Canada—Dentons is pleased to announce that the Firm has achieved 24 firm rankings in The Legal 500 Canada this year with outstanding top-tier recognition for our Media and Entertainment group. Dentons’ excellent results also feature recognition for 48 Dentons lawyers covering a total of 58 rankings as leaders in their respective practice areas.
The full results are as follows:

Dentons has been recommended in the following 24 practice areas:

• Aboriginal law
• Banking and finance
• Capital markets
• Competition and antitrust
• Corporate and M&A
• Dispute resolution – Alberta
• Dispute resolution - British Columbia
• Dispute resolution – Ontario
• Dispute resolution – Québec
• Energy - Mining
• Energy - Oil and gas
• Energy - Power
• Environment
• Infrastructure and projects
• International trade
• Labour and employment
• Media and entertainment
• Pensions
• Public procurement
• Real estate
• Restructuring and insolvency
• Tax
• Telecoms
• Transport - Other

48 Dentons lawyers were recommended for a total of 58 individual category rankings:

* Leading Lawyers
** Next Generation Lawyers

Clients had strong praise for Dentons' Canada-based lawyers:

• A ‘true business partner’, Dentons finds favour for providing ‘steady guidance through challenging circumstances’. Among its chief attributes, clients appreciate lawyers’ ‘readiness to continually negotiate rather than litigate’ as well as their ‘good understanding of the business context’.
• A ‘pleasure to work with’, Dentons’ national group attracts strong praise for its ‘highly knowledgeable, experienced and responsive lawyers’.
• Dentons sets itself apart through its ‘very knowledgeable staff’ and ‘favourable service and pricing’.

“We are proud of our exceptional talent in the Dentons Canada team and these impressive rankings in The Legal 500 Canada are recognition of that talent,” said Beth Wilson, Dentons Canada Chief Executive Officer. “Dentons is driven by our client needs and expectations, and we approach their challenges as business partners with a view to addressing traditional legal problems in non-traditional ways, working collaboratively, and moving up the bar for exceeding their expectations for client service and value. The positive feedback we have received from our clients is a testament to our approach.” 

For more than 25 years, The Legal 500 has been analyzing the capabilities of law firms across the world, with a comprehensive research program revised and updated every year to bring the most up-to-date vision of the global legal market. The rankings are based on a series of criteria that highlight the practice area teams that are providing the most cutting edge and innovative advice to corporate counsel.

Complete details for Dentons’ rankings in The Legal 500 Canada 2018 can be found here.

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