Dentons Rattagan Arocena

Abai Shaikenov

Managing Partner · Banking & Finance

Abbey Varns

Associate · Corporate Law

Abdulaziz Almousa

Abdulaziz Almousa is an associate in Dentons' Riyadh office, specializing in corporate and capital markets law. A graduate of Prince Sultan University, Abdulaziz brings more than three years of hands-on legal experience within the Saudi Arabian market. He has a proven track record advising both international and local corporations on their organizational structures, as well as a broad spectrum of corporate and commercial transactions, capital markets matters and regulatory compliance. His expertise extends to conducting in-depth research on evolving Saudi laws and regulations, ensuring clients receive solutions that are both current and compliant. Abdulaziz is bilingual and has the ability to draft and negotiate in Arabic and English. · Corporate / M&A

Abdullah Al Busaidi

Abdullah Al Busaidi is an associate in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in Dentons' Muscat office. He has experience working on a wide range of litigation dispute resolution matters including advising clients on high-value commercial disputes, employment and litigation matters and is licensed to appear before all primary courts in Oman. His experience is across a range of different sectors including governments and private companies, Abdullah has delivered pro bono work with Outward Bound Oman and Oman Rugby Club. Abdullah is bilingual and has the ability to draft and negotiate in Arabic and English. · Litigation

Abdullah Alsulaimi

Abdullah Alsulaimi is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice at Dentons' Riyadh office. He is a highly experienced lawyer with more than 13 years of experience in Saudi law. Abdullah has served in prominent government positions, including Deputy Minister for Laws and International Cooperation at the Ministry of Justice, Advisor to the Minister of Justice and Assistant Deputy Minister for Property Registration. He has also held the prestigious role of judge in commercial courts and as a Committee for Resolution of Securities Disputes member. In these capacities, Abdullah successfully resolved complex disputes in the commercial and real estate sectors. He was the arbitrator in several major arbitration cases, with disputes exceeding SAR 2 billion. In addition to his judicial work, Abdullah has been instrumental in addressing several critical regulatory issues. Notably, he played a vital role in reviewing and reforming the real estate registration procedures and resolving its challenges, which led to restructuring the Real Estate Registration System. Abdullah also oversaw establishing a specialized legislative department within the Ministry of Justice that focused on drafting laws and regulations. Moreover, he contributed to developing regulations governing the presence of foreign law firms in Saudi Arabia, culminating in the issue of the specific regulatory framework. Abdullah has also played a significant role in regulatory development. He has been actively involved in drafting several vital legislations, including the Civil Transactions Law, the Evidence Law, the Commercial Courts Law, the Judicial Costs Law and the Regulation of Foreign Law Firms. Additionally, Abdullah has served on the board of directors of several vital entities, such as the Real Estate General Authority and the National Competitiveness Center, alongside prominent other councils and committees. · Litigation

Adam Mycyk

Adam Mycyk is a partner in Dentons’ Kyiv office. Adam has more than 30 years of experience advising both Ukrainian and international companies, banks, investment banks and a range of other financial institutions and investors on structuring and implementing debt and equity inward investments involving privatizations, mergers and acquisitions or joint ventures and on complex cross-border commercial and financing transactions and transaction on international capital markets. His experience and client base spans financial institutions and services, consumer products, energy, manufacturing, telecommunications, and agriculture sectors. Adam is a US qualified lawyer, admitted to the Bar in the District of Columbia (1993) and in Maryland (1991). Since relocating to Kyiv in 1994, he has led numerous acquisition and joint venture transactions and managed a variety of due diligence projects from different sectors. · Capital Markets

Adam Přerovský

Adam Přerovský is a senior associate in Dentons’ Prague office. Adam is a member of the Competition, Life Science, IP/T and Commercial Law practice. He focuses his practice on all areas of competition and antitrust law, contract law and consumer protection, the life science/pharma industry, and intellectual property law and technology. Adam’s experience encompasses merger control proceedings before the European Commission, Czech and Slovak Competition Authorities, representing clients in antitrust proceedings and investigations including proceedings on cartels, abuse of dominance and significant market power, advising on state aid proceedings before the European Commission, as well as in cases of private enforcement of competition law. Adam also regularly advices our clients in competition law aspects of M&A, distribution, franchise, JV and other commercial matters. Adam has also experience in the pharmaceutical and life science sector, advising clients mostly on commercial and regulatory matters under both Czech and European law, including EU product regulation, clinical trials, pricing regulation, data privacy and supply agreements. Adam also regularly advises clients on various matters relating to intellectual property, including trademarks, copyrights and industrial designs, and he represents clients before the Czech Industrial Property Office. With regard to industry sectors, he mostly concentrates on the life science/ pharma industry, FMCG, automotive, energy, media, the tobacco and e-cigarette industry, new technologies, IT and e-commerce. · Competition / Antitrust

Adam S. Goodman

Partner · Litigation

Adriana Mierzwa-Bronikowska

Adriana Mierzwa-Bronikowska is a partner in Dentons' Warsaw office and Head of the Projects and Infrastructure practice. For over 25 years, Adriana has been a trusted advisor to investors from both the private and public sectors, contractors, subcontractors, and financial institutions involved in some of the largest and most complex infrastructure projects in Poland. Her experience covers the entire lifecycle of projects – from pre-implementation analyses, through negotiating project agreements and securing financing, to the implementation stage. Adriana assists clients with drafting and negotiating project contracts (including EPC, O&M, and key supply agreements), securing financing, including EU funding, obtaining regulatory approvals, and managing contract changes during project execution. Her experience includes providing legal support to major players in the Polish infrastructure market, such as Gülermak, Saur, Deme Concessions, Q Terminals, Hutchison, Engie, Adamed, Polenergia, Frontex, CPK, Mota Engil, Mirbud, and the General Directorate for National Roads and Motorways. For many years, she has been involved in landmark projects such as the construction of the A1 and A2 motorways, container ports in Gdynia and Świnoujście, the new Frontex headquarters, the Central Communication Port (CPK), hydrogen production facilities, waste-to-energy plants, wastewater treatment plants, and renewable energy installations, including PV, onshore, and offshore. Adriana is engaged in projects carried out both in Poland and other jurisdictions. What sets Adriana apart is her broad, cross-sector experience. She has advised on projects in the transport sector (railways, roads, airports, and ports), energy, water and sewage, district heating, residential and public utility construction (halls, congress centers, stadiums), as well as in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sectors (hospitals). For years, Adriana has actively supported the development of the market by participating in the legislative process and co-authoring government PPP and EPC (energy efficiency) guidelines. She is also a member of the government PPP expert group at the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy. · Infrastructure

Afaf Aljohani

Afaf Aljohani is an associate in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice in Dentons' Riyadh office. She has experience working on a wide range of legal and policy matters, including advising clients on legislative drafting and regulatory impact assessment. Her experience is focused within the government sector, where she has worked across various areas of law. Afaf is bilingual in Arabic and English. · Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Agnieszka Stefanowicz-Baranska

Agnieszka Stefanowicz-Barańska is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office. She heads Dentons' Competition practice team in Poland. Since 1998, she has represented clients in numerous EU and Polish competition authority proceedings and before Polish courts, in cartel and other antitrust investigations. She has also assisted clients during dawn raids and in over 100 merger control proceedings, before both the European Commission and the Polish competition authority. She works with clients to design and implement their distribution networks and provides practical support to in-house teams in implementing antitrust compliance initiatives with, including risk-mapping and comprehensive antitrust audits. She has extensive experience in day-to-day advice to clients on abuse of dominance and horizontal cooperation issues, as well as antitrust issues related to M&A contracts. She supports clients in many different sectors, including life sciences, automotive, FMCG, food, real estate, TMT, heavy industry, chemicals, energy, utilities, retail trade, transport, banking and insurance. · Competition / Antitrust

Agnieszka Wojciechowska

Agnieszka Wojciechowska, counsel and a member of the Dispute Resolution practice group in Dentons' Warsaw office, where she heads the Construction Disputes team. She represents clients in domestic and international proceedings, before both state courts and arbitral tribunals. She handles matters related to a wide range of civil law including commercial and corporate disputes. Agnieszka has unique experience in construction, engineering and infrastructure disputes, including those based on FIDIC contract conditions. She advises private investors, public employers, contract engineers, contractors and subcontractors across the construction industry. In particular, she has experience in complex, high-value disputes across all key sectors: energy, oil and gas, roads, railway and real estate. She specialises in strategic and sensitive infrastructure projects. She has also developed a significant construction dispute avoidance practice. · Litigation

Agustín Acosta Cárdenas

Managing Partner · Corporate / M&A

Ahmed Butt

Ahmed Butt is a partner in the Middle East Banking and Finance practice. He leads Dentons’ Banking Regulation and Financial Institutions Regulatory practice in the Middle East and also has banking transactional expertise. He has more than 20 years of experience advising on regulatory matters in the financial services sector, including new market entry licensing applications and upgrades, innovative product regulatory analysis (including fintech), cross-border promotion, regulatory investigations and legislative enhancement projects. In addition, Ahmed has a wealth of experience as lead counsel on banking and finance transactions (including conventional and Islamic finance) and structuring banking products. Ahmed focuses primarily on the Saudi Arabia, mainland UAE, DIFC, ADGM and Qatar markets. He is recognized in Legal 500 for Financial Services Regulation (UAE) and has been ranked in Legal 500 (2015-2023) as a Leading Partner for Banking and Finance (Saudi Arabia). · Banking & Finance

Ahmed Kamal

Ahmed Kamal is a qualified and resourceful professional attorney with diverse experience in private, government and corporate investment. He works on many of the major trade, energy, banking, financial, media and telecommunication projects. With excellent problem-solving skills and extensive marketing experience, he has developed a deep knowledge of Egyptian public policy and regulations. His broad experience includes counseling clients on legal matters concerning procurement fraud, trade regulations, trade finance, banking transactions, acquisitions and mergers, telecommunications, and corporate laws including bankruptcy. In recent years Ahmed has substantially developed his experience and knowledge of banking transactions and related topics including, inter alia, various security packages, perfection and enforcements, and AML/FT rules. He also assists our Litigation team in finding unique theories, ideas and solutions to create effectual case arguments. · Corporate / M&A

Aigoul Kenjebayeva

Aigoul Kenjebayeva is the Partner for Kazakhstan at Dentons. She has led the practice in Kazakhstan ever since, and also served as Central Asia Managing Partner from 1994 until 2022. Her particular areas of specialization, acquired from over 30 years as a practicing lawyer in Kazakhstan and 11 years as a researcher in the economics of law, include corporate/M&A, energy/natural resources, PPP/infrastructure projects, IP, competition law, and dispute resolution. She is widely considered a top choice for dispute resolution in Kazakhstan. Since 2017, Aigoul serves as the first Kazakhstan lawyer appointed as a member of the International Court of Arbitration of the International Chamber of Commerce. Aigoul currently serves for the fourth year as a member of the International Council under the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan. She is also a member of the arbitration panel of the International Arbitration Center at the Astana International Financial Center, a member of the Users’ Committee of the AIFC Court, a member of the Kazakhstan Bar Association Board, a member of the Kazakhstan Petroleum Lawyers Association Board and the Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Norway in Almaty. In 2019, Aigoul was awarded with the Certificate of Honor of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan for merit in public and social activities. In 2020, Aigoul received a prestigious award from the Republic of Kazakhstan Supreme Court “For the Contribution to the Development of International Cooperation”. · Corporate / M&A

Ajinderpal Singh

Ajinderpal Singh is a senior partner in Dentons Rodyk's Litigation and Dispute Resolution and Arbitration practice groups. He is Co-Head of the Restructuring, Insolvency & Bankruptcy, White Collar and Government Investigations and Competition & Antitrust practices. He is also the Singapore-India and Singapore-Indonesia relationship partner. As a banking and insolvency practitioner, Ajinder has presented judicial management petitions for several creditors. He acted for the judicial managers of Singapore Leasing Pte Ltd, Tang Dynasty and Showpla Asia Ltd. He has been involved in preparing schemes of arrangements between companies and their creditors and reconstruction and amalgamation schemes for solvent groups of companies, often under time-sensitive and pressing conditions. He has represented liquidators and assisted them in investigations into the affairs of the company, notably in cases involving fraud, cross border asset tracing actions and suspected insolvent and fraudulent trading. Most notably, he recently acted for a Chinese state owned fund to recover over US$60 million invested by way of bonds in a Singapore listed company. The case involved asset recovery actions across borders in Singapore, Hong Kong and China. Issues concerning the Singapore listed entity were widely reported in the media and the team had to take out multiple urgent freezing order applications. He is also representing Perpetual Trustee who is the trustee for retail investors, who are collectively owed S$500 million in the ongoing insolvency proceedings involving Hyflux, a Singapore desalination company. The matter is widely reported in the media. He has also acted for receivers. His banking experience includes complicated disputes concerning syndicated loans in excess of tens of millions of dollars. Ajinder and his team are also authors of the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act Compendium (LexisNexis) released in November 2020. The IRDA was passed in July 2020 and represents the conclusion of a long review of Singapore’s insolvency laws and is aimed at positioning Singapore as a restructuring hub in Asia. The new laws incorporate elements of US Chapter 11 proceedings by way of moratorium proceedings allowing the debtor to remain in control pending presentation of proposals of its scheme of arrangement with creditors. Further Singapore has also become a signatory to the Model law. The IRDA Compendium is the only resource book published to date concerning the new laws and contains detailed section by section analysis with relevant case law expositions including a detailed write up on how the cross border elements in the new law are to apply including court to court protocols. Ajinder has a broad and diverse range of arbitration experience. He has been involved in ICC, SIAC and other "ad hoc" arbitrations. He is well versed with issues related to the enforcement of arbitral awards, including applications for the setting aside of such awards. He has represented an investment fund vehicle against a local listed company in a dispute over their investment in a condominium development project. He acted for a major Japanese institution against its Indonesian joint venture partner. He has been involved in proceedings concerning the setting aside of a substantial arbitral award in favour of an American company against a state owned Indonesian oil and gas company. · Litigation

Ala\' George Musleh

Ala' George Musleh is the Managing Partner of Dentons' Amman office. He brings more than 24 years of extensive experience across projects, energy, infrastructure, corporate and commercial law, finance and litigation. Since 2001, he has been actively practicing in Jordan, handling a broad spectrum of high-profile matters in corporate and commercial law, energy, finance, aviation and litigation. Ala' has specific expertise within the energy sector, with a focus on conventional power generation, renewables, waste-to-energy projects, oil and gas, hydrogen and other natural resources. He advises clients on negotiations, project agreements, approvals and financing documents. Additionally, he frequently drafts commercial contracts for energy and aviation-related transactions, as well as for commercial agencies, intellectual property and franchise arrangements. In corporate matters, Ala' has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, documenting and negotiating joint ventures, company formation and restructuring, conducting thorough due diligence, and advising national and multinational corporations on all aspects of foreign investment. He also provides counsel on commercial transactions, employment issues, and various disputes and regulatory matters related to the Companies Law, Commercial Law, Labour Law, Civil Law and Intellectual Property Law. · Corporate / M&A

Alan Jeftha

Of Counsel · Intellectual Property

Alejandro Cardenas

Counsel · Estate Planning

Alejandro Parra

Associate · Banking & Finance

Aleksander Haleniuk

Aleksander Haleniuk is a counsel in Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of the Banking and Finance practice team. He specializes in banking, finance and civil law. He has extensive experience advising on various financing transactions, particularly in infrastructure and energy finance deals, including project finance and public-private partnership (PPP) structures, as well as corporate and real estate finance. He advises financial institutions, including banks and multilateral development institutions, as well as borrowers and sponsors, at all stages of Polish and cross-border financing projects. Aleksander is actively involved in the preparation and negotiation of financing documents and legal opinions. In 2020-2022, Aleksander was a staff member of the European Investment Bank's legal department responsible for financing projects in the Baltic Sea region. · Banking & Finance

Aleksandra Danielewicz

Aleksandra Danielewicz, advocate, LL.M., senior associate at Dentons' Warsaw Office, is a member of the Intellectual Property and Technology practice team. She specializes in personal data protection, privacy and data security. Aleksandra has broad experience in providing legal advice on privacy to global clients. She has specialized in personal data protection breaches. She has conducted a range of initiatives and programs concerning implementation of the GDPR and CCPA, managed global privacy teams and advised local data protection officers on issues concerning data protection, such as data transfers, broad compliance programs in various jurisdictions, implementation of company rules, retention policies and data security audits. She has participated in the creation and implementation of innovative technological solutions, in particular involving solutions for managing incidents related to data security and personal data protection. · Data Protection

Aleksandra Minkowicz-Flanek

Aleksandra Minkowicz-Flanek is a partner in Dentons’ Warsaw office. She is head of the Employment and Labor practice team. Aleksandra specializes in labor and employment law and also focuses on corporate issues. She has broad experience in individual and collective labor law issues, employment restructuring, collective dismissals, remuneration in the banking sector and employment-related aspects of corporate transactions. She advises clients in the banking, food, automotive and advanced technology sectors. Her experience includes representing clients in negotiations with employee representatives, drafting transactional documentation and advising on cross-border employment relations. · Employment & Labor

Aleksandra Politańska-Kunicka

Aleksandra Politańska-Kunicka, advocate and patent attorney, is a counsel at the Dentons’ Warsaw office and a member of Intellectual Property and Technology practice team. For over 20 years Aleksandra has been advising clients on matters related to intellectual and industrial property law. She specializes in disputes related to copyright law, trademarks, industrial designs, patents, unfair competition (including advertising) and protection of personal interests. She represents clients in civil and administrative courts of all instances as well as in disputes and matters pending before the Polish Patent Office, EUIPO and WIPO. Her particular areas of expertise encompass legal assistance for entities operating in the food industry, in particular with respect to similarity of packaging, advertising law and trademark portfolios. She also cooperates with clothing and cosmetic industries and advises film producers and broadcasters. · Intellectual Property

Alessandro Dubini

Alessandro Dubini is a partner in Dentons' Milan office and co-head of the Corporate M&A practice in Italy. · Corporate / M&A

Alessandro Engst

Alessandro Engst is a partner in the Banking & Finance practice and the Head of the Financial Services area in Italy. · Banking & Finance

Alessandro Fosco Fagotto

Alessandro Fosco Fagotto is a partner in our Milan office, Head of the Italian Banking and Finance practice and Europe Head of the Banking and Finance practice. He is also a member of Dentons’ Europe Board. · Banking & Finance

Alessandro Turcato

Alessandro Turcato is a senior associate in the Investment Funds practice of Dentons’ Luxembourg office. He focuses on the set-up of investment fund structures, including the associated regulatory and corporate law components thereof. Before joining Dentons, Alessandro worked in the Investment Management department of a leading independent law firm in Luxembourg. Alessandro graduated in law from the Bocconi University in Milan (Italy). During his studies, he interned at the Milan office of a leading international law firm. · Investment Funds

Alex Eckler

Senior Associate · Corporate / M&A

Alex Farcas

Partner · Corporate / M&A

Alex G. MacWilliam

Counsel · Environmental Law

Alexander Kovalev

Alexander Kovalev is a counsel in Dentons’ Moscow office. For 15 years he has advised major multinational and Russian companies on M&A transactions, venture capital transactions, setting up joint ventures, investment and restructuring in various sectors of the economy. Alexander focuses on life sciences M&A. He also has experience supporting projects for localization of manufacturing of products and PPP projects, and advising on commercial aspects of pharmaceutical and other companies. · Corporate / M&A

Alexander Odle

Partner · Intellectual Property

Alexander Skoblo

Alex Skoblo is a partner in Dentons' Moscow office, the head of the firm's CIS Hotel & Hospitality practice and the head of Dentons’ Russian Automotive practice. Alex has represented and advised multinational corporations, international financial institutions and government agencies, both domestic and foreign, on a wide variety of corporate and commercial, real estate (including greenfield and brownfield, real estate financing and real property development), banking and securities issues, including mergers, acquisitions, public and private placements, divestitures, privatisations, and matters of corporate governance. He has also assisted numerous foreign companies and private equity funds in direct and portfolio investments, including investments through Russian joint ventures, off-shore structures and companies of various types. Alex is a seasoned negotiator and has successfully negotiated transactions with government authorities at the municipal, regional and federal levels. Alex was the founder of Dentons’ Moscow Hotel & Hospitality practice and has developed a reputation as one of the few leading experts in this field in Russia, the CIS, and Central Europe. He has also worked closely with the European offices of Dentons as well as those in Asia in representing hotel owners, lenders, developers, contractors and operators on all legal issues pertaining to hotels and hospitality properties, including land acquisition, design, development, financing, construction, management, leasing, and franchising. Alex has represented and advised major Russian and international pharmaceutical companies on all legal aspects of their operations in Russia, in particular on corporate and M&A issues. Among other clients, Alex has successfully represented STADA, A.B. Intelpharm, Makiz Pharma, Scopin Pharm, Mir Pharm, Nizhpharm, Bracco and Pharmstandard in structuring M&A transactions, setting up distribution and supply networks as well as advising on licensing, marketing and regulatory issues (including pricing politics). Alex has extensive experience in the automotive sector. He was and continues to be involved in numerous projects with the Ford Group (Ford, Land Rover, Volvo, Jaguar and Mazda), Hyundai, Toyota, Harley Davidson, Volvo Trucks and others. His clients also include Continental AG and Magna International. · Corporate / M&A

Alexander Von Bergwelt

Dr. Alexander von Bergwelt is a Partner at Dentons’ Munich office and Co-Head of the German Corporate/M&A practice group. In more than three decades, he has gained extensive experience in corporate law matters, M&A transactions, joint ventures, cooperations and private equity. Alexander has advised on numerous international and cross-border transactions and restructurings of companies and corporations. Global listed corporations count among his clients as well as medium-sized German companies from different sectors, inter alia IT, financial institutions and companies from the media and automotive industries. He led the Munich office as Office Managing Partner from 2016-2021. Alexander speaks German, English, Spanish, Italian, French and Portuguese. · Corporate / M&A

Alexandra Fasakhova

Senior Consultant · Banking & Finance

Alexandra Radulescu

Alexandra is a partner and co-head of the Bucharest’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice. Alexandra’s expertise includes advising and representing clients in commercial, construction, and defense arbitration proceedings before the Court of International Arbitration attached to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Romania and the ICC International Court of Arbitration, in cases seated in Paris, Vienna and Bucharest, as well as in domestic court proceedings. With regard to general administrative disputes, Alexandra has represented clients in various high-profile competition litigations, in claims against various state authorities, including the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) and the Environment Fund Administration (AFM), in tax and customs-related litigations, as well as in regulatory and public procurement disputes. Alexandra also regularly advises clients from numerous industries—including highly regulated ones such as pharmaceuticals, telecom, automotive, energy, oil and gas—on domestic and EU industry regulations, competition as well as state-aid matters. With respect to life sciences, she has advised and assisted clients on regulatory matters, HTA procedures, pricing and reimbursement—including cost-volume/cost-volume result agreements, donation and sponsorship agreements, public-private protocols, new health reimbursement schemes, healthcare procurement, internal compliance and ethics investigations, employment matters and regulatory and IP litigation. Alexandra’s expertise in the IP field includes advising and representing clients in both pre-litigious situations and court cases, in connection with various trademark, industrial designs, copyright and Internet domain names infringements and protection. · Litigation

Alexandre Michorczyk

Alexandre Michorczyk is a senior associate in Dentons’ Luxembourg office and a member of the Tax practice group. Alexandre advises clients on a wide range of direct and indirect tax matters, with a particular focus on cross-border investments in the areas of private equity, capital markets, and real estate. Alexandre also regularly supports high-net-worth individuals in structuring their private wealth and advises on the implementation of employee benefit schemes. Before joining Dentons, Alexandre gained experience in investment management at a leading Luxembourg law firm. Prior to that, he worked as a Senior Tax Advisor at a Big Four firm, where he focused on corporate taxation. · Tax

Alexei Zakharko

Alexei is Dentons’ Russia Managing Partner. He focuses on M&A, joint ventures, corporate finance and leveraged acquisitions. He also has considerable experience in private equity transactions, port/terminal transactions and bank equity deals. Alexei has represented clients in M&A and private equity transactions in a wide range of industries, including energy, transportation, banking, insurance, retail, foods and beverages, construction and automotive. · Corporate / M&A

Alexey Afanasiev

Alexey is a Counsel at Dentons Russian Corporate/M&A practice. He focuses primarily on M&A transactions, corporate law and the hospitality industry. He has experience advising Russian and international clients, including major manufacturing and industrial companies, financial organizations and Russian company owners on M&A transactions, including corporate restructuring and debt refinancing. Alexey also has experience working at an investment company as an advisor supporting similar projects and experience heading the legal department of a major Russian hotel chain. · Corporate / M&A

Alexey Matveev

Alexei Matveev is a counsel in Dentons’ Russian Tax and Customs practice. Alexei focuses on international and Russian tax law. He has extensive experience advising on the organization and conduct of tax due diligence of a transaction target taking into account possible specific industrial/operating risks, developing proposals on how to structure transactions (including foreign jurisdictions), analyzing the tax implications of sale and purchase agreements and developing proposals to carry out corporate restructuring of the target, as well as analyzing whether the tax assumptions of transactions’ financial models are correct. · Tax

Alexis Barr-Gusa

Partner · Construction

Alexis Graham

Alexis is a partner in Dentons’ Glasgow office. She is a member of the Trusts, Estates and Wealth Preservation practice, and has a particular expertise in charity law. Alexis advises high net worth individuals in all aspects of personal estate planning, including wills, powers of attorney, trust formation and administration, succession planning and charity formation. She also advises charity trustees on the ongoing administration of charitable organizations including compliance/regulation and mergers/amalgamations. · Trusts & Estates

Alfred Wu

Alfred is a partner in Dentons' Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group based in Hong Kong. With over 25 years of experience, Alfred is a highly regarded lawyer in the areas of general commercial litigation, arbitration and construction. He advises clients on a broad range of commercial disputes primarily in arbitration. His arbitration experience include both local and international arbitrations. Clients he has represented include banks, Hong Kong listed issuers, multinational corporations, funds, accountants/ liquidators and high-net-worth individuals. Alfred also has a special focus on contentious and non-contentious construction and engineering matters representing international, China and Hong Kong based clients which variously include government departments, statutory bodies, employers, engineers, architects, contractors and subcontractors. Alfred also represents clients in construction-related criminal investigations and prosecutions. On the contentious side, Alfred has represented clients in various disputes, in litigation and arbitration, arising from infrastructure and building construction projects in Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China and the region. Projects involved include various large scale road/highway development projects, water supply and sewer main development projects, railway projects, housing projects, land reclamation, hospital projects, the Hong Kong International Airport, Environmental Protection Department projects, casinos in Macau, LPG facilities in China, etc. The issues in dispute include variations, delays, loss and expense, measurement of quantities, defective works, suspension/termination of works, negligence (including collapse of works under construction and demolition), and other payment issues (including interim payments, final accounts and retention money). In addition, there were tender related issues, employment issues, sub-contractor nomination issues, insolvency issues, environmental issues, regulatory violations, bribery on construction sites, fraud, etc. On the non-contentious side, Alfred has advised on all Hong Kong Government standard forms of contract, FIDIC, NEC, JCT and ICE forms of contract, as well as bespoke and other private forms of contract. He also regularly advises on tendering processes, consultancy agreements, formation of joint ventures (both incorporated and unincorporated), post-contract risk issues as well as construction bonds, guarantees and other construction related instruments. Alfred also regularly takes on appointments as arbitrator for construction related and other commercial arbitrations. He is an HKIAC Accredited Mediator and a panel arbitrator of the HKIAC, SIAC, AIAC, APIAC, SHIAC and KCAB. He sits regularly in ad hoc arbitrations and arbitrations administered by the HKIAC, SIAC and SHIAC. Alfred has been ranked as a leading construction practitioner in Chambers & Partners from 2016 to 2025. In the latest edition of Chambers Greater China guide, an impressed client said, “I really like Alfred; he is very hard-working and very responsive. He is very attentive to detail and his legal drafting is accurate.” Another client added, “Alfred Wu has an engineering background, so he understands a lot of the technical issues which arise in these cases. His ability to understand and explain them in simpler terms is a real asset.” In the testimonial for his leading individual ranking for construction in Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023-2025, Alfred has been recognised for his “deep litigation expertise in the sector both on regular fee-earning matters as well as in his role as an arbitrator”. A client commented, “Alfred Wu provided a first-class service in delivering focussed and responsive advice. He also ensured that the barrister team had what they needed to properly fight the case, much to the client’s benefit. He was a stand out lawyer on this matter.” Alfred was ranked as a Litigation Star in Construction and Commercial & Transactions by Benchmark Litigation Asia Pacific 2025. He was also recognised in International Arbitration as a well-known practitioner by the Legal 500 Arbitration Powerlist 2023, and one client commented, “Alfred Wu is the principal partner. He is very experienced and conscientious, gains the confidence of clients and leads his team very capably on behalf of his clients." Lexology Index also ranked Alfred as a recommended lawyer for Arbitration and Construction in its Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macao SAR 2024 report. · Construction

Alfredo Arocena

Senior Associate · Corporate / M&A

Ali Al Assaad

Ali Al Assaad is a senior associate in Dentons’ Dubai office. He is a member of the Corporate, Employment and Dispute Resolution practice groups and has more than 12 years of legal experience. Ali’s primary focus is in relation to employment advisory but specialises in advising on employment disputes before the local courts, conducting negotiations and reaching amicable settlements. His practice includes advising corporates on employment contracts, policies and various employment disputes. He also advises on real estate disputes, debts default, breach of contracts and abuse of rights. Ali has participated in drafting the DIFC Presidential Directive No. 4 of 2020 in respect of COVID-19 emergency employment measures, and the DMCC Employment Guidelines during the COVID-19 Precautionary Measures Period. Ali is trilingual (English, Arabic and French) and is therefore able to provide advice to a wide range of clients, based on his first-hand litigation before the local courts. He is also experienced in drafting and negotiating in both English and Arabic. · Employment

Ali Amadee

Partner · Corporate & Commercial

Ali Moiz Ansari

Ali Moiz Ansari is a partner in the Dentons Banking and Finance practice in Riyadh. Ali’s experience includes advising on general banking and finance mandates and project finance mandates (both Islamic and conventional), in particular advising sponsors/borrowers and lenders on matters pertaining to the development and/or financing of energy, water and infrastructure projects. He regularly advises on public private partnership projects in Saudi Arabia and has advised the government of Saudi Arabia, sponsors and lenders on a number of social infrastructure PPPs (including in the healthcare, education, transport and aviation sectors). Ali has been ranked as a Rising Star in the banking and finance sector, and the projects and energy sector, by Legal 500 2024. · Banking & Finance

Alin Roca

Alin Roca is an Associate in the Capital Markets group at the Bucharest office. His active involvement in recent capital markets endeavors, including initial public offerings, private placements, and merger and acquisition transactions, highlights his expertise. Alin possesses comprehensive training in conducting due diligence exercises, skillfully drafting prospectuses, and conducting thorough research on regulatory matters. · Capital Markets

Aljosa Zenicanin

Senior Associate · Real Estate

Alwyn Mathew

Alwyn Mathew is a Senior Associate in the Corporate and Commercial practice in Dentons' Abu Dhabi office. He has extensive and in-depth experience in private practice at leading law firms in the UAE and in advising clients on legal aspects in corporate structuring/restructuring, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, liquidations, winding up, deregistration and local corporate regulatory issues. Alwyn has more than 10 years' experience working as a corporate and commercial lawyer, eight of which were spent in the UAE. His experience covers a broad range of corporate and commercial matters, including advice on general corporate and commercial matters with a focus on mergers and acquisitions from both buy-side and sell-side. He has advised on sales and acquisitions in a wide range of sectors including medical, financial services, infrastructure, FMCG, insurance, and oil and gas. Alwyn has also advised underwriters on UAE law aspects in relation to the listing of a social media networking app that was listed on the New York Stock Exchange. He regularly advises on shareholder disputes and corporate governance matters. Alwyn has previous projects and banking and finance experience in the UAE which involved advising a number of IPPs and IWPPs in the infrastructure sector. He has advised them on a variety of aspects including lender-related advice, procurer-related concerns, shareholder disputes, board-related matters and potential conflicts with operators, as well as with day-to-day matters. Alwyn's previous banking experience included working on high-profile insolvency and restructuring cases in the UAE. He also regularly advised entities practicing or seeking to practice licensed financial activities (being regulated by the Securities and Commodities Authority) in the UAE. Alwyn advises on regulatory matters and banking documentation, and provides legal opinions on a variety of financing matters (including project finance transactions), as well as valuable transactional and advisory services to a number of IWPP and IPP project clients. Alwyn works with teams in both the Abu Dhabi and Dubai offices. · Corporate / M&A

Alya Khair

Alya Khair is an associate in the Corporate and Commercial practice in Dentons' Dubai office. Her practice focuses on corporate restructurings, acquisitions, corporate governance and compliance matters in the United Arab Emirates and wider Middle East. · Corporate / M&A

Alžběta Böhmová

Alžběta Böhmová is a junior associate in Dentons’ Prague office. She focuses her practice primarily on insolvency and restructuring, financial transactions as well as corporate and litigation. · Insolvency & Restructuring

Amber Warren

Amber is a partner with the Banking and Finance team in Sydney, and a member of Dentons’ Public Policy and Regulation global leadership team. Amber provides transactional support for regulated lending, including reverse mortgages and loans to self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs), and for financial services compliance and regulation advice. She acts for all major Australian banks as well as smaller Australian lenders, foreign banks and corporations operating in the financial services sector. · Banking & Finance

Amberley James

Senior Associate · Litigation

Amélie de Baudry d’Asson

Amélie de Baudry d’Asson is a counsel in Dentons’ Paris office and a member of the Real Estate group. She focuses her practice on real estate investment, development, and asset management. In the field of real estate investments, Amélie advises on both direct (asset deals) and indirect (share deals) sales or acquisitions and works on related joint venture transactions. In the field of real estate development or promotion, Amélie advises her clients on off-plan leases, off-plan sales and property development contracts, mainly for office, assisted living residences, hotels and logistics projects. Amélie also works on asset management matters, covering leases as well as contracts with service providers related to the property: asset management agreements, project management assistance, architect, owner’s representative, construction contracts, etc. · Real Estate

Ana María Ruiz

Associate · Intellectual Property

Andrea Fiorelli

Andrea Fiorelli is a partner in Dentons’ Milan office and Head of the Tax practice in Italy. · Tax

Andrea Johnson

Partner · Corporate / M&A