Dentons takes Heenan Blaikie hires to 46 in a month as 16-lawyer team joins
Dentons has now picked up a total of 46 lawyers from collapsed Canadian firm Heenan Blaikie following the signing of a five-partner, 11-associate team this week. Corporate partner Allen Garson and insolvency partners Kenneth Kraft and John Salmas join in Toronto, while corporate partner Wendy Del Mul and infrastructure partner Tommaso Nanci will join Dentons as counsels in Toronto and Montreal respectively.
February 27, 2014 at 06:53 AM
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Dentons has now picked up a total of 46 lawyers from collapsed Canadian firm Heenan Blaikie following the signing of a five-partner, 11-associate team this week.
Corporate partner Allen Garson and insolvency partners Kenneth Kraft and John Salmas join in Toronto, while corporate partner Wendy Del Mul and infrastructure partner Tommaso Nanci will join Dentons as counsels in Toronto and Montreal respectively.
The remaining 11 associates join Dentons' Calgary, Montreal and Toronto offices, and are split across the firm's tax, infrastructure, entertainment, business, financial services, energy and corporate securities practices.
Other lawyers to join from Heenan in recent weeks have included Toronto corporate partner Michael Ledgett, a seven strong financial services and real estate team in Montreal, as well as partner and counsel additions in the firm's corporate, entertainment, tax, real estate and infrastructure teams.
On 10 February, Dentons announced the former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien had joined from Heenan as counsel.
Dentons' Canada chief executive Chris Pinnington said: "The dissolution of a respected firm like Heenan Blaikie is a sobering event for all of us in the Canadian legal community.
"However, we are pleased that our new colleagues have chosen Dentons as the firm best suited to meet the needs and expectations of their clients and to enable them to continue to build their successful practices."
Heenan announced it was shutting down its operations at the beginning of February. Soon after, DLA Piper began talks to take on a 60-70 strong group of lawyers, though these collapsed, with DLA blaming a lack of agreement on the economic terms of the deal.
Other firms to have benefited from Heenan's collapse have included Baker & McKenzie, which took on a 13-lawyer team led by corporate and securities partners Kevin Rooney and Sonia Young, while four Heenan lawyers joined the Ottawa office of Fasken Martineau.
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