. Erik primarily focuses on complex corporate matters, domestic and cross-border M&A deals across various sectors, private equity transactions, joint ventures and restructurings. He also brings particular experience in trust funds and corporate finance.

Eszter Zádori

Eszter Zádori is a partner in Dentons’ Budapest office and a member of the Energy practice. She specializes in energy law, with a focus on the natural gas and electricity industry. Eszter also represents clients in general corporate and commercial matters, as well as in commercial arbitration cases and M&A transactions. With her 20 years of experience in the energy sector, Eszter has advised a number of major stakeholders on a wide range of matters and transactions, including the TSO in gas and electricity, natural gas producers, natural gas and electricity trading and sales companies, LPG distributors, as well as conventional and renewable power generation companies. Her expertise in the energy sector extends from advising on complex commercial, M&A and arbitration matters to providing guidance to clients on regulatory and compliance issues.

Evan Lazar

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 Prudko

Evgenia Prudko is a legal advisor in Dentons’ Kyiv office with major focus on antitrust and competition issues, including obtaining merger clearance, unfair competition, advising on concerted practices. She provides clients with comprehensive advice in order to avoid antitrust and competition issues or investigations. Her antitrust practice also includes providing tailored compliance advice as well as conducting audits and risk assessments. Evgenia helps clients achieve their objectives by incorporating antitrust and competition law in their business practices. Evgenia has almost 20 years of experience in advising both international and local clients on competition, compliance, corporate, M&A, and employment issues. She provides legal support to the clients on corporate restructurings, problematic individual dismissals, transfers of businesses, employment restructurings, including outsourcing projects, joint-venture establishment etc. Her client base includes large national and international corporations, companies in food, feed and agribusiness, financial institutions and private equity firms. Evgenia is a regular speaker at various events and conferences in and outside of Ukraine as well as an author of publications. Evgenia is a Deputy Head of the Law Committee and Committee for Feed, Food and Agriculture by the German-Ukrainian Chamber of Commerce.

Ewa Rutkowska-Subocz

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

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.

Faris Shehabi

Faris Shehabi is a senior associate specialising in commercial dispute resolution in Dentons' Dubai office. He has over 15 years' experience working on a wide range of complex international trade and commercial disputes including experience before tribunals in ad hoc proceedings and under regional and international arbitration rules including ICC, UNCITRAL, LCIA, DIAC, SIAC, HKIAC, AIAC and LMAA, as well as before the courts of numerous jurisdictions (UK, Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia, DIFC and ADGM). His experience is across a range of different sectors including energy and infrastructure, shipping and commodities, banking and finance, and shareholder disputes. He was previously in charge of legal services at a leading international arbitral institution in Asia, is regularly invited to speak at regional and international events and is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Fatima Al Sabahi

Fatima Al Sabahi is a senior associate in the Tier One ranked Corporate practice in Dentons' Muscat office. She has 13 years' experience advising Oman-based and international investors on a wide range of legal matters including advising clients on corporate, commercial and employment legal issues. Fatima is dual-qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales and licensed to appear before the Omani Primary and Appeal Courts. Her experience is across a range of different sectors including oil & gas, power and water, pharmaceuticals and hospitality. Fatima worked both in private practice with an international law firm and as an in-house lawyer for a government-owned investment company in the Sultanate of Oman. Fatima is bilingual and has the ability to draft and negotiate in Arabic and English.

Fatma Al Amri

Fatma Al Amri is a senior associate in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in Dentons' Muscat office. She has over 9 years' experience working on a wide range of Litigation and Dispute Resolution matters including advising clients on arbitration, commercial disputes and employment. Her experience is across a range of different sectors including construction and insurance. Fatma has been appointed as Secretary to the Tribunal at the new Oman Arbitration Centre and has rights to appear before the Primary and Appeal Courts in Oman. She is bilingual and has the ability to draft and negotiate in Arabic and English.

Faye Garvey

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 Fusco

Federico Fusco is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the global Intellectual Property, Data and Technology practice. He specializes in intellectual and industrial property matters and has gained significant expertise in handling national and cross border litigation concerning European and national patents, EU, International and national trademarks, trade secrets, designs, copyright and unfair competition. He also provides out-of-court assistance in connection with corporate transactions involving mainly intangible assets, licensing and technology transfer agreements, commercial collaboration and co-branding. He deals with copyright and related contracts, including software contracts, and represents companies in negotiations with collective rights management societies as well as in disputes before the Italian courts, civil and administrative courts and the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) concerning copyright levies, and in strategic advice concerning rights on press publications as defined by the Copyright Directive. His expertise includes advising Italian and international clients in high-end technology industries, such as automotive, energy, life sciences, but also in the luxury and consumer goods, publishing and entertainment sectors. Federico also gained relevant experience in advertising litigation and in advising Internet service providers in relation to possible infringements of third parties' rights by user-uploaded content.

Federico Sutti

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 Ewing

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.

Fermín Garbayo

Partner

Fernando Jiménez de Aréchaga

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.

Fernando Jiménez de Aréchaga Jr

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.

Florian Wiesner

Dr. Florian Wiesner, LL.M. (Cambridge), is a partner in our Dusseldorf office and Co-Head of the Competition & Antitrust group in Germany. He advises on all areas of EU and German competition law, specializing in merger control, cartel investigations, cooperation and distribution agreements, compliance and all antitrust aspects of the day-to-day business. Florian has particular experience advising and coordinating multinational merger control proceedings. He advises clients from a wide range of industry sectors, with a special focus on the automotive, e-mobility and energy sector. Prior to joining Dentons, Florian worked for 10 years for two leading international law firms in Duesseldorf.

Florian-Alexander Wesche

Dr. Florian-Alexander Wesche is a Partner in Dentons’ Dusseldorf office and specialized in energy law. Florian advises companies in the energy and the industrial sectors (including the automotive and chemical industry) as well as financial investors on all aspects of German and European energy law with a special focus on energy contract law and energy regulation. He is particularly experienced in energy retail business, power production and distribution projects (renewable and conventional sources, including contracting), energy procurement concepts and contracts and e-mobility charging solutions. He has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating energy supply contracts and power plant related agreements. In addition, Florian has wide-ranging expertise of the German Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG) including the support scheme for renewable projects as well as the relief scheme for industrial companies regarding the EEG levy (EEG-Umlage) including respective litigation and energy regulatory compliance monitoring for industrials. He also has an in-depth knowledge of the areas of German and European regulation concerning grid access to gas and power grids and access to gas storage systems. Florian is regularly invited to speak on topics relating to energy law and often publishes articles in his fields of expertise. Before joining Dentons in 2021, Florian was a partner and head of energy law for several years in other international law firms.

Francesca Betterman

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.

Francesca Bettermann

François Brabant

Partner

Frank Tepper-Sawicki

Frank Tepper-Sawicki, EMBA, is a Partner in the Corporate practice of Dentons' Düsseldorf and Munich offices. He advises German and international clients on corporate law/mergers and acquisitions. He focuses on advising national and international companies and investors on M&A transactions, corporate restructuring and reorganization. His clients include private equity and venture capital investors as well as (multi-)national companies and emerging growth companies. His work focuses on advising companies and investors in the field of technology and regulated industries (energy). He advises, for instance, companies in the IT industry as well as in the biotechnology and automotive sectors, and also advises groups and emerging growth companies on the implementation of innovative digital business models (including the use of artificial intelligence and blockchain technology).

Frantisek Ordódy

Frantisek Ordódy is an associate in the M&A and Private Equity practice groups of Dentons’ Budapest office. His practice primarily focuses on M&A including acquisitions and dispositions, general corporate and employment matters.

Frédérique de La Chapelle

Frédérique de La Chapelle is a Partner in the Dentons Paris office and Head of Europe Insurance group. She is renowned in regulatory and dispute resolution matters in the insurance and reinsurance sectors. Frédérique assists domestic and international clients with all questions relating to inter alia regulatory insurance, transactions, partnerships agreements, transactional insurance, the structuring of insurance products (including affinity insurance), review and adaptation of insurance policies, review and negotiations of reinsurance agreements, licensing and portfolio transfer. Frédérique also has a broad dispute management expertise acts in the context of cross-border and complex litigation proceedings notably relating to civil liability (third-party liability, professional liability, product liability, industrial risk in the energy sector) and financial lines (D&O, W&I, fraud, etc.). Frédérique’s clients include insurers, reinsurers, CAC40 companies and brokers.

Frédérique Meslay Caloni

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.).

Gábor Göndös

Gábor Göndös is an of counsel at Dentons’ Budapest office. He is a highly experienced legal professional with an impressive track record spanning over 20 years in the field of employment law. At Dentons, Gábor focuses on all areas of employment law including labor relations and collective labor law negotiations with unions and employee representatives, restructuring, redundancies and reductions in force, labor law litigation, transaction-related employment advice as well as day-to-day employment matters. With his extensive experience and in-depth expertise in labor law Gábor Göndös consistently delivers exceptional results to clients.

Gabriel Olufemi

Gabriel Olufemi is a senior associate in the Dentons Middle East Construction and Dispute Resolution practice. He has been working in the Middle East since 2014 and has more than 10 years of experience working on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious construction and engineering matters. Specializing in construction and engineering law, Gabriel has extensive experience providing legal advice on high-value complex projects for the public and private sector in the Middle East (including Qatar, the UAE, Oman and Saudi Arabia), Africa and the UK. These have included road, airport, heavy rail engineering infrastructure, stadia infrastructure and facilities, independent sewage treatment plants and renewable energy projects. He advises clients during all stages of the project lifecycle from design to financial close, including providing advice on project structure, procurement strategy, contract strategy, operation and maintenance, dispute avoidance and international arbitration.

Gabriele Haas

Dr. Gabriele Haas is a partner in Dentons’ Frankfurt office and a member of the Corporate / M&A practice group. Gabriele leverages her extensive in-house experience as an executive in the energy sector, advising on energy law, regulatory law and compliance. Within her energy and regulatory practice, her main area of focus is energy transition issues, such as decarbonization, sector coupling, energy storage and advising on the regulation of hydrogen, green gas, clean and low emission fuels, e-mobility, emissions reduction and emissions trading as well as the wholesale energy market and its regulation. In addition to her energy and regulatory practice, she advises clients on current compliance and ESG issues, such as the EU Taxonomy Regulation, the Supply Chain Duty of Care Act and the implementation of preventive measures for sustainable corporate governance, among others. She also advises on the development of customized compliance management systems, organizational structures and procedures, as well as on the risks of fines and civil liability. She further advises on the prevention of market manipulation and insider trading, bribery and corruption, money laundering and terrorist financing as well as violations of human rights.

Gabriella Pataki

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.

Gareth Steen

Head of Restructuring

Gemma Freeman

Gemma is a member of the Dispute Resolution and Insolvency practice. She specializes in insolvency, corporate recovery related litigation and shareholder disputes. She has advised private equity firms, insolvency practitioners, company directors, stakeholders, liquidators and other fiduciaries on both contentious and non-contentious matters. She has acted for both financial institutions and unsecured creditors of companies in financial distress and insolvency practitioners in a variety of formal insolvency processes, including compulsory and voluntary liquidations, receiverships, bankruptcy and examinerships.

Partner

Senior Associate

Partner

Gergely Stanka is a Partner, and Head of the Dispute Resolution and Arbitration practice group at Dentons' Budapest Office. He is leading the largest dedicated litigation and arbitration team of the country at an International Law Firm. With a strong focus on court and arbitration proceedings, both locally and internationally, Gergely and his well-established team have achieved remarkable success in representing clients. Gergely Stanka’s expertise extends to a wide range of litigation areas, including commercial, banking, energy, administrative, tax-related, and labour law litigation cases. He is a permanent arbitrator in the money and capital market section at the Arbitration Court affiliated with the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and he has been listed as an arbitrator for several years. Partner Gergely Stanka regularly provides legal representation in civil litigation, non-contentious litigation, domestic and international arbitration and non-litigious proceedings on a daily basis to a variety of clients in a wide-range of sectors. He also regularly acts as an arbitrator in domestic arbitration cases. In the framework of these regular litigation and arbitration activities, Gergely was involved in several international and domestic dispute resolution proceedings, work-out cases, amicable settlements, analyses, and advisory services.

Giangiacomo Olivi

Giangiacomo Olivi is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and Europe Co-head of Intellectual Property, Data and Technology Group. He assists clients, such as national and international companies as well as industrial associations, providing strategical and commercial legal advice in relation to technology, media and communications matters, with a specific focus on data management and digital transformation. Giangiacomo handled some of the most relevant matters in relation to data protection, data privacy and GDPR compliance (including coordinating major projects from Italy also involving multiple jurisdictions). He also assists clients with regard to outsourcing and commercial transactions in a wide range of sectors. Giangiacomo is renowned as one of the best TMT lawyers in Italy.

Gianluca Calisti

Gianluca Calisti is a Partner in Dentons Paris Tax group. He focuses his practice on corporate taxation and real estate taxation. He has developed a longstanding experience in tax structuring for assets and real estate companies, locally and internationally. He also operates in the energy and media sectors.

Gianmarco Tortora

Gianmarco Tortora is a partner in our Milan office and a member of the global Tax practice.

Gianpaolo Garofalo

Gianpaolo Garofalo is a partner in Denton's Rome office and a member of the global Banking and Finance practice. He assists clients, including leading national and international banks and investment funds, providing advice on financial, regulatory, corporate and contractual legal issues. Gianpaolo has significant experience in structured finance, capital markets and banking, and has worked on numerous securitization and asset-backed transactions, bank financings, public offerings, EMTN debt programs and Italian local entities transactions. He also provides advice on Italian banking and financial services regulation, with particular reference to derivatives contracts, equity transactions, CRR and MiFID 2 regulations. He has also gained considerable experience in liability management and financial debt restructuring transactions. Furthermore, Gianpaolo assists both local and regional authorities and potential or existing investors in the field of public finance, as well as in the context of structured finance transactions involving public debt or other claims vis-à-vis public authorities and administrations.

Gilla Harris

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.

Ginevra Biadico

Ginevra Biadico is a managing counsel in Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the Project, Energy and Infrastructure business unit in Italy. She is also part of the global Banking and Finance practice. She is experienced in administrative law with a specific focus on the energy and infrastructure sectors. Ginevra assists clients with both contentious and noncontentious matters, regularly advising international and Italian lenders, funds, investors, developers, employers and contractors on a wide variety of issues relating to energy and infrastructure projects. In particular, she has worked on a variety of renewable energy projects (including photovoltaic, wind farm, biogas, biomass and hydroelectric, solar rooftop and greenhouse, natural gas cogeneration, water desalination, energy storage and energy efficiency, landfill) as well as infrastructure projects (including hospital, roads, highways and schools). Ginevra has also navigated clients through private and public tender procedures as well as representing clients in litigation proceedings in the renewable energy sector. She is known for her work on many high-profile national and cross-border project finance and M&A transactions.

Giovanni Diotallevi

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.

Giulia Giordano

Giulia Giordano is a senior associate in Dentons’ Rome office and is a member of the global Competition & Antitrust practice. Giulia advises on Italian and European antitrust law, state aid law and consumer law, including competition litigation before the Italian Competition Authority and administrative courts as well as before the General Court of the European Union. She also has experience in carrying out the assessment and notification of merger transactions as well as the assessment and notification of foreign direct investments (Golden Powers). She also deals with antitrust audit activities and compliance programs.

Gordon L. Tarnowsky KC

Gord is Co-Leader of the Canada Region Litigation and Dispute Resolution group in Calgary. He is the past National Chair and Calgary Leader of the Firm's Alternative Dispute Resolution Group.

Greg McNab

Partner

Greg Thwaites

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”.

Guillaume Kessler

Guillaume Kessler, Partner in the Dentons' Paris office, is specialized in public and private M&A, securities law, private equity transactions and tender offers. He advises French and international corporate clients, both listed and unlisted, as well as private equity firms, and covers a wide range of sectors of industry.

Hailey Hye-In Jin

Senior Attorney

Haya Moubaydeen

Haya Moubaydeen is a senior associate in the Corporate and Commercial practice in Dentons' Amman office. She has eight years' experience advising and representing national and international clients across a broad range of sectors including corporate and commercial, projects and infrastructure, telecommunications, dispute resolution and labor. Her legal services have a focus on contractual, regulatory, finance and investment matters, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, regulatory compliance, negotiation and review of various legal agreements and preparation of legal due diligence reports, particularly in connection with commercial arrangements. Haya also supports the Dentons Doha office and leads on matters including regulatory, telecommunications projects, agency and distribution queries, employment and acquisitions. Haya was highlighted as a "Rising Star" for the corporate, commercial and M&A guide in Legal 500 2023 and 2024. She is a member of the Dentons CSR Committee representing Jordan, and devotes significant time to pro bono and CSR activities. She was selected as the Middle East volunteer for the Greece Collaborative Pro Bono Project which encompassed travel to the island of Lesvos in Greece to advise with regards to family reunification cases and to assist with asylum interview preparations. The Collaborative Project has received awards for "Innovation in Social Responsibility" at the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers Awards Europe, and for "CSR Innovation (Multi-Firm)" at the Legal Innovation Awards.

Haz Arshad

Haz Arshad is a senior associate based in Dentons’ Dubai office and is a member of the Corporate and Commercial practice. He has more than 15 years of commercial legal experience and has been advising on corporate transactional matters for more than eight years. He regularly works with listed companies, private companies, management teams, entrepreneurs and start-ups (advising on a range of transactions including complex mergers and acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, private equity and venture capital investments, corporate restructurings and general corporate governance matters) and is a former board member of the Northwest Regional Development Agency in the UK, an advisory and strategic body responsible for the development of BME businesses at a national and regional level. Haz is experienced in advising on a wide variety of sectors including technology, media and telecommunications, financial services, FMCG, real estate and hospitality, to name a few, and is regularly recognized by clients and colleagues for his proactive, pragmatic and constructive approach.

Hazel Saffery

Partner

Hazel Shakur Quinn

Hazel Shakur Quinn is a senior legal consultant based in Dentons' Dubai office and is a member of the Real Estate practice. Hazel has 22 years' experience providing clients with strategic and practical solutions on complex real estate matters in the UK, UAE and the wider Middle East. Over the last decade, she has become the go-to-expert and trusted advisor on Middle East real estate matters to leading sovereign wealth funds, family offices, technology companies, major developers and investors on a wide range of real estate matters. Hazel has first-hand experience of running a real estate company which makes her a unique and commercially focused legal expert in the real estate market. She co-founded one of the largest chartered surveying consultancies in the Middle East. During her time in the Middle East, Hazel has led a number of "trophy asset" deals and "first-of-their- kind" transactions. She has been ranked as a leading real estate expert in Chambers Global, which states that "Hazel has impressed clients by being very knowledgeable, calm and incisive". She is known for her high-quality drafting and is recognized as a tough negotiator. Sources elaborate to say "she's very practical and commercial, delivers a good service and provides very good drafting in plain English". Businesses choose to work with Hazel for her superior industry knowledge and her strategic and commercial approach to getting deals done, with one business referring to her as the "real estate strategy whisperer". During her career, Hazel has held senior positions on global diversity and inclusion boards. She has won recognition from the legal industry for her empowerment of women initiatives in the Middle East. Hazel is regularly invited to speak at real estate industry conferences and events.

Héctor B. Viana

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

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).

Heidi E. Clark

Partner

Heiko Heppner

Heiko Heppner is co-head of the German Dispute Resolution practice group and professor of law concentrating on international arbitration and litigation with a focus on Germany and common law jurisdictions. Heiko has particular experience with defending clients against mass and class securities litigation and special expertise in Banking and Capital Markets litigation, including the liability of credit rating agencies and for the mis-selling of derivatives. Moreover, Heiko represents clients before the European courts in matters of European Banking Regulation. Heiko has advised on litigation and arbitration matters in Germany, the United States, Hong Kong, England and various other jurisdictions. Apart from court proceedings, he has represented clients in International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), German Institution of Arbitration (Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit - DIS), and ad hoc international arbitration proceedings, often regarding issues of Contract or Corporate law. Heiko also gives preemptive advise to help avoid future disputes and draft dispute resolution clauses and regimes. Heiko’s second focus is on cross-border litigation and arbitration in Germany and abroad, often involving issues of common law. His two full legal educations in Germany and the United States offer clients a particular added value in matters that cross the common law/civil law divide. As a New York attorney, Heiko advises on litigation in US courts, including US discovery in Germany and in Germany on commercial litigation involving issues of US law. As an English Barrister and Solicitor Advocate Heiko represents parties in international arbitration proceedings under English law and advises on litigation in England. He is also a lecturer of common law at the University of Bonn. Due to his extensive experience in China, Heiko increasingly acts as a counsel in international arbitration proceedings that involve Chinese parties. Heiko has been lecturing as a professor of international arbitration at Fuzhou University since 2015.

Helen Simpson

Helen is Dentons' Practice Partner for the UK and Middle East. She is responsible for leading the implementation of the Firm's strategy through our legal practices across the region. She is also a member of the Firm's UK and Middle East Board. Helen's previous roles at the firm include being a Dispute Resolution partner leading a Band 1 ranked (Chambers and Legal 500) Commercial Dispute Resolution team and leading the firm's UK Disputes Division. She is a Solicitor Advocate (All Higher Courts) and a CEDR qualified mediator. She has more than 20 years of experience running businesses and in recent years has focused on providing a range of governance, risk and strategic advice to clients.

Helen Bowdren

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.

Helen Park

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Helen T. Newland

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Hélène Retière

Hélène is a counsel in the Luxembourg office and head of the Luxembourg Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. She is also a member of the Luxembourg Real Estate practice. Hélène assists commercial companies with dispute resolution but also in pre-litigation phase. She concentrates on various sectors of activities including commercial, real estate, construction and insurance. She assists clients both in civil and commercial disputes. In addition, she is experienced in drafting and negotiating various types of civil and commercial contracts.

Henriett Fekete

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.

Henrietta Baker

Henrietta is a partner in and Head of Dentons' Technology Media and Telecoms (TMT) practice for the UK, Ireland and Middle East. Henrietta leads one of the strongest and largest specialist TMT practices with 70+ dedicated partners and fee earners based in England and Wales, Scotland, the Republic of Ireland and the United Arab Emirates. The team provides strategic counsel to some of the largest global businesses, advising on high-value projects and matters, many of which are critical to ongoing business operations and future strategic growth. Henrietta specializes in advising on technology and telecoms transactions, strategic sourcing and commercial contracts, with particular strengths in the energy, technology, aviation, manufacturing and financial services sectors. Drawing on a strong background of cutting-edge deals, Henrietta brings a wealth of experience to advising clients on legal strategy, policy and negotiation, supporting companies at all levels of the technology ecosystem, as well as non-technology companies procuring solutions. In particular, she has extensive experience in advising on communications procurement, ERP implementation, system integration, software development, cloud services (including SaaS, PaaS and IaaS), cybersecurity, AI, IoT, e-commerce, application development and maintenance, and networks projects. In addition, she regularly advises on a large number of diverse commercial arrangements, including global distribution arrangements, transitional services arrangements, business process outsourcing, manufacturing contracts, arrangements for payment technologies and concession agreements. Henrietta has been recognized as a "Next Generation Partner" in Commercial Contracts and IT & Telecoms by Legal 500 2023.

Henry J. Chang

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Holger Ellers

Dr. Holger Ellers is a partner in Dentons’ Berlin office and a member of the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice group as well as the Corporate/M&A group. He advises local and international clients on restructuring matters, corporate transactions and distressed M&A transactions as well as on insolvency law. Holger’s main focus is on advising stakeholders in restructurings, special situations and formal insolvency proceedings. He frequently advises on corporate restructuring matters, acting on behalf of the company, its management or shareholders. Acting on the creditor side, Holger represents clients in large-scale insolvency proceedings, where his focus is on enforcing his clients’ claims in and out of court, while preserving value in existing business relationships. Holger also regularly advises on corporate reorganizations and M&A transactions. He has broad experience advising on carve-out transactions and acts frequently for investors or administrators on acquisitions or disposals out of formal insolvency proceedings.

Huai Yuan Chia

Huai Yuan Chia is a partner in our Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Arbitration practice groups. He also holds a regional responsibility for the firm’s ASEAN portfolio, specifically, Vietnam and Thailand, and has represented clients in all levels of court and in arbitration proceedings. In 2018, he was appointed onto the Singapore Supreme Court’s panel of lawyers (known as amicus curiae or ‘friend of the court’) tasked with assisting it on select cases involving important questions of law of public interest. In a reported matter which Huai Yuan assisted on as amicus curiae, his submissions were commended for greatly assisting the Court in reaching its decision and helping establish a new framework in the area of law concerned. Huai Yuan has been recognised in several ranking publications as a leading practitioner, including Asian Legal Business as one of Asia’s Super 50 dispute lawyers and one of Singapore’s Rising Stars in the legal industry, The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific as a notable practitioner and key lawyer in the firm’s dispute resolution, insurance and employment practices, Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific as a Future Star in the field of Commercial and Transactions, and Singapore Business Review as one of Singapore’s 30 most influential lawyers under 40. He has also received very positive reviews from clients, which are set out on his firm profile. Huai Yuan’s experience spans a wide range of contentious and non-contentious civil and commercial matters. In addition to complex international and domestic commercial disputes and multi-jurisdictional matters, Huai Yuan has acted on and advised on matters concerning fraud, debt recovery, breaches of directors’ duties, claims for breach of trust, banking, finance and securities claims, insolvency, insurance claims, labour and employment disputes, non-compete disputes, misuse of confidential information, professional negligence and medical negligence. His practice includes acting for individuals with regard to white collar / financial crimes, and investigations on behalf of companies. He also regularly advises institutional clients and start-ups (including tech start-ups) on legal matters, including contractual disputes. After graduating from the National University of Singapore’s Law Faculty with First Class Honours in Laws and several awards (such as the Law Society of Singapore Book Prize for being the top student in his third year of studies), Huai Yuan was handpicked to assist the Chief Justice and judges of the Singapore Supreme Court as a Justices’ Law Clerk (“JLC”). The JLC scheme is a Singapore Legal Service programme by which top law graduates are selected to serve as judicial assistants / associates and provide assistance and counsel to Supreme Court judges in select cases. During his stint as a JLC, Huai Yuan was involved in several landmark judgments spanning a variety of fields, including cases on the following specialised hearing lists: Complex & Technical Cases, Finance, Securities, Banking and Complex Commercial Cases, Company, Insolvency and Trusts, Arbitration, Tort Claims, Public Law and Judicial Review. Huai Yuan has also served as a Deputy Public Prosecutor and State Counsel with the Attorney-General’s Chambers (where he handled a wide range of cases involving white and blue collar crimes, as well as advised on enforcement and regulatory matters), and has experience as a Teaching Fellow in the National University of Singapore’s Law Faculty where he taught Company Law (the module of which has a component on insolvency). Huai Yuan has published law journal articles in the United States, United Kingdom and Singapore, and is a contributor to a treatise on Corporate Law and Governance in Singapore. He has also represented NUS in international moots, and was an English and Chinese debater in school. Huai Yuan is effectively bilingual and proficient in English and Mandarin (both written and spoken).

Humphrey Douglas

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.

Ian Fox

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.

Ico Jalink

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Ignacio Demarco

Ignacio Demarco is partner in the Montevideo office. He is a member of the Labour and Employment and Social Security Department.

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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

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 Mehedynyuk

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.

Ilan Dunsky

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Ilaria Gobbato

Ilaria is a Partner in Dentons' Milan office and a member of the Public Law and Regulatory practice. She deals with public law assisting (in and out the Court) private clients in all the matters involving public entities. She has a deep knowledge of the infrastructure and health care sector. She focuses on public procurement matters, assisting clients that participate in Italian public procurement bids for supply, services, concession of public service, construction and management under project financing, as well as in entrusting of local public services, providing legal assistance in relation to the various phases of the tender procedure and the performance of the awarded agreement. Moreover, with specific reference to the Life Sciences sector, Ilaria has also gained an extensive experience in the health care and pharmaceutical sector, with specific reference to the Life Sciences sector, the authorization and accreditation decree, dealing with all the issues related to their transfer in the field of corporate transactions involving private facilities providing health and socio-medical services (as part of the national health system) and the so-called pharmaceutical pay-back.

Isabelle Leroux

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.

Israel de Diego

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István Réczicza

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.

Iulia Titirisca

Iulia Titirisca is a key member of the Competition and Antitrust team in Dentons Romani. She is part of the team advising on merger control and merger clearance matters, representing the clients before the Romanian Competition Council.

Jabier Badiola

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Jacopo Brambilla Sica

Jacopo Brambilla Sica is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the global Public Law and Regulatory practice. Jacopo has developed extensive experience in administrative law with particular regard to town planning, building, environmental law and complex and negotiated planning. He regularly advises institutional investors and developers on town planning matters and authorization procedures, as well as on urban and environmental verification and framing activities. His clients include major funds, asset management companies and companies in the real estate sector.

Jacqueline Bell

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Jakub Sobotkowski

Jakub is a partner in Dentons' Warsaw office and a member of the Real Estate practice team. Jakub has over 15 years’ experience in advising domestic and international investors and developers on a wide range of projects, including real estate transactions, development of real properties and lease projects as well as financing real estate investments and sale-and-leaseback deals. He assists clients in their day-to-day operations in the retail, office, logistics and residential sectors. Jakub focuses in particular on logistics sector, actively advising clients in the full life-cycle of the investment process, from land acquisitions and lease negotiations, through zoning, development and construction matters, to complex sale and purchase transactions (asset, enterprise, share deals and joint ventures).

Jakub Zienkiewicz

Jakub Zienkiewicz has more than 10 years’ experience in real estate finance, project finance, general corporate lending and acquisition finance as well as soft financial restructurings. He has been involved in several of the biggest real estate financing transactions in the Polish market, which related to a wide variety of assets, including student housing, residential rentals, warehouses, office and retail. He provided advice on numerous complex cross-border transactions. He assists both investors, including private equity funds, public and private companies, as well as Polish and foreign financial institutions. He advises clients on all stages of transactions and works on deal structuring, term sheets, loan agreements, including contracts based on the LMA standard, intercreditor agreements and security documents.

Jakub Celiński

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 Warren

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James Fairbairn

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 Batham

James is co-head of Clients and Markets and a member of the Executive Committee. He has 25 years' experience as a real estate litigator, is a Chambers "Eminent Practitioner" and leading retail and consumer lawyer. James specializes in working with global clients and brands converging their global panels and captures, managers and reports on the matrix of financial and other data to drive their performance. He has advised some of the very largest and best-known global brands on complex international litigation, including advice at the UK Supreme Court, multijurisdictional logistics and distribution issues, agency and distribution agreements, expansion into new markets and a wide range of commercial issues across multiple jurisdictions. James is an advisory board member for LawWithoutWalls, a unique global legal innovation, mentoring and collaboration program working with clients and changing legal education and global working, and solving complex legal and commercial problems. He is an ambassador for the Retail Trust which has been working since 1832 to improve the lives of colleagues working in retail. James has been awarded the International Office & Lexology Client Choice Award honoring practitioners for outstanding commitment to client service.

James Hsiao

James Hsiao has over 20 years’ of experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and capital markets, offering expertise in handling regional joint venture and acquisition mandates. Mr. Hsiao has assisted many of Taiwan's top companies in various fields in conducting M&A activities in the U.S., Europe, China, Japan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and other places, and has also assisted well-known foreign companies, international private equity funds, and investment banks with their M&A and investments in Taiwan. Mr. Hsiao has also assisted many Taiwan companies in listing on NYSE, NASDAQ, HKSE, and SGX, and has extensive experience in the issuance of overseas depositary receipts and overseas convertible bonds by Taiwan listed companies, private placements of securities, and sales of equity interests by major shareholders of listed companies. Mr. Hsiao is highly praised by his clients, regarding him as “the best M&A and capital markets lawyer in Taiwan for his superior expertise, profound knowledge and abundant hands-on experiences and visibility in M&A, IPOs and other capital markets matters.”

James Venit

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James Irvine

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 Wilson

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.

James Osun Sanmi

James Osun-Sanmi is a senior associate in the Debt Capital Markets and Islamic Finance practices in Dentons’ Dubai office. He has 9 years' experience working on a wide range of conventional and Islamic international debt capital markets transactions including advising governments, financial institutions and general corporate clients. He has extensive experience acting for issuers, dealers and managers on issuances inside and outside the GCC under both Regulation S and Rule 144A formats. He has worked on a wide range of different issuance formats, including standalone issuances, program updates and issuances, regulatory capital issuances, corporate hybrid issuances, ESG issuances, and tender offers and consent solicitations. James is ranked as a Rising Star by IFLR 1000 and The Legal 500, and was awarded the Rising Star Lawyer of the Year award at the IFLR Middle East Awards 2021.

Jamie Gibson

Jamie Gibson is the Managing Partner of Dentons' Muscat office and heads up our tier 1 ranked Corporate practice in Muscat. He has been practising law in the Middle East since 2008 and has over 20 years' experience working on a wide range of corporate and commercial matters including advising international and local clients on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate structuring's, company establishments, and general commercial matters such as commercial agencies, statutory compliance and corporate governance. He is an expert on foreign direct investment in Oman and has advised clients in a wide range of sectors, including defence, engineering & construction, FMCG, education, oil & gas, banking, logistics, manufacturing and infrastructure. Jamie is ranked in Chambers and Legal 500.

Jan Seelinger

Dr. Jan Seelinger is Partner in Dentons' Berlin office and covers the areas of mergers and acquisitions and corporate law, with a focus on insolvency, restructuring, private equity and venture capital as well as litigation. Jan has diverse experiences in advising financial investors as well as entrepreneurs and management. Jan is a member of the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice group of Dentons.

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Ján Dulovič

Ján Dulovič is a senior associate and a member of the Corporate practice group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. He focuses his practice on corporate, competition and regulatory law.

Jan-Mathijs Hermans

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Jana Mansour

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Jane Flournoy

Jane is a counsel in the Banking and Finance practice in Dubai. Her works involves general banking, Islamic finance, contractor finance and real estate finance matters and she also advises clients in relation to restructuring and insolvency matters in the UAE. Before joining the firm, Jane worked in the UK where she specialised in corporate restructuring and insolvency. During this time Jane would routinely act on behalf of insolvency practitioners and secured creditors and would also provide insolvency advice to companies and directors. Jane also spent time on secondment with a well known accountancy practice working with its corporate restructuring team. Since coming to the UAE, Jane has represented numerous international and local entities on a number of corporate and commercial matters and has advised generally in relation to UAE company law. Jane was also well placed to capitalize on her restructuring experience when the global downturn started to impact the region and has since advised a number of banks and creditors on the rescheduling of debtor obligations both in relation to conventional and Islamic facilities. Jane has also given a number of external seminars to clients on various insolvency topics and has had an article commenting on the new insolvency regime created to deal with Dubai World and its subsidiaries published in Eurofenix.

János Csáki

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 Witek

Jarosław Witek, partner, responsible for leading the multidisciplinary Defense and Security group in Poland. Jarosław is a legal adviser with nearly 15 years of experience in defense, public security and aerospace projects, particularly offset, industrial cooperation, and defense and security procurement. He represents suppliers of military and aerospace equipment in negotiating supply contracts with the Polish Armaments Inspectorate/Armament Agency and supply-related offset projects. He also assists clients in negotiating offset agreements with the Polish Ministry of Defense as well as technology transfer agreements and license agreements with designated Polish partners. He has security clearance with the European Union, NATO and European Space Agency.

Jason Saltzman

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Jason Sheard

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.

Jayme Alter

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Jean-Luc Fisch

Jean-Luc Fisch is a partner in Dentons' Luxembourg office. He heads the tax and investment funds practices. Jean-Luc’s focus is on tailor-made structuring for cross-border investments especially in real estate and private equity. He has extensive experience in setting up pan-European or global investment platforms. Jean-Luc advises on all tax matters dealing with investment funds, M&A, private equity, real estate and capital markets. He also has extensive experience in advising on employee benefits schemes, incentives and carried interest structuring.

Jean-Marc Grosperrin

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

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 (Kaajal) Radhakissoon

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.

Jennifer Cass

Jennifer is an intellectual property specialist in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications practice advising clients on all aspects of intellectual property law, both contentious and non-contentious. She has extensive experience in the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in a range of industries. Her non-contentious experience includes advising on complex arrangements relating to the exploitation and acquisition of intellectual property rights, including brand licensing, software supply, manufacturing and distribution, corporate due diligence and R&D projects Jennifer also has extensive experience in providing strategic advice on contentious matters, including trade mark prosecutions and oppositions, court actions, defamation matters and software disputes.

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Jimena González is an Associate in the Montevideo office. She has vast experience handling the day-to-day needs of clients and resolving complex regulatory matters for multinational clients. She is a member of the Commercial and Civil Law group. Jimena focuses on corporate matters such as company transactions, acquisitions and commercial agreements. She also specializes in mergers and acquisitions, agricultural-livestock corporations and environmental law (with a focus on ESG approach).

Jiří Tomola

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

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.

Jiří Maršál

Jiří Maršál is a junior associate in Dentons Prague office. He focuses on ICT, personal data protection, e-commerce, and intellectual property law. Jiří has significant experience in ICT disputes, due diligence investigations as well as compliance projects, often coordinating teams in several countries. He is also versed in database law, telecommunications and unfair competition.

Jitka Soldado

Jitka Soldado is a senior associate in Dentons' Prague office and a member of the Corporate and M&A Practice Group and the Employment and Labor Practice Group, with more than 11 years’ experience in employment law, commercial and corporate law and M&A. Within employment law, she concentrates on employment as well as managers’ contracts, employees’ individual and collective dismissals, employees’ secondments and outsourcing via employment agencies and employees’ benefits. She is also advising clients on the employment aspects arising out of corporate and M&A transactions. In the area of commercial, corporate law and M&A, she advises on corporate governance and has particular experience in mergers & acquisitions. In fall 2014, she was a core member of the Employment and Labor Practice in Dentons’ Paris office.

Joel Cabelli

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Johanna Redlefsen

Johanna Redlefsen is a counsel in Dentons’ Berlin office and a member of the Competition and Antitrust practice group with a particular focus on litigation and dispute resolution. Johanna Redlefsen advises and represents companies in litigation before state courts across all instances, in arbitration proceedings and in out-of-court dispute resolution. She advises domestic and foreign clients in all areas of European and German antitrust law, in particular on abuse of dominance and antitrust proceedings as well as antitrust damages.

Johanne Boelhouwer

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John Flanigan

John Flanigan is a partner in Dentons’ Paris office. He specialises in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance, including leveraged acquisitions, securities offerings and joint venture transactions. He acts for clients in the private equity and financial sector and in a wide range of other business sectors and industries (including energy and technology companies, aerospace and defense, wines and spirits, consumer goods, life sciences, emerging markets, etc.). John has published numerous articles on corporate and securities law issues, in particular regarding mergers and acquisitions, public offerings of securities and corporate governance. He has also been cited in numerous publications as a recognized corporate and private equity practitioner. John previously spent two and a half years as Managing Partner of the Shanghai office.

John Cusano

Partner

John JungKyum Kim

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Senior Counsel

Partner

Joo Thye is a consultant in Dentons Rodyk’s Finance practice group and Co-Head of the Infrastructure practice. He is experienced in the areas of banking and finance, energy, mining, infrastructure, project finance, restructuring, M&A and direct investment transactions. He has undertaken complex cross-border projects in emerging markets where project development, execution and borrowing are difficult through the use of structuring, risks transfers and risks mitigation from familiarity with these markets. He has advised on, among others, the development of both traditional and renewable energy power plants and other infrastructure assets, routinely seeing the transaction through from inception to commercial operation. Energy projects undertaken include hydroelectric power, solar power, wind power, gas and coal fired power plants in Asia such as Bangladesh, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Mongolia and China. Through multiple documentations in consortium arrangements—such as sale and purchase agreements (SPAs), shareholders' agreements (SHAs), engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contracts, fuel supply, operations and maintenance (O&M) arrangements, power purchase agreement, build-operate-transfer (BOT) contracts, implementation agreements and their related financing documents—he has successfully led these projects to financial close. He has also advised borrowers, banks and financial institutions on a wide range of transactions which include advising on bilateral, club and syndicated loans, refinancing, infrastructure financing (including utilities and both greenfield and brownfield assets), export credit agency (ECA) supported financing and acquisition financing, both within and outside of Singapore, and financing in the energy, trade and commodity sectors. He is familiar with working with export credit agencies or multilateral agencies through the use of their insurances and guarantees to enhance the bankability of power projects. In particular, he has extensive dealings and a strong relationship with the Chinese Export Credit Agency (Sinosure), a necessary and key player in financing power plants or other infrastructure projects in Asia where a Chinese contractor is involved. His in-depth understanding of bank credit and risks management issues makes identifying and assessing structural credit risks from both the operation and legal perspective more effective especially relating to borrowers or counterparties from the emerging markets in Asia, and helps to ensure that legal documentation will be executed in a timely manner.

Jose María García Santos

Partner

Josef Hainz

Dr. Josef Hainz advises clients on all matters of European and German competition law. Based in our Berlin office, Josef assists in behavioral (antitrust and cartel) investigations and merger control proceedings by the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office as well as in coordinating multinational merger-control proceedings. Josef advises clients from a wide range of industry sectors, including telecommunications, automotive, healthcare and life sciences. He has particular expertise in the energy sector, with a focus on oil- and gas-related matters as well as renewables (mainly onshore and offshore windfarms). He regularly speaks and publishes on competition law topics and is a lecturer for German and European competition law at the EBS Law School in Wiesbaden.

Josephine Koh

Josephine Koh is a Consultant in Dentons Rodyk and the firm’s ASEAN Clients & Markets Officer. Josephine has close to 30 years of corporate experience, including 20 years of navigating and working in China, both as in-house counsel and private practitioner. Josephine has led and managed countless cross-border transactions, many of which involve extensive negotiations with parties in different jurisdictions, due diligence, as well as the structuring and advisory work to manage and close transactions. Her practice areas include corporate transactional work relating to mergers and acquisitions, cross-border joint ventures and many other foreign direct investment projects in various jurisdictions. Apart from transactions involving Chinese interests and businesses, Josephine also manages foreign and local investments into the South-east Asia regions. As a senior lawyer with common law training and who has also spent more than a decade operating in the civil law jurisdiction, Josephine is efficient and confident as an important conduit for many multinational investments into and out of Singapore and also the region. Having served clients in countless cross-border transactions, Josephine is acutely aware of the often conflicting interests and variances in cultures and business mind-sets in such transactions. Josephine participates actively as speaker in the seminars and conferences over the years held by various legal seminars as well as the trade industries and committees in Singapore, Malaysia, China, and India. Josephine is proficient in English and Mandarin, and she is skilled in drafting, translating and negotiating both English and Chinese legal contracts and documents for clients.

Juan Alonso

Managing Counsel of Employment

Juan Andrés Urgoiti

Juan Andrés is Of Counsel in the Montevideo office. He focuses his practice on asset recovery, bankruptcy, and judicial liquidations, as well as debt refinancing and restructuring. He regularly advises the Asset and Risk Recovery Department of Banco Santander. He also advises the Legal Department of Banco Santander, leading the team that participates in all the legal proceedings against the Bank, in civil, commercial, and consumer protection matters. He has participated in several important cases in dispute resolution.

Judit Kővári

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.

Judith Aron

Judith Aron co-chairs the Global Compliance and Investigations practice, in addition to her appointment as co-head of the Compliance and Investigations practice in Europe and Germany. She advises clients in connection with all phases of compliance, investigations and remedial and enforcement actions and counsels global companies on how to prevent and detect violations of the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other applicable anti-corruption laws. Judith helps organizations design, enhance and implement customized compliance programs, assists with third-party screenings, and advises on remediation efforts and other compliance obligations. She has conducted internal investigations involving issues in Angola, Germany, Portugal, Morocco, Russia, the CIS, Central and Western Africa, as well as South Africa. As a fluent French, English and Russian speaker, Judith has conducted internal investigations and remediation actions that include interviewing employees, and reviewing records in French and Russian, in addition to English. Judith brings more than 10 years of international transactional corporate work to her investigation practice. She previously worked in Russia for nearly a decade, advising on complex cross-border joint ventures, M&A and divestitures across a range of industries including oil & gas, luxury goods, automotive, agroindustry and real estate, after qualifying as a New York attorney. Judith is a founding member and Secretary of Women’s White Collar Defense Association (WWCDA) Germany. She is a member of Dentons Women's Advancement Committee, focusing on advancing women lawyers and leaders. Judith coordinates pro bono legal assistance to Kiron Open Higher Education, a non-profit EdTech organization providing an online learning platform for refugees worldwide and underserved communities in the Middle East and the Ohhh! Foundation which provides advice and tools to improve the health, awareness and wellbeing of teenagers and young adults.

Julie Caussade

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.

Julien Bourgeois

Partner

Julien Le Guyader

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.

Juliet Smith

Partner

Junyi Bai

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.

Juraj Gyárfáš

Juraj is a partner in Dentons' Bratislava office. He specializes in M&A, dispute resolution and competition law. He has advised sellers and buyers on numerous high-profile M&A deals in Slovakia and the wider CEE region, as well as on post-M&A disputes and related competition matters. Juraj is the author of the first comprehensive book on M&A in Slovakia and lectures on the topic at the Law School of the Comenius University and at seminars of the Slovak Bar Association. He also published the first commentary on the Slovak Arbitration Act and authored many articles on various topics of Slovak and EU Law. Since 2015 he has been a member of the Committee for the Recodification of Private Law and the Civil Code at the Slovak Ministry of Justice.

Jurjen Bevers

Partner, Co-Head of Europe Tax

Kai Goretzky

Dr. Kai Goretzky is a partner in Dentons' Frankfurt office where he leads the insurance practice. Kai has specialized in European insurance supervisory law, intermediary law and insurance contract law as well as the specific compliance issues of insurance. He has more than 20 years of professional experience in cross-border insurance matters. Kai advises insurers, intermediaries and insurtechs in the context of the continuous adaptation of their business models to the requirements of European insurance supervisory law (Solvency II, IDD) and sustainability requirements for financial-service providers (SFDR). His current focus of legal practice is on the digitalization of the insurance industry through insurtechs, automated processes and artificial intelligence (AI). Furthermore, Kai advises banks and funds on the regulatory structuring of capital investments for insurance companies.

Kamil Januszek

Kamil Januszek is an advocate and associate in Dentons’ Warsaw office, is a member of Intellectual Property and Technology practice team. He specializes in intellectual property law, media and IT law and advises TMT sector players. He represents international telecoms in litigation and regulatory matters before the Office of Electronic Communications. He also participates in a range of projects for TV broadcasters and film producers. Kamil also specializes in advising clients with respect to intellectual property protection in share deal and asset deal transactions, in particular in the real estate market. Experience Global telecom: Representing the client before public authorities, in particular before the Office of Electronic Communications; regulatory advice. Global VOD platform: Advice with respect to the sale of rights to original Polish films and serials to another global VOD platform. TV producer: Advice with respect to production contracts and registration of a TV format. Intellectual property in transactions: Agreements for the transfer of intellectual property and license agreements; execution of due diligence reports and transactional advice concerning intellectual property, in particular in the real estate market.

Kamran Pirani

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).

Kanishka Singh

Kanishka Singh is a partner in the Energy, Infrastructure and Projects practice at Dentons' Abu Dhabi office. Kanishka has worked with international law firms in both the UK and the UAE and specializes in a broad array of energy, infrastructure and transport projects, including, but not limited to, renewables (power/water/solar), conventional energy, waste treatment, district cooling, rolling stock and civil engineering projects. In addition to his private practice experience, Kanishka understands the commercials behind a PPP/PFI transaction having previously worked as the Legal Director/Head of Legal at Veolia (Middle East), now the world’s largest water, sustainability and waste management company. Kanishka has been recognized as a "Rising Star" by Legal 500 in its 2020 (Band 1 – Construction) rankings. He has also been recognized in the Legal 500 (Band 1 – Project Finance) rankings for transactional advisory on a multi-billion-dollar I(W)PP in the GCC.

Karen Martin KC

Partner, Global Vice Chair of the Dentons Global Board

Karen B. Groulx

Partner

Karol Laskowski

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.

Katarína Slezáková

Katarína Slezáková is a senior associate and a member of the Banking and Finance group in Dentons’ Bratislava office.

Katarína Pecnová

Katarína Pecnová is a senior counsel in Dentons' Bratislava office. She focuses her practice on civil & corporate law including commercial law, mergers and acquisitions, environmental and competition for clients from different types of industries, inclusive automotive, retail, energy in connection with their business activities in the Slovak Republic

Katarzyna Sliwa

Partner

Katell Déniel-Allioux

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.

Kateřina Kučerová

Kateřina Kučerová is a junior associate and a member of the TMT, Corporate and Energy teams in Dentons’ Prague office. She focuses her practice on M&A, corporate law, TMT, as well as on energy law. Within TMT, she concentrates on e-commerce matters, media law and data protection advising clients on both contractual and contentious matters.

Katrina Van Houtte

Partner

Ken Dhaliwal

Partner

Kenneth Oh

Kenneth Oh is a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk's Corporate practice group and is Co-Head of the Fintech/Blockchain practice. Having been in legal practice for more than 20 years, Kenneth practice focus is on Blockchain & DLT, Corporate Finance - in particular early/ late stage private equity as well as public equity capital markets transactions such as IPOs and RTOs on the Singapore Exchange – and M&A. Kenneth also advises on capital markets services licensing and compliance, and on a wide range of general corporate advisory work including joint ventures, corporate restructurings and debt restructuring. Leveraging on his cross-disciplinary practice experience, Kenneth has extensive experience advising Blockchain & DLT initiatives including security/non-security token offerings; DeFi, cryptocurrency; establishment and licensing of digital asset exchanges, OTC and other digital asset service providers; establishment and licensing of digital asset funds; and equity investments and M&A involving Blockchain & DLT initiatives. Kenneth is ranked Band 1 for Fintech Legal for Singapore by legal directory Chambers & Partners for 2019 and 2020 and is also recognised in legal directories Legal 500 for both Capital Markets and M&A and in IFLR1000 for Capital Markets: Equity and M&A as well as Financial & Corporate Law. Apart from representing Dentons on the Governing Council of Hedera Hashgraph, Kenneth in his personal capacity is/was non-executive advisor to numerous blockchain projects such as AELF, Acala Network, Kyber Network and Ocean Protocol. Kenneth also holds independent directorship with various companies listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange and chairs their governance committees.

Kenny Paton

Kenny Paton is Head of Oil & Gas for the Middle East and Counsel in the Energy, Transport and Infrastructure practice in Dentons' Abu Dhabi office. He is a senior oil and gas lawyer with over 25 years' experience across the oil and gas value chain globally, particularly in the North Sea, Africa and the Middle East having worked both as in-house counsel as well as in private practice for international law firms in London, Aberdeen and Cape Town. Kenny acts for both the private sector, governments and NOCs in upstream, midstream and downstream projects with a particular focus on gas developments and associated domestic utilization and LNG and petroleum import/export projects.

Kimberly Burns

Partner

Kirsti Olson

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.

Kristína Kresťanková

Kristína Kresťanková is a junior associate and a member of the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Criminal law Practice in Dentons Bratislava office. She focuses her practice on dispute resolution, criminal law and constitutional law. Kristína has experience with representing clients in various fields of litigation and with representing clients before the Constitutional Court. In addition, she has experience with providing legal assistance to clients in relation to competition law, life sciences law and insolvency law.

Kuan Hon

Kuan is Of Counsel in Dentons’ Global Privacy and Cybersecurity group, based in London. Her particular focus is on UK and EU data protection, privacy, e-privacy and cybersecurity laws, but she also has broader tech and data law expertise, especially regarding cloud computing, artificial intelligence/machine-learning and digital services/online platforms. Kuan works with a broad variety of UK, EU, US, Canadian and Australasian clients, mainly international groups with cross-border operations. Her clients span many sectors, including cloud/technology, financial services and manufacturing. She advises on all aspects of UK and EU data protection, privacy, e-privacy and cybersecurity laws (such as GDPR and the NIS Directive/Regulations), from strategy and compliance to operationalization and ongoing governance, such as compliance programs, risk assessments, legitimate interests assessments, data protection impact assessments/audits, and security and data protection by design and by default; data processing agreements and data sharing agreements; international transfers; cybersecurity compliance, incident response preparedness, incident management and incident/breach notification; privacy and cookie notices/banners; data subject requests, complaints and claims; and regulatory liaison and cooperation. With computing science as well as law degrees, and having participated in penetration testing training and events, Kuan is particularly well placed to advise on technology- and security-related matters. She was previously a banking, debt capital markets and corporate insolvency lawyer before she moved into technology law.

Kurt B. Gerstner

Senior Attorney Admitted to New York, Massachusetts and DC Bars

Kwang-Chun Park

Senior Attorney

Ladislav Smejkal

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.

Larry Nevsky

Partner

László Fenyvesi

László Fenyvesi is an associate and member of the Dispute Resolution and Public Policy and Regulation practice groups of the Budapest office. His practice mainly focuses on litigation, international arbitration, and energy regulation. He also advises clients on M&A, joint ventures, and private equity transactions as well as general corporate matters.

Laura K. Estep

Partner, Presiding Member of the Dentons Canada Region Board

Laurence Clot

Laurence Clot is a Partner in Dentons’ Paris Tax group. Laurence's practice mainly focuses on international tax issues for French and foreign groups in a wide range of industries, including life sciences, insurance, and new technologies. She has developed a specific expertise in taxation of innovation in the context of the management of intangible assets, in particular while implementing “IP & IT box” schemes, but also in the context of complex transactions for groups with important IP and IT portfolio, where research and development are key factors of their strategies. Laurence has also been advising companies in the insurance sector for many years in connection with their complex transactions (acquisitions, mergers, tax litigation, setting up of partnerships). She has also advised several insurance groups in the context of the reorganization of their groups or partnerships to include aspects of future tax reforms, particularly with respect to VAT. Finally, Laurence has advised several software publishers in connection with the new tax scheme for intangible assets.

Laurens Engelen

Partner

Laurie LaPalme

Partner

Lawrence Teh

Lawrence Teh is the Global Co-Head of Dentons' International Arbitration practice and a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group. He is Co-Head of Dentons Rodyk's International Arbitration and Shipping practice groups. He has particular experience in handling commercial disputes including those of international trade and commodities, maritime and aviation, banking and financial services, onshore and offshore construction, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures and other investments, and insurance. Lawrence advises clients and acts as counsel and appears regularly as lead counsel in the Singapore courts, in arbitration, mediation and other forms of dispute resolution. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (CIArb), a fellow of the Singapore Institute of Arbitrators (SIArb) and is appointed regularly as an arbitrator in international disputes under rules and auspices of international arbitration institutions like the ICC, SIAC, HKIAC, SCMA, KCAB, AIAC, SHIAC and THAC. He is member of the Nominations Committee of the International Bar Association (IBA), the Administrator of the Comité Maritime International (CMI) and a Master of the Bench (Overseas) of the Honourable Society of the Inner Temple. He is named in numerous legal guides and directories including the Chambers Asia-Pacific, The Legal 500 Asia-Pacific, Who’s Who Legal, Benchmark Litigation Asia-Pacific, Best Lawyers and Asialaw Leading Lawyers.

Lawrence Florescu

Lawrence Florescu is a UK and US qualified senior associate in Dentons’ Banking and Finance group in Bucharest. He is often called upon by partners to provide English law advice and transaction management on their cross-border transactions. He specializes in project finance and corporate lending transactions in emerging markets and is actively involved in cross-border transactions spanning Europe, Africa, and Middle East.

Leanne C. Krawchuk KC

Partner

Lela Basilaia

Associate

Lilla Király

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.

Linzi Hedalen

Linzi is a partner in our Edinburgh office, specialising in construction and engineering dispute resolution. She has extensive experience in advising UK and international clients, providing them with pre-litigation and litigation expertise. Linzi's practice includes advising on multi-million-pound onshore and offshore construction projects arising out of a wide variety of industries such as infrastructure (buildings, hotels, shopping centres, housing developments), energy (oil and gas decommissioning), renewables (offshore and onshore windfarms) and transport (roads and ports). A key focus for Linzi is also advising PPP/PFI clients throughout the duration of the facilities management term and providing advice on an array of issues including, for example, the end of the defects liability period. She advises in respect of all major UK construction standard form contracts, as well as bespoke agreements, and has a wealth of experience in court actions, along with mediation, adjudication and international arbitration. After studying at University of Glasgow (and University at Buffalo), receiving a First Class Honours Degree, Linzi joined Dentons in 2010 as a trainee and qualified as a solicitor in Scotland in 2012. During her time at Dentons, she has also undertaken a seven-month secondment to EDP Renewables in preparation for them successfully bidding for a CfD. Acting as general counsel, Linzi was negotiating contracts and advising on an array of commercial matters which has allowed her to better understand the commercial needs of her clients.

Liviu Togan

Liviu is a partner and head of the White Collar and Government Investigations group in Bucharest. With 23 years of experience in White Collar and Government Investigations, Compliance, and Litigation and Arbitration, Liviu has successfully represented businesses, senior executives, high rank officials and other individuals in a wide range of investigations as well as in prosecutions before the Romanian courts. Throughout his career, Liviu has advised clients on regulatory compliance and complex legal proceedings relating to a variety of criminal offenses. He also assists clients in the design and implementation of compliance programs and complex internal investigations. He carries out corporate compliance audits to identify and remediate risks that can affect the business. In addition, he represents clients in disputes relating to administrative and tax law, corporate law and insolvency proceedings.

Liz Dawson

Liz is a senior patent attorney in Dentons' London office. She is a member of the Technology, Media and Telecoms practice. Liz's focus is on drafting, filing and prosecuting patent applications to grant, as well as advising on patent validity and infringement risk. She has over 30 years' experience as a patent attorney and has worked for clients of all sizes in a wide range of technologies over a large geographical spread. The bulk of her work is currently before the European Patent Office with a significant proportion at the US Patent and Trade Mark Office and the UK Intellectual Property Office. Prior to joining Dentons Liz ran the UK branch of an Israel law firm and worked with cutting-edge clients in fields such as augmented reality, big data, fuel cells and medical devices.

Liz Tout

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.

Logan Wright

Logan is a London-based member of the global Banking & Finance practice, with a focus on financings into developing markets, as well as financings for developing market clients outside their home markets. His practice covers the spectrum of bilateral and syndicated financing products, including project, export and structured trade financings, real estate and leveraged acquisition finance, margin loans, mezzanine and sovereign finance, and debt restructurings and workouts. Logan advises both borrowers and lenders. His lender clients include international and regional banks, export credit agencies, development finance institutions and credit funds, while his borrower clients include corporates, banks, trading houses, and private equity houses and their portfolio companies. Logan previously spent 15 years based in Moscow, working on financings across Russia and the former CIS, as well as Central and Eastern Europe, and these days he is a regular speaker at LMA developing market events both in London and across Africa. He also works frequently on financings and restructurings in Turkey and the Middle East, Asia and Latin America.

Loïc Lemercier

Loïc Lemercier, Partner, heads the Intellectual Property and Technologies (IP&T) group of Dentons’ Paris office. Over the last 10 years, Loïc has handled both contentious and non-contentious patent, trademark, copyright, design, unfair competition and trade secret cases. Focusing on industrial property, Loïc has built a solid patent litigation track record assisting many large corporations with a particular emphasis on the pharmaceutical and telecoms sectors. Loïc's practice includes initiating and defending preliminary injunction proceedings, seizures for gathering evidence, and actions on the merits dealing with validity and/or infringement of the intellectual property rights. Loïc regularly advises clients in the technology sector, particularly in relation to FRAND obligations and the impact of those obligations on obtaining relief in France. In addition to his litigation work, Loïc advises his clients on contract negotiation and drafting (e.g., R&D, trademark or patent licensing, pledge agreement) in the context of M&A transactions.

Loredana Chitu

Loredana is partner and head of the Capital Markets group in Bucharest. She has vast experience in both equity and debt capital markets work, having advised issuers and investment banks on local and international deals. A well-known lawyer for capital markets regulatory work, she advises on shareholders’ rights and disputes, takeovers, insider dealing and market abuse, MIFID, transparency and corporate governance requirements, as well as on regulatory aspects of DLT / blockchain solutions. She also advises private equity funds on regulatory matters under AIFMD and EuVECA.

Lorenzo Toppini

Lorenzo Toppini is a counsel in the Banking and Finance practice, focusing on derivatives and structured products, as well as on financial markets regulation. He gained experience in the negotiation of derivatives, repo, stock lending and securitization transactions, corporate finance, project finance, leveraged finance and financial-insurance products, as well as in the structuring of unit-linked products and innovative financial instruments. Lorenzo advises financial institutions, insurance companies, asset managers, pension funds and social security institutions and provides assistance in connection with regulatory issues, including EMIR, Dodd-Frank Act, BRRD, SFTR, MiFID II and Brexit.

Lorna Rogers

Lorna is a senior associate in the Real Estate team based in Milton Keynes and has worked with a variety of clients including developers such as Taylor Wimpey, investor clients and funds ranging from M&G Real Estate to pension funds, key retailers including Sainsbury's and a number of banks such as Lloyds Banking Group and HSBC. Lorna previously undertook a secondment to Lloyds Banking Group (in the team awarded "In House Real Estate Team of the Year" by Legal 500) assisting the mid market and global market corporate real estate team. She has worked on development projects acting for large investors on sale and leaseback transactions with a Housing Association involving commercial and office tenants, facilitated conditional agreements for lease in conjunction with planning teams to achieve acquisitions of supermarket sites for Sainsbury's and the erection of Costa drive-thru pods, and drafted and negotiated option agreements for Taylor Wimpey.

Lorna McCaa

Lorna is a partner in the UK Tax team, and is a chartered tax advisor as well as a solicitor. She has more than 18 years' experience advising on the UK tax aspects of corporate and real estate transactions from a legal and tax planning perspective. This includes structuring commercial transactions and tax-efficient employee incentivization arrangements, advising on direct taxes, SDLT, LBTT, capital allowances and VAT. She is well positioned in the marketplace to advise on both Scottish taxes and the rest of UK taxes. Lorna is an active member of the Tax Law Sub-Committee of the Law Society of Scotland, and the Scottish Property Federation Tax Committee. She is ranked Band 1 for Tax in Scotland by Chambers & Partners and ranked Tier 1 for Tax in Legal 500, and is recognized for providing a balance of being good on the technical tax detail but absolutely pragmatic and commercial in terms of ensuring clients' objectives are met timeously.

Louisa Caswell

Louisa heads the Disputes division for Dentons in the UK. She is a leading commercial litigator with an outstanding record in big-ticket trials and complex cross-border disputes. Louisa is known for her expertise in corporate/M&A disputes including shareholder disputes, warranty and indemnity claims, and post-completion disputes over deferred consideration and earn-outs. She also has particular experience in disputes and termination issues relating to supply contracts involving products and components, logistics and IT projects. In her product litigation practice, Louisa acts for product manufacturers on product liability claims, product safety and compliance issues, and product recalls relating to food and drink, consumer goods, pharmaceuticals and technology, amongst others. Louisa defended GlaxoSmithKline in a landmark product liability group action relating to its antidepressant Seroxat and was involved in all stages of this long-running litigation.

Luca De Menech

Luca De Menech is a Partner of Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the global Employment and Labor practice. Luca is specialized in labor and trade union law and he provides legal assistance to Italian and international companies operating in various industries, including the chemical, pharmaceutical, engineering, fashion, transport and services sectors. He has gained significant experience in relation to all labor law matters concerning the ordinary and extraordinary management of companies, with particular reference to bankruptcy procedures and corporate reorganizations. He deals with both contentious and non-contentious work.

Luca Pocobelli

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.

Lucille De Silva

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.

Luigi Costa

Luigi Costa is partner in Dentons’ Milan office, Head of the Project, Energy and Infrastructure business unit in Italy and a member of the global Banking and Finance practice.

Luis Belart

Partner

Lukáš Výmola

Lukáš Výmola is Counsel and a member of the Corporate/M&A and Energy and regulatory teams in Dentons’ Prague office. He focuses his practice on energy regulatory matters, public procurement and corporate transactions in the energy, climate change, and heavy industry sectors. He also provides advice on day-to-day corporate and commercial matters and on ongoing industry specific regulatory matters. As part of his practice, he also acts on PPP projects and defense matters.

Maciej Marek

Maciej Marek has practiced competition law for over ten years. He advises on M&A transactions, represents clients before antitrust authorities and assists in implementing compliance programs. Maciej has advised Polish and multinational leaders operating in the sectors of IT, media, telecommunications, FMCG, as well as trade and distribution, including many Fortune Global 500 companies. He has represented clients and participated in numerous proceedings before the Polish competition authority, the European Commission as well as Polish and EU courts. His experience includes negotiating what was probably the most complex conditional merger clearance the Polish competition authority has ever issued (a tiered, mixed, structural-behavioral remedy) as well as advising on unfair competition aspects of the biggest domestic dispute over a brand. He regularly handles multijurisdictional projects, including those requiring coordination of work of multiple local lawyers, economists and IT providers.

Maciej Ziółkowski

Counsel at CMS in Poland

Madeleine Smallwood

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.

Magdaléna Karvaiová

Magdaléna Karvaiová is a junior associate and a member of the Corporate practice group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. In her legal practice, she mainly focuses on commercial law and corporate law. She has experience in providing legal advice to clients in relation to the implementation of different regulatory obligations including anti-money laundering, personal data protection and consumer protection. Her experience also includes advising clients on litigation and intellectual property law.

Mairéadh Dale

Partner

Maite Gaynicotche

Maite Gaynicotche is an Associate in the Montevideo office. She actively participates in the Banking, Corporate and Data Privacy & Cybersecurity and Technology practice groups, providing assistance on a daily basis to local and international clients operating in Uruguay on banking and corporate law matters, as well as privacy and technology issues. She has also advised Banco Santander in numerous litigation processes regarding bankruptcy and asset recovery.

Maksym Sysoiev

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 Mardemootoo

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.

Marc Fornacciari

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.

Marcel Janssen

Partner

Marceli Kasperkiewicz

Marceli Kasperkiewicz is a partner in Dentons' Warsaw office and a member of the M&A and Private Equity practice teams. Marceli has 15 years of transactional experience, particularly in M&A and corporate restructurings. He provides legal advice to both foreign and domestic companies, focusing on M&A, corporate, commercial and financial institutions practice. He advises clients on all types of share and asset acquisitions (in both public and private sectors), IPOs, mergers, spin-offs, LBOs and other types of corporate and financial restructurings. His practice focuses in particular on energy, manufacturing, real estate and retail sectors. He also specializes in structuring and setting up complex domestic and cross-border joint ventures.

Marcell Szőnyi

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.

Marcin Przybysz

Marcin Przybysz, advocate, senior associate in Dentons’ Warsaw office, is a member of the Intellectual Property and New Technologies Practice Group. He regularly advises global and local clients on the intellectual property rights protection, which includes developing IP strategies, combating and litigating infringements on all court levels, negotiating transfers and licensing of digital products and new technologies, as well as conducting due diligence audits for the purposes of transactions. He has also advised clients on data protection compliance, including on the GDPR, with a particular focus on e-commerce and online gaming sectors. Marcin has extensive experience in working for global video gaming sector companies, including as an in-house lawyer seconded to a sister company of Poland’s largest video game developer, where he advised on various aspects of operation of a digital distribution platform, in particular in connection with the licensing of IP rights, privacy, consumer protection, marketing campaigns and collaboration with influencers. Experience Leading social media app provider: Regular advice on brand protection and combating infringements, including trademark litigation and domain arbitration as a result of which the client won back its .pl domain. Developer and operator of a popular online game: Advice on a lawsuit against a defendant accused of infringing copyrights to certain game elements and enabling unauthorized online gaming. Video games distributor: Negotiating a licensing of a video games portfolio and strategic partnership with a global video gaming partner. Developer of popular MMOG video games: Reviewing user agreements and privacy-related policies, as well as advising on the implementation of a monetization scheme, including in terms of compliance with consumer and gambling laws. Global streaming service provider: Advising on data privacy, consumer protection and marketing campaign compliance, as well as conducting litigation concerning similar trademark filings made by competitors. Mobility as a Service app provider: Advising on an investment agreement and a transaction involving sale of rights to the application. Global FMCG manufacturer: Conducting a number of proceedings before the Polish Patent Office, administrative courts (incl. the Supreme Administrative Court), concerning similar trademark filings made by a supermarket chain. Global FMCG manufacturer: Litigating and pursuing claims in connection with placing products using the client's 3D trademark on the market by the competitor. Leading lighting manufacturers: Conducting a number of court proceedings and pursuing claims in connection with placing products using the clients’ Community designs on the market by their competitors. Airlines: Managing a trademark portfolio.

Maren Tamke

Dr. Maren Tamke, LL.M. (Durham) is a partner in Dentons’ Berlin office and a member of the Competition and Antitrust practice group. Maren has worked across many industries, with particular experience in the following sectors: tech/e-commerce, consumer products, insurance, banking, media and healthcare/life sciences. Maren advises clients on complex transactions, high-profile cartel investigations, dominance cases, follow-on damages claims and compliance matters. With her considerable experience gained in the course of merger control and conduct cases, as well as work on compliance issues, she has a keen understanding of the workings and needs of businesses. Prior to joining Dentons, Maren worked for more than 12 years for a leading international law firm in Berlin.

Margaret Weltrowska

Partner

Maria Tomescu

Maria Tomescu is counsel in Dentons’ Bucharest Banking and Finance team. She has more than 15 years of experience advising lenders – banks and international financial institutions – and borrowers in financing transactions in Romania and South Eastern Europe. Her record of accomplishments includes some of the top transactions in the market and she is often lead lawyer on prominent finance deals. She advises on a wide range of real estate and project finance deals, including financings, refinancings and acquisitions of retail/commercial centers, office and logistics; and also on acquisition finance transactions.

Maria Brakalova

Dr. Maria Brakalova is a partner in Dentons' Berlin office and a member of the Competition, Antitrust and Regulatory Practice and of the Public Procurement Practice. She focuses mainly on foreign trade law and public procurement law. Maria advises on export control matters, appearing before regulatory authorities in Germany. She supports clients in setting up or improving their internal export control compliance organization. She also advises clients on the practical implications of EU/German as well as US sanctions on transactions relating to Russia, Venezuela, Iran and other sanctioned countries. Another major area of Maria’s expertise in foreign trade law relates to German foreign direct investment control (FDI control). She supports foreign investors and German targets on the implications of FDI control on M&A transactions and prepares the clearance process, closely interacting with the Federal Ministry for Economics and Energy. Maria is chairwoman of the working committee “Foreign Trade/Export Control” of the German Institute for Compliance (DICO). Apart from her foreign trade law expertise, Maria has substantial expertise in public procurement law. She advises bidders in public procurement procedures, in particular in the IT, healthcare and energy sectors and supports contracting authorities and sector contracting entities regarding the preparation and the execution of public procurement procedures, as well as with regard to specific procurement law issues. In addition, Maria advises national and international companies and trade associations on anti-corruption law compliance issues.

Maria Cortizas

Partner

Maria Rodriguez

Maria Rodriguez is a Counsel in the Investment Funds practice of the Luxembourg office. She focuses on the set-up of alternative investment fund structures, including the associated regulatory and corporate law components thereof. Maria has extended experience in the set-up of pan-European investment fund structures as well as advising European, Asian, US and LatAm investors in respect of their investment in Luxembourg structures. She has further experience in regulatory filings with the CSSF in respect of investment fund vehicles and their managers. Maria is also an active member of various committees of the Luxembourg Investment Funds Association (ALFI) and the unregulated/regulated funds committee of the Luxembourg Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (LPEA). Before joining Dentons, Maria worked as an associate in a leading independent law firm in Luxembourg specializing in Private Equity investment fund structures.

María José Rovira

María José is Of Counsel in the Montevideo office. Her practice is focused in Real Estate, Purchase/Sales, and Registry Practice. She advises regularly important clients like Praxair (Linde), Marfrig, Arcos Dorados Group, Nidera Uruguaya (Cofco), Vientos de Pastorale SA, Google, Disney (Fox Group), and Cepas Argentinas, among others.

Maria Paola Serra

Maria Paola Serra is a managing counsel in our Milan office and a member of the Global Tax practice. She focuses on private wealth, family office services, trusts and estate, contracts, corporate law. She provides legal assistance to high net worth individuals in terms of inheritance and estate planning, wealth management and asset protection, transition of the family’s business to next generations. She is a qualified family officer registered with the Registry ex lege 4/2013, MISE list.

Maria Sole Insinga

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.

Marian Ho

Marian Ho is a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Corporate practice group. She is Co-Head of the Mergers & Acquisitions practice, the Corporate & Commercial practice and the Singapore-Korea relationship partner. She has broad experience in corporate finance as well as mergers and acquisitions. Her corporate finance work covers rights issues, convertible bonds and notes issues, warrant issues and share option schemes. In terms of mergers and acquisitions, Marian has advised on a range of domestic and cross-border transactions, strategic alliances, share and business acquisitions and divestitures, as well as corporate restructurings. Marian advises on fund management and collective investment schemes, in particular offers made by offshore funds in Singapore. Marian also acts as company secretary for a wide range of corporate secretarial clients, comprising private limited companies, publicly listed companies as well as companies limited by guarantee.

Mariana Lartigau

Mariana Lartigau is a Senior Associate in the Montevideo office. She is a member of the Corporate group.

Marie Jansson-Heek

Marie is a senior patent attorney in Dentons' London office. She is a qualified solicitor and solicitor advocate as well as a UK and European patent attorney. Marie's work encompasses a broad spectrum of cases in a variety of technical disciplines. In her previous firm she was heavily involved with developing and executing IP portfolio management strategies and with patent and IP due diligence. She had extensive dealings with various patent offices in patent prosecution matters and was involved with numerous opposition and appeal proceedings.

Marie-Andrée Thibault

Partner

Marie-Josée Couture

Partner

Mariela Ruanova

Mariela Ruanova is a partner in the Montevideo office and leader of the Banking and Dispute Resolution teams in Uruguay.

Marisa Coggin

Partner

Mark Segall

Mark Segall is a recognized lawyer with over 20 years of experience across a broad spectrum of banking and finance transactions and covering numerous jurisdictions in the CEE region and beyond. He focuses mainly on acquisition and leveraged finance, structured commodity trade finance and project finance. He also advises international clients on cross-border syndicated lending and other structured financing projects. He has particularly deep experience in the sectors of natural resources, agriculture and logistics. Mark also has significant experience advising on workouts and out-of-court restructuring, having been involved in numerous stressed and distressed situations in CEE.

Mark Macaulay

Mark is a partner in Dentons' construction team. In addition to his law degree, Mark holds B.Sc. (Hons) and LL.M. degrees in the application of IT to law, and is co-author of a book entitled Construction and Procurement Law. He advises on all aspects of transactional construction work including construction procurement issues, letters of intent, construction contracts, professional appointments, collateral warranties, partnering agreements, framework agreements, development agreements and alliancing agreements.

Mark Schroder

Senior Associate

Mark Hamilton

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).

Mark Cheney

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.

Mark G. Evans

Partner

Markéta Tvrdá

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.

Marta Cichomska

Marta Cichomska, PhD, counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office, is a member of the Litigation and Arbitration team. She specializes in international commercial arbitration and investment arbitration. She has extensive experience in representing domestic and foreign clients in complex civil and commercial disputes before common courts and arbitration tribunals, as well as in mediation proceedings and settlement negotiations. Marta has represented private and public entities in disputes concerning, among others, infrastructure projects, telecommunications, real estate, the mining industry, M&A transactions, state aid, gambling and duty free. Her legal experience also includes public international law, private international law and European Union law (including appearing before the EU Court and the CJEU).

Marta Stefanowicz

Marta Stefanowicz, Brand Protection & Trademark Lead in Dentons’ Warsaw office, is a member of the Intellectual Property and New Technologies Practice Group. Before joining Dentons, Marta worked with top-tier law offices in Madrid, Warsaw, and Dubai, managing and developing IP strategies for the world’s most valuable brands. She is delivering comprehensive and innovative solutions for clients looking to effectively protect intellectual property assets in a multinational and digital landscape. Marta has advised on brand portfolio management and structured IP strategies for 2 out of the world’s top 3 technology companies, directly leading international teams of lawyers and external counsels across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She advised on groundbreaking brand acquisitions, coordinated rebranding strategies, and developed effective trademark portfolio optimization schemes. Marta has advised on a variety of trademark mattes before EUIPO, WIPO and national IP offices on oppositions, cancellation and invalidation proceedings. She effectively led challenging domain name disputes before WIPO, resulting in the successful recovery of numerous Domain Names. Ensuring her clients' needs are met in a highly multinational environment, she provides advice in English, Spanish and Polish. Experience Delivery Hero: Seconded as an Interim Head of Global IP, multinational online food-delivery service based in Berlin. Managing a variety of IP issues across 70+ countries in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Middle East; advised on international trademark strategies, IP portfolio optimization, trademark disputes and enforcement, copyright infringement, software licensing. The world’s largest multinational e-commerce company: Managed an IP transfer project in a ground-breaking acquisition of the biggest e-commerce platform in the Middle East, provided trademark due diligence, trademark rebranding and new filing strategies for 19 jurisdictions. American multinational technology company: Advised on complex trademark disputes, counselled on trademark oppositions, cancellations, and invalidation proceedings across the Middle East and Africa. American multinational technology company: Advised on Domain Name Disputes before WIPO, with an extensive track record of successfully recovered domains. American multinational technology company: Managed a change of name IP project across the Middle East and Africa, managed a trademark change of name recording concerning the client’s entire regional IP portfolio. Leading multi-channel retail group: Devised an IP portfolio optimization and rebranding strategy across over 30 jurisdictions in the Middle East and Asia, diagnosed protection gaps and prepared new filing programs to maximize global IP coverage.

Martijn Segers

Associate

Martin Montoro

Martin Montoro is a Senior Associate in the Montevideo office. His practice is focused on Tax Law as well as International Trade, WTO and Customs.

Martin Mendel

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.

Martin Watt

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 Fanning

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.

Martine Gerber-Lemaire

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).

Martyna Racz-Suchocka

Martyna is a transactional lawyer with 12 years’ experience on the commercial real estate market. Martyna has led and negotiated multiple single asset and portfolio transactions (asset and share deals, JV, enterprise) in the office, retail and PRS sectors. During her career, she has been involved in a number of landmark projects for developers, investment managers, private equity funds. In 2022 she completed historical deals for Skanska and EPP/Redefine Properties in terms of deals value.

Mary Liz Mahony

Counsel

Mateusz Machalski

Mateusz Machalski, an attorney-at-law, tax advisor and counsel in Dentons' Warsaw office, is a member of the Tax team. Mateusz's main focus is advising on indirect taxes, particularly VAT. He has more than a decade of experience in supporting both Polish and international clients, including in the financial, FMCG and IT sectors. His projects have included day-to-day and transactional advice, preparation of tax procedures and tax reviews, as well as supporting clients in implementing technology solutions for tax purposes. Mateusz has extensive experience in representing clients before tax authorities and administrative courts. In addition, Mateusz also specializes in advising on Mandatory Disclosure Rules and developing tax strategies.

Mateusz Toczyski

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.

Mathilde Carrière

Partner

Matteo Chinaglia

Matteo Chinaglia is a senior counsel in our Milan office and a member of the global Tax practice. He advises on M&A transactions (tax due diligence; structuring of acquisition for multinational and national groups) and international taxation (crossborder transactions; withholding tax application and double tax treaties application; advice on permanent establishment).

Matteo Vizzardi

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 Fleming

Partner

Matthew Gilhooly

Matthew is a senior associate in Dentons' Technology, Media and Telecoms practice, based in the London office. Matthew focuses on information technology projects, data protection and cybersecurity, and commercial contracts. He has experience advising on a variety of commercial and technology matters, including outsourcing contracts, agreements for the supply of goods/services and licensing agreements. He also has experience advising on data protection and cybersecurity matters, including data breach management, electronic marketing, data subject access requests, international data transfers and general compliance with the GDPR. Matthew has completed a number of successful client secondments, including within the commercial services department of a large retail bank.

Matthew Hanslip-Ward

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.

Matthew Sapte

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

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.

Matthias Hadding

Dr. Matthias Hadding, LL.M, FCIArb is a Partner in Dentons’ Dusseldorf office and a member of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice group. He is specialised in international commercial arbitration and has extensive experience in construction engineering and post-M&A disputes. Another key focus of his work is global commercial disputes, including the representation of clients in mass-litigations. Matthias also advises on project development, including the drafting, negotiation and enforcement of commercial contracts as well as advising on project risk management.

Matthieu Ollivry

Matthieu Ollivry is a Partner in Dentons’ Paris Litigation group. Since his admission to the Paris Bar in 2006, Matthieu has litigated a wide variety of business law cases, with a significant focus on financial and banking litigation. Over the past ten years, he has acted for several banks notably in connection with the Madoff fraud and with the so called “toxic” loans disputes. Matthieu also manages corporate and commercial litigation, often either international or multi-jurisdictional. He develops a strong enforcement practice (notably related to international sanctions). Matthieu also advises companies and executives on white-collar crime law issues in all stages of the proceedings. Additionally, he assists his clients daily with risk analysis, negotiation, compliance and crisis management.

Maxime Simonnet

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.

Maximilian Schulte

Dr. Maximilian Schulte is a partner in Dentons’ Frankfurt office and a member of the Real Estate practice group. He focuses on advising both national and international clients on real estate transactions and their financing. Maximilian has extensive experience with project development, repositioning commercial and mixed-use properties as well as portfolio transactions. Max also acts as notary public.

Meghan Devine

Meghan Devine is an associate in the Middle East Construction and Dispute Resolution practice. She is a Scottish qualified solicitor and notary public and is a registered practitioner (Part 1) in the DIFC courts. Meghan has a broad practice which spans the Middle East. She advises clients on negotiating and drafting contracts, risk management, dispute avoidance and dispute resolution across a number of sectors, including transport infrastructure, hotels and banking. She has represented clients in ad hoc, ICC, DIAC and ADCCAC arbitrations, as well as litigation in the DIFC and QFC courts. Meghan has experience advising on complex, multi-billion US dollar international construction and engineering projects across the region. She acts for contractors, employers and engineers on both contentious and non-contentious matters, including in relation to airport, waste management, residential and multi-use infrastructure projects. Clients appreciate Meghan's attention to detail and her ability to manage large, multi-disciplinary teams. Meghan is a key contact for pro bono in the Middle East and coordinates pro bono and community projects across the Dentons offices in the region. She is regularly instructed on pro bono mandates, including working with European Lawyers in Lesvos where she spent time on secondment in 2021.

Mélanie Power

Partner

Michael Krömker

Dr. Michael Krömker is a Partner in Dentons’ Dusseldorf office and a member of the Corporate / M&A and Energy practice groups. He advises strategic and financial investors on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, corporate reorganizations, joint ventures and corporate law matters, with a particular focus on the Energy & Infrastructure, Automotive & Industrial and IT and Media sectors. In addition, he frequently advises Chinese clients on their investments in Germany and Europe.

Michael Graf

Michael Graf is is the Office Managing Partner of Dentons' Frankfurt office and Co-Head of the European Tax practice. He is an MBA (Diplom-Kaufmann), a lawyer admitted to the German Bar and a certified tax advisor. He specializes in tax law and mainly advises multinational corporations with respect to their national and international tax questions. His advice comprises tax optimized structuring, monitoring tax field audits, filing administrative appeals as well as representing clients before finance courts and the Federal Finance Court (Bundesfinanzhof). Furthermore, he advises on tax optimized structures in connection with M&A deals.

Michael Dean

Michael is a partner in our Glasgow office. Michael obtained an Honours Degree from Glasgow University and studied EU law at the College of Europe, Bruges. Early in his career, he worked for four years in London with a major international law firm, before returning to establish a practice in a Scottish commercial law firm. Michael has experience in competition law, including cartel proceedings, distribution, state aids and merger clearances. In addition, he has extensive knowledge in the fields of public procurement and export controls. He also has considerable expertise in regulatory law, particularly in the power, post and water sectors. He is an Honorary Consul for the Federal Republic of Germany for Glasgow.

Michael Mráček

Michael Mráček is a senior associate and a member of the Employment and Labor Group in Dentons’ Prague office. He focuses his practice on employment law, data protection law including GDPR as well as competition and intellectual property law. Michael has extensive experience providing day-to-day advice to multiple automotive clients at all levels of distribution.

Michael Livingston

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.

Michael Henriques

Partner

Michael Kneebone

Michael Kneebone is a senior associate in the Tier 1 ranked Corporate practice in Dentons' Muscat office. He has six years' experience working on a wide range of corporate matters including advising clients on equity sales, asset sales and related regulatory matters. His experience spans a range of different sectors including resources, agriculture and medical. He has worked in Myanmar and Australia, and most recently worked in the Brisbane office of an international law firm prior to moving to Oman.

Michael F. Ledgett

Partner

Michal Zathurecký

Michal Záthurecký is a senior associate in Dentons Bratislava office. He focuses his practice on commercial law, particularly on banking and financing transactions. Michal has experience in private international law, commercial law and civil law.

Michał Wasiak

Counsel at Dentons since 2018 (with the law firm since 2010).

Michał Bernat

Michał Bernat, is a managing counsel in Dentons' Warsaw office and a member of the Tax team. Michał specializes in state aid law and tax advisory. His professional track record includes internships with the European Commission and the European Court of Justice, as well as employment with a consulting firm and in reputable Polish laws firms. Michał gained practical experience in state aid law dealing with issues such as EU funding, individual investment packages for major investors, advice to undertakings operating in special economic zones, advice relating to public services, support for major infrastructure projects (including some of fundamental significance for the country’s economy and national security), long-term programs, restructuring aid and state aid in privatisation projects, corporate restructuring (M&A) and relocation. He successfully represented clients in proceedings concerning unlawfully granted state aid, as well as in notification proceedings. Michał also prepared and conducted proceedings before the Commission launched in response to complaints concerning state aid granted unlawfully to other market players. His clients include undertakings from the shipbuilding, steel, pharmaceutical, processing, household appliances, motor, construction, food, chemical, arms, financial services, and mega store distribution sectors, as well as public institutions in charge of motorway and railway networks construction and management, or involved in regional transport, airports, waterways, sea ports and subway projects, and also railway transport companies, operators of power infrastructures, including nuclear power infrastructure, aircraft equipment manufacturers, advisory firms and municipal entities. Michał is a regular speaker at conferences and seminars and has authored numerous publications dealing with state aid and tax issues. He speaks Polish, English and French.

Michał Jochemczak

Michał Jochemczak is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office, head of the Arbitration team and a member of the Litigation and Arbitration practice group. He specializes in complex commercial litigation and arbitration proceedings. He represents clients in arbitrations under ICC, VIAC, LCIA rules and in ad hoc domestic and international arbitration. He often appears before Polish courts as well. Michał has been involved in numerous high-profile and international disputes, both commercial and investment treaty, related to a variety of industry sectors, particularly oil and gas, energy, construction, infrastructure, and real estate. He advises clients on international civil law and in the fields of jurisdiction, enforcement of judgments and conflict of laws. He also provides legal advice to creditors, management and shareholders in bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings. He has in-depth experience in corporate matters as well as in procedural issues of competition law. Michał sits as an arbitrator. He received his first appointment in international arbitration under the ICC Rules at the age of 30. He was also one of the core members of the ad hoc committee drafting the new Rules of Arbitration of the Lewiatan Arbitration Court.

Michał Turczyk

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.

Michal Distler

Michal Distler is a junior associate and a member of the Corporate practice group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. He focuses on corporate law. Michal also has experience in providing legal advice to clients in relation to litigation.

Michel Deckers

Partner

Michele Carpagnano

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 Vas

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

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.

Mike Schafler

Partner

Mira Gauvin

Partner

Miriam Best

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.

Miroslav Kapinaj

Miroslav Kapinaj is a counsel and member of the Banking and Finance practice group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. He focuses his practice on banking and finance, capital markets, bonds, corporate, restructuring, real estate, lease and commercial transactions and has significant experience in PPP Projects, cross-border as well as local financing transactions in Central Europe and beyond. Miroslav also advises clients on EU law and regulatory issues.

Mohamad Al Rifai

Mohamad Al Rifai is a senior associate in the Corporate and Commercial practice of Dentons' Riyadh office. Mohamad has ten years' experience working on a wide range of matters including advising clients on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate and commercial matters throughout the GCC. Mohamad is admitted to practice law in New York. Mohamad is bilingual and has experience drafting and negotiating in Arabic and English.

Monica Song

Partner

Monika Kajánková

Monika Kajanková is a partner in Dentons’ Prague office and a member of the Real Estate Practice Group. Monika focuses on various areas of real estate legal advice, including in particular real estate acquisitions, sales and lease agreements, asset management matters, title and W&I insurance. She also coordinates and manages real estate title due diligence processes for a number of investor clients and has an excellent corporate/M&A background. In the course of her more than 8 years of legal experience, Monika has been involved in numerous top-tier real estate projects in the Czech Republic. She has advised, among others, the following clients: Tesco, GLL/Macquarie, Penta, Reico, Dual Asset / MA, Savills, Flow East, Portland Trust, Cushman & Wakefield/Tetris and Generali RE.

Monika Sitowicz

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.

Morgan Burris

Partner

Morgan L. Camley

Partner

Moy Ching Poon Yow Tse

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.

Senior Attorney

Senior Associate

Partner

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.

Namik Ramić

Namik Ramić is a corporate partner in Dentons' Luxembourg office. Namik’s principal fields of activity are corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, real estate, joint ventures, structuring, financing and equity capital markets. Namik has advised numerous private equity clients in relation to acquisition and other structures and is active in the field of joint ventures and investment structures. He advises major international groups of companies for corporate reorganizations, financing and re-financing. Additionally, he advises Family Offices and High Net Worth Individuals on M&A, structuring traditional and alternative family office vehicles.

Natalia Selyakova

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

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.

Natália Hangáčová

Natália is an associate and a member of the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Criminal law Practice in Dentons’ Bratislava office. She focuses her practice on dispute resolution and criminal law.

Nathalie Durocher

Partner

Nathalie Campello

Nathalie Campello is a Senior counsel in Dentons’ Luxembourg office. She is a member of the Banking and Finance practice group. Nathalie has a wealth of experience advising financial institutions, multinational companies and private equity funds. She assists with a broad range of projects in respect of refinancing, debt-buy-back, mergers and acquisitions and due diligence. She is also involved in fund finance, corporate law and general business law, as well as the structuring of transactions for private equity funds.

Nathaniel Armstrong

Nathaniel is the managing partner of Dentons' Abu Dhabi office as well as a partner in Dentons' Middle East Banking & Finance team. He has over 15 years’ experience advising on all types of debt finance transactions, both conventional and Islamic. He acts for a number of domestic and international financial and corporate institutions. Nathaniel is a specialist in general corporate, asset (shipping and aviation), real estate and Islamic finance under both English and UAE (including free zones such as the ADGM and DIFC) law. He has broad international experience having worked for international law firms in England, Australia and the UAE on a range of complex, high-value transactions. Nathaniel has published numerous articles on banking and finance related issues and is ranked in various international legal directories.

Nazym Bekturova

Nazym Bekturova is a senior associate at Dentons’ Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice team in Kazakhstan. Dispute resolution Posco Daewoo Corporation: Successfully representing before court with respect to a claim in the amount of US$4 million that was awarded in full. Posco Daewoo Corporation: Successfully representing in four ICC arbitration proceedings with respect to debt recovery from various Kazakhstan debtors; total amount of US$6.6 million recovered. Posco Daewoo Corporation: Representing in local courts with respect to the recognition and enforcement of Arbitral Awards issued in the above ICC arbitrations. EBRD: Representing in the terminated bankruptcy and ongoing rehabilitation proceedings of Kazakhstan Kagazy JSC. Confidential client (major Islamic bank): Representing in a US$19 million dispute against a Kazakhstan debtor which was finalized by a settlement agreement with terms beneficial to the client. Energy and natural resources Cameco Corporation: Advising on and successfully closing the restructuring of the uranium subsoil user JV Inkai LLP, a joint venture with Kazatomprom National Atomic Company JSC. Confidential client (company group specializing in nuclear power and renewable energy with uranium reserves in Kazakhstan): Advising on and assisting in successfully obtaining various regulatory approvals in Kazakhstan with respect to the internal restructuring of the group. Confidential client (major German multinational building materials company): Advising and successfully closing the acquisition of two participatory interests in a Kazakhstan producer of widespread minerals leading to the client becoming its 100% owner, successfully obtaining all the regulatory approvals required in the subsoil use sector to complete both transactions. Confidential client (a Hong Kong investment company with a stake in a Kazakhstan wolframite subsoil user): Advising on possible settlement between the shareholders. Confidential client (major oil and gas producer): Advising on issues of extension of the exploration and production terms of the subsoil use contract. Confidential client (major oil and gas producer): Advising on various issues of subsoil use (export of geological information, liquidation of consequences of subsoil use). Confidential client (Malaysian bank): Advising on issues of extending the exploration and production terms under the pledged subsoil use rights.

Neil Cuthbert

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 Nicholson

Neil is head of UK corporate and corporate partner in our London office advising on share sales, business sales, joint ventures, fund establishments and restructurings. His significant M&A experience covers both the UK and cross border, particularly emerging markets, and he has acted for a number of clients in the Middle East, having previously been seconded to our Dubai office for over three years.Neil has particular equity capital markets experience, including advising in relation to the UKLA Listing Rules, the AIM Rules of the London Stock Exchange and the UK Takeover Code.

Neil Griffiths

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".

Neill Pemberton

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 West

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 George

Nicholas George is a Partner in Dentons' Paris office. He acts principally on international projects in the energy and infrastructure sectors. He has significant experience in Africa, both French and English speaking. He also assists clients in cross-border M&A transactions in his areas of expertise. Prior to joining Dentons, he advised the Government of the DRC on the Inga 3. Nicholas has over 25 years of experience working for international law firms.

Nicholas Plant

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.

Nicholas H. Park

Chair of Global Board And Senior Managing Attorney (Admitted to District of Columbia Bar)

Nick Chandler

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 Graham

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 Hayday

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

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.

Nicoleta Montag (formerly Tuominen)

Partner

Nieves Briz

Partner

Nigel Webber

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

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.

Nikola Salvová

Nikola Salvová is a junior associate and member of the Banking and Finance Practice Group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. Her practice focuses primarily on banking and finance transactions and employment law.

Nina Drgalová

Nina Drgalová is a junior associate and a member of the Litigation, Dispute Resolution and Criminal law Practice in Dentons Bratislava office. She focuses her practice on dispute resolution, criminal law and constitutional law. She has experience with representing clients in various fields of litigation (medical malpractice claims, ownership disputes, contractual disputes), representing clients before the Constitutional Court and administrative authorities.

Norbert Vizvári

Norbert Vizvári is a junior associate in Dentons´ Bratislava office and a member of the Real Estate practice group. He focuses his legal practice on real estate law, corporate law and public procurement law. He has experience with day-to-day legal assistance to both foreign and local clients, legal due diligence procedures and preparation of contractual documentation related to real estate projects and various acquisition transactions.

Oksana Horban

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 KC

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

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.

Olivia Guéguen

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 Lesage

Olivier Lesage is a counsel in Dentons’ Luxembourg office. He is a member of the Banking and Finance practice group. Olivier advises domestic and international corporate clients, financial institutions and private equity funds on a wide range of projects including restructuring and refinancing, leveraged finance and compliance with financial market regulations. Olivier has extensive experience in a broad variety of financing multi-jurisdictional transactions, including acquisition and sale of companies, real estate and assets, pre- or post-acquisition restructurings and reorganizations, as well as Luxembourg financial market regulatory legal advice.

Olivier Genevois

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.

Ondřej Bartoň

Ondřej Bartoň is a partner in Dentons’ Prague office. With more than 10 years’ experience, Ondřej has advised clients on project, export, real estate and acquisition financing as well as debt restructuring. He also played a key role in preparing the COVID III, COVID Plus and EGAP Plus state guarantee programs to support the Czech economy in sectors affected first by the consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic, and then by the war in Ukraine. Ondřej’s other areas of focus include insolvency proceedings and regulation of banks and insurance companies. He has represented a number of financial institutions in connection with acquisitions of regulated entities in the CEE region.

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Pardeep is a senior associate in the Dubai Commercial and Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) team, advising clients on a wide range of commercial agreements and projects. She has experience providing commercial and strategic advice to a number of organizations across a range of sectors, including technology, retail, and oil and gas, as well as, most recently, the public sector. She has worked on a variety of multinational commercial matters providing IT and commercial contract support to leading organizations. This work builds on her in-house experience working as Legal and Compliance Counsel for a tier 1 automotive supplier prior to joining Dentons.

Pascal Schmitz

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

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.

Pasquale Annicchiarico

Pasquale Annicchiarico is a Partner in Dentons Milan office and a member of the global Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. He leads the white-collar crime team in Italy. He specializes in all matters of criminal law and white-collar crime and he has more than 25 years’ experience in crimes against the public administration, environmental criminal law, criminal tax law and bankruptcy. Among his most significant cases, he was involved in the well-known ILVA trial, which is the most important environmental trial ever held in Italy, and he has been assisting the Riva Group before the Courts of Milan and Taranto since 2014. In addition to national and international companies, he assists local authorities and public executives in relation to crimes against the public administration.

Patricia Dutková

Patrícia Dutková is an associate in Dentons’ Bratislava office. She focuses her practice on the life sciences and pharma industry. She has extensive experience in drug policy and the related legislative process including European legislation, especially in the area of reimbursement and pricing regulation of medicinal products.

Patricia Gossányiová

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.

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Patrick Radzimierski

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.

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Paul Henrion

Paul is an associate in Dentons’ Brussels office and a member of the Paris bar and Brussels bar (E list). Paul is part of Dentons’ Competition and Antitrust team. He advises and assists clients on all aspects of European and French competition law, including cartels and anti-competitive practices, distribution, merger control, and state aid.

Paul Jarvis

Paul is Dentons' Chief Executive for the UK and Middle East (UKME) and has been based in Abu Dhabi since 2009. His experience includes a broad range of financings involving all types of assets, with a particular focus on ship and aircraft finance. He acts for financiers, operators, export credit agencies and equity investors involving a range of complex leasing structures, large syndicated debt transactions and structured tax-based financings. Paul also has significant experience in Islamic finance, trade finance and real estate finance. Paul advises on English law, UAE law and DIFC law transactions. "Abu Dhabi-based asset finance guru Paul Jarvis. First ranked in Chambers Global 2010. is "a real pleasure to work with, sensible and knowledgeable," say clients. He acts for a number of prestigious regional banks on ship financings in the region." (Chambers Global, Shipping, UAE, 2015)

Paul Salmon

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

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.

Paul Prescott

Paul Prescott is a partner and leads the Construction and Dispute Resolution practice in Saudi Arabia. He has more than 20 years' experience, of which more than 10 years have been spent in the Middle East. He has substantial experience advising government departments, investors, sponsors, developers, lender clients and joint venture contractors on major construction, infrastructure, real estate, hospitality, wastewater, energy and process engineering projects in the Middle East. These have included logistics facilities, airports, road and heavy rail engineering infrastructure, stadia infrastructure and facilities, hotels, mixed-used developments, independent sewage treatment plants, renewable energy projects and food manufacturing plants in the Middle East and globally. Paul has extensive knowledge and in-depth experience of standard form contracts for the procurement of construction and engineering projects using the FIDIC suite of contracts, NEC, ICC, ICE, MF/1 and LOGIC. He has considerable experience advising clients on PPP arrangements, EPC arrangements, framework agreements and target cost arrangements. He also assists clients in resolving disputes, including supporting them in achieving successful outcomes with the use of ADR techniques, which include mediation, expert determination and arbitration. He leads our arbitration practice in Saudi Arabia. Paul is ranked in Chambers Global for four consecutive years and has a Building Information Modelling Project Management certificate from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

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Paweł Gruszecki, attorney-at-law, counsel at Dentons' Warsaw office, member of the Intellectual Property and New Technologies team. He mainly deals with issues in the area of IT contracts, cyber security, cloud services, telecommunications, as well as personal data protection. As part of his career, he has advised the largest telecommunications operators (fixed and mobile), search engine operators, international and domestic Internet services, the largest energy companies in Poland, as well as the largest manufacturers in the automotive and defense sectors. In addition, he has worked for a number of start-ups that implement solutions in areas such as Internet of Things, network security, development of advanced digital products (digital agencies), artificial intelligence, software (software houses), e-sports, cloud computing or database brokerage. He also has experience as a lecturer on the law of new technologies at national universities and as a plenipotentiary of the largest association of Internet advertising entrepreneurs during legislative work in the Polish Parliament. He is a member of the program board of one of the largest cyber security sector conferences in Central Europe.

Paweł Grabowski

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.

Perry V. Zizzi

Perry V. Zizzi is Managing Partner of the Bucharest office and head of the Corporate practice group in Romania. He has over a quarter century of experience advising on M&A in the emerging markets of Central and Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the US and elsewhere. He has particular expertise advising private equity clients and he is recognized as a market leader in real estate M&A.

Peter Panek

Peter Panek is a senior associate in Dentons´ Bratislava office and a member of the Real Estate practice group. He focuses his legal practice on real estate law, corporate law and data protection law. He has experience with day-to-day legal assistance to both foreign and local clients, legal due diligence procedures and preparation of contractual documentation related to real estate projects and various acquisition transactions.

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Peter Kubina

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 Voisey

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

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

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.

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Philippe Max

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

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

Pierandrea Bonali

Pierandrea Bonali is a partner in our Milan office and a member of the global Banking and Finance practice. He advises clients in the banking and financial sectors with particular capabilities in the real estate and property finance markets. His activities include advising banks and credit institutions on financings, negotiating and granting mortgage loans for the acquisition, redevelopment and development of real estate assets.

Piergiorgio Leofreddi

Piergiorgio Leofreddi is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and he is Head of Debt Capital Markets Group in Italy. Piergiorgio has extensive experience in assisting Italian and international banks and companies in relation to debt capital markets and structured finance transactions, including Euro Medium Term Note issuance programmes (and transactions under the abovementioned programmes), stand-alone transactions, retail offers, purchase and exchange offers related to debt securities and related regulations. He also has significant regulatory experience and represents clients in their relations with regulators and stock exchanges, including Consob, Italian Stock Exchange, Luxembourg Stock Exchange and Irish Stock Exchange.

Pierre Parvine

Pierre Parvine is a Partner in the Corporate M&A practice. Based in Paris, he has more than 25 years experience providing quality legal advice in markets in transition across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He is the co-Head of the Europe Industrials sector group at Dentons. Pierre advises clients on mergers, acquisitions and joint ventures, primarily in the industrial manufacturing, automotive, hotel and leisure, retail, agro-industry, real estate and consumer goods sectors. A key aspect of his practice consists in assisting clients in market exits (Middle-East, Russia) or in de-risking schemes of their operations in the EMEA. Pierre is consistently ranked in Chambers Global and The Legal 500 EMEA as a leading lawyer in his field. He is a French-qualified lawyer, a graduate of Sorbonne University as well as Duke Law School (NC, USA), where he was a Fulbright Scholar. A passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion, Pierre is a member of the Europe Women’s Advancement Committee at Dentons, and has been active in mentoring talented women lawyers to partnership.

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Piotr Dulewicz

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 Szafarz

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 Staniszewski

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 Machnikowski

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.

Predrag Maksimovic

Dr. Predrag Maksimovic is a Partner in Dentons’ Dusseldorf office and a member of the Corporate/M&A practice group. Dr. Maksimovic specializes in advising and managing complex national and international M&A and private equity transactions, joint ventures and corporate restructurings. Predrag focuses his work on the regulated financial industry with a particular attention to the banking and leasing sector. His clients include strategic and financial investors as well as national and international banks, corporations and groups. Dr. Maksimovic has advised on numerous M&A transactions as well as restructurings, including in the financial services, fintech, software and IT industries as well as in various service industries.

Qasim Aslam

Qasim is a partner in the Banking and Finance practice. He has international Islamic finance, project finance and structured finance experience, including transactions throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa. He acts for regional, international and Islamic financiers as well as multi-lateral agencies and corporates. Qasim is also the Head of Islamic Finance – Middle East. He is recognised in the international Expert Guides "Best of the Best" for Islamic Finance, international Expert Guides "Banking, Finance and Transactional Guide" as one of The World's Leading Islamic Finance Lawyers, and also as a Leading Individual with Tier 1 ranking in the Legal 500 directory.

Rachael Morris

Rachael is an experienced technology and outsourcing lawyer who advises on all aspects of non-contentious technology law IP related issues, including commercial contracts, software development, website development, IT outsourcing and IP licensing. Rachael advises clients in both the public and private sectors, and has significant experience working on large-scale high-profile public sector outsourcings. She recently advised a number of UK government departments on the use of the Cabinet Office's lean procurement methodology, and has spoken at the Whitehall & Industry Group's Public/Private Procurement Forum on its application and impact.

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Radoslav Pálka

Radoslav Pálka is a senior associate in Dentons’ Bratislava office and a member of the Banking and Finance Practice Group. He focuses his legal practice on capital markets and financial regulatory matters and has a parallel fully-fledged track record in M&A and corporate advisory. He has experience with numerous high-profile debt issuances covering sovereigns, investment-grade and high-yield corporate bond issuances and covered bonds. This is further supplemented by in-depth experience in various financial regulatory matters and advisory concerning e.g. alternative investment funds and market abuse rules. The M&A and corporate experiences include various buy- and sell-side transactions, whereas the corporate advisory is focused on the matters internal and regulatory of various public and private corporations.

Raj Kulasingam

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).

Ralf Nitschke

Ralf M. Nitschke, a partner based in Dentons' Paris office, concentrates on cross-border M&A projects, with a particular focus on transactions between Germany and France. He regularly assists French, German and international corporations in mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures in a multi-jurisdictional context, in particular in the area of chemicals, petrochemicals, transport and logistics, food products, engineered industrial products and luxury goods. He is admitted as an attorney in Germany and is registered on the list of EU attorneys in France.

Raul Mihu

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.

Rebekka Hye-Knudsen

Dr. Rebekka Hye-Knudsen is a partner in Dentons' Berlin office and co-head of the German Corporate/M&A practice group. She is also a member of the Venture Technology practice group. She represents clients in all corporate law matters, in particular mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital investments, founding of companies, corporate governance and corporate reorganisations. Rebekka is a native speaker of both German and English.

Renee Butler

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Rezan Ökten

Rezan is counsel and Head of the Transfer Pricing practice at Houthoff. He advises his clients on business restructurings, intellectual property, headquarter cost allocation models, financial transactions, dispute management and resolution. He has significant experience in advance pricing agreements, tax audits, mutual agreement procedures and court proceedings. He started his career at a Big 4 firm and also worked as a global in-house transfer pricing specialist at leading telecommunications and technology companies Liberty Global and VEON. Rezan has a 360-degree perspective due to having worked both as an adviser and in-house specialist. This unique combination of knowledge and experience gained on both sides of the table is at the heart of how he advises clients. With a clear vision and technically sound approach, he knows when to go the extra mile or be pragmatic to get buy-in from all the relevant stakeholders. In addition to being a fellow at the University of Amsterdam's Advanced LL.M. programme in International Tax Law, Rezan teaches Transfer Pricing Masterclasses at IBFD. He is a regular speaker at conferences and has written several articles focusing on the transfer pricing aspects of intangibles and cost contribution arrangements. He has also authored a book and co-authored various transfer pricing books. Rezan is a member of the Dutch Association of Tax Advisers (Nederlandse Orde van Belastingadviseurs) and the International Fiscal Association (IFA).

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Richard Marcinčin

Richard Marcinčin is a senior associate and a member of the Banking & Finance Group in Denton’s Bratislava office. His practice focuses on corporate law and banking and finance. Richard has been involved in numerous financing transactions representing both borrowers and lenders. Richard’s experience also covers legal due diligence procedures, the drafting of various memorandums and legal analysis, advising clients on commercial lease terminations, as well as representing clients before the civil courts.

Richard Barham

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 Caird

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 Budge

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.

Rita Várnagy

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.

Rob Francis

Rob is a senior associate in the Milton Keynes Dispute Resolution department. His practice covers a broad range of commercial dispute resolution work, with a particular focus on contractual claims, shareholder and partnership disputes, and claims in relation to fraud. Rob focuses on resolving disputes quickly on favorable terms for his clients, whilst ensuring legal costs are minimized. He frequently acts on matters settled using mediation or using other forms of alternative dispute resolution. Rob has obtained successful results for clients in complex, commercial litigation claims. Examples include Davies v. Ford, Monks and Greenbox Recycling Kent Ltd [2020] EWHC 686 (Ch) and Ian Archer v. Nubuke Investments LLP and others [2014] EWHC 3425. Rob also acts on arbitrations and applications for injunctive relief, including freezing injunctions. His experience covers disputes in a range of sectors, including the insurance and construction industries. He has completed two secondments to the National House-Building Council (the standard-setting body and leading insurance provider for new houses in the UK). His practice also covers public inquiry work and he has acted for a party in relation to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. Rob is also a solicitor advocate who can act on a dispute all the way up to, and including, trial. He has conducted the advocacy on numerous matters, including on multi-track litigation claims.

Rob Thompson

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

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.

Robert Weber

Dr. Robert Weber is a partner in Dentons’ Frankfurt office and Co-Head of Dentons’ German Corporate/M&A Group. He focuses on stock corporation law and group law and related capital market law issues. His main practice areas include the preparation of ordinary and extraordinary general meetings of listed companies as well as structural measures under corporate law such as transformations, mergers, company agreements or squeeze-outs. Furthermore, he advises groups and companies on acquisitions and takeovers, joint ventures and reorganizations as well as board members, managing directors and supervisory board members on corporate governance, compliance and liability issues.

Robert Bastian

Robert Bastian is a Partner in Dentons' Frankfurt office and a member of the Private Equity and Corporate group. He focuses on private equity, M&A and venture capital as well as capital markets. Robert has been advising numerous highly reputable private equity houses on leveraged buy-out transactions and venture capital funds on various transactions. He also advises on public tenders and capital market related matters, in particular, public takeovers, IPOs, dual listings and de-listings. Furthermore, Robert has been rendering advice to members of management boards and supervisory boards of listed and non-listed companies.

Robert Wyatt

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.

Róbert Vícen

Róbert Vícen is a senior associate and a member of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in Dentons’ Bratislava office. Robert is a versatile lawyer with experience advising on financial regulatory matters (including banking, MiFID 2, PSD2, insurance, financial intermediation, the enforceability of collateral and netting arrangements, crypto-assets), capital markets (bond issues), consumer finance, litigation (including construction, trademark, and consumer litigation), PPP projects and ICT regulatory matters.

Robert J. de Guzman

Partner

Robert J. Kennedy

Partner

Roberta Moscaroli

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 Tojo

Partner

Roberto Lipari

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).

Robin Longe

Partner

Robyn Chatwood

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.

Romain Baroan

Romain Baroan is a senior counsel in Dentons’ Luxembourg office. He is a member of the Tax practice group. Romain has strong experience in direct tax compliance and assists clients on transfer pricing issues. He advises a broad range of clients including multinational corporations, real estate funds, private equity houses, investment funds, asset managers, insurance companies, banks and high-net-worth individuals.

Roman Kettner

Roman Kettner is a junior associate and a member of the Corporate practice group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. He focuses on corporate law and M&A. He has gained substantial experience working with clients on due diligence projects and as well as advising them on significant cross-border M&A transactions. He also has experience in the drafting of complex memoranda and legal analyses for clients in various sectors, such as compliance, dispute resolution, energy and climate change, and regulatory aspects in banking and finance.

Rose McDowall

Rose is an associate in the Milton Keynes Commercial/Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) team, advising clients on a wide range of commercial agreements and projects. She works in a variety of practice areas and has worked with renowned clients in sports, media and entertainment, as well as retail (including consumer rights). In addition, Rose has advised clients in the oil and gas, IT and technology spheres, and on intellectual property rights. She has advised on a range of B2B agreements for major high street retailers, and international and luxury goods brands. Rose's work also has a strong media and entertainment focus, having advised premiership sports teams, sports governing bodies, an F1 racing venue and global television networks. This work builds on her experience in-house in Disney's legal team (Media Distribution – EMEA) prior to joining Dentons.

Roy Pinnock

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.

Rukia Khatun

Rukia is a senior associate in the Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) group. Based in Milton Keynes, she advises clients on a wide range of commercial agreements and projects. She works closely with a number of key retail clients, providing strategic advice as well as advising on a range of commercial contracts. Her technology experience includes advising clients on migration to cloud-based solutions, advising on software development and procurement, and working with tech start-ups to get their products ready for market. Rukia advises on a range of commercial contracts across a variety of practice areas, particularly goods and services agreements, IT and e-commerce matters, intellectual property and data protection (including in relation to compliance with the GDPR).

Ryan Chia

Ryan is a senior associate in our Milton Keynes Corporate practice. He advises on a wide range of corporate and insolvency-related transactions and matters, including mergers and acquisitions, management buy-outs, business disposals and group restructures, distressed sales and purchases including pre-packs, various aspects of corporate governance, company formation, joint ventures and shareholder agreements. He advises public sector clients such as the National Crime Agency and has worked on public sector matters including the recent nationalization of Northern Rail from Arriva to the OLR. Ryan also assists on various finance, banking and insurance-related matters.

Ryan Kellingray

Ryan is a Registered and Chartered Trade Mark Attorney, working in Dentons' Glasgow office. He is a member of the Intellectual Property practice. Ryan specializes in advising clients on all aspects of the protection and enforcement of their brands, including the development and execution of bespoke "full lifecycle" trade mark strategies for clients of all sizes, helping entities protect, enforce and enhance the value of their IP. He is well versed in filing and prosecuting trade mark rights directly through the UK, EU and World Intellectual Property Offices, as well as further afield through Dentons' offices and agents throughout the world. Ryan also has extensive experience working with clients on a wide range of portfolio management matters, and frequently advises on opposition and invalidity proceedings at the UKIPO. Since joining the firm in 2021, Ryan has advised clients in a wide range of sectors, and has recently advised a major private equity house in relation to a large, global rebranding project, acted for a major US-based restaurant chain in a set of complex cross-proceedings at the UKIPO, and provided extensive trade mark counsel to a number of innovative clients operating in the metaverse and NFT fields.

Ryan Middleton

Partner

S Sivanesan

S Sivanesan is a senior partner and head of Dentons Rodyk's Corporate practice group. He is also Co-Head of the Environment, Natural Resources & Sustainability practice, Venture Tech & Emerging Growth Companies practice and the Singapore-India relationship partner. Sivanesan's primary areas of practice include mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations and restructurings, venture capital, venture technology, investment funds and general corporate commercial matters. He has advised several fund managers, venture capital funds, founders, start-ups and companies on investment deals. Sivanesan's international work includes cross-border and regional transactions, mergers and acquisitions, VC/PE investment deals in South East Asia, India, China, Japan, Europe, Australia and USA. He has worked with local and foreign clients in establishing businesses in Singapore and the region, transactional matters, foreign direct investment, liaising with regional counsel and establishing effective corporate structures for global operations. He is widely regarded as an authority on corporate governance and venture capital. Sivanesan is a past chairman of the Pacific Rim Advisory Council, which is an association of 28 top tier independent law firms with more than 12,000 lawyers in more than 50 key business centres around the world. Sivanesan has addressed regional and international business leaders at conferences and seminars, on topics relating to venture technology, international mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, venture capital and cross border investments. He is a past Chairman of the Corporate Governance Committee of the Singapore Investors Association of Singapore (SIAS). He is currently the independent Chairman of Liberty Insurance Pte Ltd and Liberty Specialty Markets Singapore Pte Limited, members of the Liberty Mutual Group.

Sabine Wieduwilt

Sabine Wieduwilt is a partner in Dentons' Frankfurt office. She is a member of the Real Estate practice. She specializes in the core real estate business of acquisition and disposition, property development and asset management of commercially used properties. Sabine is an expert advisor for tenancy and other corporate real estate solutions. She advises national as well as international companies on tenancy, single-asset and portfolio acquisition and sale as well as on restructuring of business locations. Sabine Wieduwilt works on the implementation of ESG in Real Estate, especially for business operations in Europe.

Saidakbar Bekitayev

Saidakbar Bekitayev is a Counsel in Dentons' Tashkent office. He has extensive experience in advising clients on litigation and dispute resolution matters. Saidakbar represents clients in various court proceedings, involving economic, civil, criminal and administrative cases.

Sam Boileau

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."

Samantha Chang

Senior Associate

Sana Siddiqui

Sana Siddiqui is a senior associate in the Debt Capital Markets and Islamic Finance practices in Dentons' Dubai office. She has 7 years' of experience working on a wide range of conventional and Islamic international debt capital markets transactions including advising governments, financial institutions and general corporate clients. She has extensive experience acting for issuers, dealers and managers on issuances inside and outside the GCC under both Regulation S and Rule 144A formats. She has worked on a wide range of different issuance formats, including standalone issuances, program updates and issuances, regulatory capital issuances, corporate hybrid issuances, ESG issuances, and tender offers and consent solicitations.

Sandra Constantin

Sandra is a senior associate in the Dentons Bucharest banking and finance group. She is assisting on a range of finance transactions, with a focus on real estate and acquisition finance, syndicated or bilateral. She acts for banks, international financial institutions and borrowers in transactions in Romania and across CEE. Her background also includes advising on acquisitions of credit institutions and performing and non-performing loan portfolios, factoring arrangements, as well as on regulatory compliance matters in the banking and payment service industries.

Sandra Hazan

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.

Sandy Walker

Partner

Santiago Hurtado

Partner

Sara Poetto

Sara Poetto is a partner in our Milan office and a member of the global Real Estate practice. Sara has extensive experience in real estate law and regularly advises leading Italian and international operators in a wide range of transactions, including acquisitions and dismissals, both asset and share deals, redevelopment and development projects, repossession and post-acquisition management of real estate portfolios for various asset classes (including office, retail, logistics, hospitality and residential).

Sarah Alexander

Sarah has more than 14 years’ experience in construction and engineering dispute resolution. She is qualified to practice law in Scotland and England and is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as a specialist in construction law. Sarah advises on dispute resolution work, with a particular focus on resolving issues arising in high-value onshore and offshore construction projects. She has been instructed to act and/or provide advice in relation to numerous adjudications, arbitrations and court actions. Sarah drafts detailed letters of claim, as well as documenting extra-judicial settlements. She provides advice to parties on both bespoke and standard form contract terms during the currency of the project and post-completion. Sarah is frequently consulted on PFI projects, giving advice in relation to obligations under Interface, Services/FM and Project Agreements. Sarah is also a Notary Public.

Sarah Dyke

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 Rutnah

Associate

Sarah Beeby

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'."

Scott Singer

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).

Scott H. Wilson

Partner

Sean Stephenson

Counsel

Sebastiaan Frankenburg

Counsel

Sebastian Ishiguro

Sebastian Ishiguro is a New York law qualified senior associate in the M&A and Private Equity practice groups of Dentons’ Budapest office. He has experience in advising on complex domestic and cross-border matters.

Semen Medvedkov

Professional Support Lawyer

Serge Sergiou

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.

Séverine Hotellier

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.

Shaakir Daud

Shaakir is a senior associate in the Banking and Finance team in Denton's Dubai office. He has over 6 years of experience advising clients (both local and international financiers and borrowers) on a wide range of banking matters, including acquisition financing, corporate financing, real estate financing and general banking and finance matters. Before joining the Firm, Shaakir worked for a silver circle firm in Dubai where he regularly advised local and international lenders on general banking and Islamic finance. Prior to this, Shaakir worked in London advising lenders and borrowers on general banking.

Shameek Jankee

Shameek is an attorney admitted to practice in the Republic of Mauritius. He is mostly involved in commercial litigation, and regularly drafts pleadings in requests for injunctive relief, claims for damages and severance allowance, and applications under international arbitration legislation and the Companies Act. He habitually appears before the Bankruptcy and Commercial Divisions of the Supreme Court, and acts for clients in the course of arbitration proceedings. Shameek’s day-to-day work also consists of advising on contractual matters, company law including shareholder disputes and director duties, and on civil procedure. He has a keen interest in insolvency matters, which he is called upon to advise on regularly. He has worked on a number of cases initiated under the Mauritius bankruptcy laws.

Shane O'Donnell

Head of Corporate

Shaun Tame

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.

Sheikha Al Ajmie

Sheikha Al Ajmie is a senior associate in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in Dentons' Muscat office. She has over 14 years' experience working on a wide range of litigation and dispute resolution matters including advising clients on commercial, civil, employment disputes and arbitrations. Sheikha is qualified to appear before the primary, appeal, administrative and supreme courts of Oman. Her experience is across a range of different sectors including insurance, banking and employment. Sheikha is bilingual and has the ability to draft and negotiate in Arabic and English.

Shiraz Sethi

Shiraz Sethi is the regional head of employment based in Dentons’ Dubai office. He joined Dentons in 2020 and has more than 14 years of experience working on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters. He has worked with multinational clients in a variety of sectors, including technology, media and telecommunications, professional services, financial services, insurance and energy. Shiraz provides advice on all aspects of employment law, including recruitment, termination, terms and conditions of employment (benefits, bonuses and remuneration), restrictive covenants, team moves and terminations, and is a specialist in complex workplace investigations. Shiraz’s practice also covers matters involving fraud, bribery and corruption as well as employee misconduct claims. Shiraz assists on jurisdictional projects (including covering restructures, sales of a business as a going concern and employee status issues) as well as issues arising out of employee mobilisation and international assignments. He regularly presents at seminars and workshops as part of Dentons’ regular client training programme and at external events organised by various business councils, HR consultancy firms and other freezone authorities, including DIFC, DMCC and JAFZA. He is acknowledged as a leading individual for employment law and is ranked in the UAE by both Chambers and Partners and Legal 500. His robust experience and achievement in the industry has also led him to win the Young Lawyer of the Year Award and Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year. More recently, he was recognised by Lexis Nexis Middle East as a leader in HR and Employment and was subsequently appointed to the Board of the Lexis Nexis HR Middle East Journal. He is also regularly quoted in publications such as The National, Gulf News and Arabian Business and has regularly appeared on Dubai Eye Radio as well as making several television appearances with Asharq Business News, Dubai One and CNBC. Shiraz has been involved in shaping the legislative landscape for the UAE. He was retained by the Chief Justice of the DIFC Courts to draft the first commentary on the DIFC Employment Law. He was subsequently mandated on an exclusive basis by the Chief Legal Officer of the DIFC Authority to draft the new DIFC Employment Law. Shiraz was also invited to participate in an exclusive committee to draft the DIFC Presidential Directive during COVID-19. In addition, Shiraz and his team were asked to draft similar COVID-19 provisions for the DMCC. Shiraz has also recently been retained by another GCC jurisdiction to assist with the legislative drafting and reform of their existing labour laws. More recently, he was asked to review the employment ecosystem for JAFZA which included a review of its entire suite of employment contracts, policies and procedures and was supplemented with training to key stakeholders within the senior leadership team. Shiraz is consistently recognised as a leading lawyer in his field. Some of his clients say: “Having worked with all of the top law firms and lawyers, Shiraz ranks far above his peers, and is clearly a leader in his field”, “Shiraz is an outstanding lawyer. He has encyclopaedic knowledge, coupled with a reasoned, practical approach. Overall simply the best in class”, “I believe he is the best employment lawyer in the market.”

Shivaughn Tets

Associate

Silvia Pacchiarotti

Silvia is a counsel in our Milan office and a member of the global Corporate M&A practice. She advises international and Italian corporate clients as well as investment banks on a wide range of corporate, financial and regulatory matters, with a particular focus on equity capital market sector. Silvia’s legal advice include extraordinary transactions of listed companies in EU and extra EU regulated and non regulated markets, public offering, IPOs and takeover bid. She frequently assists listed companies in relation to general corporate and compliance matters.

Simon Middleton

Simon is a partner in Dentons’ London office, where he is a member of the Banking and Finance practice group.Simon acts for lenders, borrowers, sponsors and advisers on a wide range of banking and finance transactions of both a bilateral and multi-lender nature. His main areas of focus are acquisition finance, bilateral and syndicated lending, and restructurings, and he has extensive experience of working on both domestic and multi-jurisdictional cross- border transactions.Simon has particular experience in the Nordic region where he has been active within the market for a number of years, acting for both Nordic and international banks.

Simon Dayes

Simon Dayes is a Partner in Dentons’ Bucharest Banking and Finance team. Qualified as an UK solicitor, he has been advising banks, international financial institutions and project sponsors in cross border credit transactions in Central Europe from a Bucharest base for over 15 years. Simon works on project finance, structured trade finance and financial restructurings, corporate and real estate lending, and syndications. With sector focuses including energy and renewables, concession-based infrastructure and hotels, Simon has worked widely across Central and Western Europe and Africa.

Simon Elliott

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.

Simon Masri

Simon, a partner in our London office, has extensive experience of all aspects of commercial real estate transactions with particular emphasis on property and hotel investment, finance and mixed-use development projects. Simon acts for institutions, private and public companies from the UK and overseas on structured investment acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures and developments. He is ranked by Chambers in real estate finance.

Simon Elzen-Hoskyn

Partner

Simon Tweedle

Partner

Simon Colledge

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.

Simon Topping

Simon specialises in Telecoms, IT, E-Commerce, Technology and Intellectual Property Law and is Head of Telecoms for the Middle East. He has over 20 years of legal experience, including over 10 years as a partner in UK-based international law firms (8 of these in a leading telecoms and technology firm). He advises on a broad range of regulatory, antitrust, commercial contracts, licensing, corporate and employment law issues. Simon has spent 6 years in the Middle East, initially as Head of Legal and Regulatory in Batelco, the Bahrain telecoms incumbent, then performing the same function in Atheeb, a new entrant in the telecoms sector in Saudi Arabia, before starting his own practice advising on telecoms and IT throughout the Middle East.

Simona Marin

Simona is an English and New York qualified partner in Dentons’ Banking and Finance team in Bucharest. She focuses on project finance, real estate finance and other financing structures, syndicated and bilateral, secured and unsecured. She has over ten years' experience advising on a broad range of high-profile financings and projects throughout the Central and South East Europe region. She has advised on transactions in the energy and utilities, hotels and leisure, financial services, infrastructure and project finance, as well as the real estate and construction sectors. She acts for lenders and borrowers and has been involved in advising international banks and financial institutions on a number of ground-breaking transactions in the region in recent years.

Sivakumaren (Robin) Mardemootoo

Robin is the Managing Partner of Dentons Mauritius where he heads the Banking, Corporate Finance and Commercial practices. He is also the Dentons Regional Lead for the Banking and Finance Practice group for Africa region. Robin specializes in securities regulations and laws related to banking, insolvency, corporate finance and cross-border investments. He also has a special interest for international complex litigation and arbitration. Robin has featured in Forbes, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review and on CNN, Al-Jazeera, CBS, Canal Plus, TF1 and other world news media.

Sona Taghiyeva

Sona Taghiyeva is Partner in Dentons' Prague office. She focuses on corporate and business law and has broad expertise in energy and infrastructure, banking and finance, compliance, real estate law, construction, licensing and hospitality issues.

Soňa Kurillová

Soňa Kurillová is an associate and a member of the Corporate Practice Group in Dentons’ Bratislava office. She focuses her practice on commercial and corporate law and has experience with providing legal assistance to clients in relation to medical devices regulation, waste regulation, personal data protection law and public procurement law. Her experience also covers legal due diligence procedures regarding acquisition of Slovak real estate or equity interest in Slovak companies.

Sophie Palmer

Sophie is a senior associate in Dentons' London office, working in the Dispute Resolution practice. She has extensive experience in commercial litigation and international commercial and investment treaty arbitration, both institutional and ad hoc, under many of the major arbitration rules (ICSID, LCIA, ICC, LMAA, UNCITRAL, etc). Sophie has worked on disputes in a number of fields including energy, infrastructure, construction and real estate development and finance, and on cases involving shareholder disputes, breach of contract, fraud, negligence, property and debt recovery, enforcement and complex conflict of laws issues. Sophie is a fluent Russian speaker and frequently acts in disputes involving Russian-speaking parties and Russian language documentation. She has published articles and has also spoken on a number of topics in English and Russian.

Stanislav Ďurica

Stanislav Ďurica is a partner in Dentons’ Bratislava office. His practice focuses on employment, general corporate, litigation and arbitration matters, data protection, as well as intellectual property. Stanislav advises Slovak and foreign multinational companies on all areas of individual employment law, in particular hiring, restructuring, transactions, employee transfers, personnel adjustment measures, terminations of employment and related disputes, with a particular focus on issues related to top management. He also provides clients with commercial advice in litigations and arbitrations, including those with international aspects. He has participated in a number of the largest due diligence processes in Slovakia and has significant experience preparing and reviewing a wide variety of legal documents, analyses and legal opinions. Regarding industrial property law, Stanislav advises foreign multinational companies on all areas, especially trademarks, unfair competition, trade secrets, trade names and protection of legal entities. He further assists clients on questions relating to proceedings and disputes before Slovak state authorities or EU authorities and courts, in transactions, registrations, oppositions, cancellations, licenses and other matters with respect to IP law in Slovakia, including disputes and settlements regarding unfair competition and infringement of IP rights.

Stanisław Sołtysik

Stanisław Sołtysik, PhD, is a managing counsel and a member of the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy and the Litigation and Arbitration practice groups at Dentons in Poland. He advises both domestic and international clients in complex litigations and contentious insolvency matters. Stanisław focuses on assisting advising financial institutions on litigation matters, which often involve potential liability towards their clients, including in connection with the termination of loan agreements or the management of investment funds or acting as depositary for such funds, as well as in disputes with consumers. He represents clients in the FMCG industry, including in product liability proceedings and advises on disputes touching upon multiple jurisdictions. Stanisław has hands-on experience in in-court and out-of-court restructuring matters and assists creditors in complex bankruptcy cases. He also advises on recoveries in distressed situations, having inter alia successfully acted on a takeover and resale of fuel worth over USD 15 million pledged to a Polish bank. He is also an accomplished academic, having authored a number of publications in the field of civil procedure, arbitration and insolvency law and having taught classes in civil procedure at the University of Warsaw.

Štefan Potočňák

Štefan Potočňák is a senior associate in Dentons’ Prague office. He focuses his practice on contractual as well as regulatory aspects of large investment and infrastructure projects, mainly in the sectors of energy, construction, defense industry, logistics and transport infrastructure. He also provides legal advice in connection with construction law, PPP projects, administrative law, contractual civil law and legislation. With regard to comprehensive legal advice in investment projects, he focuses on drafting, review and negotiation of contractual documentation, taking into account specific legal issues that regularly occur in such projects: various regulatory aspects, financing, corporate aspects, state aid, investment incentives, public procurement rules, etc. In PPP projects, he has experience in connection with national and municipal projects with focus on transport infrastructure, health care, social or cultural-social services. Among other projects in the energy sector, he has a unique experience in advising on a complex and long-term project of the construction of the new nuclear power plant in the Czech Republic. In construction law, Štefan deals with both contractual aspects of construction projects and public law issues related to spatial planning and permit proceedings. In this area, he also regularly lectures to both developers and public sector entities. He actively participated in several legislative projects, especially in the field of transport infrastructure. In administrative law, he advises clients especially in connection with permit proceedings and in other administrative procedures. In the area of contract law, he focuses mainly on drafting, review and negotiation of various commercial contracts, preparation of legal analyses and provision of legal advice in pre-trial stages of commercial disputes.

Stefano Belleggia

Stefano Belleggia is a partner in Dentons' Milan office and a member of the global Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. He focuses on litigation related to banking, financial and insurance law. He assists banking institutions, financial intermediaries and insurance companies in all phases of litigation, arbitration, as well as in proceedings instigated by supervisory authorities.

Stefano Ambrosioni

Stefano Ambrosioni is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and a member of the global Corporate M&A practice. Stefano possesses wide-ranging experience in mergers and acquisition transactions with both listed and unlisted companies, in addition to his deep knowledge of corporate and general commercial law, partnerships and extraordinary corporate transactions. He regularly advises national and multinational companies in drafting and negotiating acquisition agreements, joint venture agreements, shareholders' agreements and commercial agreements in a variety of industries, including mechanical engineering, banking and finance, automotive, insurance, gaming, pharmaceutical, energy and real estate. Stefano also advises clients active in the private equity sector, focusing on investment transactions, leverage buyouts, management buyouts, exits and IPOs.

Stefi Ionescu

Stefi Ionescu is a senior associate in Dentons' Bucharest office and a member of the Banking and Finance team. Stefi has over 10 years of experience in transactional and consultancy work for financial institutions as well as investors and large corporates and is dual qualified as a Romanian and English lawyer. Stefi has worked intensively in local and international syndicated financing and debt restructuring deals in a wide variety of sectors, most notably real estate, energy, agribusiness and FMCG. Stefi also regularly advises on regulatory matters in the banking and capital markets sector.

Štěpánka Havlíková

Štěpánka Havlíková is a Senior Associate in Dentons’ Prague office. She focuses her practice on TMT, intellectual property, data privacy, electronic contracting issues, technology transactions, IT company acquisitions, consumer law, online marketing, as well as on commercial law and dispute resolution.

Stéphane Hadet

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.

Stephen Levy

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.

Stephen McKenna

Stephen McKenna has been working in the Middle East region since 2009, focusing mainly on the UAE. He specializes in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate structuring/restructuring and local corporate regulatory issues across various sectors, including aviation, healthcare and industry. His clients range from SMEs to blue chip companies, local and international, and government-related entities. As a former in-house group legal counsel, Stephen provides his clients with legal solutions to real commercial issues.

Steven Mills

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

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 Fitzsimmons

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.

Sung-Duck Park

Senior Managing Attorney

Sunil Rai

Sunil Rai is a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk’s Corporate practice group. He is co-head of the Venture Tech & Emerging Growth Companies practice group. He is also co-head of the India practice group which works on outbound and inbound India-related transactions . Sunil concentrates his practice in corporate and transactional matters encompassing investments and exits (buyouts, trade sales), domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions (M&A), joint ventures, licensing, corporate governance, restructuring of entities, employment law matters including formulating stock option/ share award schemes (ESOP/ ESAS), establishing new businesses and assisting clients in drafting and reviewing contracts across a broad spectrum of various industries, verticals and government sectors. Sunil is particularly experienced in complex investment and venture-backed transactions involving multiple parties, various shareholders and parties across several jurisdictions. He enjoys acting for institutional investors (family offices, venture capital funds and private equity investors) making investments and divestments and start-ups/ early stage entities receiving investments at all stages of a company’s life-cycle - from seed stage to advanced stages such as Series D and beyond. Sunil has a strong interest in investment-related work (involving venture capital and private equity), building up the Israel, Middle East and India - Singapore deal corridor and also enthusiastically assisting in the growth of various SMEs, start-ups and private funds through establishing new ventures, handling legal issues, fund-raising, managing of investments and value creation. Sunil has given several presentations and written articles on business structures, investment term sheets, essentials of contracts, corporate fraud, mergers regime under Competition Act of Singapore, Personal Data Protection Act and amendments to Companies Act of Singapore and the Variable Capital Company regime. He has also been actively involved in pro bono activities for several years including being a grassroots leader and also an active mediator with Community Mediation Centre and Consumer Association of Singapore and mentoring startups at Singapore University of Social Sciences. Sunil also volunteered as a judge at the International Mediation Competitions organised by SIMI in 2019 and 2020.

Susan Kelly

Susan joined Dentons (formerly MMS) in 1991 and was assumed as a Partner on 1 December 1998. Susan works with firm's Banking & Finance department and handles a wide range of banking and finance work across the UK and Europe including acquisition finance, property finance, plc/corporate lending and Pan-European finance.

Suzannah Fairbairn

Suzannah Fairbairn is a partner in Dentons' Middle East Construction and Engineering practice. She has extensive experience working on a wide range of contentious and non-contentious construction matters, with particular focus on assisting clients in high-value and complex arbitrations relating to defective design and/or workmanship, delay and disruption, loss and expense, variations, payment disputes, service level performance obligations and contract interpretation. Her experience spans a range of different sectors including oil and gas, leisure and multi-use infrastructure projects that involve multiple contractors. Suzannah has experience in representing clients under all the major arbitration rules including ICC, LCIA, DIAC, ADCCAC, UNCITRAL and ad hoc arbitrations. She also has experience in assisting clients with negotiating and drafting contracts. Suzannah is ranked as ‘up and coming’ in Chambers & Partners 2024 directory. Clients particularly appreciate Suzannah's ability to cut through complex legal and technical issues to provide clear and practical advice. She is equally adept at acting for contractors, employers and consultants, and this experience and ability to view matters from all perspectives is highly valued in the market. Suzannah is a key advocate for women in construction, regularly arranging opportunities for women in the industry to meet and share skills and experiences. She is also a keen supporter of making arbitrations greener and promoting equal representation.

Sylwester Kuchnio

Sylwester Kuchnio is a counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Public Procurement and Government Contracts practice team. Sylwester has 15 years of experience in the area of public procurement and civil law matters. Sylwester has provided legal advice in procurement-related matters to contracting authorities and contractors, overseeing tender proceedings and state funding. Sylwester Kuchnio gained extensive experience in this respect in, among others, the NGO sector, various levels of local government and central government agencies (e.g. Public Procurement Office, National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management, Central Statistical Office). He worked for many years as an arbitrator in matters involving public procurement at the National Appeals Chamber. Sylwester provides advisory on, among others, projects and disputes in the areas of infrastructure, energy, construction, treatment of waste, transport, financial services, defense, medicine and pharmacy.

Taras Povorozniuk

Trade Policy Advisor

Tatiana Jevčáková

Tatiana Jevčáková is a senior associate in Dentons’ Bratislava office. Tatiana focuses her practice on corporate, commercial, employment and real estate law. Tatiana has significant experience providing day-to-day legal advice to both foreign and local clients performing their commercial activity in the Slovak Republic, as well as with legal due diligence procedures regarding acquisition of Slovak real estate or equity interest in Slovak companies. Tatiana is also active in the regulatory sector in line with specific clients’ needs including on waste, environmental burdens, food regulation and consumer protection matters.

Tatiana Kruse

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.

Tessa Blank

Tessa is a partner in the Restructuring, Insolvency and Bankruptcy practice. She has experience in all areas of contentious insolvency work. She also has significant experience in restructuring and non-contentious insolvency work. Tessa has advised financial institutions, Insolvency Practitioners, directors, corporate debtors and other creditors on contentious and non contentious issues, domestically and in respect of cross border matters. Her sector experience includes real estate, energy, telecommunications, rail and retail.

Theodore S. Boone

Theodore S. Boone is Of Counsel in Dentons’ Budapest office. Ted is a practical and solution driven counsellor focusing on complex commercial transactions and corporate policy matters. Ted’s work has involved, among other areas, financial institutions, information technology, manufacturing, energy, entertainment, transport, consumer goods, telecom, media, real estate, biotechnology and services. In the course of his practice Ted draws on his extensive commercial and legal experience arising from previous leadership positions in the US and Europe at premier international law firms and one of the Big 4 and as a former President and Chair of the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hungary.

Thomas Strassner

Thomas Strassner is a partner in Dentons´ Munich office and a member of the Corporate/MA& practice group. He has extensive experience in corporate law matters, venture capital, private equity and M&A transactions, joint ventures, corporate restructurings as well as litigation. Tom has advised on numerous international and cross-border transactions and restructurings of companies and corporations. Among his clients are international investors, family offices as well as (privately held and listed) companies from high-growth startups to industry leaders from different sectors, including asset-focused & producing businesses, information technology, health care and life sciences. Prior to joining Dentons, Tom was a counsel at another leading law firm and served as legal counsel for a venture capitalist. Tom attended Copenhagen Business School and the University of Munich, where he received his degrees in business (Dipl.-Kfm.) and law. A member of the Munich Bar Association, Tom is admitted to practice law in Germany.

Thomas de Booij

Associate

Thomas Leyland

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.

Tiberiu Csaki

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 Trinka

Senior Attorney (Admitted to Illinois and District of Columbia Bars)

Tomáš Pavelka

Tomáš Pavelka is an associate in Dentons’ Prague and Bratislava offices. He specializes in competition and antitrust, regulatory, dispute resolution, and EU law. Tomáš is experienced in advising on all aspects of Czech, Slovak and EU competition and antitrust law, including in the areas of merger control, abuse of dominance, cartel procedures, unfair competition cases, as well as state aid matters. He has particular expertise in the digital tech, platforms and other telecommunications, construction, transportation and energy sectors. Tomáš also represents clients in litigation and arbitration proceedings, especially in cases involving public law or regulatory elements.

Tomáš Bílek

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.

Tomasz Trocki

Tomasz Trocki, PhD, is a partner at Dentons in Poland, where he leads the Consensual Restructuring team. He is an expert in financial, restructuring and bankruptcy law. With a wealth of experience in major debt restructuring transactions on the Polish market, Tomasz is highly regarded for his advice on complex restructuring matters. He is well-versed in financing transactions, including leveraged and project finance, as well as refinancing. Tomasz authored numerous publications in restructuring and bankruptcy law, in addition to other civil law issues related to consensual restructuring. In his PhD thesis, titled “The impact of bankruptcy and the opening of restructuring proceedings on the admissibility of statutory and contractual set-off", he delved into the complexities of bankruptcy and restructuring law. In 2020 he completed the LEAD program at Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Tomasz Krasowski

Tomasz is a managing counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Tax team. He has over 20 years of transactional experience in tax advisory with a strong focus on real estate clients. Tomasz focuses on effective tax planning methods. He specializes in transactional tax advisory, M&A tax structuring, business restructuring and reorganization, fund structuring, tax support of foreign investments in Poland. He also advises on various operational aspects, particularly in the real estate industry (such as WHT, minimum CIT levy, obligations of real estate companies or tax aspects of various tenant incentives). Clients In 2023 Tomasz advised such companies as Cavatina (a leading commercial real estate developer), CBRE (a global leader in commercial real estate services and investment), IntReal (Palmira) (a pan-European investor and asset manager for logistics and corporate real estate), Nexity (France’s leading real estate group) and Skanska (one of the world’s largest development and construction companies). Work Highlights ‣ Nexity: advising on sale of shares in its Polish subsidiaries to Develia – one of the largest real estate developers in Poland, listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The transaction concerned sale of 100% of shares in 19 Polish subsidiaries of Nexity. ‣ Palmira Capital Partners: advising on the acquisition of a 15,000 sq. m. build-to-suit (BTS) warehouse facility in Swarzedz, Poland, from Akron Group. The project was purchased for the European Core Logistics Fund (ECLF), and its tenant is Magna International, a Canadian automotive parts supplier. ‣ Palmira Capital Partners: advising on the purchase of the Silesia East logistics park in Sosnowiec. The transaction took the form of the purchase of a company that owns a 32,000 sqm Class A warehouse facility forming part of a major logistics hub around Katowice, Poland. ‣ Skanska: advising on the Polish tax aspects of a sale of building D in the Nowy Rynek complex, located at the former site of Poznan’s central coach station, to Eastnine AB, a Swedish real estate company focused on modern and sustainable office and logistics properties. This €121 million investment deal was the first transaction between the two parties in Central and Eastern Europe and the first real estate investment of Eastnine AB in Poland.

Tomasz Dąbrowski

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

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.

Tommaso Zanirato

Tommaso Zanirato is a counsel in our Milan office and a member of the global Banking and Finance practice. He advises clients including leading domestic and international banks, financial institutions, private equity funds, private debt funds and corporations (also listed) in matters relating to, mainly, acquisition and leveraged finance, corporate and syndicated lending and real estate finance, as well as debt restructuring. He focuses, in particular, on complex domestic and cross-border leverage buy-out transactions involving banks and financial institutions.

Tony Nicholson

Tony is a senior associate based in Dentons’ Dubai office and is a member of the Banking and Finance practice. He has more than 10 years of global experience representing borrowers, sponsors, commercial lenders, DFIs and ECAs on all aspects of the development and financing of large-scale projects. His experience spans a range of different sectors including renewables, water and LNG. He also has extensive experience advising on a broad range of corporate, real estate, asset and acquisition financing transactions, and some experience with cross-border M&A, fund investments, general banking and advisory work, restructuring and insolvency.

Tran Duy Canh

Managing Partner

Trisha Umrowsing

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.

Valentijn Leijh

Partner

Valeria Tarasenko

Valeria Tarasenko is a tax advisor in Dentons’ Kyiv office, and a member of the Firm’s Tax Group. Valeria specializes in tax law and settlement of tax disputes. She advises national and multinational companies on tax structuring and tax planning, assessment of tax risks, cross-border taxation and application of international tax treaties as well as on matters related to OECD's Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS). Valeria has extensive experience in solving tax disputes and supporting tax litigations in all phases of litigation process. Valeria was also heading successfully tax practice in one of the leading litigation law firms in Ukraine, and building its tax practice from scratch.

Valerio Lemma

Valerio Lemma is an of counsel in the Banking & Finance practice. He focuses on asset management, banking, financial and insurance regulation. Valerio has extensive experience in structuring and implementing investment funds (including credit and real estate funds) and regularly advises financial institutions and other regulated entities with respect to a broad range of regulatory matters and dealings with regulators. He is also highly experienced in the field of Fintech, Insurtech and digital payment services, where he provides assistance in relation to legal and regulatory issues. He authored several scientific papers and a monograph focused on the Fintech sector (“Fintech Regulation: Exploring New Challenges of the Capital Markets Union” Springer, 2020) and also participated in primary roundtables and conferences on this topic.

Verity Buckingham

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

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.

Vikki-Ann Flansberry

Partner

Vincent Quittre

Vincent Quittre is a Managing Counsel in Dentons’ Luxembourg Tax Practice. Vincent advises on direct and indirect taxes matters with a focus on cross-border investments especially in private equity, capital markets and real estate. He has expertise in the establishment of Luxembourg investment platforms. Vincent also regularly advices clients on the setting-up of employee benefit schemes and assists high-net-worth individuals on the structuring of their private wealth.

Virginia Brause

Virginia Brause is a Partner in the Montevideo office, where she leads the Corporate team. Her activity also encompasses Venture, Tech & Emerging Growth Companies and Estates & Wealth Preservation.

Vivek Bakshi

Partner

Volker Junghanns

Dr. Volker M. Junghanns, LL.M. (Bruges) is a partner in Dentons' Frankfurt office. He focuses on corporate finance and M&A, with a focus on private equity and venture capital. He has broad expertise in regulated industries, such as telecommunications and multimedia. In this context, Volker advises numerous national and international clients on M&A transactions, corporate matters (including joint ventures, reorganizations and restructurings) as well as on operational business matters (in particular with regard to distribution systems and commercial contracts). His capabilities also include the setup of ecommerce platforms and related digital documents (contracts and general terms and conditions).

Volodymyr Monastyrskyy

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.

Wael A. Alissa

Wael Alissa is an associated partner in Riyadh. Wael has a formidable track record of litigating disputes before various Saudi Arabian courts and dispute resolution tribunals including the Shari'ah courts, the Board of Grievances (the Saudi Arabian commercial court), Labour Courts, the Capital Market Authority disputes committee and the Committee for the Settlement of Banking Disputes (the SAMA Committee). Wael also spent 10 years as a deputy prosecutor with the Saudi Arabian Department of Prosecution & Investigation.

Wafa Al Shuaibi

Wafa Al Shuaibi is a senior associate in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in Dentons' Muscat office. She has over 10 years' experience working on a wide range of litigation and dispute resolution matters including advising clients on disputes, arbitrations and commercial matters as well as being qualified to appear before the primary and appeal courts of Oman. Her experience is across a range of different sectors including governments, financial institutions, construction, and telecoms. Wafa has delivered a pro bono work with Outward Bound Oman. Wafa is bilingual and has the ability to draft and negotiate in Arabic and English.

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Dr Wolfram Krohn, MPA (Harvard) is a partner in the Berlin office. He is a member of the Public Policy and Regulatory practice group and focuses on public procurement and government contracts, regulatory, export control and compliance. Wolfram has extensive experience in defense, infrastructure and transport, IT and telecommunications, health care and public private partnerships. Wolfram regularly advises and represents contracting entities and bidders in EU tender procedures and bid challenge proceedings in Germany and abroad. He also has extensive experience in regulatory and commercial litigation. Wolfram holds a doctorate in law from Humboldt University and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard Kennedy School. He is admitted to the German bar.

Yaqdhan Al-Busaidi

Yaqdhan Al Busaidi is a Partner in Yaqdhan Al Busaidi Law Firm in association with Dentons & Co based in the Muscat office. He has over 7 years of experience advising on Corporate, Litigation and Dispute Resolution matters, including advising clients on commercial and corporate governance and civil and commercial disputes. Yaqdhan is part of the Tier 1 ranked Dispute Resolution and Corporate teams and his experience is across a range of different sectors including governments and real estate. He is qualified to appear before the primary courts of Oman.

Yifan Zhang

Yifan Zhang（张一凡）is a senior associate in Dentons’ Luxembourg office. She is a member of the Banking and Finance practice group. Yifan focuses on advising financial institutions, multinational companies, and private equity funds. She is also involved in mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations, and general corporate advice.

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Yun Ma

Yun Ma is Partner within the Sovereign Advisory practice group and specializes in Project Development and Finance. Yun frequently represents governments, sovereign wealth funds, and state-owned enterprises on complex finance transactions, transformation and litigation. Yun’s expertise is in the structuring, documenting, negotiating and financing of projects and strategic acquisitions, particularly for infrastructure projects related to the energy and natural resources industries in Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Yun has strong global experience, having worked or lived in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Zaher Nammour

Zaher has practiced law in the Middle East for over 17 years, including 15 years in Qatar. He was a member of the team that established Dentons Doha office in 2007. Zaher has extensive experience in corporate joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, corporate governance, public offerings, private placements and the related regulatory framework. Zaher has advised on restructuring and acquisition of multi million companies in Qatar and abroad. In addition to his corporate expertise, Zaher is also recognised for his real estate and dispute resolution experience and in-depth knowledge of Qatar law in this area. Over the years, he has counseled both foreign investors as well as local entities (private and governmental) on a number of large-scale infrastructure projects including The Pearl, Lusail and the Qatar Integrated Railways Project.

Zahra Rose Khawaja

Zahra Rose Khawaja is a senior associate specializing in commercial dispute resolution in Dentons' Dubai office. She has seven years' experience (five of which in the Middle East) working on a wide range of international arbitration and commercial dispute resolution matters. Zahra's international arbitration portfolio includes acting for both claimants and respondents in claims valued between US$1 million and US$500 million, conducted under the rules of many major arbitral institutions. She also conducts litigation in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) courts. Zahra has acted as advisor to a prominent financial institution in longstanding DIFC Court proceedings (presently in the Court of Appeal) seeking recovery of a US$30 million debt arising out of an alleged trade finance fraud. She also acts alongside local counsel to advise clients in respect of proceedings in the onshore UAE courts, and has significant experience in commercial agency disputes, contractual disputes, debt recovery and enforcement proceedings. Zahra is also experienced in handling mediation and negotiation processes. Zahra's experience spans a range of different sectors including telecommunications, manufacturing, financial services and technology, and she has a keen interest in the hotels and hospitality sector, having acted for a number of clients in recent high-value disputes between hotel owners and operators arising out of hotel management agreements in the Middle East region. Prior to joining Dentons, Zahra trained and practiced at an international law firm in London, where she focused on international arbitration and conducted litigation in the High Court and Court of Appeal. During her training contract, she spent six months on secondment to a client in Hong Kong. Zahra also served for two years as Assistant Editor for the MENA Region at Kluwer Arbitration Blog, which reports on the latest developments, awards and forthcoming events in international arbitration.

Zdeněk Kučera

Zdeněk Kučera is a partner in Dentons’ Prague office and Head of the local TMT practice. He has more than 15 years' experience in ICT law, commercial law and dispute resolution. Within ICT law, he focuses on complex projects, IT company acquisitions, software law, digitalization of processes, regulation of new technologies, personal data protection, intellectual property law, cybersecurity and media law. He often represents clients in various disputes, namely in the technology sector. His experience also encompasses advising on commercial, corporate, unfair competition, copyright and media law disputes. His clients include global corporations operating in the IT and e-commerce, financial institutions, and companies from communications, media, and defence industries.

Zeena Saleh

Zeena holds the role of Counsel in the Dentons London office with extensive experience advising financial institutions, regulators, listed companies, regulated investment exchanges and senior executives in respect of contentious regulatory and criminal enforcement action. Her experience extends to conducting internal investigations with an international focus involving alleged regulatory breaches, market abuse and corporate crime, including fraud, money laundering, and bribery and corruption. In addition to completing secondments with the litigation and investigation teams at two retail banks, Zeena has also completed a secondment with the EMEA internal investigations and conduct team at an international investment bank.

Zhulkarnain Rahim

Zhul A Rahim is a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk's Litigation and Dispute Resolution and Arbitration practice groups. He is Co-Head of the Islamic Finance practice and the Family/Matrimonial practice. He handles civil and commercial disputes, and corporate and regulatory advisory matters with a focus on banking and financial services, energy, shipping and international trade. He has appeared before the Singapore courts and arbitral tribunals in Singapore and London under the SIAC, SCMA, ICC and LCIA rules. Zhul also handles a wide array of commercial matters ranging from intellectual technology litigation, insurance-related claims, employment disputes, family law disputes and Syariah Court matters. He has advised a number of government statutory bodies on various advisory and regulatory matters. Zhul is also the panel solicitor for the Singapore Islamic Religious Council or Majlis Ugama Islam Singapore (MUIS), the Islamic religious authority in Singapore. In addition, he acts for and advises Islamic banks and financial institutions on Islamic financing products and related disputes. In terms of estate and wealth planning, he advises Muslim individuals or Syariah-compliant trusts on Syariah-compliant mechanisms. Amongst his accolades, he was named in the ALB 40 under 40 2016 List of the brightest young legal minds in the region and a shortlisted finalist in the 2017 Young Lawyer of the Year category of the ALB South East Asia Law Awards. In 2017, he won the JCI Singapore: Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World Award in the category of Political, Legal and Government Affairs. Zhul is a member of the Maritime Law Association of Singapore and a member of the Muslim Law Practice Committee of the Law Society. As part of his pro bono work, Zhul is an assigned solicitor with the Legal Aid Scheme and volunteers in monthly legal clinics. Zhul is a Member of the Singapore Parliament, representing the Keat Hong ward of Chua Chu Kang GRC. Zhul is also the Vice-Chairman of the South West Community Development Council and Chua Chu Kang Town Council and an advisor of the grassroots organisation. He sits on several boards of directors of VWOs in Singapore.

Zsófia Marton

Zsófia Marton is an associate in the Litigation and Commercial practice group of Dentons’ Budapest office. She focuses the main part of her practice on primarily supporting companies in banking and finance, investment services and civil law–related litigation matters. Zsófia frequently advises financial institutions, insurance companies and private equity firms. She also advises clients on operating matters, regulatory issues, corporate matters and drafting finance and investment documentation.

Zsófia Lascsik

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 Šimeková

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

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