When competing in the global marketplace, you need a trade expansion strategy that takes into account all elements that can have a significant impact on your business. Today’s international business arena leads to clashes, bringing politics, law, economics and social welfare face-to-face. Moreover, every region in the world has a different culture for disputes and negotiations.

The cross-continental team of Dentons lawyers is adept in global trade dispute resolution and negotiations. We share with you our valuable knowledge of multilateral and regional trade agreement frameworks, which gives you a substantial advantage over your competition. Dentons will not only win disputes and negotiations for you, it will help you achieve your trade expansion goals.

Draw on the experience of the global trade capabilities at Dentons. We have extensive experience advising businesses, industry associations and governments alike on compliance with global trade rights and obligations. We prefer to give you an edge in negotiations rather than lead you into a dispute. However, we will always provide advice and assistance when a trade dispute proves to be inevitable. Level the playing field with full-service representation from the proactive team at Dentons.

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Outcomes of the WTO’s 13th Ministerial Conference

March 4, 2024

Global: The World Trade Organization held its 13th Ministerial Conference (MC13) in Abu Dhabi (UAE) from 26 February to 2 March 2024. Ministers representing WTO Members of very different levels of development, and with very different (geo-)political views, met to discuss a plethora of important topics, ranging from food security and e‑commerce to fisheries subsidies and reform of the WTO, as well as domestic regulations of services and investment facilitation.

UK government set to introduce new Failure to Prevent offences

April 3, 2023

United Kingdom: Corporate offences of "failure to prevent" have gradually come into force in the last 15 years in a bid to make firms directly financially and, in some instances, criminally liable for criminal misconduct undertaken by employees.

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Recent Press Releases

Dentons named "Law Firm of the Year for Foreign Trade Law" at JUVE Awards 2022

October 28, 2022

Dentons was named "Law Firm of the Year for Foreign Trade Law" by Germany's leading legal medium at this year's JUVE Awards.

Dentons boosts UK International Trade and Regulatory practice with new partner hire

February 26, 2019

Dentons is boosting its International Trade practice in the UK with the hire of Roger Matthews. He will link up with International Trade experts across the global firm, as well as a newly-combined multi-disciplinary UK Regulatory and Trade group, to further enhance Dentons’ global international trade and regulatory expertise.

Dentons launches in Latin America and the Caribbean

May 16, 2016

Global law firm Dentons, Colombia's Cardenas & Cardenas, and Mexico’s López Velarde today formalized their combinations. The launches follow the initial announcement last December that partners of each firm approved the combinations.

With these combinations, Colombia and Mexico are now home to the world's largest law firm. With more than 7,300 lawyers serving more than 55 countries, the Firm offers clients the benefit of quality experience in and of the communities in which they want to do business or resolve a dispute—now including the Firm's first physical presence in Latin America.

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