Dentons

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Dentons has appointed Claire Armstrong to the newly-created role of Scotland managing partner. Working alongside Glasgow's Alison Bryce and Edinburgh's Kirsti Olson, she will drive forward the firm's strategy to be the leading international law firm in Scotland.

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Dentons is to move forward with backdated salary raises for its UK fee-earners from March, The Lawyer reports. The increases are to be backdated to reflect the fact they would have been given the green light in July last year.

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Global law firm Dentons is set to hold its Burns Supper virtually this evening, with the event featuring a number of the firm’s client-produced brands with a "Dentons Burns Night in a box". Food and drink for the night will include Baxters cock-a-leekie soup, Nairn’s oatcakes, Hall&rsquo

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Two roles at Dentons in Scotland are at risk of being lost, as the firm begins a UK-wide redundancy consultation. The roles, in the Scottish real estate department, could go along with jobs in London and Milton Keynes.

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Dentons has announced proposals to combine with Tanzanian law firm, East African Law Chambers (EALC), as part of its plans to become a leading pan-African law firm. EALC has five partners and 13 lawyers and provides legal services for a range of matters including banking and finance, mergers an

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Dentons is hosting a new series of events in Scotland entitled "The Big Blether" which will be dedicated to the issues that matter to its clients and communities. Each event in the new series will feature speakers from all walks of like who will share their stories, thoughts, and opinions on importa

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Fiona Caldow and Gareth Hale consider a recent decision by the Supreme Court on restrictive covenants in restraint of trade. In Peninsula Securities Limited v Dunnes Stores (Bangor) Limited [2020] UKSC 36, the Supreme Court upheld the terms of a lease, finding that a restrictive

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Alison Bryce considers the uncertainty for the Scottish food and drink industry in the event of a no-deal Brexit. Over the last 47 years, the UK’s laws, regulations and processes have become inextricably linked with the European Union. There are a number of factors to consider in the inevitabl

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Dentons is to close its Aberdeen and Watford offices, with lawyers and staff set to work from home permanently. The firm told The Lawyer, however, that the closures will not result in any redundancies. The Edinburgh and Milton Keynes offices will be available to those staff now working from home per

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Dentons has hired Brian Hutcheson as a partner in its UK real estate practice. Mr Hutcheson will be based in the firm's Glasgow office and joins from Morton Fraser where he has been a partner since 2006. He specialises in development work, investment sales and purchases, property finance and leasing

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Global law firm Dentons has become the latest firm to expand into Ireland with the appointment of two partners from Irish law firms William Fry and Matheson. Eavan Saunders, previously a senior partner at William Fry as well as global law firm Ashurst, will be managing partner of the Dublin off

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Dentons has advised Charles Ritchie's Testamentary Trust, the majority shareholder of global energy services engineering business Score Group, on its £120 million sale to private equity firm SCF Partners. Founded in 1982 by Charles Ritchie, Score is headquartered in the Aberdeenshire town of P

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