Leaders League 2021 rankings have recognized Dentons among the best law firms across Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Russia and Spain. In total, Dentons received ratings in 60 categories, of which seven were ‘Leading’, 15 – ‘Excellent’, and 24 – ‘Highly recommended’. Furthermore, 67 Dentons lawyers were highlighted in the rankings.

Full rankings are presented below:

Belgium

• Highly recommended
  • Competition & distribution - Antitrust & merger control (James Venit, Yves Botteman, Jean-Nicolas Maillard)
  • Merger & Acquisitions (Yolande Meyvis)
• Recommended
  • Banking & Finance: Transactions & Dispute Resolution (Nora Wouters)

France

• Excellent
  • Competition & distribution - Antitrust (Emmanuelle Van Den Broucke)
  • Competition & distribution - Distribution law (Emmanuelle Van Den Broucke, Christine Sévère)
  • Dispute resolution - Commercial litigation (Christine Sévère, Frédérique Meslay-Caloni, Aurélien Chardeau)
  • Dispute resolution - White collar crime (Aurélien Chardeau)
  • Restructuring & insolvency - Advising mid-cap companies and their shareholders (Audrey Molina)
• Highly recommended
  • Competition & distribution - Franchise law (Emmanuelle Van Den Broucke, Christine Sévère)
  • Competition & distribution - Merger control (Emmanuelle Van Den Broucke)
  • Competition & distribution - State Aids (Emmanuelle Van Den Broucke)
  • Dispute resolution - Financial litigation & equity financing (Aurélien Chardeau, Christine Sévère)
  • Dispute resolution - International arbitration (Barton Legum, Jean-Christophe Honlet)
• Recommended
  • Asset management (Guillaume Panuel, Olivier Genevois, Nicolas Capelli)

Germany

• Leading
  • Insolvency (Andreas Ziegenhagen, Arne Friel)
• Highly recommended
  • Capital Market: Debt (Oliver Dreher)
  • Capital Market: Equity (Robert Michels)
  • Corporate Tax (Stephan Busch)
  • M&A: Mid-cap (Christof Kautzsch, Predrag Maksimovic)
  • Restructuring (Andreas Ziegenhagen, Arne Friel)
• Recommended
  • M&A: Large Cap (Christof Kautzsch, Predrag Maksimovic)
  • Merger Control and Antitrust (Jörg Karenfort)
  • Real Estate (Dirk-Reiner Voss, Sebastian Schmid)

Italy

• Excellent
  • Banking & Finance (Alessandro Fosco Fagotto)
  • M&A: large-cap
  • Private Clients (Andrea Fiorelli)
  • Private Equity (Luca Pocobelli, Alessandro Dubini)
  • Restructuring & Insolvency (Alessandro Fosco Fagotto, Federico Sutti)
• Highly recommended
  • Corporate Tax (Fabrizio Capponi, Andrea Fiorelli)
  • Fund Formation (Fabrizio Capponi)

Luxembourg

• Leading
  • Real Estate (Martine Gerber-Lemaire, Christel Dumont)
• Excellent
  • Corporate Tax (Jean-Luc Fisch)
• Highly recommended
  • Banking & finance (Stéphane Hadet)
• Recommended
  • M&A (Shaohui Zhang)
  • Private Equity (Martine Gerber-Lemaire)
  • Fund Structuring 

Netherlands

• Highly recommended
  • Restructuring & Insolvency (Krijn Hoogenboezem)
  • Banking & Finance (Marcel Janssen, Jacqueline Bell)
  • Antitrust & Competition (Marc Kuijper)
  • M&A (Casper Haket)
• Recommended
  • Private Equity (Kuif Klein Wassink, Marnix Veldhuijzen)

Poland

• Leading
  • Antitrust (Agnieszka Stefanowicz-Barańska)
  • Banking & Finance (Mateusz Toczyski, Marcin Bartczak)
  • Corporate Tax (Cezary Przygodzki, Karina Furga-Dąbrowska)
  • Restructuring & Insolvency (Anna Maria Pukszto)
• Excellent
  • M&A (Piotr Dulewicz, Paweł Grabowski)

Russia

• Leading
  • Corporate Tax (Dzhangar Dzhalchinov, Boris Bruk, Lidya Charikova)
• Excellent
  
  • Restructuring & Insolvency (Andrei Strijak)
• Highly recommended
  • Banking & Finance (Timothy Stubbs)

Spain

• Highly recommended
  • Investment Funds (Jesús Durán)
  • Corporate M&A (Nieves Briz, Jose María Buxeda)
  • Banking & Finance (Jabier Badiola, Jesús Mardomingo)
  • Capital Markets (Ignacio Corujo Del Valle)
• Recommended
  • Corporate Tax (María Cortizas)
  • Project Finance (Jesús Mardomingo, Jabier Badiola)
  • Real Estate Transactions (Juan Ignacio Alonso)
  • Private Equity Transactions (Jesús Durán)
  • Fund Formation (Jesús Durán)

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