New global law firm takes to the field

New global law firm Dentons, officially launched in early April, operates the largest fully integrated global real estate platform in the world.

Dentons has been formed by the combination of international law firm Salans, Canadian law firm Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP (FMC) and international law firm SNR Denton.

The combined firm has 2,500 professionals in 79 locations and 52 countries across North America, Western and Emerging Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, making it the seventh-largest law firm in the world.

In the lead-up to the merger, Eric Rosedale and Evan Lazar, leaders of Salans' real estate practice, said: 'The combination will bring us into an entirely new league in terms of our size, practice strength and geographic coverage.

'It's particularly interesting for us because it expands our traditional European and emerging market reach into dynamic markets in Asia, the Middle East and Africa while at the same time filling gaps we had in our UK and North American developed markets coverage.'

Following the establishment of Dentons, the establishing partner firms said the new firm 'is driven to challenge the status quo in legal services by delivering consistent and uncompromising quality and value to its clients in new and innovative ways.'

The two partners said Dentons distinguishes itself among the top global law firms by being polycentric: it has no single headquarters and no dominant national culture. The firm has specialists in all legal fields including real estate, civil law, English common law, US common law, Sharia law and Chinese legal and regulatory issues.

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