London—Dentons is pleased to announce that the Firm has been ranked in over 60 categories in the 2016 edition of The Legal 500 UK. A total of 117 Dentons lawyers have been recommended in their respective practice areas.

The Firm achieved a total of 14 top-tier rankings in the areas of Finance, Real Estate, Technology, Media and Telecoms, Transport, Commercial Litigation, Employment, and Environment. In addition, 24 Dentons lawyers were named as elite 'leading individuals' in the 2016 results.

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.

Congratulations to all of those who have been recommended in the 2016 rankings.

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

UK Tier 1 Rankings

• Islamic Finance
• Trade Finance
• Oil and Gas
• Commercial Property: Hotels and Leisure
• Commercial Property: Retail
• Environment 
• Data Protection
• IT and Telecoms 
• Rail
• Corporate and Commercial
• Commercial Litigation
• Employment
• Commercial Property
• Construction

UK leading individuals

• Martin Fanning – Commercial Contracts
• David Collins – Flotations: Small and Mid-Cap
• Liz Tout – Commercial Litigation
• Greg Kahn – Asset Finance and Leasing
• Isaac Felberbaum – Bank Lending: Investment Grade Debt and Syndicated Loans
• Neil Griffiths – Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency
• Nigel Barnett – Corporate Restructuring and Insolvency
• Paul Holland – Emerging Markets
• Edward Hickman – Securitisation
• Celia Gardiner – Trade Finance
• Charles Wood – Oil and Gas
• Rob Thompson – Real Estate
• Stephen Shergold – Environment
• Stephen Ashworth – Planning
• Babette Märzheuser-Wood – Franchising
• Jan Willem van den Bos – IT and Telecoms
• Christopher McGee-Osborne – Rail
• Matthew Hanslip Ward – Rail
• Andrew Harris – Corporate and Commercial
• James Fairbairn – Professional Negligence, Commercial Litigation
• Tim Constable – Commercial Litigation

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