The flow of global trade and investment is in many respects a product of significant expansion of treaties on a variety of subjects. These treaties provide the legal infrastructure on which global business is based. Public international law has become a key feature of today's world, not only for sovereign states and intergovernmental organizations but also for multinational corporations and individuals.

Our clients routinely face these and other issues:

• State and diplomatic immunity
• Maritime boundaries
• Aviation
• World Trade Organization and regional free trade agreements
• Water rights
• Investment treaties.

As a global law firm acting on behalf of countries and territories, international organizations, state enterprises and multinational corporations and businesspeople, Dentons' lawyers have a comprehensive understanding of and experience in addressing these and other matters of public international law.

Dentons fields a team of lawyers with advanced degrees in public international law. Many have served previously as senior members of the legal departments of ministries of foreign affairs and intergovernmental organizations, or as law clerks in the International Court of Justice and other international tribunals. With our mastery of a range of high-ranking administrative sectors and our familiarity with the practice of substantive law, Dentons is uniquely positioned to assist you with issues of public international law.

Insights

Trade treaties: South Africa offers a critical gateway to Africa

October 9, 2024

South Africa: has an instrumental role to play in inter-continental trade agreements, and as a country, we have more authority than we realise, this is according to Noor Kapdi, CEO of Dentons Africa.

From stability to turmoil: Managing political risk in Bangladesh for foreign investors

September 11, 2024

India: Bangladesh has a robust framework of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and multilateral treaties, which protects foreign investors—both individual and corporate— who are nationals of the other contract parties to these treaties from where Bangladesh receives significant foreign direct investment. 

Climate justice is required when locating new energy sources

July 24, 2024

South Africa: When looking at the merits, or concerns around, fracking we need to consider more viewpoints than just that of lobby groups, as important as these are, because there are other socio-economic issues at play, writes Noor Kapdi, Chairman of Dentons South Africa.

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News and Events

Recent Press Releases

Shravan Yammanur joins Dentons Link Legal as Partner

June 7, 2023

A warm welcome to Shravan Yammanur who has joined as a Partner in the Firm’s Dispute Resolution practice in Delhi.

 

Ewa Rutkowska-Subocz to lead Dentons’ Public Law and Regulatory practice across Europe

May 5, 2022

Dentons has appointed partner Ewa Rutkowska-Subocz as Head of the Europe Public Law and Regulatory practice for the term ending December 31, 2024. In this new role, she will be responsible for establishing and leading a full-scope offering to assist clients in navigating the increasingly complex regulatory environment.

Dentons wins Banking, Finance and Restructuring Team of the Year and CSR Initiative of the Year awards at the Middle East Legal Awards

April 23, 2019

Dentons, the world's largest law firm, has won the Banking, Finance and Restructuring Team of the Year as well as the CSR Initiative of the Year awards at the Middle East Legal Awards held in Dubai last week. Co-hosted by Legal Week and the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Middle East, the prestigious awards ceremony was attended by over 300 in-house and private practice lawyers from across the region.

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