Kensington Swan inks tie-up with global law firm Dentons

Kensington Swan inks tie-up with global law firm Dentons
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie July 31 (BusinessDesk) - One of New Zealand's longest-established law firms, Kensington Swan, is to become part of the world's largest legal practice, Dentons. Established in 1878 and trading under that name for the past 141 years, it will become Dentons Kensington Swan once partners of Dentons have voted to support the creation of a locally governed partnership. Governed by the Swiss legal concept of a Verein corporate structure common to international partnerships and alliances, the New Zealand practice will conti...

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