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Dentons becomes world’s most lawyered firm with Dacheng tie-up

Dentons becomes world’s most lawyered firm with Dacheng tie-up
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Legal Business
4 February 2015
Legal mergersChinaUS firms

Firms set to create a 6,600-lawyer, $1.7bn law firm giant

In a bid to create the world’s largest firm by lawyer headcount, Dentons is to combine with China’s biggest firm, Dacheng Law Offices, to form a 6,600-lawyer giant operating under a Swiss verein structure.

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