The latest Legal 500 UK guide, released earlier this month, revealed some fantastic results for Dentons' UK offices, with more practices ranked and a new Leading Individual ranking. Additionally, our clients have praised our high-quality advice and the depth of our knowledge. We have been recognised as ''outstanding in every respect''.

Below is a selection of this year's highlights:

Dentons' London office has been ranked in an outstanding 50 categories, including ten tier elevations and three completely new rankings for Franchising, Finance - High yield and Private equity: transactions - mid-cap deal capability. The office secured six Tier 1 rankings, one more than last year (the new top-tier ranking being for Oil & Gas), including Commercial Property: Retail, Islamic Finance, M&A: Mid-Market, Rail and Trade Finance and Oil & Gas.

Clients praised Dentons' London-based lawyers for providing a ''seamless service between specialists''. Our ''extremely forthright, timely, personable and value approach'' and ''exceptional'' response times were applauded. The sheer ''depth of knowledge and creativity'' provided by Dentons was also commended.

Dentons' Milton Keynes office secured a total of 13 practice area rankings, including seven Tier 1 rankings, in Corporate and Commercial, Dispute Resolution: Commercial Litigation, Employment, Real Estate: Construction, Real Estate Commercial Property and Regional Heavyweights.
Clients congratulated our Milton Keynes-based lawyers for providing ''fast, to the point, efficient and high quality'' advice. We were also praised for our ''very high level of ability, combined with strong commerciality and industry knowledge''.

Dentons' Leading Individuals in the UK for 2014, including Babette Märzheuser-Wood who was a new addition this year, are:

London

• Liz Tout (Commercial Litigation)
• Greg Kahn (Asset Finance and Leasing)
• Isaac Felberbaum (Bank Lending)
• Nigel Barnett (Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency)
• Graham Paine (Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency)
• Neil Griffiths (Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency)
• Richard de Belder (Islamic Finance)
• Charles Wood (Oil & Gas and Power)
• Stephen Shergold (Environment)
• Babette Märzheuser-Wood (Franchising)
• Adrian Barr-Smith (Sport)
• Christopher McGee-Osborne (Rail)
• Matthew Hanslip Ward (Rail)

Milton Keynes

• Andrew Harris (Corporate and Commercial)
• Brandon Ransley (Corporate and Commercial)