Bloomberg Law
April 8, 2015, 10:01 PM UTC

Dentons to Combine With McKenna Long & Aldridge

Gabe Friedman
Freelancer

The U.S. branch of Dentons will combine with Washington, D.C.-based McKenna Long & Aldridge, the firms announced on Wednesday.

The tie-up is set to take effect later this year, making the largest firm in the world even larger, particularly in the U.S. where Dentons will have more than 1,100 lawyers in 21 locations.

If the deal goes through as planned, the newly merged firm will have offices in more than 50 countries and somewhere in the range of 6,600 lawyers, making it far larger than the next biggest firm, Baker & McKenzie, which has about 4,000 lawyers.

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