Dentons makes Brexit move with trade group launch
Firms secures hire for new group aimed at helping Dentons to win national and cross-border investigation work ahead of Brexit
February 26, 2019 at 05:51 AM
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Dentons has created a new UK regulatory and trade group ahead of Brexit and has hired Roger Matthews, former Dechert and European Commission lawyer, to join it as a partner.
Matthews spent four years as a senior director in Dechert's international trade and EU law team from 2015; was a legal adviser to HM Treasury for almost seven years until 2014, during which time he also worked as a seconded national expert for the European Commission between 2009 and 2012; and was a legal adviser to the Bank of England between 2014 and 2015.
Dentons' group will be made up of 20 lawyers from its energy, financial services, data protection, environmental, insurance, competition tax and disputes practices, and will be headed by partner Christopher McGee-Osborne and senior associate Katharine Harle.
The firm said it hopes the new group will prove a compelling proposition for clients looking for advice on national and cross-border investigation work.
Jeremy Cohen, Dentons' UK and Middle East CEO, said in a statement that advice on international trade is an "underdeveloped area in the UK legal market", but necessary for any "full-service commercial law offering once the UK leaves the EU".
McGee-Osborne currently co-chairs the firm's global energy practice and is joint-lead of Dentons' government team. Harle spent almost five years in-house at the Financial Services Authority until 2011.
The group will also include Martin Mankabady, corporate partner; litigation partner Daren Allen; and Dubai-based UK and Middle East general counsel Andrew Cheung.
Matthews' hire follows two new partner recruits for Dentons' London derivatives practices from Allen & Overy and Fieldfisher. Yusuf Battiwala joined from A&O where he spent 14 years and served as counsel, and Luke Whitmore joined from Fieldfisher where he had been a partner since 2013.
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