Dentons

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

Amy Cornelius, a senior associate at Dentons in Glasgow, has completed eight running events in the space of eight months and is on track to raise £8,000 for cystic fibrosis charities.

The requirement for parental consent in order for minors to change their legal gender can be "restrictive and problematic", according to a report prepared by Dentons. Only Adults? Good Practices In Legal Gender Recognition for Youth identifies 'good practices' in eight European jurisdictions: Norway

Josef Strand has been appointed an associate at Dentons in Glasgow. Mr Strand, who joins the firm's real estate department, obtained an LLB from Edinburgh University and trained with Sneddons in West Lothian.

Proposed legislation should avoid forcing parties to attend mediation information sessions, writes Malcolm Gunnyeon. As litigants increasingly look for quicker and more cost-effective alternatives to the courts, mediation has become well known as a means of resolving disputes.

Edinburgh Rugby and Dentons have extended a partnership that will see the firm continue to feature on the collar of the team’s playing jerseys for the next three years.

Dentons, which has offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen, has voted to combine with Lee International, a law firm in South Korea. Lee International has a range of practice areas including intellectual property, mergers & acquisitions, finance, real estate, corporate, litigation/internationa

Dentons has appointed one of its lawyers as chief mindfulness officer in Europe. Warsaw partner Karina Furga-Dabrowska's appointment comes after she launched the firm's NextMind program, which aims to help its lawyers reduce stress.

Dentons has launched a risk consulting business to provide advisory, assurance and remediation services to clients. Dentons Risk Consulting is led by managing directors John Davison and Christian Blackwell.

Dentons has announced its unaudited, headline financial results for the UK & Middle East region during the financial year to 30 April 2019. Revenue at the firm was £229.8 million, an increase of 13 per cent on 17/18 (£203.1m). Revenues have risen 48 per cent since 2014/15.

Dentons has announced the promotion of 25 new partners from the UK and Europe, including three in Scotland. Edinburgh-based Donald Smith and Glasgow-based Craig Kennedy and Alison Weatherhead have all been made partners in the latest promotions round.

International law firm Dentons has reported its "strongest ever set of financial results" in the UK and Middle East on the back of its merger with Scottish law firm Maclay Murray & Spens. The latest Dentons UK and Middle East LLP consolidated accounts for the financial year ending 30 April 2018