Dentons

Dentons’ Australia region has 69 partners and over 480 staff across offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth as well as an associate office in Adelaide. Dentons also has an office in Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea and a patent attorney office in New Zealand.

Dentons is known for their service excellence and innovative legal solutions and has built enduring relationships with some of the largest companies in the financial services, real estate and infrastructure, healthcare, energy, corporate and intellectual property and technology sectors.

Main areas of practice
Banking and finance: Dentons acts within each of the institutional bank, corporate bank, commercial bank, business bank, retail bank and SMSF markets. The team’s key strengths are in the areas of real estate, property and construction finance; syndicated, club and bilateral corporate finance and bank lending; acquisition and leveraged finance and debt restructuring, project finance and work-outs.

Key clients

• Australia and New Zealand Banking Group
• Commonwealth Bank of Australia
• Westpac Banking Corporation

Corporate: Dentons’ corporate team acts for clients on matters including major corporate dealings such as capital raising, business and deal structures, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate governance advice and major international cross-border transactions, commercial contracts, procurement, outsourcing and logistics.

Key clients

• Amazon Web Services
• Bayer Australia Limited
• Kumul Petroleum Holdings Limited

Dispute resolution:  Dentons’ dispute resolution team handle complex contractual and commercial disputes and apply sound legal, forensic, investigative and evidentiary skills. The team includes former barristers who give Dentons the edge in advocacy and drafting.

Key clients

• National Australia Bank Limited
• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• The Salvation Army

 Employment: Dentons advises on the application of industrial instruments, enterprise bargaining, industrial disputes, employee relations, workplace investigations, employee claims (including acting in litigation) and reviewing contracts.

Key clients

• AccorHotels
• Goodman Fielder
• Munich Re

Energy: Dentons has one of the longest standing energy and resources practices in Australia and Papua New Guinea. Dentons provides corporate advice to major oil and gas companies (including capital markets, M&A, takeovers) as well as project level advice (offtakes, JoAs, EPC and financing).

Key clients

• Asian Oil & Gas
• Carnarvon Petroleum
• Kumul Petroleum Holdings

Intellectual property and technology: Dentons’ intellectual property and technology team advise clients on the protection, exploitation, commercialisation and enforcement of their IP rights. The team combines both commercial and litigation capabilities in relation to trade marks, patents, copyright, designs, social media, technology and confidential information.

Real estate: Dentons’ real estate team advises on matters across planning, construction and property law to deliver advice on high value and strategic sales/acquisitions, planning, development, strata renewal, leasing and construction and property disputes.

Key clients

• AMP
• Crown Group
• Mirvac Group