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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.

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 García

Senior Associate

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.

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.

Eduardo Esparza

Senior Associate

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.

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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.

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