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We are securing new workspace in downtown San Francisco, which is an important market for our clients. For the interim, our San Francisco address is our existing Oakland office (1999 Harrison Street, Suite 1300).

For over 30 years, Dentons has been servicing the legal and business needs of clients in San Francisco's financial district and throughout Northern California. With offices in San Francisco and Oakland, our Bay Area lawyers and professionals have provided creative and efficient solutions to our clients’ most complex legal challenges and helped them identify vulnerabilities, threats and risks.

Our diverse team brings experience across a number of practice areas and sectors, including intellectual property protection, enforcement and monetization; complex civil and commercial litigation; health care regulatory and transactions; real estate acquisitions, dispositions, development and financing; employment and labor issues; corporate formation, governance and transactional matters; and all types of capital markets legal work.

Representative clients include multinational industrial and commercial enterprises, commercial and residential real estate developers, tribal governments, construction companies, banks, insurance companies, financial services firms, franchisors, technology companies and court-appointed fiduciaries.

With our multidisciplinary capabilities, colleagues in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego, and Dentons’ global reach, our San Francisco/Oakland office is able to offer you the high-quality legal services you need to achieve your business objectives throughout California and beyond.

In and of the community

Dentons takes seriously our commitment to the communities in which we live and work—and our pro bono work reflects that commitment, as well as our entrepreneurial approach to solving problems in a complex world. We have provided pro bono assistance to underserved communities in the Bay Area in matters relating to landlord-tenant; family law; estate planning; nonprofit formation, governance and employment relations; political amnesty; and migrant farm workers' rights. Our office’s ESG (environmental, social and governance) strategy is fully integrated into every aspect of our business, from daily procedures to long term planning, and includes fostering the active participation employees and partnering with clients.

Community involvement and progressive advocacy is a priority for the San Francisco/Oakland offices. Some of our actions include:

• Advancing LGBT+ equality and inclusion: We are committed to promoting inclusivity and ongoing education through the membership and active participation of our lawyers and professionals on Dentons’ Global LGBTQ+ Network, including some who serve as national leaders. We make an ongoing effort to promote awareness of the issues facing our LGBT+ colleagues and to encourage support for LGBT+ communities around the world.
• Resolving an eminent-domain dispute: Lawyers in our office resolved an eminent domain dispute between the operator of a shelter for abused and homeless women and children and the California High-Speed Rail Authority over the latter’s condemnation of six acres of the mission’s downtown Fresno property in connection with a bullet train project that would result in loss of primary access to the shelter. Two weeks before trial, our team secured a $37 million settlement—90 percent of the shelter’s final demand—and other non-monetary relief. Along with $16 million previously received for relocation to temporary facilities, the settlement will help the shelter reestablish a permanent home from which it can provide housing, drug and alcohol rehabilitation, crisis care, life skills training and other vital services for impoverished people.
• Rolling up our sleeves: In conjunction with National Rebuilding Together Day, lawyers and staff worked with Rebuilding Together San Francisco to revitalize The Marsh, a community arts center in the Mission District. Our efforts included painting the kitchen, hallway and a bathroom, reorganizing the financial storage area and removing clutter. We also collaborated with various local businesses, builders and community organizations to provide critical home repairs for income-qualified neighbors and to renovate community centers and public schools.
• Helping children: Members of the office routinely volunteer at Holy Family Day Home, San Francisco’s oldest childcare institution, which primarily serves low-income children and families. Our lawyers have helped by reading to children, preparing food packages, donating food items and assisting with a clothing drive.
• Toward a more sustainable future: Our Bay Area offices provide pro bono legal services to advance the cause of sustainability in energy, transportation and land use, among other areas of our economy. Our clients include both sustainability-focused entrepreneurs and not-for-profit organizations.

Highlights

Our experienced San Francisco/Oakland lawyers and professionals have been recognized by leading legal organizations, directories and publications. Our team’s notable awards include:

• Chambers USA - Ranked as Band 1 for Insurance: Insurer, 2021 and 2020
• Chambers USA - Ranked as Band 1 for Native American Law, 2021 and 2020

• Best Lawyers in America - San Francisco/Oakland lawyers ranked in recent editions:
  
  • Sandra McCandless - Employment Law - Individuals, Employment Law - Management, 2022 and 2021
  • Christopher Oliver - Securitization and Structured Finance Law, 2022 and 2021

• U.S. News - Best Lawyers - Regularly included in the “Best Law Firms” list, with Tier 1 or 2 rankings in multiple practice areas:
  • Litigation - Bankruptcy, 2022 and 2021
  • Product Liability Litigation - Defendants, 2022 and 2021
  • Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, 2022 and 2021
  • Employment Law - Management, 2022 and 2021
  • Health Care Law, 2022 and 2021
  • Securitization and Structured Finance Law, 2022 and 2021

• BTI Consulting Group - Sonia Martin named to the “Client Service All-Stars” list, 2022 and 2021 

• IAM Patent 1000 - The World’s Leading Patent Professionals - Recognized as a leading firm in California in Prosecution as recommended and recognized in prosecution

Recognition

Partner Ausra Deluard named a Top Antitrust Lawyer by Daily Journal

November 29, 2023

The Daily Journal recognized Dentons partner Ausra Deluard as one of its 2023 Top Antitrust Lawyers.

Dentons US CEO Sonia Martin named among Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business by San Francisco Business Times

October 4, 2023

The San Francisco Business Times recognized Dentons US CEO Sonia Martin as one of its 2023 Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business. Martin is honored for her outstanding leadership, career success and community impact.

Daily Journal selects partner Kimberly Kerry as Top Health Care Lawyer of 2023

July 5, 2023

Dentons partner Kimberly Kerry has been recognized as a 2023 Top Health Care Lawyer by the Daily Journal. Kerry is the managing partner of Dentons’ San Francisco/Oakland offices and chair of the Firm’s national Health Care practice.

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Insights

New California Statute on Voluntary Carbon Offsets and Greenhouse Gas Claims Takes Effect January 1, 2024

December 19, 2023

Signed into law by California Governor Newsom on October 7, 2023, AB 1305 is known as the “Voluntary Carbon Market Disclosures Business Regulation Act.”

New climate reporting requirements to take effect in California

October 19, 2023

United States: California has just enacted two climate-related reporting statutes.

CLE Seminar for In-House Counsel Webinar Series

June 24, 2020

Los Angeles Partner Bety Javidzad was joined by join Chicago Senior Managing Associate Shannon Shin and Michelle Jackson, Senior Counsel, Regulatory at Abbott Laboratories, to discuss Addressing Racial Gender Bias In the Legal Profession.

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News and Events

Recent Press Releases

Andrew Azarmi named Dentons’ San Francisco/Oakland office managing partner

October 9, 2024

Dentons announces that Andrew Azarmi has been named managing partner of the Firm’s San Francisco and Oakland offices.

Spotlight on: Health Care Practice

December 6, 2023

We sat down with Kimberly Kerry to talk about why she chose Dentons, her proudest professional moments and how she’d like to see the Health Care group grow moving forward.

Dentons advises in Biomerics in major acquisition of Precision Concepts Medical

August 3, 2023

A Dentons team represented Biomerics, Inc., in the acquisition of all of the issued and outstanding equity securities of Precision Concepts (Harrisonburg) LLC, Precision Concepts Group LLC, Precision Concepts Costa Rica, S.A., and IntraPac (Dominican Republic), Ltd., and substantially all of the assets of Precision Concepts (Mebane) LLC (collectively, the “Precision Concepts group”).

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