Dentons

Edinburgh-based Dentons partner Brian Moore has been named as divisional leader for corporate at the firm, covering the practice’s operations across the UK and Ireland. Mr Moore will lead a team of 150 lawyers, including 50 in Scotland, which will handle disciplines including competition, corp

Dentons' UK, Ireland and Middle East region is to give people freedom of choice over when to work from home or the office. Dentons' UK, Ireland and Middle East (UKIME) region is to launch a new agile working policy that will give people freedom over choosing when to work from home or the office. It

Dentons has won Scotland IP Transactions Firm of the Year at the Managing IP Awards 2021. It is the second year that Dentons has won this award, having come top in the same category in 2020. The Managing IP Awards took place virtually on 30 March 2021, run by Managing Intellectual Property magazine,

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Dentons has announced it will combine with US firm Durham Jones & Pinegar as part of 'Project Golden Spike', a series of combinations aimed at dominance in the US market.

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

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

The first Scottish court decision on the Electronic Communications Code, which was introduced to the UK under the Digital Economy Act 2017, has been issued. It highlights the increase in power that telecommunications operators are now enjoying, write Gareth Hale and Sarah Peock. The caseThe case of