London—Dentons is pleased to announce that the Firm has been ranked in 99 categories in the 2018 edition of The Legal 500 UK, and a total of 226 Dentons lawyers have been recognised across their respective practice areas.

The Firm secured a total of 25 top-tier rankings – 19 in England and six in Scotland – across the areas of Banking and Finance, Real Estate, Corporate, TMT, Transport, Litigation, Competition, Employment, and Oil & Gas. In addition, 45 Dentons lawyers were named as elite 'leading individuals' in the 2018 results, and 20 lawyers were recognised as 'next generation lawyers'.

The Legal 500 independently ranks law firms and individuals by collecting feedback from more than 250,000 corporate counsel, as well as reviewing submissions from law firms and interviewing leading private practice lawyers.

In the feedback given to The Legal 500, clients described Dentons' lawyers as "very talented", "commercially focused", "strategically astute", "dedicated" and "first class". In addition, as a firm, Dentons is "very impressive" and "goes beyond what might be expected to provide help to clients".

A selection of the Firm's UK practice rankings can be found below.

UK Tier 1 Rankings

• Banking and finance (South East)
• Banking and finance (Scotland)
• Commercial contracts (London)
• Commercial litigation (South East)
• Commercial property (South East)
• Commercial property (Scotland)
• Commercial property: hotels and leisure (London)
• Commercial property: retail (London)
• Commercial property: retail (Scotland)
• Construction (South East)
• Corporate and commercial (South East)
• Corporate tax (Scotland)
• Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity (London)
• Emerging markets (London)
• Employment (South East)
• EU and competition (Scotland)
• Immigration (South East)
• Islamic finance (London)
• IT and telecoms (London)
• Oil and gas (London)
• Professional negligence (South East)
• Property litigation (South East)
• Property litigation (Scotland)
• Rail (London)
• Trade finance (London)
  
  UK Leading Individuals

• Gordon Aitken – Commercial property
• Akin Akinbode – Construction
• Daren Allen – Banking litigation: investment and retail
• Stephen Ashworth – Planning
• Nigel Barnett – Corporate restructuring and insolvency
• Sarah Beeby – Employment
• David Cohen – Debt capital markets
• David Collins – Flotations: small and mid-cap
• Tim Constable – Commercial litigation
• Michael Dean – EU and competition
• Tim Edward – Commercial litigation
• James Fairbairn – Commercial litigation
• James Fairbairn – Professional negligence
• Martin Fanning – Commercial contracts
• Isaac Felberbaum – Bank lending: investment grade debt and syndicated loans
• Celia Gardiner – Emerging markets
• Celia Gardiner – Trade finance
• Nick Graham – Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
• Roland Gray – Commercial property
• Gurbinder Grewal – Construction
• Neil Griffiths – Corporate restructuring and insolvency
• Andrew Harris – Corporate and commercial
• Matthew Hanslip Ward – Rail
• Edward Hickman – Securitisation
• Paul Holland – Emerging markets
• Bryan Johnston – Property litigation
• Frank Johnstone – Debt recovery
• Amanda Jones – Employment
• Greg Kahn – Asset finance and leasing
• Mark Macaulay – Construction
• Babette Marzheuser-Wood – Franchising
• Christopher McGee-Osborne – Rail
• Brian Moore – Corporate and commercial
• Catriona Munro – EU and competition
• Andrew Orr – Projects
• Matthew Sapte – Derivatives and structured products
• Stephen Shergold – Environment
• Gwen Souter – Corporate tax
• Rob Thompson – Commercial property
• Liz Tout – Commercial litigation
• Simon Tweedle – Property finance
• Jan Willem van den Bos – IT and telecoms
• Peter Voisey – Securitisation
• Charles Wood – Oil and gas
• Robert Wyatt – Commercial property
  
  UK Next Generation Lawyers

• Verity Buckingham – Employment
• Gareth Burton – Debt capital markets
• Allan Cairns – Commercial property
• Ian Clements – Trade finance
• Christopher Colclough – Corporate and commercial
• Andrea Dunsby – Insolvency and corporate recovery
• Simon Elliott – Data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
• Natalia Fludra – Banking litigation: investment and retail
• Mark Goward – Insolvency and corporate recovery
• Gareth Hale – Property litigation    
• Lorna McCaa – Corporate tax    
• Derek McCombe – Corporate and commercial
• Esther McDermott – Construction
• Owen McLennan – Corporate and commercial
• Jane Miles – Construction
• Nicola Rae – Corporate and commercial
• Greg Rigby – Commercial property
• Jonathan Smith – Rail
• Martin Watt – Rail

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