Dentons KS – ‘We’re not mid-tier’

Dentons KS – ‘We’re not mid-tier’
Dentons Kensington Swan chair Hayden Wilson talks referrals, innovation and modern law.
Victoria Young
It’s been a year since Kensington Swan decided to join forces with global legal giant Dentons, so what have been the benefits to the firm?Well, says chair Hayden Wilson, the 32-partner firm hasn’t analysed how much work came into New Zealand through being part of the global network, “because that’s quite tricky to do”.“But we had targets of what we wanted to get out of this, and Dentons has blown those targets out of the water,” Wilson added. However, he won’t disclose the targets.The litigat...

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