Dentons' partners have voted in favor of combining with East African Law Chambers, a pre-eminent law firm in Tanzania. In 2020, Dentons has added 21 new offices around the world in an environment where other law firms are standing still, contracting or withdrawing from key markets. 

On a continent scarred by the legacy of colonial domination and in a market where the operations of every leading law firm are hierarchical, Dentons’ unique polycentric and anti-colonial approach has been a stark differentiator, disrupting the traditional model for providing legal services in Africa.

The combination with EALC advances Dentons’ strategy to become the leading Pan-African law firm owned and controlled by Africans. The combination will position Dentons as the largest global law firm in Tanzania from launch, helping clients to navigate the New Dynamic in 14 locations in Africa and 188 locations across 77 countries around the world.

EALC has five partners and 13 lawyers and is a recognized leader in Banking and Finance, Capital Markets and Securities, Competition, Mergers and Acquisitions, Corporate and Commercial, Employment and Labor, Intellectual Property, Dispute Resolution, Mining, Oil and Gas, Real Estate, Taxation and Tax law, Telecommunications, Media and Technology. The combination would lead to significant synergies in light of Dentons' strengths in each of these areas.

The combination is expected to launch in the next several months.

In 2020 to date, Dentons has added 21 offices. In addition to the combination with EALC in Tanzania, Dentons announced a future combination with Salt Lake City-based Durham Jones & Pinegar - which also has offices in Lehi, St. George and Ogden. 

Dentons has also launched six combinations:

• Dentons Bingham Greenebaum and Dentons Cohen & Grigsby, the inaugural member firms with Dentons US;
• Dentons Kensington Swan in New Zealand;
• Dentons Lee in South Korea;
• Dentons Jiménez de Aréchaga in Uruguay; and
• Dentons Rattagan Arocena (formerly Dentons Rattagan Macchiavello Arocena) in Argentina. 

Dentons has also opened offices in the British Virgin Islands, St. Lucia and Ireland.

^{*Includes offices announced in 2020 but not yet launched}

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